... DINNER AT THlE PLOUGH HOTEL, On Tuesday last a public dinner at the Plough Hotel, St. Asaph, was held, in honour of the marriage of Edw. Roberts, Esq., solicitor, St. Asaph, to Miss Kerfoot, daughter of James Kerfoot, Esq., Vaenol Park, St. Asaph. The marriage took place on Tuesday morning at Bodeiwyddan Church, near St. Aeaph, and the happy couple shortly afterwards took train en sroue for ...

... On Monday Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards, whose extra- ordinary evidence in the Overend, Gurney, and Co. case caused such excitement, attended in Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's court to make his explanation. Mr. Edwards in the beginning said there were many circumstances-especially a severe illness which affected his memory-to prevent him giving such answers at the recent inquiry as he otherwise would ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, THURSDAY. One danger is safely past—Ministers have got over the difficulties presented by the Irish question, so far as to prepare a Queen's Speech—Message, rather, for the day of Royal Speeches is gone by—and to meet Parliament with an unbroken front. Not the less, however, are there prophets of evil, who predict that this same question will yet break up ...

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... 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. ...

... BREAKFAST. A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. The Civil Service Gazette has the following inte- resting remarks :—There are very few sim- ple rticles of food which can boast so many valuable and important dietary properties as cocoa. While acting on the nerves as a gentle stimulant, it provides the body with some of the purest elements of nutrition, and at the same time corrects and invigorates the ...

... SUSPICION OF MURDER.—An inquest was held on Tuesday at the King's Arms inn, Pillgwenlly, on the body of Daniel Barrett, a young man who had been missing several weeks. The corpse had been found floating in the river Usk on Monday. Deceased s bro- ther stated that he believed he could produce evidence that death had. resulted from violence, and the inquiry was adjourned to Friday evening, a ...

... John Gould, aged 63, was charged with steal- ing wood at Cwmbran. He pleaded guilty. As he appeared to have borne a good charac- ter, the Bench said they would give him tho lightest sentence in their power, seven days' hard labour. ...

... 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 ...

... STEALING A SHIRT. Thomas John Davies (16), imperfectly instructed, bank-book dealer, Swansea, was charged with stealing one flannel shirt, of the value of 9s. Gll., the property of one Griffith Phillips, at Llangefelach, on the 16th February, 1869, and with receiving the same knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Bowen prosecuted. Verdict: Guilty. Sentence Two months' imprisonment in the House ...