... TUE D JBMN- FEXTAX FUNERAL.—A scene occurred in the Dublin Police Court on Monday, when Mr. John Martin and two other persons summoned for leading the demonstrationists in the city on Sunday week ap- peared. Whilst the counsel for the Crown was proving that it was all unlawful assembly, Mr. Sullivan, of the Nation newspaper, who had bee I summoned as a wit- ness, interposed and declared in an ...

... ^A FOOLISH ACT AND A GALLANT RESCUE.— Soon after tho Union screw steamer Briton had left the Cape of Good Hope, and while running under full sail aucl steam, a Government messenger, named Jones, an officer of the royal navy, jumped overboard in a fit of madness. Immediately a cry of A man overboard was raised, and a young man, named Dunn, the third officer of the Briton, at once snatched up a ...

... MAGISTERIAL ENQUIRY. A Special Petty Sessions was held yesterday afternoon, s by J. C. Fowler, Esq., and the Rev. J. Griffith, the rector, t in consequence of the sudden arrest of two men residing in Dowlain, suppose to be Fenians. Information had been given to the police (by whom does not appear, but the reader of the evidence of the principal witness may form an a Opinion) upon which they ...

... HOW TO PUNISH REFRACTORIES !— Two dandies were some time ago, taken before a Dublin magistrate charged with intending to fight a duel The justice, who was a shrewd and waggish man, had strong doubts as to the really pugnacious inclination of either of the professed belligerents so he dismissed them upon a promise not to carry the matter further, but added, Gentlemen, I let you off this time ...

... FERNDALE COLLIERY. -The workings at this colliery are now in in a forward state for inspectional examination. The total number of bodies now recovered, with the number who died from their injuries, is 173. It is ascertained that at least six more are missing. The number of deaths therefore be put at 180. On Tuesday evening the members of the Pontypridd Committee met, and the secretaries read a ...

... MUfeTUM IN PABYO. A music school is to bo founded at Manheitn, with Herr Pohl as its director, Guillaume Tell is to be revive 1 at the Grand Opera of Paris wiih great carp, A Stockholm paper states that Sweden is about to es'ahlish a Consulate General in China. Signor Verdi's Don Carlo his, we are told by Italian journals, made a furore in Bologna, Mendelssohn's Reformation Symphony was ...

... MERTHYR POLICE COURT. SATURDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Esq.) ■WIFE DESERTION. John Sullivan, a dirty-looking fellow, was charged with deserting his wife and family. — Mr. Jones proved that through the prisoner's desertion the parish had been put to the expense of £ 1 lis. 10d., the commencement of relief dating from August.—The prisoner was committed for one month's imprisonment with hard ...

... SUDDEN DEATH. — A poor old woman who got her living by selling apples died suddenly on Tuesday. Her name was Mary Rogers, aged 60, living in Georgetown, and it appears that on Tuesday she went out into the town to beg, her store of apples being almost gone. She returned home about dinner time, and sat by the fire a short time and said nothing. As she did not move, the husband went up to her ...

... SATURDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Esq.) NEIGHBOURLY COMPLIMENTS. Mary Beattie, a woman with a child in her arms, was summoned for assaulting John Green. —Complainant said on Saturday week he went into the barber's to be shaved, and when he came out the defendant ran against him, and called him names most awfully. After some words had passed between them. the defendant threatened to throw a ...

... MB. DICKENS IN AMERICA. A letter from Boston of the 19th says :— The groat event in Boston to-day has been the arrival of Charles Dickens from Enrope per the steamer Cuba. Through the agency of the telegraph annonncemenfs were ma le which gave currency to the belief that the Cuba ani the distinguished novelist would arriveiuthe middle of the afternoon, and although there was no public ovation ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. r Our Correspondents are requested to favour us with their communications as early in the week *s possible, as we are obliged, every week, to omit many commu- nications which would appear if we received them be- fore Thursday. [ST A letter on Colliery Explosions, signed L. is again, unavoidably postponed, owing to a late arrival of important local news. ...

... LOWER BRITISH SCHOOL PENNT READINGS.—On Thui day evening week, a meeting for reading and singing w held in this School-room, which was well attended, and t' proceedings gave general satisfaction. CHRISTMAS INDICATIONS.— Our grocers and butche have taken no little pains in the decorations of their wi dows. On Saturday last there was a large display of tl good things of the season in all our ...