... The eyes of the country are anxiously watching the slow progress of this much-needed measure. Not only is the desire for it raised by the prospect of a not far- distant general election, but also by the continual din and strife and the jealousies and persecutions con- nected with School-board elections. No doubt the Government contemplates the introduction of the Ballot into these contests at ...

... This venerable divine died on Saturday morning about one o'clock, after having obtained the patriarchal age of 90 years. He was a native of Wiltshire, and was born at Devizes on the 27th of December, 1782. In 1817, Dr. Hood was recommended by Sir Chris- topher Cole, of Glamorganshire, to the Bishop of St. David's for episcopal ordination. Through the influ- ence of Archdeacon Williams, of ...

... PEMBROKE. CRUELTY TO A CHILD -At the Mathry petty sessions, held on Tuesday, a woman, named Dorothy Williams, was charged with assaulting her little girl, aged 9 years. From the evidence it appeared that the woman was fre- quently in the habit of beating the child so severely that she presented a sickening appearance through the injuries inflicted. The magistrates marked their sense of her ...

... YSTRAD RHONDDA. TEA PARTY.-A tea meeting took place on Monday at the English Independent Chapel, Ton, the proceeds to be devoted to the building fund. In the evening a public meeting was held to welcome the Rev. D. Morgans, as pastor of the ehurch, when several of the neighbouring ministers and others took part. ...

... On Tuesday Mr. Grenfeld, deputy coroner, held an inquest at Camborne, into tho cause of death of eig» girls who were suffocated at Messrs. Bickford, Smit and Co.'s Patent Safety Fuse Factory, Tucking MIll. on Saturday last. It appeared that there were alto- gether 19 young women in the spinning-rooms in cleaning the machinery at the time of the acciden > eleven of whom escaped through the ...

... NEWPORT. BOROUGH POLICE.—At the police court on Wednesday, before Messrs. W. Evans and E. J. Phillips, Anthony Osborne was charged with vagrancy. P.C. David Evans saw the prisoner begging at several houses, purporting to be a carpenter out of employment. A pedlar's certificate, which had three weeks' yet to run, was found on him. The Bench animadverted severely upon the prevalence of begging, ...

... Large nnibbers of Communist prisoners are to for New Caledonia on Saturday next—Henri Roche and Assi, it is said, among the number. ...

... CARDIFF. The following appointment is substituted for that which was gazetted on the 15th ult. :-1st Admin. Batt, Glamorgan It. V. --C. 11. M. Talbot, Esq., to be Honorary Colonel. THE PUBLIC BREAKFAST.—It will be seen by announce- ment in our advertising columns that the committee who have charge of the arrangements for the Public Break- fast, on the 16th inst., have decided upon fixing ...

... PENTYRCH. HOREB CHAPEL.—The annual tea meeting of the Cal- vinistic Methodists was held in Horeb Chapel on Easter Monday, when nearly three hundred persons sat down to tea. Afterwards a public meeting was held, presided over by the Rev. Thomas C. Phillips, of Mountain Ash. The chairman having introduced the proceedings in a pithy and very effective address, a suitable programme of music, ...

... On Tuesday night, as briefly stated in our tele- graphic news yesterday, a shocking murder was perpe- trated at a house occupied by Mr. Thomas J..)iies, boot and shoe maker, in Great Cumberland-street, Hackney- road. A young man named Charles Stanley, who had just returned from America, was staying at Jones's, when they had a quarrel about a trade strike. High words passed, and Jones ordered ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE SPRING ASSIZES. CROWN COURT.—WEDNESDAY. PERJURY AT BEDWELLTY. —John Williams, labourer, 20, was indicted for committing wilful and corrupt perjury, at Tredegar. in the above parish, on the 23rd of January last Mr. Pritchard prosecuted. After a long list of witnesses had been examined, -who i-tited the nature of the alleged perjury, his lordship very carefully summed up, and the ...

... the minority may find the protection of the Conscience Clause. Gentlemen, I cannot understand, so far as I have observed, that they really can deny the view which I have placed before you but no one can for a moment hesitate to see that their oppo- sition to the Education Bill and the influence of the clergy under tke Education Bill is real and deter- mined. Gentlemen, the question then for us ...