... 'Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has left Springfield, Illinois, and now resides in Racine, in Wisconsin. CURIOUS CLAIM.—A claim for a sum of 22,000f. has been put forward by the proprietors of the racecourse at Longchamps, as indemnity for the damage caused by the review on the 6th of June. The city of Paris demands that sum for the loss sustained by it in cutting the hay on the field before ripe, in ...

... The Midsummer Quarter Sessions for this county commenced at Cardiff Town Hail, on Tuesday morning, befora Robert Oliver Jones, Esq., chairman. William West Bassett, Esq., 0f Bonvilstone, qualified and took the oaths as a county magistrate. Aft-r the usual formalities—calling over the names of coroners, mayors buliffy c'njef C0nstables of h undreds, See., uo'-e of whom answered to their ...

... The Cardiff vessels about which their owners were becom- ing very anxious, have at length arrived at Quebec, after making very long passages. During the past week business has been exceedingly dull- very few vessels have arrived, and very little alteration has shewn itself in the freight market. The ship building trade seems to be in a very depressed state we hear one employer is about to ...

... The National Association of Ireland has just held a meeting for the purpose of expressing its opinions on some public questions. It resolved to abide by the principle of self-support, as best and safest for the Irish Catholic Church under the especial circumstances of her position, and to oppose any project of investing her with a portion of the Ecclesiastical State property at present in ...

... A TERRIBLE STORY. The terriole tale ...

... BURGLARY—Early on Sunday morning the smith's shop of Mr. Lewis, west side of the West Bute Dock, was broken into and a quantity of brass bearings and tools stolen. THE SMOKE NUISAI, CE.-The Black Country will soon lose its unenviable title if a plan now carried out at Lord Granville's works, near Hanley, i* generally adopted. The mouths of the short chimneys or cnpolas of the blast furnaces ...

... THE NEW ARCHDEACON OF MANCHESTER.— The Archdeaconry of Manchester, vacant by the death of the Ven. R. M. Master, has been conferred by the bishop of the diocese on the Rev. Richard Durnford, M.A., late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and rector of Middleton. The new archdeacon is an honorary canon of the cathedral, proctor in Convocation for the Archdeaconry of Manchester, and rural dean. ...

... LLANDAFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. (Before E. W. DAVID and C. H. WILLIAMS, Esqs.) THE SOAP WORKS NUISANCE. Messrs. Thomas Williams and William Willtams, pro- ptietorsofthe Maindy Soap Works and the cottages belong- ing thereto, were summoned by the Cardiff Union Board of Guardians, for causing a nuisance; and Mr. Louis Gerry, manager of the French Patent Fuel Company, and Mr. J C. Major, of ...

... I11 a letter from San Luis Potosi, published in thebaic Orleans Times of the 9th inst., the suborned particulars of the execution of the Emperor Maximilian are given .— On the morning of June 19th Escobedo's troops mus- tered outside Queretaro at six o'clock in the morning, and vast crowds of the inhabitants of that city watched them At seven precisely the bells began to toll, and ...

... TRADES UNIONISM AT WOLVER- HAMPTON. in order to shew that trade outrages are not confined to Sheffield, and that trade societies are generally impli- cated in them, Mr. John Edward Ridges, a master coach- builder of Wolverhampton, sends to the Times an account of practices pursued towards him. In January last he employed a young man as improver in his wheel shop. Presently Mr. Ridges was ...

... Colonel Gregoire, the colonel commandant-in-chief of the Belgian Civic Guard, has addressed the following farewell letter to the Belgian Reception Committee To the President of the Belgian Reception Committee. My Lord,—On behalf of those whom I have had the honour to command during their visit to England, I beg permission, through you, to address a few words to those who have so nobly ...

... THE WHEAT CROP. Mr. Mechi writes from Tiptree Hall in reference to the wheat crop: I fear that the wheat crop on stiff claya, even where well drained, will this season, as last, be dimi- r i^?me or per cent, by what is commonly called root-falling, but which is really root-rotting. Owing to so much rain, and the frequent absence of 8n. ohine. the stem, just above its junction with the crown of ...