... The Daily Telegraph has discovered that the Reform Bill contains an absurd blunder. We are not certain that the Telegraph has not made a blundering discovery. The celebrated clause conferring the borough suffrage on rate- p/iyers requires that the voter shall have paid all rates that have become payable up to the preceding 5th of January, and which have been demanded of him. The rates are to ...

... W BEREZOWSKIS SENTENCE. the dreadful revelations which have been at Sheffield still fresh in our minds, we are in a mood to regard the crime of Berezowski °* the criminal himself with any exceptional degree Merest; but as assassination, whether of era- J^ors or of ordinary plebeians, must ever be revolt- ? to every right-thinking man, the verdict and ^tence just recorded upon the Polish ...

... THE BOARD OF HEALTH BYE-LAWS. The Town Council met on Tuesday as a Board of Health, to consider the proposed amendment of the bye- laws. There were present the Mayor (C. W. David, Esq.), in the chair Alderman Alexander, and Council- lors Whiffen, Winstone, Elliott, Bowen, J. Bird, Jenkins, Flint, Evans, and Dr. Taylor. The MAYOR said he had convened the meeting in order that the bye-laws of ...

... MOND. Re A. White, Newport, co adjonrned last examination ai Edlin appeared to oppose on Mr. Beckingham, for the ban wife had been summoned, bu1 confined, and a medical certii stating that she was of a wea impo-sible for her to attend, leave her house. Under th' was adjourned till the 21th o of costs being reserved. Re R. Thomas, Britonferry S. Thomas, Britonferry, dock though adjudicated on ...

... THE NATIONAL EISTEDDFOD.—Five compositions, bearing the following fictitious names, have been received for com- petition at the forthcoming Grand National Eisteddfod at Carmarthen, for the Milford Haven Prize of £ 10 >. Green- way Cottage, Ilichard Mab Edward, Camden, Essyllwr, Dubricius. WELSH FAME.— Gut to Lleyn died in London last week. Many will doubtless ask who he was Tho reply ...

... of the working classes being about to swamp °ther classes in the representation—surely forget the county franchise is still far from a demo- nic one; and considering that twenty-five seats ^ave been taken from household suffrage voters to e given to £ 12 county electors, it cannot be said the Bill has provided no counterpoise to the extension of the borough franchise. Twenty- j*Ve members, be ...

... LLANDAFF. PETTY SESSIONS.—MONDAY. (Before T. W. BOOKER and J. H. INSOLE, Esqrs.) CATTLE REGULATIONS.—William Lewis, of Lanmaes, was ordered to pay costs for having, on the 4th inst., removed a cow and calf on the public road without a proper form of declaration. NUISANCE AT GRANGETOWN.—David Griffiths, of Pen- coed. was summoned for maintaining a nuisance, in the shape of two foul privies, on ...

... HEREFORD. The quaint old wooden-fronted house near the palace of the Bishops of Herefor where Nell Gwyono was lorn and lived, has been entirely swept away. Every visitor to Hereford used to call to see it, but it has proved obnoxious to an eoctesiastieal dignitary, and has be; n in consequence entirely demolished. The bouse was pretty, filled in with quaint old wooden piles, and in King ...

... CARMABTHENSHIBE AND GLAMOBGANSHIRE ENGLISH BAPTIST ASSOCIATION.—The annual meetings of this Association were held in Bethany Chapel, Cardiff, on Wednesday and Thurs- day last. The services commenced by a sermon, by the Rev. R. Davies, of Maesteg, on Wednesday. On Thursday, the conference of delegates was held, when the Rev. R Griffiths was chosen moderator. The various matters of business were ...

... PEDESTRIANIsM.-La;,t week, a man of the name of William Davies, a collier, residing on Caerphilly moun- ain, offered to walk to Cardiff and back, nearly 15 miles, n three hours; and a bet was made of £5. The match igainst time came off on Monday morning. He started rom Caerphilly at nine o'clock in the morning, and talked to the Rose and Crown, Cardiff, and he completed )is task within the ...

... M'NAMAIIA V. M'NAMARA AND METCALFE. This was a suit by the husband for a dissolution of marriage on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent. He also asked for damages. The adul- tery was denied by the wife and the co respondent, and a counter charge against the petitioner was made. Mr. Serjeant Tindal Atkinson and Mr. Kemp were counsel for the petitioner; Dr. Spinks, Q.C,. and ...

... The Advertiser states that the paragraph which has been going the round of the journals, to the effect that tho Lords mean to reject the lodger^ franchise in the Reform Bill, is wholly without foundation. Mr. Richard Fothergill has just issued an address to the electors of the United Borough of Merthyr Tydvii, Vaynor, and Aberdare, in which he offers hiiyself as a candidate for the additional ...