... Foreign. ? The resolution lately passed by the American House of Representatives, proposing a constitutional amendment with reference to the franchise, has been carried in the Senate by forty to sixteen votes. The resolution provides that neither race, colour, nativity, property, education, nor creed shall in any respect form a disqualification in the exercise of the suffrage. Upon his ...

... DEE FISHERY.—At a meeting held a few days ago at the Owen Glyndwr, the Hon. C. H. Wynn in the chair, it was resolved that a new association be formed to improve the fishing in the Dee. Mr Wynn is to be patron of the association, and a committee has been formed, with Mr W. B. C. Jones as secretary, and Mr J. Jones, London House, treasurer. ...

... An influential meeting in furtherance of this movement was held on Thursday, at the Westminster Palace Hotel, London, under the chairmanship of Mr Osborne Morgan, M.P. Amongst others present were-Mr Watkin Wil- liams, M.P., Mr Morgan Lloyd, Mr Hugh Owen, Mr John Matthews (Mayor of Aberystwyth), Rev. D. Charles (secretary), Rev. Owen Evans, Rev. M. D. Jones, Rev. Robert Jones, Rev. W. Lloyd, ...

... Wk ABERDOVEY. Pif, Mary and Alice, James, London, sundries PvLv^rry, Belfast, potatoes Velocity, Davies, Aber; ballast; i^iiow Drop, Walter, Barmouth, ditto |Vlv°n, Jones, St. John's, N. America, timber. K^ia —ane Owens, Williams, London, slates; Jane > Lewis, London, slates Seven Brothers, Davies, (W1' slates; Kathrina, Tliuder, Newport, slates; fa^th Margaret, Williams, Chester, lead ore ...

... General. Mr Dalway (Liberal) has been declared duly elected flot Carrickfergtfs. The Coturt has gone into mourning for the late Duke of Brabant. A ifi-Vidend of 8 per cent. has been declared on the Na- tional Bank. The week before last the rate of mortality in London was 26; in Birmingham, 21; in Edinburgh, 38. It is proposed to adopt the Maine law in Guernsey. Another proposal is to shave the ...

... The Law Tima says that Mr Gladstone's scheme for the disestablishment and disendowment of the Protestant Church in Ireland is completed in its outline, and only re- quires to be embodied in the shape of a Bill or Bills. At the Wolverhampton police-court, a middle-aged woman was called to give evidence. In reply to the sti- pendiary she said that she did not know what was the day of the month, ...

... LONDON PROVISION, MONDAY.-The arrivals last week from Ireland were 384 firkins Butter and 2,531 bales Bacon, and from foreign ports 24,311 casks, &c., Butter, and 771 bales and 115 boxes Bacon. The Irish Butter market remains without altera- tion, quotations nominal. Foreign met a fair sale; best Dutch advanced about 6s. in consequence of short supply, say to 144s. The Bacon market was steady; ...

... LIFEBOAT.—The Royal National Lifeboat Institution has, through its hon. secretary here, Mr J. Williams, kindly presented Evan Thomas, the second coxswain of our boat, with the sum of B5, on account of the injury sustained by him in rescuing men from the wreck Castle, at the mouth of the harbour, on the morning of Christmas Day. SHEWING HIS HORSE IN THE STREETS.—At the Police- court, on Tuesday ...

... CHARGE OF INDECENT ASSADLT.—On Thursday last a young man named John Edwards, was brought up in custody before T. Jones, Esq., and charged with indecent- ly assaulting Ann Evans, wife of Thomas Evans, black- smith, Tanyrallt, in the parish of Trefeirig, on the 30th ult. Prisoner was remanded till the 24th February, when the case will be heard at Llanbadarn prisoner's father being bound over for ...

... SIRJ-In a North Wales contemporary of the 13th inst., one learns that the formation of the new and enlarged committee for the improvement of the Dee fisheries in the neighbourhood of Corwen is chiefly due to an alarm being spread that a gentlemen from another parish was endeavouring to secure the fishing all to himself. Not being present at the meeting I am unable to say whether in the ...

... PENNY READINGS. -Another of these popular entertain- ments came off on Thursday evening, the 4th insti, under the presidency of J. E. Watson, Esq. A varied and well selected programme was gone through with success.. There was a good audience and the National Anthem closed the proceedings. ...

... DEPTH OP RAIN: *o? Total Greatest fall in Rain in the 24 Hours. Guage. Month., -p. Depth. Date. Depth. Date. Above level of the Sea. Inches. Inchest January 31st. 15 feet. 6.10- LK8 WILLIAM SCOTT, Drainage Engineer. COURSING FIXTURES. 17, &c„ Aberystwyth Feb. 24 RACING FIXTURES. Baschurch 26 Bangor March 5 Shrewsbury March 5, 6. Grand National Hnnt March 18, THE MONTGOMERYSHIRE VOLUNTEERS.—We ...