... SOCIETY FOR RELIEF OF AGED AVOMIEN. I The forty-fourth annual meeting of the Society for the Relief of Infirm and Aged Women was held yesterday, in the Sehool Room, Upper Priory ; MP. John Cadbusry in the chair. All the other members of the society present were ladies. The followiug report wvas presented :- The comnittee present their forty-fourth report to the frionds and supporters of this ...

... S. To the Editor of the Gfavolo Herald. Glasgow, 14th January, 1869. SIR,-I vwas gratified to find that tberecent letters in the Herald as to Early Steam Navigation have led Mr James Steel, ef Liverpool, to give, in your impression of the 1st instant, an interesting ac- count of a trial made by the late Mr John Wood, shipbuilder, Port-Glasgow, with a screw in the pro- pulsion of a ship's ...

... 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 Liberal Association for Montgomeryshire was success- fully started at Newtown on Friday, at a meeting pre- sided over by Captain Crewe-Read and composed of active Liberals from different districts of the county. Before the real business of the meeting began, a proposal was made that the association should include in its opera- tions the registration of the boroughs as well as the county, ...

... We wish to draw the attention of our readers to what transpired at the Carnarvon Quarter Sessions last week. The large sum of 21,027 appeared in the treasurer's accounts as having been paid out of the county rate for special constables at the late election. Had the necessity for their appointment legitimately arisen, no one would perhaps have scrutinized too closely the sum ex- pended or the ...

... Mr SZLUMPER produced the plans of the proposed site for the slaughterhouse and Smithfield. Mr ALDERMAN JONES said the sooner the better the matter was proceeded with; he had been asked by several persons what the Board intended doing in the matter, and most parties were of opinion that the cattle fairs would be weaned back from Llanbadam, if there was accommoda- tion for the cattle. The CLERK ...

... 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 ...