... LOCAL TOPICS. One of those acts of gallantry which are occasionally per- formed, regardless of danger or praise, was rendered to an elderly woman on Tuesday week. One side of Mill-street has its rear washed by the Rhondda, an insignificant stream at most times, but somewhat dangerous and impetuous when it rises to the dimensions of a flood. There are pas- sages at certain intervals, running ...

... The Lords Justices have before them a case of great im- portance to the charitable institutions in London. By seve- ral wills and codicils made in the French language in 1855 and 1856, Lord Henry Seymour gave all his residuary estate, amounting to upwards of £100,OUO. to les hospices de Paris et Lmdres. The Master of the Rolls decided in 1865 that the true meaning of the word hospices was ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS, BRITISH AND FOREIGN. The Raphael, which sailed in the end of August from Nagasaki for Shanghai, has not since been heard of. Since the closing of the Paris Exhibition the receipts of the theatres most frequented in the French capital have fallen about 6,000 francs nightly to _,500 francs. The Pope is about to bestow a special mark of honour on the Pontificals and French who ...

... Before the same magistrate. IMPORTANT CASE OF SIIEEP-STEALING. A respectable-looking man, named Frederick Thompson, was charged with stealing a sheep, the property of John Pngh Richards, butcher, Commercial-street, Pontypool, on the 16th inst. Prosecutor said he had 47 sheep on his farm. He missed a ewp sheep on Sunday morning. Saw it safe on Friday evening last. The sheep's head produced in ...

... The New York correspondent of the Standard gives the following particulars of a frightful tragedy recently enacted in the state of New Jersey :— On the night of Feb. 25 the wife of a physician named Coriell was brutally murdered. Suspicion fell upon the one servant of the family, Bridget Durgan, whose conduct, both at the time of the discovery of the murder and afterwards, was of the most ...

... AN AGRARIAN MURDER. An agrarian murder of the worst type was com- mitted at Ballymahon, Countv Longford, on Friday evening. A respectable farmer, named Andrew Waters, who held 400 acres of land under the Hon. King Harman, recently resolved to emigrate to Australia, a.nd obtained permission from Mr. Har- man to dispose of the goodwill of his farm. He was about to complete an agreement with a, ...

... PROCLAMATION of the KING of ITALY. The following proclamation of King Victor Emma- nuel to the Italian people was issued in Florence on October 17th Italians Bands of volunteers, excited and seduced by a party without my authorization or that of my Government, have violated the frontier of the State. The respect equally due by all citizens to the laws and international stipulations sanctioned ...

... ^°nday ni&ht, Mr. Young, who is to command the Livingstone search expedition, reported that the steel boat is finished, and that he will leave England in the mail steamer on the 8th of this month for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he will proceed to the mouth of the ZambesL There the boat will be put together, and the party will go up the river to the Murchison Falls. Here the boat will be ...

... The inhabitants of Woburn-square, Bloomsbury, were annoyed during last week by largo numbers of the ragged and noisy population of St. Giles in quest of a ghost said to be a denizen of the square garden. So great and increasing has been the crowd that police have been told off for the special service of maintaining order and making the populace move on. The excitement appears to date from tho ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Standard sends the following particulars of an extraordinary case which has just come before the Tribunal For some time past a man named Picardat has been living at Bobigny (Seine;, where he keeps what he calls an encyclopedia; consultation-room, and where he appears to have passed himself off among the rustics as a lawyer, an agent of the police, and various ...

... A. correspondent of a London paper complains that coming up to town from a station eight or ten miles trom London, he found six first-class carriages oc- cupied by as many solitary lady passengers, and nearly lost his tram whilst he was looking for a less hazardous compartment in which to seat himself. Now, as un- protected male travellers have, all things considered, not unreasonably, a ...

... To the Editor of the Free Press. Sir,—It is high time that the attention of the public and the local authorities should be called to the dangerous state of the public road leading from, the tvrnpike road, beyond the Twmpath, to the Race Furnaces and Bhendare. This road i., I believe, the only available route between the town and the, populous neighbourhood about Blaendare but notwithstanding ...