... The question as to how the London casual shall be dealt with is still a moot point among the different bodies upon whom it devolves to give the relief the law compels to be given. (We are quoting from a.n article in The Times.) Some guardians act upon the rule that the existence of the casual shall be as much as possible ignored but as the law says that no per- son shall lie or die in the ...

... The readers of the London newspapers will perhaps remembtr that a few sessions ago a man named George Dun das was convicted before the Recorder of a high- way robbery, accompanied with violeuce, upon a gentleman named Thorne, the collector to Messrs. Young and Bainhridge, the brewers, of Wandsworth, near London. The prisoner, upon this conviction, was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude ...

... The Sultan has gone, the Viceroy has gone, the hrave Bel- gians have gone. Even the Empress of the French has gone. Iw coming gave the tlâneurs and the loungers in the bay windows something to talk about; a wonder for some few days. They wondered WIY, as the Empress is a bad sailor, she came at alL ieoond wonder, Why iucog. ? Third wonder, Wonder if it means anything? Fourth wonder, Wonoer ...

... The following extract from Battalion Orders, which is so highly creditable to all parties concerned, is consolatory as showing that promotion from the ranks is not entirely abolished in the British Army Extract from Battalion Orders, dated Shorncliffe. July 20, 1867. Serjeant Major Talbot, of the battalion, having thia day been promoted to an ensigncy, without pur- chase, in the 2nd West ...

... Consequent upon the Sheffield Trades Union Commission, which has been instrumental in placing before the public the remarkable results of the Union, The Times has the fol- lowing:- The Sheffield: Commission brings to light a state of things all the more formidable, because indignantly denied by the commonalty of the town, because actually thrust upon the ordeal of a public inquiry, and ...

... TOWN SCHOOL.—The annual examination of this school, by the Rev J. W. Hernaman, Her Majesty's Inspector of Schools for this district, took place on Monday se'nnight. A large number of children was presented for examination. We are happy to say that the whole passed off well, and gave satisfactory evidence that the above school continues in a high state of effi- ciency. RE SOWHILL INDUSTRIAL ...

... MONDAY. Before 11. Jf. Kennarcl, E1.. THEFT, Hannah Clements, a native of Whitebrook, near Monmouth, was charged with stealing a black straw hat, from the residence of William Brinkwster, besom maker, at Wainyclare, on the 3rd inst. It appeared that prisoner was ill and destitute, and prosecutor had taken her in and allowed her to remain in his house out of compassion, and she had requited ...

... THE RHYMNEY MURDER. ADJOURNED INQUEST. TUESDAY.—(Before C. Davies, Esq., Coroner.) David Davies: I went on the 18th of June out by the Dingle. It was after 10 o'clock. When about half way down the Dingle I saw a man and woman coming up from the Swan Inn. They turned down to Rhymney. They were close to one another. I heard the man's voice, but did not understand what he said. I thought the man ...

... WEDNESDAY. Before John Thompson, Esq. James Bevan, Thomas Welsh, and John Holmes were again placed in the dock, the two first named prisoners being charged on sus- picion of murdering Herbert Morgan, and the latter with being an accessory to the death of the said Herbert Morgan. Mr Greenway appeared for the prisoners. William James said I am a collier living at Brynmawr. On the 5th of May, ...

... A shocking murder was committed near St. Helen's on Saturday night. A collier named Mather lived with his wife and son in a cottage, which is a quarter of a mile from any other dwelling, at Greenleach, near St. Helen's. Both Mather and his wife were old people, and went to bed early. On Saturday night the son was out, and they left the back door on the latch for him. Shortly after midnight the ...

... CHOLERA IN ITALY. correspondent, signing himself II. 1. TT. writing from Belhc-iio. Ci'ino, furnishes The. Times with the following information Travellers to the north of Italy are told as they approach the ]lasses of the dreadful ravages that cholera is making in that district. Many turn back others, not bent wholly on pleasure, reluctantly go forward. Perhaps the true state of the case may ...

... The Manchester Examiner says ;— An association of working men at Birmingham, who have not hitherto been mch heard of, but who share the opinio::18 of the Reform League in political matters, and calbd the Birmingham and District Trades' Council, have mooted the subject of sending a working man to parliament as third member for Birmingham. The following notice of motion stands on their books in ...