... A WEST OF ENGLAND SHIP CA An anassynaous proposition for the construe ship canal t»> eonnect the Bristol with the Englis. nel, at an outiay of £3,500,000, ia just now obt. publicity. Anonymous, because the names of ne. promoters nor engineers appear upon any of the do* ments that have been circulated, whether plans c prospectus, and only a fictitious signature hag been appended to a ...

... A shocking story comes from Ancoats. On Wednesday a man named Thomas Lightfoot, a grocer, carrying on business in Every-street, Ancoats, was taken into custody on a charge of confining his brother in the cellar of house and generally neglecting him. The moans of tin confined man, who is blind and idiotic, attracted th attention of the policeman on the beat, on Tuesday uight bat, the window of ...

... AT THE POLICE COURT on Tuesday last, before Mr. G. M. |Treherne, Mr. G. H. Jenkins and Major Bassett, Charles Howells, sawyer, Penlline, was charged by Mr. David Lloyd, relieving officer to the Bridgend and Cow- bridge Union, with allowing his wife, Eleanor Howells, to become chargeable to the common fund of the said Union. Ordered to pay 3s. 6d. a week and costs.— Joseph Norris, who was ...

... PIT ACCIDENT.—A serious accident befell a little lad, named David Thomas, on Friday, at Tir Phil pit. It appears that while the poor lad was working at the bottom of the pit, a chain, by some cause, came in con tact with him. and cut him so fearfully in the abdomen that his bowels protruded. He was at once attended by the medical men, and, after his wound was dressed, he was carried home to ...

... FOOLHARDINESS ON THE ICE. The foolhardiness of people in venturing upon the ice when in a condition totally unfit to bear them, was exem- plified in numerous instances in the London parks on V* ed- nesday. One of these was of a characer which excited a large amount of interest and indignation. On no part of the ornamental water in St. James's Park is the ice in a satisfactory condition, whilst ...

... SERIOUS COLLISION. On Sunday morning, between five and six o'clock, a very se ious collision, resulting in the death of one and great damage to property, occurred on tho North British Rail way. at Longtown statioa, about nine miles north of Carlisle It appears that two goods trains were despatched from Glasgow for the south, by way of Edinburgh, and thut one> of them stopped at LODgtown ...

... CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS. THE PAPAL BULL OF EXCOMMUNICATION. The Times, in discussing the Papal Bull of Excommuni- cation lata- sententice observes that at the very moment in which the Holy Father calls together all the bishops of Roman Catholic Christendom to devise with them what is to be the new charter of the Establishment, he puts forth by his own undivided authority a statute trespassing on ...

... CONSERVATIVE MEETING AT THE DRILL HALL. SPEECH BY MR. GIFFARD, Q.C. Mr. Giffard addressed a meeting of the members of the Cardiff Constitutional Association, and sympathisers with his political principles, on Thursday night, at the Drill Hall. Above the platform was arranged an illus- tration and a series of scrolls which, we suppose, were typical of the Constitutional creed. At the top was a ...

... Pit*S . '44 T ?? . .. . fg Last ?? te' omen employeain'de lo4o1ot, dc-, b ?? tm ntt fa ao'awy Company'; m't , theoi Val 'ed Cac-uliff 'Arms Assemb.ly Room, - to . resta. 'teii - ht ;hs monial' to their laie superintendent. This gentlemen ward ble occupied the posit?on, from which he rstiVeA. a ew months had fagofor eleven years, and was greatly iegpectod by the he men and his neighbours ...

... OARDXFF. ~ A Rzorova VAG?A2T.-Yoterday, .at.the police.couri before Mr. R. 0. Jones and Colonel illl, Thomas Wilkins, t a vagrant, wad charged by Police-onstable Black with be-. having in a riotous manner', and smoking in the vagrant Mon.ward. Police.constablo Black stated that the defendant ths had come to the vagrant ward for shelter, and soon after thle arrival he began to.use indecent ...

... -nt n n - - - m a uiI U S Y r 1 THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY AND ITS canul CHARGES. mere al -stem ad a I IACkI,.mere the - , stem the TO THE EDITOR OF THE WESTERN MAMIL at ti the Dear Sir,-I was pleased to see, through the kindness of upon the a friend, that the ?? M1ail of this day contauneda very in th o une impartial and correct report of a case I hod in the county twee court yeserday against ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A COGOH BY POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED—«' Her Majesty's Gun Boat,' Netley Wick, North East Coast of Scotland, 7th September, 1868. —Dear Sir,—Having had a most distressing and severe cough, which caused me many sleepless nights and restless days, I was recommended by His Lordship, the Earl of Caithness, to try your most invaluable Balsam of Aniseed, and I can assure you, ...