... WALLASEY LOCAL B t4 I ba monthli meeiima of thi. - I 0 monthlY mee.1g of tbe t ovening, at the publiI cfices he in the chair, and the other ronf-m, Xr n. 4 MeFSas, Flshwlck, Hill, Mrsharl'' Dre~etQN &nd Ioaa. , ofisft E i,, GAS AND WATER Mr, Marbhall, In mhoving the coz,6r proceedings of this Oommilttee e atfo mended that the Walary of Mr' Bd Isoot, of the gas and water rates, be lc eoll ...

... WORCESTER. TuE COUNTY ASYLUM AT POWICK,.-DISMISNAL OF TIIE IHOUSE S'XEWAUID.-MIr. Hmne, the houso steward of this institution; has been diisnijsed from his situitioa, Ab the iolnibly niceting of the Visiting Comnittee, this week, a suil) Committee presented a report, which eontainiied certain charges against hini, and Mr. Hume was asked for nn enplatiun. Tlhe aanswers he gave were ...

... CARDIFF .POLICE—YESTEBDAY. (Before R. O. JONES, Esq.) ASSAULT.—Robert Mayze was charged with assaulting Robert Bindon, on Saturday night last. The complain- ant said that the defendant knocked at his door at ten o'clock, and asked for a cage. Witness asked him for the money, but defendant said he had not got it, but would have the cage without. After some more words, the defendant caught ...

... FRANCE. PARIS, May 30.—The Marquis de Lavelette leave on Sunday or Monday next for Rome. A tele* gram from Alexandria, dated 29th inst., states that, according to the latest news from Madagascar, tr.gt quillity continued to prevail in that island. ...

... The New York correspondent of the Times writes as follows, under date of the 20th ult. 'Efforts are constantly made to hide from the public the real magnitude of the debt that has already been incurred, and to exaggerate, at the same time, the taxpaying powers of the community-pewers that are too exclusively based upon the wealth of New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, and not calculated on the ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.-THURSDAY. Their lordships met at five o'clock. MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS. On1 the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, the Copyright (Works of Art) Bill was referred to a select com- mittee. The Universities (Scotd) Act Amendment Bill was read a second time. The Red Sea and India Telegraph Company's Bill was also read a second time. The Bs1sOoP of ROCHESTER moved for copies of the ...

... I DISTRESS 1i9' THI'*R lt I PUPLIC MEETlTI& IN TUAN.. (muoat Olt couoliobnlti.) TUACI, Thn UriwIAk -A public meeting was ?? to-day in the Town Hall for lhe purpoee(ae statedlid tha requisi- tion) of devising means to initigate thcl pressure of the direful destitution now prevailing In the town and parish of Tuim, and for the rC ?? of the Fuel into a Food Relief Committee. The ...

... CAILEDONIAN MERCURY. SECOND EDITION. MERCURY OFFICE, FRIDA, Eleven o'clock AMERICA. The Tibsss sigvsts that Canada should arm, not for our sakes, but for her own. The Morn'i'tg Stor'6 correspondent in M'Clel- lan's camp, writin, irom Whitehouse, Virginia, on ?? 17, ?? took the division a day to move five muiles, owints to the frightful condition of the roads. The troops were knocked up, and ...

... The Herald's Paris oarrespondent writes thus on Mexicau ?? French intervention will by no means be confined to & Marob to the Mexican capital and back. The favourite idea at head quarters just now is to establish French influence permanently in the skape of a protectorate, There will be a French high coin- missioner and a Prench army, 'whilst a Mexican parlia- mnent will be ?? eto amuse itself ...

... JfitMigeixa. HOUSEHOLD PROPERTY AT CANTON.—Eight houses, which cost £900 in building, situated in the Severn- road, were sold a few days back for £ 320, being X40 per house. THEATRE.—Mr. George Peel, of the Liverpool and other Theatres, has taken the Cardiff Theatre for the summer season. Mr. Peel performed at Cardiff about eight or nine years back, and is therefore not altoge- ther a stranger ...

... JdÜra to (ifritor. THE GAS MONOPOLY. SIR,—As a consumer of gas, I have watched, with con- siderable interest, the discussion which has been going on through your columns for some weeks, upon the mo- nopolies of the Cardiff Gas Company. Mr. Twigg, and other writers, have satisfied me, at least, that the con- sumers are charged too high for their gas, and that if it cannot be supplied for 2s. 6d ...

... i, (wa(lTraTN FoR THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY.) EAST LOTIIIAN. 2 For the last eight months the labours of the arable farmer have been carried on untler diffi. ecalties ; few operations during that period have c been finished without interruption from wet .8 weather, and when finished it was not always in it he most satisfactory manner. May has proved it no exception to the rule, and turnip sowing ...