... It has been officially notified to the Fenian convict Doran that the sentence of death passed upon him for high treason has been commuted to penal servitude for life. The jury re- commended Doran to mercy, it will be recollected, on the ground that his connection with the conspiracy was compara- tively slender and recent when he took command of an armed party during the Dublin rising. No ...

... The transactions affected are, with rare exceptions, quite retail, and prices extremely dull. The planta- tions at home and on the Continent are making seasonable progress. ...

... It appears that the two Liberal members for this county, Mr. Talbot and Mr. Vivian, as well as the Liberal member for Swansea, Mr. Dillvvyn, have come to grief with their coustituancies on the question of the Reform Bill. A mass meeting of indignation-to borrow a transatlantic term—was held at the Music Hall, Swansea, to express what was almost tantamount to a vote of non-confidence in their ...

... (Cul/tinlled from our first editiou.) FIRST COURT—FRIDAY. The Chairman, J. S. Batchelor, Esq., presided at the above court on its being opened at 10 o'cloek subsequeutty C. H. Williams, Esq., sat with Mr. Jones. STEALING BEANS AT ABERDAUE. Thomas Davies, 25, haulier, was indicted for stealing 7ilbs. weight of beans and brun, the property of his employers, at Abcidare, on the 3rd of September. ...

... Some of the London newspapers have reflected very severely upon Mr. Roebuck for the decided stand he has made in the Trades' Commission against the offensive language of Mr. Coiioily. We give a very different, and we think, more just view of this affair, and we may add that we know it to be from the pen of a warm advocate of the working clashes.—Sheffield and RotJierliani Independent. The ...

... TUE D JBMN- FEXTAX FUNERAL.—A scene occurred in the Dublin Police Court on Monday, when Mr. John Martin and two other persons summoned for leading the demonstrationists in the city on Sunday week ap- peared. Whilst the counsel for the Crown was proving that it was all unlawful assembly, Mr. Sullivan, of the Nation newspaper, who had bee I summoned as a wit- ness, interposed and declared in an ...

... MERTHYR POLICE COURT. SATURDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Esq.) trunk and Riotous. — William Uren, who was drunk and eating a. disturbance in Post Office-lane; on Wednesday nht, was fined on the evidence of P.O. Griffiths, 7s. 6d. rusive of costs.—The same constable gave evidence aiinst Dennis Sullivan, who, on the 21st inst., was flourish- ii a stick near the Glamorgan Arms, being at the time ...

... RE BENJAMIN DAVIES, ABERDARE. PORTIONS of the Bankrupt's Estate and Effects being, it is believed, in the possession of various persons who have not rendered any account of the same, this is to give Notice, that any person who shall wilfully conceal such Estate, or fail to discover the same to the Court or to the Assignees, will be liable under the Bankruptcy Laws to forfeit the sum of One ...

... POLICE COURT. SATURDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Esq.) A Tatter-Denial ion.—William Hircy, a young man, with a very ragged wardrobe, was charged with wandering abroad, and sleeping in an unoccupied building, being without any visible means of subsistence. P.C. Rees found the prisoner in an empty dwelling-house, near Danyderri coke-house, stretched on the hearth in front of a good fire, which he ...

... ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ADDRESSED TO TilE EDITOR. the Editor is not responsible for the opinions of his Corres;>on ienti gIB> —Allow me, through the medium of your valuable journal, to say a few words with respect to the present plan on which religious services are held at the Union Workhouse. It is known, I think pretty well, that since the Union House and Iufirmary have been open in Merthyr ...

... THE EXTRAORDINARY BULLION ROBHERY. The removal of two cases of hnmon, valued at up- wards of £2000. belonging to Baron Rothschild, oil Tuesdav night or Wednesday morning, from the fore- held of the Waterloo steamer, while lying in the Thames off the Tower, is still unexplained. The directors of the General Steam Navigation Company, to whom the Waterloo belongs, made inquiries at their offices ...

... AN AmttL SoMw.—A thumb-screw., CON. BY lb. CAUDM.—Why is a wife likely to bd come equestrian ?—Because she's always on the nag. A DISGUSTING FEAT.-The man who bolted the dooif with a boiled carrot has paid the penalty of his glut- tony. He is suffering from internal hinge-eries. Didn't you tell me yon could hold the plough? said a farmer to an Irishman he had taken on trial. How could I ...