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... I PIBUOt MEN ON PU33LIC AFFAIRS I 'Mr. 8t. Anbtyn, one of the liberal member ror West rnwal,sresidedat a publie distribution of eho- I leslie prizes at almnouth last evening. Speaking of the Elementary Education Act he said it ought to have a fair triaL He agreed with Mr. Lowe that it we had a tau ren to wrOkC uno it might not be advisable to adopt te denominationa ovetam, but that system ...
... i fortion ?Mflligtnrt FANCE. TEF EXECUTIONS AT SATORY. PAus, Tuesday. The following are the most interesting and authentic par- tioulars concerning the last moments of Rossel and Ferrd:- These two leaders of the Commune were executed this morning, together with a sergeant of the 46th Regiment, named Bourgeois, who had been sentenced to death for hav- ing deserted his regiment and gone over to ...
... We reprint the following outspoken and energetic R article from John Bull:- es The unexpected burst of national sympathy with the X Heir Apparent in the hour of peril has swept into the political world like a mountain breeze into a close. unwholesome valley. The political world was in great need of such a purifier. When a Prime Minister of a British Sovereign can tell his constituents that the ...
... THE POLYTECHNIC, The latest attraction at this popular linstitntioll, vwhere instruction and amusentent go ltand in band, is a lecture, delivered for the first time on Tuesday evelling by Professor Pepper, entitled fite Battle of Dorking answered by ' The Autnmt Alisllucvres. TIle 'Pro- feosor passed his holiday along rite troops at Aldieshot, and so struck was lie with the physiquie of the ...
... district J-Uuti. PONTYPRIDD. BURIAL BOARD.—The members of the newly-esta- blished Burial Board have just been appointed. They are the Rev. J. Griffiths, vicar of Glyntaff; Messrs. T. Fowler, D. Powell, G. Griffiths, A. Chivens, Robert- shaw, M. Cule, Daniel Williams, and R. Rogers. Mr. E. C. Spickett was appointed clerk to the Board. On Thursday the members proceeded to Treforest, to examine a ...
... THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS. The week has been mostly severely cold and foggy, with now and then a little mild weather, sometimes indicating snow and then ra'n, th e.;h very little of either has fallen. The ,nil has been hardened, and with, this very early v'sit of ten dc^r^es of frost, we fe.ii* Pssnie root ji:N, on1y rovrretl. \yíl1 suffered. The p^K-rul rb-yvie/ o:' yyctation, howcer, for ...
... At a meeting of the Irish Statistical Society Mr Justice Lawson in the chair—Mr. Heron, Q.C., M.P. for Tipperary, read a paper on the Irish Land Act, One of the first results of the Act, he said, had been that in many counties the practice of serving notices to quit had altogether stopped, except for non-pay- ment of rent. The second portion of the Act, to facili- tate purchase by tenants, had ...
... An extraordinary case of abduction was tried on December 19th before the Assize Court at Havre. A priest, the Abbe Vitet, and two nuns were accused of taking away from her parents a girl of 15J years of age, named Louise Prevost. Two English women named Mary and Caroline Pope, whose respective places of birth are stated in the legal journals to be Turnchapel and Plymstock, were indicted, ...
... It is currently reported that Parliament will meet for the despatch of business on the 23rd of January. ...
... The number of paupers in metropolitan workhouses last week was 34,276, and 84,193 received out-door relief-making together a total of 118,469. Com- pared with the corresponding period in the years 1870, 1869, and 18B8 this shows a decrease respectively of 18,944, 23,967, and 18,907. The total number of vagrants relieved was 1,064, of whom 795 were men, 224 women, and 45 children under sixteen. ...
... 0 fawl ar Ddychweliad y Parch. F. SONLEY JOHNSTONE yn aclod o'r Bwrdd Ysgol, TON— Robin yn Swil. I fyny a'r faner i entrycli y nen; Gorclifygwyd y gelyn mae'r frwydr ar ben; Er gwaethaf ci ystrvw, ei gynllwyn, a'i frad, Rhoed taw ar ei ymffrost, mac heddyw dan Ein Johnstone yw'r dyn, cin Johnstone dyn. Rliow'n lioedd fawr wetreiddiol-Ein John tone yw'r dyn. Er gwaethaf dichcllion yr Eglwys ...
... DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP BV FIRE.—The- barque Psyche,, 652 tons register, of London, Fred. M. Harris, captain and part owner, bound for Shanghae with a cargo of steam coal, was destroyed by hre in the basin of the Penarth Dock, on Friday afternoon. It is some time ago since the Pmjche entered the Penarth Dock, she being then a ship-rigged vessel. While in dock she had undergone considerable ...