... THE TOWN COMMISSIONERS AND THE USK CON- SERVATORS.-At a special meeting of the Usk and Ebbw Board of Conservators, held at the Angel Hotel, on Tuesday week, a committee was appointed to take legal proceedings against the Abergavenny Improvement Commissioners, for polluting the river CJsk, by allowing the town sewage t,) flow into it. The Commissioners have erected filter beds and tanks. and ...

... MURDER OF A PARAMOUR. A boiler- smi th, named William Simpson, is in custody at West Hartlepool, charged with the murder of his paramour, Jane Turner. The pair quarrelled, and then Simpson is said to have so severely beaten her with a heavy stone that death ensued. ...

... DEATH OF MB. JAMES GRAHAM.—The stroke of Death has this week fallen with appalling sudden cess upon a well-known and highly-esteemed citizen of Newport. M. James Graham, auctioneer, &c., of 67, High-street, rose on Tuesday morning in his ordinary state of health, and died between 2 and 3 o'clock on the same day. The visitation came with startling swiftness. Mr. Graham, as was his wont, went, ...

... A rather singular matter has just-come to light 'at Portsmouth Dockyard. In going through tho books it was found that there was a surplus of JB2000 which must be spent by the end of the financial year, the 24th iimt. Tn wider, therefore, to spend the money some 400 have foeen employed overtime, some of them making its many as ten days in a week. Most of the men have been placed at work on the ...

... A fire broke out^on ^SuncLy in Jiast JJUUUUU Theatre, Whitechapel, at a quarter W) mue. xna flames were first discovered in the part where the scenery is stored. In a short time the enure imildine was in flames, and was totally destroyed, together with pari of the adjoining premises, before the fire-engines obtained the mastery. The premises are covered by insurance. The theatre has been ...

... A telegram has been addressed to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Samuel Browne, commanding the Afghan ex- pedition, by the Prince of Wales, as follows:—I congratulate you and your brave army on your successes, which, I feel confident, will continue. My thoughts are with the army of Afghanistan, especially with the 10th Hussars and the llth Bengal Cavalry. ...

... The Times correspondent at Ottawa telegraphs the contents of the budget by which the Finance Minister of the Dominion proposed to raise two million dollars by the imposition of differential duties. His proposals are of a very reactionary character, and as an example of the kind of legis- lation which some people would like to see imposed in England their effects will be watched with much ...

... On Sunday morning as the congregation was assembling for worship in Christ Church, Leices- ter, considerable alarm was created by flames being seen issuing from the roof of the church im- mediately over the west entrance. The flames lighted up the gallery, and the roof being entirely constructed of wood, there was great danger of the flames rapidly spreading. Every effort was used to prevent ...

... Rio DE JANEIRO, Jam.7.—A new Liberal Ministry has been formed, composed as follows: Senhor Silveira Sinimbu, President of the Councihand Minister of Public Works; Senhor Hewal, Minister for War; Senhor Leonico, Interior; S«.uor Cafayetto, Minister faar Foreign Affairs; Senhor Villabella, Marine; Senhor Andradc Bfrtto, Finance. ...

... PROVISION TOR P.C. TURNER'S FAMILY. Mr. West asked if anything had been done with regard to the fund raised for the benefit of the widow and children of the late P.C. Turner. The Mayor replied that he had intended to say something on the subject. He thought it would be wise to go to the widow and hear what she had to say, and whether she had any idea to suggest as to how the money could be ...

... AMERICA. THE PRESIDENCY—MR. BRADLAUGH—THE ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP TIIE MOSEL. The Hamburg-American mail steamer, arrived on Sunday at Plymouth, brings New York papers full of excitement in reference to the proposed third-term election of President Grant. A Congress of Methodist Ministers have emphatically declared for Presdt. Grant's re-election, and this is represented by opponents and by ...

... A DETERMINED MURDERER. At the beginning of the century a remarkable attempt at murder was made, in which a Mr. Peter Wainwright was the intended victim. Mr. Wainwright was a well-known merchant of Liverpool, and numbered among his intimate friends a Mr. Theophilus Smith, an earthenware manufacturer of Tunstall, in Stafford- shire. On the 21st of June, 1800, Mr. Wainwright received an anonymous ...