... DOWLAIS. EMIGRATION The number of emigrants leaving Dowlais is in no way decreasing. A large number left last Mon- day, and more are going. THE ELECTION. — The contest for the Board of Health excited a great deal of interest here, and a large number of persons were animated with a desire to return two mem- bers. In this however the men of Dowlais failed, the cause being, no doubt, the large ...

... MERTHYR POLICE COURT. SATURDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Esq.) A DOG FANCIER. John Jones, plasterer, was charged with stealing a dog, value 20s., the property of John Williams, landlord of the Patriot. On Thursday night the dog was at the door of the prosecutor's house, and the prisoner who had been drinking in the Patriot, was seen by a boy to pick it up and run away with It over the iron ...

... i- BEAUFORT. SUDDEN BEREAViiENT.—It is our painful duty this week to announce the sudden death of Sliss Lizzie Hughes, the youngest daughter of the llev. R Hughes, Carniel. She was in her usual health up to Tuesday night, the lifli inst., and had attended school during the day, but before retiring to rest she was taken with sickness, and next morning medical aid was called in. Mr. Todd ...

... CANOE VOYAGE IN PALESTINE. Rob Roy writes to the Times :— Ten days of active canoeing on the Sea of Galilee enabled me to inspect every part of the shores very carefully, and to map and sketch all the ruins, piers, and columns visible under water, but not to be seen conveniently from one of the few fishers' boats still used on the lake. Some few of the results thus obtained are quite new, ...

... PARISh -The parish constables for the parish of Morthyi* We hamlet of Brithdir were sworn in at the police court Monday. Mr. Fowler, after the oath was administered, id Mr. Supt. Thomas would pro-' cure the staves of the uut-going constables, and these would be given to those }{¡-w sworn in, as symbols of their office, and they would ret-un possession of them until their year of office had ...

... ACCIDENT TO AN EXPRESS TRAIN. On Friday ovening, at 7.5 o'clock, an accident happened to the Midland express tram which left Manchester at 3.30. At Wellingborough Station an engine was standing npon the up line taking in water at the very moment that the express was due. The express was to its time. On coming in sight of the station, a short distance ahead, the engine driver saw the obstacle, ...

... RESIGNATION OF THE CHAIRMAN. The annual meeting of the Board was held on Thursday, at which there were present —Messrs. G. T. Clark, G. Martin, D. Rosser. R. Harrison, W. Harris, J. Jones, W. Jones, and D. Davies, the old members, and Messrs. A. J. Morris, T. Williams, W. L. Daniel, and J. W. James. Mr. G. T. Clark toek the chair, and said it wis his duty as the returning officer to inform the ...

... THE CASE OF BENJAMIN HIGGS. In Judges' Chambers on Monday, before Mr. Justice Brett, there was an interpleader summons by the Sheriff of Middlesex, levied at Till-End House, Teddiogton, where the notorious delinquent, Benja. min Higgs, kept his establishment. The plaintiff had obtained judgment and levied an execution, but just before the levy the Guarantee Society en- tered and sold a portion ...

... SHOCKING MURDER IN LONDON. On Saturday, a shocking murder took place in the Fleet Lane, Farringdon Road, London. It appears that a woman, named Stallion, living at 33, Fleet Lane, has been for some time past on intimate terms with a man, named Tillett, a coal porter. On Satur- day morning, a son of the woman, about nine or j ten years of age, was released from Holloway prison, where he had ...

... WOODFIELE PIc-iNic. -Lieutenant Stroud will introduce a new game on Whit Monday which we are sure will afford an immense amount of attraction to all young men and maidens, and sporting folks will find enough to do in wa'ching the numerous races and athletic sports. We would here suggest the desirability of admitting a few more refreshment tents, as on the last occasion, owing to the sup- plies ...

... Mr. E. Hibberd, tho chief constable of Salford, died at his residence in Lower Broughton, on Satur- day forenoon. Mr. Frederick Aloysius Weld has boon Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony Western Australia and its Dependencies. The Railway King of 1845, Mr. Geo. Hudson, once M.P. for Sunderland, and more than once can- didate for Whitby, is now living in absolute poverty in a ...

... general INTELLIGENCE. BLOOD POISONING FROM A SUBGIOAL OPERA- TION.—Mr. Maurice Collis, of Dublin, died on Sun- »day. Ho had, says Saunder's Newsletter, suffered only a week's illness, caused by his having inflicted a slight wound upon his finger while he was engaged in extracting a tumour from a patient's neck in the Meath Hospital on Monday before. Although the wound appeared at the time a ...