... CONTINUATION OF L'H'AL INTELLL* ;ENCE. THE CIRCUS.—The equestrian drama of Mazeppa has this week drawn largo lvmibers of porson.s nightly to witness it. As an equestrian spectacle, it is very different to the performance which usually takes place in the arena. The piece includes a number of cha- racters, the principal of which are the old King of Tartary Mazeppa, his son the Prince, the ...

... THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO DE- FRAUD THE LATE LORD MAYOR OF £ 1,000. Mr. Poland applied for a further postponement o the trial of a prisoner named Harry Benson, alias the Marquis de Maurency, who is charged with ob- taining £ 1,000 from Sir Thomas Dakin by falsely representing that he was the Mayor of Chateaudun, and that the money was to be applied to the relief of the districts that had ...

... GREAT HOME RULE DEMONSTRATION AT LIMERICK. Mr. Butt, M.P., accompanied by Mr. Smyth, M.P., and other advocates of Home Rule, arrived in Limerick on Wednesday, and were received by a crowd of 6,000 persons, with bands and banners. The assem- bly marched in procession, and halted under O'Con- nell's monument, where Mr. Butt made a speech. He said they were engaged in the grand cause of raising ...

... (Before Air. Alderman PRIDE and Mr. A. BASSETT.) CHARGE OF ROBBERY AT THE FIRE.—Alary Ann Jeffrey, of Aledaide-street, a married woman with an infant in her arms, was charged with stealing an urn- brella, the property of Mr. Trevor, outfitter, of Bute- street. It appeared that there was a fire in the shop of prosecutor on Wednesday evening, and some of the goods were removed to the yard and ...

... LLANDAFF. POLICE COURT, MONDAY. (Before Messrs. T. W. BOOKER and C. W. DAVID, Mayor of Cardiff.) DRUNKENNESS.—Honorah Dalton, a. woman of bad character, was charged with being drunk and disor- derly on the 13th of December, on the LlandafF-road, near the Butcher's Arms. The prisoner absconded when the summons was taken out against her. Sent to prison for 14 days. FALSE PKETENCKS.—Thomas ...

... A LIBERAL VIEW OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLICY. The Standard says that the temptation of framing a programme for your adversary is always very great, and the task of doing so is seldom verv difficult. The Spectator is especially given to the fabrication of policies, not only for its friends, but also for its enemies. A curious instance of this propensity may be found in the article devoted to a ...

... IT has often been said by thinkers and observed that the great mass of mankind run in groove or follow their leaders like slieep. There is soluo truth in the doctrine, but we should be sorry tO say it is unmixed and pure. That many people do implicitly obey their chief-in a political sense we are speaking—it would be folly to deny btrf that a large section in every community exercise their ...

... LOCAL NOTES. « THE GOVERNORS OF THE GLAMORGAN- SHIRE PRISONS. THE hope which had been entertained by some of the local public, that the magistrates might deem it consis- tent with their duty to condone the charges against the Governor of Cardiff Gaol, has not been realized. The decision given at the Adjourned Quarter Sessions on Tuesday is adverse to Mr. Wrenn, who has been summarily dismissed ...

... At the Cardiff Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. R. O. Jones Aldermen Pride and Alexander Dr. Paine Messrs. E. S. Hill and G. Bird, Mr. Simons, of Merthyr, preferred, on the part of Mr. Frederick Ware, woollen draper, of Duke-street, a charge against Mr. Robert Simpson and Mr. John Rintoul Mitchell, for maliciously publishing in the Wt--if.tra Mail, a certain false, scandalous, and ...

... An atrocious murder was committed at Birmingham on Sunday night. The murderer, Francis Thomas, about 52 years of age, is a paper-hanger, and his victim, Smith, was a fellow lodger about the same age, follow- ing the business of a carpenter. There had been some little difference between the men, scarcely amounting to a quarrel, in the course of Sunday aftern'oon, relative to some boards ...

... J U frm M P for the Eadnor Boroughs, 'ptarv for Ireland, has addressed his and Cluef becretoy for^ Tbe\loble lord>s recep. constituen s a thanks were of the conven- tion was warm, ana HIS Lli 1 r a a n Minister he was expected to touch upo™politics—to disclose the opinions of the Government upon some of the leading questions of the day. This he did briefly, and explicitly His utterances ...

... SIR R. ANSTRUTHER AT CUPAR.—On Tuesday afternoon Sir R. Anstruther addressed his constituents at Cupar. Whilst regarding the Irish policy of the Government as satisfactory, he condemned the Minis- terial conduct of the education question. He was ashamed of last session, and every department of the Government save one had been conspicuous for its failures, and that exception was the department ...