... Is A DEATH OF A inquest held an evening or two si|e; Srriek, coro- ner, ou the body fJIrs. jr^'arfjt Perrett, wife of the Kiate of a steiii%oa[, t.diAg fetween Swansea and -Liverpool. The ^inaii living a most intem- perate life for ptlet, one of the witnesses stating that one iy the had visited an ad- jacent public-hojj 11,) les tlijm iort.y-tjrues Being her heiirj^ xv-|ii! Oj^ned, and the ...

... Sites ta the hihrr. THE GAME LAWS. SIR,-Will you allow me space in your valuable paper to make a few remarks Ton the game laws, and the de- struction the rabbits and hares are causing in our country. F don't hesitate to say that they are destroying thousands of bushels of the poor man's bread in the county OF Glamorgv.11 alone; and what must they be doing in the whole of Eng- land and Wales ? ...

... A^QED ATTEMPT TO POISON A PARTY. ..jut l,4C-0 or 1.500 men, women, and cliildien assem- a bail on Monday evening, at Wolverhampton, at a Tel! tea meeting to Fiddler Joss and bis wife, on the ?°jd n of nine weeks' Revival services which they na\en ]j,]ding in t: at hall. Ample preparations were E}a^(1r s:itisfying the demands of the keenest appe- t^but no sooner had the tea been poured out, and ...

... CAIRA. CAB ACCIDET.-On Christmas Day, as Mr. Evans, of the Great House. Micliaelstone-super-Ely, was driving home in a hansom cab, by some means or other the horse fell into a ditch by the side of the road and was drowned. Mr. Evans and the cabman were not injured, and as the water in the ditch was but a foot deep, it is presumed the horse was stunned by the fall, and so suffocated. ...

... TRADE-UNION OUTRAGE IX GLASGOW.—On the 25th, at the Smugglers' Monument, on the Mary-hill-road, a miner named John Connor, employed in the Glasgow Iron Company's ironstone pits, was attacked by two men and very severely beaten. Some workmen have been on strike for about 2U weeks, but Connor and a number of others kept on at their labour. Connor had his fingers smashed, and was subsequently ...

... The report of the Christmaa dinner at the Workhouse is unavoidably omitted in this edition. Our Correspondents are requested to favour us their communications M early in the week a8 possible, M we are obliged, every week, to omit many commu- nications whioh would appear if we received them bo- fore Thursday. Norica.—The Railway Time Tableg are published with as much care to ensure correctness ...

... A severe gale blew over the metropolis on the 27th and 28th, causing great damage to property. For several days past the land in all parts of the country, especially in the south-western districts, was soaked with heavy and continuous ram, the rivers besides, in many places, overflowing and putting under water large tracts of country. The rain, after a cessation of about twenty-four hours, ...

... BLAE A VU. FOURTH MON. VOLUNTEER CORPS.—A meeting of this corps was held at the Town Hall, on Tuesday evening, the 22nd December, when the prizes won at the late competition were distributed to the successful competitors. Before distributing the prizes, Captain Steel briefly addressed the men, stating that they had kept up their high state of efficiency, notwith- standing several obstacles ...

... CUristmas: DECORATION OF THE CHURCHES. Once more has passed the festal season commemora- tive of the nativity of Him whose advent was heralded by the proclamation, through the medium of angelic hosts, On earth peace, good will towards men. At Newport the anniversary was distinguished by but little public demonstration. Except that the music of the Waits was heard- and, despite the ca- ...

... CONFIRMATIONS OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. The ceremony (if c()ll lf,,ti itl,- the election of the Right Rev. Dr. Archibald Campbell Taif, Bishop of London, to the A.rchiepiscopa! See of Canterbury, took place at the, parish hurch of St. lar;r-k-I:cw, Cheapsid^, on Wednesday, in the aresenctf of a large number of spectators. The coremony is }f a far more imposing character fliaa the ...

... STEAM TYPE-COMPOSING MACHINE. During the past three weeks a machine, driven by steam, as been at work in Manchester setting type automati- cally. Leading machinists pronounce it a decided success. The inventor, Mr. Mackie, a native of Dundee, and who has already made several machines for distributing and setting type-machines of singular ingenuity—claims for the one to which we refer as ...

... THE GALE AND ITS DIBAST| During the past week the weather J1K3 Ijrf ceptional character, and the variations of tin an ?> have forewarned the weatherwise that in neter at hand. On Saturday and Sunday moi .wa8 r tive gales occurred all round the west uo inflicting iDtich .serious daiuag.. From Live-30asts' disasters are reported, and • e .ate 0f the man7 described as njost extraori ary \t hM ...