... S ?? ACCIDENT. -On Tuesday night, about . ,.:ne o'clock, Duncan Swan, night watchman to bse- Messrs Coats, and residing at 21 Newton Street, an while descending the back stair at 95 Causey- ,out side, slipped and fell backward down several law steps, and his head came against the pavemnent len, in the court. When lifted up, blood was flow. ead ing from his right ear. He was removed to the ...

... IVIMPERIAL PABLIAMENT.I HOUSE OF COMMONS-WzDnssDAY, Feb. 28. The SPEAKER took the chair shortly after twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BIUSINESe, The following bills were read a second time: i The Glasgow and South-Western and Greenock and Ayrshire Railway Companies; Midland and D Glasgow and South-Western Railway Companies. v NOTICES OF MOTION. Lord ELCHO gave notice that, on the 19th I March, he ...

... LL ANTRISS AN T. SMALL-POX.—We are happy to state that there is not at present one single case in the town. LECTURE. —A lecture was delivered at the Welsh Baptist Chapel, on Monday evening, by the Rev. J. Jenkins, on the Fair Sex. The rev. gentleman appeared to amuse and evoke great laughter from the large audience that had come to hear him. THANKSGIVING DAY.—Special Thanksgiving services ...

... THE LONDON PRESS ON THE TFIANrS. I GIVING CEREMIONY. The Times says the Thauksgiving Day has coe and gone, and universal opinion proclairas th3t it has exhibited one of the grandest and most inn ii, irg ceremonies ever witne.sed in this countrry. For -miles the windows, the shop frouts, t'-e h as nies, %and the housetops wore alive wvi-ha haua beings. For miles the pavements were made in. ...

... . LTEST NEWSI (BY SPECIAL AND REUTERS1 TEDS. GRAPH.) FRANCE. Paris, Wednesday. About seventy or eighty persons were present at the grand diplomatic dinner given yesterday by M. De Remusat, at the Hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Paris, The only lady present was ML De Remusaet's sister. The Ambassadors sat according to the order in which their creden- tials were presented to M. ...

... A PENARTH. ISHONEST WATCHMAN.—At the Petty Sessions WilH ay before Mr. J. S. Corbett and Mr. J S; Batchelor. tyafi Miatns, watchman on board of the ship Aracana, t>nir f ,lly:'d with sfenling one pair of sea boots, and one he l' 8h°es, of the value of fl. Eliaa Arnold said that the :í. the bonts and shoes on Saturday night last from The Vi? -Aracana, and gave information to the police. 1'C ...

... MONEY MAIUnT. WETJNEfJDAY. The markets for Public Securities reopened this morn- ing with a firm appearance, ihe feature being a rise of | per cent. in tliq Erie Railway shares. The Five-Twenty United States Bonds of 18(32 are i stronger. In Home Railway Stocks there is a rise of in Great Northern A and Lancashire and Yorkshire and of 1 in Midland and Great Western. The only stock as yet which ...

... CO RRE S ONDMITCE, TAYvDI ZAGlE MEETING, tr0 TILE EDITOR Or T M 3ELrAST XS-L , SIR-Wil! you be pleased to ?? the follow.' g in ycur Protestant journal o Soon as theday of meeting is fixed, I vwil i5£im the Or-rOe al Protestaut publiE, through yo, o the fact. A TaguiPa meeting wi be convented, and the loyal Omaugemen of Tendragee wvill be askled to express the% qopinion upon recent utterances ...

... I GENERAL FOREIGN NEWS, I (REt STE' TnLztoAacs.) THE ALABAMA CLAIMS. WAsHrIrNroN, Feb. 27. A Cabinet meeting was held to-day to consider the -Alabama claimns. It is reported that it was decided not to f withdraw any psi ; of the claims presented. M Mr. Secretary Fish's reply to Earl Grcanvi1le will pro- bably go by Saturday's steamer. e The House of Representatives rejected to-day the bill a ...

... MERTHYR. SMALL-POX.—This dreadful disease continues to spread rapidly. On Wednesday Miss Crookes died after three or four days' illness, of this disease A CRUEL HUSBAND.- At the Police Court on Wednes- day, Edward Ashton, of Nantywaun, was charged with assaulting; Janet his wife on the 12th inst. It appeared from the wife's evidence that their married life had been very uncomfortable, and for ...

... WHITLAND. The public will hear with pleasure that Mr. R. H. Powell, of Maesgwynue, Whitland, has so far recovered from his late serious illness that he was able to be removed to his residence on Monday. ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF TIM DAILY NEWS. Son,-Last week Mr. Ward Hunt asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any steps t had been taken by the Treasury to bring the Naval and Military accounts under the same system of audit as is now applied to the Civil Service votes. For the last three years the Committee of Public Accounts has been urging this important reform ?? the Governmvent, and last ...