... On Friday (yesterday) morning a man named Taylor shot Mr. E. Mellor (of the firm of Mellor and Son, agents) with a pistol, and the unfortunate man soon after expired. Taylorisin custody. In Taylor's house were found his three children silent in death, and clothed in white dresses. On the breast of each was a paper bearing on the back the name and age of the children. On the front was an ...

... THE MANCHESTER OPERATIVES,—Another testimony to the manly manner in which the great distress has been borne was seen in the Recorder's address in opening the Manchester city session on Monday. The recorder said it had been served to him that the distress would occasion to him an in- crease of labour, bat he rejoiced that it was not so. The Average number of commitments to the session was less ...

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Lord-Lieutenant of the County (Lord Leigh) has contributed 51. towards the fund for reviving the Godiva procession at Coventry this year. The subscriptions now raised amount to about 2001. There is no doubt whatever (says the Birmingham Post) that the. procession committee will now carry out their object. During the examination in London of a bankrupt, before ...

... PIG KILLING IN PARIS. We have certamly much to leam. Even the New Zealander knocks his pigs on the he, d before he cuts them up. Perhaps we may attain to that step before long, as a preliminary to adopting the method pursued by our French neighbours. Every one who has visited Paris -must be favourably im- pressed with the perfect organisation of everything round him. This order extends even to ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. (Before R. O. JONES, and GEO. BIRD, Esqs.) James Allen, on a charge of drunkenness, was cautioned and discharged John Pearson was charged with committing an assault upon a man named Wallace in the Cardiff House of Refuge. The master proved the offence, and Pearson was sent to prison for fourteen days' hard labour. Bartholomew Bawney was charged with ...

... ABERDARE. A correspondent find that the Gadlys Iron Company are likely to lease their minerals at Llwydcoed to the Aberdare Iron Company only for the sake of a few pence haulage. I trust Mr. Wayne will not allow his name to be mixed with truck''for the sake of such a trifle. TRADE OF THE VALLEY.—We notice with much pleasure that, notwithstanding the depressed con. dition of trade, there was ...

... The Lords of the Treasury have, by an order just issued, authorised the Commissioners of Customs to dispense with the certificate of produce at present re-* quired under the 79th section of the Customs Consolida- tion Act, for rum entered as the produce of a British possession in America, or of the island of Mauritius. The Weather and the Crops.—The effect of the magnificent, weather of the ...

... Mr LINDSAY then bi ought forward his motion, calling on the government to give effect to rn earlier resolution on the subject It harbours of refuge. After a discussion, sustained by thehon. member, Admiral Duncombe, Mr. Buxton, Sir F. Smith, LordV. Tempest, Mr. Pease. Mr. Blake, Mr. Baines, Mr. M. Gibson, Mr. Liddell, Sir M. Peto, Sir J. Pakington, Sir G. Lewis, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Crosslev, Sir ...

... ITALY. THE household of his Majesty King Victor Emmanuel gave a splendid breakfast at Pompeii, 0:1 the 12th inst., to the officers of the English and French fleets. It is reported from, Milan that Austria has increased her troops along the frontier of Lombardy by 10,000 men.- Four battalions of troops have been concentrated on the Tyrolese frontier. ...

... .p ROME. Nuncfo XTth/pope'™'totldTs?'S only through the Minister of Public Worshin tlL p ^sred 101 to ...

... The inauguration of an exhibition of works of art and industry took place at Romsey on the 23rd inst., under the auspices of I.ord Palmerston, who has been staying at Broadlands during the Easter recess. The ceremony took place in the Town Hall. The noble lord, who was accompanied by Lady Palmerston, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, and a numerous party of visitors from .• Broadlands, was ...

... ARCHIDIACONAL VISITATION.-On Tuesday morn- ing there was a large gathering of clergymen and churchwardens at the Cathedral, on the occasion of the Ven. Archdeacon Blosse's visitation. The usual morning service was gone through, and a sermon was preached by the Rev. Gilbert Harris, the recently- appointed rector of Gellygaer. The rev. gentleman chose for his text Matthew iv. 19, 20, from which ...