... M'Donnell, the Life Guardsman, is considered in a precarious state. An attempt has been made to blow up the armoury of the Rifle Volunteers at Harrow. Orders have been issued by the Police Commis- sioners for all the constables in the Metropolitan Police Force to learn the cutlass drill. There is a slight improvement in the health of the Earl of Rosse. The weather on Friday morning was very ...

... (Cul/tinlled from our first editiou.) FIRST COURT—FRIDAY. The Chairman, J. S. Batchelor, Esq., presided at the above court on its being opened at 10 o'cloek subsequeutty C. H. Williams, Esq., sat with Mr. Jones. STEALING BEANS AT ABERDAUE. Thomas Davies, 25, haulier, was indicted for stealing 7ilbs. weight of beans and brun, the property of his employers, at Abcidare, on the 3rd of September. ...

... BEECON.-Lieut.-Col. E. Reilly, C.B., R.H.A, and Mr. J. Lindsay Johnson, Barrister, attended the Town Hall, Bre- con, on Friday, the 4lh inst., for the purpose of inquiring into the Parliamentary boundaries of the borough. From the evidence that was received it appeared that although the town has increa ed to some extent since its receiving more improved railway communications the building, and ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE.—Aberavon. Oct. 7th Penryn, 8th Swansea, 8th; Caerphilly, 9th; Loughor, 10th Swansea, 19th Llantrissant, 29th Neath, 30th. BRECOXSHIRE. Hay, Oct. 10th. MONMOUTHSHIRE.—Pontypoot, Oct. 10th; Newport, 21 st; Chepstow, 25th Llanarth, 27th. SOMERSETSHIRE.—Wootton Bassett, Oct. 8th (jlaston- bury, 11th Wells, 25th. ...

... THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. THE excitement concerning the annual election of Councillors has considerably cooled, but will doubtless break forth with greater virulence and acrimony as the eventful First approaches. No new candidates have appeared in either ward, and at this date we should think, as most men must have promised, or made up their minds, no one will go to the expense of the printer's ...

... folifitjal JittclIiriLni^. MR. DISRAELI has accepted the proposal to confer upon him the freedom of the city of Edinburgh, ou the occasion of his visit there. The Conservative banquet takes place on the 29th of October, under the presidency of Sir Wiilam Stirling Maxwell, M.P. THE BANQUET TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE ExcnE. QUER.— We are glad to learn that the list of honorary stewards for the ...

... The new Grand Opera in Paris is at present being roofed in. Two visitors at Baden have been winning enormoi-s umsat the roulette table. M. Pourtales gained £2,400 in five minutes; a Russian, named Xiepkoskine, has won a total of £12,000. Mr. Elias Howe, jun., thepresident of the Howe Ma- chine Company, died on the 3rd instant. His funeral tookplaccon theoth, at Cambridgeport, Mass., U.S.A., ...

... THE approaching Elections for Town Councillors are, even at this date, a source of considerable excitement, the tameness of last year's pro- ceedings promise to be amply atoned for, and the general hope is, that as gentlemen of charac- ter and position have come forward, their claims may be acknowledged by the ratepayers, and onr Corporation not only invigorated by an infusion of new blood, ...

... ATIEMPTED SUICIDE.—A young man named Charles Sullivan threw himself into the water from the pier, head, Bute Docks, on Thursday morning, and he very narrowly escaped being drowned, as there was great difficulty experienced by a dock policeman and others, who went to the rescue, in getting him to land. The unlucky fellow was found to be in a state of mental derangement, and was therefore taken ...

... AKTEMUS \V ARD'il OPINIOX OF JULIUS CÆSAR. It was late when I got home. The children and my wife was all abed. But a candle—a candle made from taller of our own raisin'—gleamed in Betsy's room it gleamed for I! All was still. The sweet silver moon was a shinin' bright, and the beautiful stars was up to their usual doins I felt a sentyment tal mood so gently ore me stealiu', I pawsed before ...

... On Wednesday morning the mortal remains of the Right Hon. Horatio addington were deposited in Kensal Green Cemetery. The coffin was of polished oak, with gilt ornaments, and bore the following in. scription :—Horatio Waddington, born January 12, 1799. Died October 3, 1807, ...

... ci'orat LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. Oct. 27.—SUNDAY. Celebration of Holy Communion at 8 o'clock. Morning Prayer. Venite—143. Daily Psalms-H2. Te DemU-8 5. Benedictus—11, double. Introit Hymn 174. Kyrie—N;ires in F. Hymn—171. Afternoon service at half-past three. Daily Psalms- -147,1 IS. Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Nares in F. Anthem- In Thee. 0 Lord, Wtddon. Hymn—161. Litany and Sermon at ...