... BANKRUPTS IN FRIDAY'S GAZETTE.—J. T. Ick, New- port, draper. W. Johnson, late of Swansea, patent fuel manufacturer. COLLAPSE OF ANOTHER ASSURANCE COMPANY.—WE learn by a special telegram that a petition for the wind- ing-up of the Imperial Guardian Assurance Company, has been presented in the Court of Chancery. The petition will be heard before Vice-Chancellor James, at the beginning of the ...

... Jural ^xAtUxQtm. SHIPPING CASUALTY.—The pilot cutter Mystery came in collision in the Bristol Channel on the 23rd of Oct. with the tug Ely, and sank; crew saved. OUTRAGE ON A SEAMAN.—On Sunday evening a dis- turbance took place in Bute-road, when a sailor, named Joseph Habbett, had a part of his nose bitten completely off by another seaman. The wound was dressed by Dr. Jones. The assailant has ...

... ADVANCE NOTES. LATELY much intereet has been manifested in the term at which advance notes to seamen should be issued at this port. For many years the practice li»s been here, to issue them payable at three days after the ship for which the seaman signed agreement, leaves the dock. This term has always been con- sidered un.airly short in the circumstances of the port The. danger attending them ...

... LOCAL APPOINTMENTS AND STATISTICS. LANDAFF CATHEDRAL.-Hours of service, 11.0 a.m 3.30 p.m. ?ra-i p-J?- Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity-—Morning Prayer; n ...

... REVISING VOTERS' LIST.—Mr. Hushes attended at the Town Hal], on Monday last, to revise the list of voters for the neighbourhood. Mr. Hopkins appeared on behalf of the Liberals, and Mr. Sherley for the Con- servatives. Many objections were sustained, and these proved so numerous that the sitting was adjourned to the 27th instant. GUARDIANS.—The usual weekly meeting was held on Saturday last, ...

... A council meeting of the Central Chamber of Agricul- ture was held on Tuesday, at the Salisbury Hotel, Colonel Tomline, M.P. (vice-chairman), presiding. After the transaction of some ordinary business, the council proceeded to the election of a member of the council. Mr. DrcKHAM (Herefordshire) proposed Sir Massey Lopez-a gentleman fully equal to the duties, and one to whom they were greatly ...

... The American whaler. Susan N. Smart, of Boston, was recently capsized in a hurricane in the Atlantic. The survivors of the crow have just been brought to London, and tell a. sad story of suffering and death. Nineteen of the crew, with the captain's wife and two children, perished, and the survivors were only rescued after they had been eight days on the wreck. and without food, water, or ...

... THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. AFTER all it appears, we are to have a contested election in the South Ward, if the nomination of the notorious Jack Matthews by the equally notorious Uriah Smart, may be called a contest. Although both these worthies were prominently associated with the Cardiff Constitutional Association in the late Borough election, and were afterwards gratuit- ously feasted at the ...

... THE GRENVILLE-MUREAY CASE.—Mr. John Hill, pro- prietor of the Flying Horse Tavern, in Oxford-street, has been charged, at Marlborough-street Police-court, with perjury in the Grenville-Murray case. Mr. Hill was bail for Mr Murray, and charged Rosekelly, one of the war- rant officers of the court, with inducing him to become bail by saying it was for a common assault, whereas it was for perjury ...

... The Earl of Derby died on Saturday morning, at seven o'clock, after lying on the verge of dissolution, and in a state of unconsciousness, for a week. The cause of his death was gout, which had attacked a vital part. His lordship, we are reminded by the writer of a biographical sketch in the Daily News, was the repre- sentative of a family as old as English history, and the wearer of a peerage ...

... THE SEE OF EXETER. Archdeacon Denison sends the following memorial for publication :—To the Very Rev. the Dean, and the Rev. the Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Exeter.—The memorial of the undersigned, George Anthony Denison, M. A., Vicar of East Brent, Archdeacon of Taunton. Sheweth,- That it is currently reported and believed that the Rev. Frederic Temple, D.D., head master of Rugby ...

... The promised amnesty demonstration in Hyde Park took place on Sunday without any material deviation from the pro- gramme decided upon by the committee early in last week. Like all previous out-door gatherings of a kindred nature, un- hindered by the police, it passed off without any public dis- turbance or breach of the peace. Trafalgar-square, as here- tofore, was the head-centre of the ...