... FULL ACCOUNT OF THE EXECUTION OF THE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. The first messenger who reached San Luiz di Potosi on the morning of the 19th of May, did not return here with the orders of the President until the 22nd. The Emperor was then informed that lie had to appear before a council of war. He protested in writing, and claimed to tried by the Chamber of Notables, which had called him to the ...

... CARDIFF, FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1867. THE LATE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN. SAD, for all concerned, was the hour when the Emperor NAPOLEON determined on founding an Empire in Mexico. Never was there so com- plete a fiasco, so thorough and ruinous a col- lapse. We all remember the real and ostensi- ble reasons for the imperial decision the one— the pressing necessity for satisfying the natural passion of ...

... A letter received at Penzance from a military officer contains a graphic account of a search for a captain and crew who had been murdered in the Bay of Bengal. The writer, W. T. M. dates from Port Blair, Anda- mans, and says: — About three months ago, the captain and seven men of a ship called the Assam Valley landed in a boat on one of these islands called Little Andamans, and never returned ...

... NEW CALEDONIA.—A regular trade with New Caledonia is likely to spring into activity. A fair sample of unthreslied rice has arrived iu Auckland. New Caledonia produces also coffee, sugar, cotton, and tropical fruits. Mr. Higginson, who arrived here in the Kecilworth, and who has been eight years iesident there, informs us that the winter is somewhat like our summer, only with frequent rains ...

... LONDON, MONDAY, July 1. FRANCE. M. Latour Dumoulin described the policy of the Government at home and abroad as one of equivoca- tion and M. Gamier Pages criticised the state of the finances, and observed that the only way of arriving at a balance on the Budget was by reducing the war expenses, and at the same time meeting the wish of the nation, which was desirous of peace. The Sultan arrived ...

... For some time past Mr. D. D. Home, the celebrated Spiiitualist, has been stajing at Malvern, under the care of Dr. Gaily. One day fast week Mr. Home suddenly disap- peared from the neiglibcuvhood, and the next we hear of the gentleman, whose face had become quire familiar at Malvern, and was not unknown in Worcester, is of his being a prisoner. A writ had been issued against him f)r obtaining ...

... Our Correspondents are requested to favour us with their communications as early in the week as possible, as wo are obliged, every week, to omit many covnuiu- ideations which would appear if wo received them be- fore Thursday. WE do not undertake to return rejected corre-pondence If writers send us anything they deem important they should preserve a copy. ...

... TheQueenof Prussia has paid a visit to MissNightiu* gale. The British Museum has acquired a large portion of the original MSS. of the Paston Letters. The State Capitol of Nebraska, to be hereafter loca- ted, is to be named in honour of President Lincoln. On Saturday, the Duchess of Sutherland laid tho foundation stone of an asylum fororphans at Hornsey- rise. Mr. Welch, late registrar of tho ...

... THE plaintif fin the St. Alban's case of Martins, the Rev. A. H. Mackonochie on Saturday admitted by his proctor the defendant's allegation, and he (the plaintiff) would now have further time to plead. The case may now come ou before the Dean of Arches before the long vacation. A sharp contest has just taken place in the diocese of Lincoln on the election of a proctor of Convocation The ...

... Board No. 2 intends to take the sensible step of erecting n public urinal for that part of Pontypridd in its district; The co-operation of the Highway Board No. 1 cannot fail to be secured in taking a similar step in that part of the town within its jurisdiction. t:THEIt,- We have, after a lengthened period of dry and occasionally oppressive hot weather, beeu visited the last day or two, ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE. -\TOT TC E is hereby given, that the County Roads J3I Board of the County of Glamorgan, will, at their next Meeting, to be holden at the CASTLE HOTEL, NEATH, on WEDXESRAY, the 31st day of JULY, 18G7, at 11 a.m., proceed to the Appointment of a Surveyor for the Llandaff Highway District No. 1. The Salary is £ 130 a year. The Surveyor will be re- quired to keep a Horse, and ...

... ABERDARE POLICE COURT. TI'ESDAY. —(lirforc J. C. Eotl'lef, Esq.) A PCBLIC-HOUSE QUARREL. John TVMvims v John Harris ami John Tn'onuis.—This was an assault case adjourned Oil the suggestion of His Worship to procure further evidence. James Williams, labourer, said that he saw Williams and his partner near the Queen Victoria. Williams's partner called for a pint of beer, but Williams dragged ...