... At the Westminster Police-court, on the 11th inst., Charles Legg was charged with brutally assaulting his daughter, Mary Eliza Legg, 13 years old. The prisoner has been married three times, and the only child—that one in question—was by the first wife. According to her evidence, three years ago, when at Dorchester, he seduced her. This illicit intercourse has been kept up ever since, and seven ...

... RELIEVING OFFICER WANTED. VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Guar- _1_1 dians of the Neath Union will at their Meeting to be holden at the Union Workhouse, Neath, on TUESDAY, the 26th day of January, 1869, proceed to APPOINT a RELIEVING OFFICER for the 1st Central District of the Union, in the room of Mr. Jenkin Francis, resigned. The District comprises the Parishes of Neath, Llantwit Lower, ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN.' SIR,—The position of the Canton Local Government is now exciting a good deal of attention. The law gave this Board nine members, but there appears to be ten persons acting as such, and either the whole of the proceedings must be informal or one of the mem- bers must have been illegally elected. As far as I understand the state of affairs, the returning officer ...

... S'R'Knowing your anxiety, through the columns of the Cardat limes, to assist any eflort to benefit the inhabitants ot trie town, Will you permit me to call the attention of voor readers to the Bible class which meets every Lord's-dav after- noon in the Cardiff Town-hall, from three o'clock till a quarter-past four. The class is thoroughly unsectarian, and is c-omposed of men of nearly every ...

... A reporter of the Toronto Daily Globe newspaper, In- fluenced, no doubt, by Mr. Greenwood's doings as an amateur casual, managed to get into Toronto- gaol dis- guised as a criminal, and to spend twenty-four hours there in the character, for the purpose of knowing something of gaol life from the prisoner's point of view. How he managed to get in is thus alluded to in an article in a recent ...

... The American papers g; Ve the particulars of a singu- lar railway accident which occurred recently. On the night of the 22nd uit., the eastern-bound train of the Sioux City Railroad was thrown off by a broken rail near Farley, and the rear car, containing about thirty passengers, was precipitated over a forty-foot embank- ment. The growth of young timber checked the vio- lence of the fall, or ...

... A complimentary banquet, wail given on the evening of the 29th of December, at in New York, to Professor Morse, the inventor of a system of electric telegraphy. Chief Justice Chase presided. Mr. Thornton, the British minister, Attorney-General Evarts, General M'Dowell, Goldwin Smith, ex-Go- vernor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and Buckingham, of Connecticut, were present. After the first regular ...

... Before the Rev. J. C. Llewellin and the Rev. T. Evans. CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT. James Smith, who had been remanded on bail, was charged with embezzling certain mo- neys belonging to his employer, Richard Clarke, at Cwmbran. Mr Clarke did not appear, and the prisoner was discharged. WHEN SHE FETCIIED THE CATTLE HOME. Ann Ihomas, of Upper Sovridd, near Crum- liD, was charged with assaulting ...

... v, Ed warden!, Com,mtm Pleas on Monday the case of Hind ^as heard. Mr. W Q.C., said Sir H. Edwards and Cw 4a Petlt,0° attacking the seats of i„ ,lrlr. -Kennard, the members for Bever- f r1 t. v. I ',S bribery, treating-, and intimida- tion aua, though both seats were attacked, tliey had given security onlv for £1.000. The question had been raised before Mr. Justice Wells, at chambers, whether ...

... A repetition of the diabolical aflair which occurred fn North Tay-street, about five weeks ago, when a merchant's office was robbed and afterwards burned, took place in town early on the morning of the 7th inst. About half-past three o'clock the police- man, whose beat includes the Long Wynd, discovered smoke issuing from the premises there occupied by Mr. Alexander Mitchell, plumber and ...

... On the 11th inst., Mr. S. F. Langham, the West- minster deputy coroner, held an inquest at St. George's Hospital on the body of Harriet Greville, the wife of a silversmith. Her husband had been separated from her for some time, and allowed her 12s. a week, but some three months since ceased the maintenance, and left England, necessitating her going into Newino-ton workhouse. She came out some ...

... At Langborough Petty Sessions, Middlesborough, on the 8th inst., John Taylor, late a gamekeeper in the employment of Mr. Thomas Yaughan, Gunnergate Hall, was charged with assault. The prisoner had been discharged from his situation in September last, and was succeeded by Thomas Meek, the prosecutor. Taylor had an impression that he had been unfairly supplanted by Meek, and expressed his ...