... WEST ON THE LATE MRS. ILLIAMS. Pontvn111^681 was resumed at the Three Cranes Hotel, Mrp 00 Friday, before Mr. E. D. Batt, coroner, behalf Hreenh)g again appeared to watch the case on an^ w °t the husband of the deceased. Dr. Williams ■jjj r Thomas, surgeon, were also in attendance, dence C°rp0t?er went through a summary of the evi- Wife of AT showed that the deceased, who was the tnrer James ...

... CH1LD FROM VIOLENCE. Hotel, Pontvnn^i v^d on Friday, at the Three Cranes touching the dp 'fl e'ore E. D. Batt, Esq., coroner, which was found o^ \\r°^ an hifant, name unknown, r- John Will;11 ednesday evening near that town ii a child this mn deposed: I examined the body e body of a Iri,i1111Dg at the police-station. It was Week ago. jf Te chdd, born, 1 should think, about ut sadly mutiwJ8 ...

... LIFE-BOAT SERVICES IN 1869. The year which has just closed will long be re- membered as one of the stormiest on record. It is, however, gratifying to know that it will also be well remembered for the great exertions which have been put forth to save shipwrecked persons. It appears that during the past twelve months the boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution have been the means of ...

... tUtral A prostitute was burnt to death in a brothel in Southampton on Christmas morning. It is supposed that she went to bed intoxicated, and set the bed- clothes on fire. On Christmas-day evening the lamps on the Wolf Rock Lighthouse, off the Land's end, were lighted for the first time, to test their qualities. They burned with remarkable brilliancy, and gave perfect satisfaction. The lamps ...

... On Thursday, the inquest was concluded on the bodies of the eighteen unfortunate persons who were crushed to death in the approaches to the Bristol theatre. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death. Mr. Harding Giffard, Q. C., addressed an enthusias- tic meating of the electors of Cardiff and their friends at the Cardiff Drill-hall, on Thursday evening. The Duchess of Argyll is now ...

... THE DALMATIAN INSURRECTION. 0 VIENNA, December 28.—The insurrection Cattaro district may now be regarded as jngt. armed resistance has ceased, and on the 1 the insurgents of Braciani gave up their arms presence of Colonel Schonfield, at the 8^^1peror. promising obedience and loyalty to the ^nja Addresses of submission have been sent fro and Zuppa. Count Auersperg has postpone t cf po. ed ...

... CHRISTMAS CHARITY.—Although the poor in the parish of Marshtield have lost a kind friend in the temporary absence of the Honble. Lady Walker, we are glad to learn that the usual quantities of blankets, &c., have been liberally distributed among them by the Right Honourable Lady Tredegar and Mrs. Pearson, of Graig-yr-haul. Mrs. L. Davies, of Llanarthan, also supplied about 30 poor families with ...

... FRANCE. Taoro, PARIS, Dec. 27.-The Official Journal of two beit ing announces that Senor Olozaga, who barid, summoned by his Government to proceed to t the was received by the Emperor and Empress a Tuileries yesterday. ...

... SPAIN. e MADRID, Dec. 28.—General Prim will return ner^ to-morrow evening.—For the last four days V°s. 9 communication between Madrid and foreign conntr has been interrupted by a heavy fall of snow. ...

... flie festivities of the season iu Leeds sultaine'r A terrible shock on Monday by the murder of a Brad- fcrd man named John Murgatroyd. Morgatroyd is a plasterer out of employment, and on Monday he went from Bradford to Leeds, accompanied by Robert Ivers, another plasterer, equally as unfortunate aa himtelf, in search of work, both men carrying with them basses containing their tools. They ...

... COUNTY EXPENDITURE. A large and finflueiitial meeting was held at the Town Hall, Usk, on Thursday afternoon, to consider the present heavy county rate, and to memorialise the Justices on the subject of curtailing County Expendi- ture, with special reference to the proposed increase of salaries and voting of pensions to officials, &c. Among those present were Messrs. T. B. Batchelor (Newport), ...

... BASSALEG. While the rich are hospitably entertained this year as usual at Tredegar Park, the poor are not forgotten. At the commencement of winter, Lady Tredegar with her wonted consideration and kindness, distributed blankets and other articles of warm clothing among some two hundred poor people of Bassaleg, and the adjoining parishes besides which about fifty are supplied weekly with broth, ...