... A despatch fr .TU MVNTROS.1. DATED Sunday, says T WWE had a fcarfai' diay here YESTERDAY ON account of the state of E weather. J)T;rz; LT a south-easterly gale and a tremendous sea the brig Henrietta, of Memel, from F, I to that port, wAs seen running before the wbd mating for +-hE' laud. On THE whole coast of the British Isles there ARE no braver and more expert men those at Montrc* ...

... Tie Globe states positPY that there is no foundation for the report tJ-t Mr. Forster will leave the Education Office. The Soir says that thei.Ues^ou of the abolition of passports has been t'irtually settled between Fi-aflce ard Germany)n the proposal of M. de Reusat. The measure10 take effect from the be- ginning of next year. It is stated that th Pope has sent instructions to all the monks ...

... In the Rolls Court on Saturday, Mr- Roxburgh, Q C made a novel application. It was to vacate the enrolment of a deed of relinquishment executed bv a clergyman in pursuance of the Clerical Disabi- lities Act 1870. The Act provides that any minis- to of the Church »f resigned every preferment held by him, do the fol- lowing things1. He may execute a deed of relinquishment in the form given m the ...

... A few days ago the Government telegraphic staff IERE engaged in fixing instruments desigaed to afford r t'e first official trial over a long distance of the newly- jivented process by which messages could, it was plieved, be sent simultaneously along one wire in (tposite directions. It was found, to the delight of J. concerned, that the experiments were fully success- it Messages were ...

... THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT. Our readers have already been made aware of the presence of the Claimant in this neighbourhood. He last week visited Cardiff, and on Saturday night appeared before a comparatively limited audience at the Victoria Hall, Newport. The visit was doubtless inopportune, as at the period selected for the Newport meeting our townsfolk were unusually busy—Christ- inas was ...

... FIRES IN COAL MINES.-At the November meeting of the Manchester Geological Society, the President, Mr. J. Knowles, read a most useful paper On Fires in Coal Mines. The interest of the communication consisted in directing attention to the fact that a recent tire in the Ram's Mine Colliery, at Pendleton, was rapidly extinguished by throwing jets of water on to the burning mass by small engines, ...

... NEWPORT BOARD OF eUARDIANS- At tne.weekly meeting of this BiJarn. held on Satur- day, there were present-Lord Tredegar (in the chair) Messrs. O. Morgan, M.P. G. Gething, M: Cope, W. Jones (Cefnllogell), S. Scard, J Parsoia, Jacob JSaines, James Brown, B. Thomas, Lewis Wil- liams, T. F. Lewis, and J. W. Bebell, with Mr. W. D. Evans (clerk), and Mr. Needham. (masV^r). » The inmates of the House ...

... TUILWAY ACc7DENT7-On Friday morning a goods train got off the rails at Rushton, near Netterin. The line was blocked for a. considerable time The North Wilts Conservatives decided on Friday, a Meeting in Swindon, to propose two candidates at a meet »g gitt member, Sir George at the n George Estcourt. It was stated St th?KSwo^d only proposeonecandidate, the sitting member, Lord Charles Bruce. ...

... EARNING A LIVING.— You see, said his lardship, when I left the Guards, and the poor old governor turned me up, and that bankruptcy business—-I've paid all the fello a since then, with five per cent. 1 — was bothering me, 1-was awfully hard up, and did a't know literally- which way to turn. I was t. vuikmg 'o eulist in the tfarbmeers, or something desper vi,- of that sort. Well, you know ...

... m G,LADST^Nr- N ::DnOATlo;M. | ■.Vh*. Hon. W E. fezes to the successful, students of t ided ...

... The rejoicings in Derbyshire ovsr the visit of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales were brought to a close on Saturday. The Royal visitors and suite left Chatsworth in the morning, and were accompanied to Chesterfield by their host, the Duke of Devonshire, and a party of guests, among whom were the Marquit of Hartington, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Edward Cavendish, Captain ...

... An agricujte-al labourer, Stanton, b ...