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... FACTS AND FACETIiE. Very Sad.—Will the Fenian follow his nose ?-The head (e)centre of the Fenians is cut off. Women, Beware !-The women who rushed to a soldier's arms, has been sent to prison for having Government property in her possession. The San Francisco News-Letter replies to a corre- spondent in the following style To A. D. F.—Your lines entitled I Gone' are gone into our waste-basket ...

... CONCERT.—On Monday, the Committee of the Penny Readings gave a concert, as a final entertainmont for the season. The vocalists, who were from Newport, having appeared at the Readings on several occasions during the past winter, had made themselves great favorites with tho Caerleon public, and the applause bestowed by the audience upon each on this occasion indicated unqualified satisfae^ tion ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS—FRIDAY. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Re. presentation of the People Bill was resumed by Lord CRANB JRNE, who said it was a part of the whole plan of the Government to reprasent the Conservative party as afraid of the working classes, and unwilling to trust them. It was the great glory of the House of Com- mons that its language had been always free and ...

... NEWPORT ATHENAEUM AND ME- CHANICS' INSTITUTE. The annual meeting of the members of this institu- tion was held in the reading room of the Athenseum on Friday evening. The Rev. S. Fox, one of the Vice- Presidents occupied the chair and there was a large attendance. Mr. Daw read, with the exception of the lust para- graph, which was read by the Chairman, the accom- panying report, and the ...

... GREAT FIRE NEAR BIRMINGHAM. A fire, fortunately unattended with loss of life, though disastrous in its results, broke out at noon on Tuesday, at Finshall House, the residence of Mr. William Palmer, a solicitor, practising in Birmingham. Finshall House is, or rather was, a large square stone mansion, with an Ionic porch fronting the north, and a verandah running round the rest of the building. ...

... The Nine Hours' Movement in the North. -On Saturday afternoon a conference took place at Newcastle-upon-Tyne between iron shipbuilers of the Tees and Tyne and about 50 delegates from the work- men, with regard to the nine hours' movement Mr C. M. Palmer, chairman of the masters' committee, presided. The present hours of labour are 60 k per week. The masters offered to concede an hour and a ...

... To the Editor of the USK OBSERVKH. SIR,—I read a letter in the OUSKRVER of last Saturday, in which the writer gives what he represents to be a letter written by Mr. Relph to some one not named; a wrong im- pression is likely to be thereby conveyed, as Mr. Relph might, if he saw the letter, suppose that I had neglected carrying oUt his instructions—which were to send to Mr. Kynoh a copy of ...

... ABERSYOHAN. ANNIVERSARY SERVICES.—On Sunday services in con. nection with the Baptist Church meeting at Noddfa, were held, Miss S. R. Evans preaching three sermons to large and attentive congregations, who appeared well pleased with the talented speaker. On the Monday following, Miss Evans delivered a lectura at the Pisgah Haptist Chapel, subject, College of ths Hearth/' A large Dumber were ...

... Mr. Payne, coroner for the City of London, held an inquest on Thursday at the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie- street, into the death of a man named Vallens, who was found dead in a kitchen in No. 31, Bouverie- street. It will be recollected that the unfortunate man was discovered on Tuesday morning lying dead in the apartment in question, death having been caused by means of a self-made guillotine, ...

... Mr. Bright's Birmingham Live Shell. The Times makes a miserable affectation of misun. derstanding Mr. Bright's words, and finding in them some incitement to turmoil, and disorder, and flat burglary, and we know not what besides. But it so thoroughly understands his meaning all the time that it unguardedly lets drop in a moment the poor pre- tence of misunderstanding it. What fear is there ...

... The assertion that one dreadful tragedy is almost sure to be followed immediately by others, was strikingly and painfully exemphaed in London on Tuesday morning, a man having murdered his wife, and then cut his own throat, at No. 8, Feathers-court, ^The facta, very hurriedly gathered, appear to be as follows:—A man named Richard Whitly, hia _wife, Mary WMtly, and seven children, the eldest ...