... WRECKS.—Three wool ships, believed to be the Star of Tasmania, Ecbu\lgø, and Witter Nymph, have been wrecked on the coast of New Zealand. CRUELTY TO FOWLS. A dealer named Fletcher has leen charged at the Whitchurch (Salop) Petty Sessious with shocking cruelty to a fowl. It appeared from the evidence of the Rev. John Evans, incumbent of Whixall, that on calling at tbe house of the defendant, ...

... MERTHYR. CONFIRMATION.—The.Bishop of Llandaff confirmed an unusually large number of persons of both sexes in St. David's Church on Friday last. F THE TOWN MISSION.—This is already doing good. !> On Sunday afternoon last a dense crowd assembled at the river side, the Rev. William Davies, as usual, preach- ing, and the choir singing in due order. At the close the out-door congregation were ...

... CENTRAL WALES. An extraordinary general meeting of this company was held at Shrewsbury on Saturday Sir C. R. Boughton in the chair. The notice convening the meeting stated that it was for the purpose of sub- mitting to the shareholders two Bills now pending in Parliament, the first of which sought to vest the several undertakings of the Knighton, the Central Wales, and the Central Wales ...

... The market is steady, at 43. 6d. on the spot, 44s. for June, and 44 s. 6 1, for October to December. ...

... FOREIGN Mi-S(JEL.L.AH I,_ A bill has passed the Iowa Senate, allowing women to practise as attorneys. In Onipee, New Hampshire, there it a printing- oftice in which all the labour is performed by the pro- prietress and her daughter. At the last state concert given at the Tuileries, Madlle. Patti told the Empress that she was engaged to marry the Marquis de Caux. The Orchestra be- lieves that ...

... Business at the Docks has once more assumed its usual activity. The arrivals are numerous, and are on the increase. The tips are again surrounded with vessels waiting for cargoes, and the coal sidings are much less crowded with loaded wagons The ships which have left the Docks during the past week have been unusually numerous, and the large number of vessels in ballast and in cargo easily find ...

... ELECTION OF MEDICAL OFFICER. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Guardians of the Cardiff Union will, at their meeting to be held on the 9th May, 1868, proceed to the ELECTION of a MEDICAL OFFICER, for the CARDIFF SOUTH DISTRICT, who must be qualified in the manner pres- cribed by consolidated order of the Poor Law Board. He will be required to reside in the district and to dis- charge all the ...

... The visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to Ireland continues to exciti! the ut- most enthusiasm. On Thursday they went to the Punches- town races. The scene was an extraordinary one. The weather was magnificent, and the crowd assembled was very great. At least 20,000 went by train from Dublin alone, an,1 there could not have been fewer than 150,000 in all upon the ...

... In the House of Lords on Thursday the Mutiny Bill was read a second time 011 the motion of the Earl of Longford. After- wards a debate took place on the omission by the Hon,s of Commons of the clause authorising the infliction of corporal punishment, in the course of which the Duke of Cambridge observed that he believed a beneficial deterrent effect had been exercised by the clause. His Royal ...

... The annual meeting of this board was held on Saturday the chair being temporarily occupied by the Rev. T. H. Jones. There were also present E. W. David, C. W. David, Thos. Goddard, and Griffith Phillips, Esqrs. the Rev. V. Saulez, H. J. Thomas, C. Lewis, and J. Edmunds; Dr. Taylor; Aldermen Alexander and Pride Messrs. J. Elliott, T. H. Stephens, T. H. Ensor, T. J. Waller, J. Evans, J. Cory, R. ...

... THE FENIAN TRIALS. The trial of Michael Barrett, alias Jackson, Timothy Desmond, Wm. Desmond, Nicholas English, John O'Keefe and Anne Justice was commenced on Monday morning at the Old Bailey, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and Baron Bramwell, and has been resumed from day to day. and will in all probability last for some days longer. The prosecution is conducted by the Attor- ney-General, ...

... DEPARTURE OF THE QUEEN FOR OSBORNE.—At three o'clock yesterday Her Majesty accompanied by Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess Beatrice, Prince Albert Victor, and Prince George, left Windsor Castle, and proceeded to the South Western Railway, and travelled by special train to Portsmouth. In attendance on Her Majesty were Lady Waterpark, the Hon. Horatio Stopford, the Hon. Emily Cathcart, ...