... On the whole, most persons must be glad that the trial has been so easily and briefly disposed of. Sensation has been balked, and curiosity must remain unsatisfied but justice has not been evaded, nor the dignity of its administration discredited. The Road Murder will henceforth be a thing of the past, relegated to the long list of causes cilSbres, which, notably within the last few years, ...

... The following ciroumstances have been reported by the caretaker of a residence having a tale of suicide connected with it, and situated in a somewhat lonely position, surrounded by trees in the vicinity of Black- rock. Recently, between twelve and one o'clock at night, the narrator was alarmed by hearing footsteps ascending the house stairs of the mansion, of which he was for the time being ...

... Caroline Kent, a young woman, of No. 4, Caroline- place, Globe-road, Mile-end, applied to Mr. Partridge, at Thames-street, for his advice and assistance. In May last she advertised for a child to nurse and to bring up with her own two children. She was waited upon by a well-dressed man, who she understood was a Dissenting minister, and appeared like one, and a woman who gave the name of Ellen ...

... DESIRED IMPEOVKMSNT.—A memorial, we understand. signed by the principal ratepayers and inhabitants gene- rally of Pontnewynydd, Cwmfrwdwr, Cefn-y-crib, and | surrounding district, is about to be presented to the Abcr- sychan Local Government Board, with the purpose of in- ducing it to make anew road, beginning near the Wesleyan Chapel, at this place, and passing through Nightingale Village, ...

... Mr. Justice Willes told the grand jury at Wells that in his opinion one cause at least of the crime of infan- ticide was the existence of defects in the law. Judges and juries in criminal matters were bound to accept the law as it stood, not stretching it to meet individual cases, not contracting it from any sense of obvious public advantage, and the law on child-murder was bad. In the first ...

... Oh! the merry summer time! Oh! the sunny season! Oh! (all call out oh! in rhyme) Oh for any reason! Let the minutes glide away, Never toil and bother, What you would have done to-day, Do on any other. Loiter, lounge, and dream, and sleep, Don't be in a hurry; Let your maxim be to keep Cool, and never worry. Let another take your post, Let your work be undone Let us stroll about the coast, ...

... The Journal de St. Peterbsurg gives the following details respecting the solemnity of taking the oath of fidelity by the hereditary Grand Duke Alexander, on the occasion of hia majority. The Grand Duke, heir to the Imperial throne, having entered on his 21st year on the 10th of March last, the 20th of July was fixed for the ceremony of swearing fidelity to the Emperor and to the country, as ...

... PE!O^O^E^doc £ Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, 60, Captain Mason, will leave Pembroke to-day (Wednesday), for Plymouth, and will be replaced by the Revenge, 73. On Saturday last the Orontes, iron troop ship, Captain H. W. Hire, arrived at Pembroke from Portsmouth, with the 62d Regiment, comprising Col. Incall. commanding, Colonel Luard, Captains Carter, Hunter, Gilpin, Cubitt, Hughes, and Sharp; ...

... The total imports of foreign stock into London last week amounted to 20,335 head. In the corres- ponding week in 1864 we received 8,418. The importations of live cattle and sheep have been large. The cattle plague is devastating our herds, and causing great anxiety, apprehension, and fear among dairymen, agriculturists, and the public generally. The public need not fear the plain joint of ...

... DOWLAIS FIREMEN'S EXCURSION.—The trip to Swansea on Saturday last, by the members of this body and their friends, drew away from the district about 1,600 people, who left the Vale of Neath Station in twenty-six carriages. The excursionists had the supervision of Mr Donaldson, traffic superintendent, and after a pleasant day out reached Merthyr safely about nine in the evening. MORE LAURELS FOR ...

... FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1865. THE LIBEL CASE. ^THOUGH we have no wish to obtrude personal Otters upon our readers, we should hardly be doing justice to ourselves or to journalism if we Pitied to notice the libel case which was tried 4t Bristol last week, in which the late clerk of the Bridgend Board of Health endeavoured to obtain X100 from us on the plea that we had libelled him by reporting ...

... THE LATE MEDICAL INQUIRY. ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE. We have been requested to insert the following:- COPY OF THE EVIDENCE OF MR. DAVID LEWIS, NEWPORT. I am a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a Licentiate of the Apothecaries' Society. I am house-surgeon to the Newport Infirmary and Dis- pensary. I remember Mrs. Wantling's son James coming to the dispensary to be treated by me. It was ...