... 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 ...

... READINGS.—The sixth meeting of these entertain- ments took place at the National Schoolroom, on Thursday evening, the 11th inst., Mr. H. Morgan in the chair. The programme opened with a harp solo by Mr. J. Evans in capital style. This was followed by a song by Mr. W. Collier; Mr. T. Watkins gave a reading, after which the Treberbert brass band played a march. Miss Banting played a pianoforte ...

... A FORTUNATE RECOVERY.—About six months ago Mr. C. Newcome, a young artist of Liverpool, while crossing the mountains at Capel Carig, having lost his purse containing twenty sovereigns, made fruitless efforts to trace it. A few days ago, however, he received a letter from Bettws-y-Coed, requesting his attendance there, and upon his presenting himself there he was agreeably surprised to find ...

... OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. Both Houses of Parliament met at two o'clock on Tuesday for the despatch of business. The opening of the first ses- sion of the present Parliament formally took place, indeed, in December last, but the meeting on Tuesday may be re- garded, practically and substantially, as the commencement af the session. Although it was generally known that the Queen would not come in ...

... The directors of the convict prisons in Ireland report that in the .year RSG7 2Jfa convicts were sentenced to penal servitude m Ireland, -16 males and 80 females, and at the end of the year there were 1,340 convicts in custody in Ireland, 920 males and females 330 convicts were discharged in the ye;ir, l--) unconditionally on completion of sentence, commutation, or pardon, and 207 on orders of ...

... The Indian papers just received contain details of the earthquake that had visited Silchar, Cachar, Assam, and the surrounding districts on the 10th January. The Englishman says:—The earthquake was felt most severely throughout Assam. AtKurseong, near Darjeeling, it was felt very severely. So alarming were the shocks that many of the inhabitants darted out of their houses, fearing every ...

... SUICIDE BY A SULKY BOY.—On Monday a boy named William Sandford, aged 15, who had been employed in Mr. Upton's printing establishment, Birmingham, during the past two years, committed suicide by hanging himself. On Friday last his dinner was not quite ready at the appointed hour, and he became sullen in his manner, and intimated to his mother that if it occurred again he would hang himself. A ...

... ON Tuesday Jast, the eighth Parliament of her Ma- jesty's reign was opened by Royal Commission, and hundreds of spectators were disappointed, for al- though it had been stated that her Majesty would not open Parliament in person, it was believed by many till the last moment that she would do so. The proceedings, which were of the usual stereo- typed, formal character, were noticed for the ...

... SOCIAL EVENING.—The eighth series of these popular entertainments took place on Wednesday evening in the National School-room. Mr. J. D. Llewellyn, sur- geon, presided. The following programme was gone through:—Overture, piano, Mrs. Llewellyn and Miss Woodruff; reading, Mr. Joseph Evans; song, Mrs. Jackson reading, Mr. Jones, Whitecross School; song, Mr. Thomas Goodfellow; glee, St. Martin's ...

... CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS. THE OPENING SESSION. The Times, after surveying the long list of perplexing questions which await the solution of Parliament, observes that it is plain the amount of work to be submitted tc the Legislature will be enough to satisfy the most ardeni devotee of parliamentary life. The central question the day—that upon which the present Ministry enterec into office-must ...

... INQUEST.—An inquest was held at the Travellers' Rest, at this place, on Wedn-sdav last, un the body of Mrs Ann Thomas, who was reported to have died at Ystrad Mynach. The inquiry was made before the coroner, W. H. Brewer. Esq., and a respectable jury, of which Mr Ri hards was the foreman. After hear- ing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of Died from natural cases. COURSING.—Last ...