... 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 ...

... DDJ H'octil Intelligence. J J «H £ T'RDLS'P BATHS.—Number of bathers during the week i *atX20* July, 1887:—In the Turkish bath, 92; hot Ba ^s, 85 swimming baths, 177. $^j ^^HrPTs.—Dennis Mahoney, Swansea, earthenware .•I *^u^y 30, at 11; Joseph Saint, Llantrissant, licensed, J1 Kallf> July 30, at 11. JJI BW E INFIRMARY.—We are glad to learn that the Trea- «0a t Infirmary, W. D. Bushell, Esq., ...

... DISHONEST WEIGHTS.-At the police-court, on MorL- day, before the Mayor and Mr. E. J. Phillips, the fol- lowing green-grocers, standing in the market, were fined for having light weights in their possession! George Bullock, four unjust weights, 5s. and costs; Elizabeth Ball, five unjust weights, 2s. 6d. and costs; Harriet Thomas, three unjust weights, 2s. id. and costs; Norah Collins, two ...

... Wt veiling his Highness the Pasha of Egypt *tW:„ J House on a visit to her Majesty the Queen ft# p ,sor Castle. At Paddington his Royal Highneits Wtlnc« of Wales met the Pasha in the lioyal ftoJiroom attached to the terminus. The platform this Buite of rooms was partly carpeted, and Jon of c°rds stretched upoji iron standards preserved a tot tK °?f.n P108 front of the saloon carriage ...

... Professor Beesly ha..3 sent to the Daily News a long reply to the attacks made upon him by the press on account of his late speech to the trade unionists. He accuses the writers of dislocating two or three phrases from their context, and then serving them with a garnish of inference and interpretation which he would repudiate with horror. The consequence of this mode of treating a speaker is a ...

... FROM THE BILL OF ENTRY OFFICE. EXPORTS. Destination Ship. Coal. Iron. Shippers. JULY 12. Gibraltar Elaine (s.s.), B. 400 Cory Bros. Alicante Gladiator (s.s.), B. 450 Rhymney Iron Co. Bergen Delegate, B. 402 Tellefsen, Holst & Co. Marseilles Canny Scott, B. 490 Richards & Livingston Gibraltar Dublin, B. 381 Fothergill Malta Alma, B. 880 D. Davis & Sons Brest Onward, B. 44 Troedyrhiew Coal Co. ...

... 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 ...