... CITY WAIFS AND STRAYS. The City of London is bestirring itself at last, and is awakening to the propriety of doing something towards rescuing a few oi iho infant outcasts who swarm in its golden byewavs. The rich man has perceived, at lfst, that there are sad baby shadows hovering about the doors whence he derives thou- sands that the wail of starving childrou may be heard by an attentive ear ...

... A correspondent writes:—We are informed, on reliable authority, that the statement is incorrect as to the memo- rialists having decided on taking further proceedings against the Vicar. As the process of ecclesiastical lav is so expensive and protracted, the parties hesitate before taking another step which will, when taken, possibly land them not only in the Court of Arches, but also take them ...

... GUARDIAN OFFICE, Friday, 4 a.m. QUEEN VICTORIA IN GERMANY. BADEX-BADEN, Thursday.-The Prince Imperial of Germany arrived here at noon yesterday incognito, and in company with the Prince Louis of Hesse, visited Queen Victoria. He left in the evening. FRANCE. PARIS, Thursday.—The question of the restoration of the two hundred millions of francs paid by Paris to the Prussians is still pending ...

... Under the influence of cooler weather and limited sup- plies, the trade ruled firm, at enhanced rates. ...

... On Tuesday an inquest was held at Stratf. rd, touching the death of Sarah Hope, a single woman, whose bodY —a perfect skeleton—was found in A house NT Sr,ratfor ...

... Ih MERTHYR. Hot REAIIFRL LEAP OVER CEFN BRIDGE -Cefn fair did pass away without a most deplorable acciden A painter of Merthyr, named Joseph Lee, who had f„ {e. to enjoy himself at the fair after the oi lodox XvA >n' was returning home at night, considerably the v,ir&e for liquor. By some extraordinary infatua ion, ti, on the bridge he became possessed with an clea ^at his watch was in the ...

... CHARITY.—A meeting of the subscribers to the gra- tuitous supply of coal to the poor of this town and neigh- bourhood last Christmas, has been held atjthe Town Hall, the Rev. J. Powell Jones in the chair. Mr. J. Morgan (assistant overseer) presented a statement of accounts, which showed the total amount collected to be £ 25 15s. 6d., against C27 ]2s. 9d. expenditure in 56 tons of coal, dis- ...

... LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL.—SERVICES AND ANTHEMS. Services at 11, 3.30, and 7 o'clock. Holy Communion at o'clock. First Sunday after Easter, April 7th.-ornjno- Stewart in hymns 114, 117. Evening, Stewart in G anthem, In that day hymn 113. Litany, hymns 160, 146, 116.—Monday Morning hymn 180.—Tuesday Morning, hymn 330.—Wednesday Morning Goss in A Macfairenis Introit, No. 16. Thursday Morning, ly111 ...

... W HAT IS AHE USE OF A VESTBT ,JKT}XRN'G? Under the alwe heading our DAILY C:UT:mporary h;is thought fit to oizer a COVERT ia.-nnr, to },ir. Allen, of Penarth, aud coiacideutly to FIIHI BUIK vri-rit SHE ma- gistrates of that town, idi-the JUDICIOUS at which they arrived in tite ratillcaiivu of i -e :point- ment of Overseers on Monday. As the Boixh PRESSES the legal right to accept the NAMES ...

... NEWPORT. FMr. George Augustus Davies, of Newport, has passed his examination at Apothecaries' Hall, and admitted a licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. COUNTY POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—There were only two ja?es of importance before the county magistrates on Saturday, the first that of William Pearce, who was charged with stealing a quantity of seed potatoes, the property of E J. Willmott, of ...

... The Overland China Mail of February 22nd gives the following items of news:— Among the on dits that are flying about Hong Kong one to the effect that Sir Richard MacDonnell's successor, Sir Arthur Kennedy, will arrive here in April. It further rumoured, but we do not endorse the authority ol the report, that Mr. Pollard will return to the Colony, Attorney-General hereof, when he is able to ...

... Dr. W. C. Bennett, of Greenwich, writes to the Daily News as follows:- The death of Colonel Newcome is one of the most powerful passages penned by Thackeray. It is strange that its concluding sentences, so wonderful for their depth of pathos, have not recalled the passage from Feni- more Cooper's Prarie, which surely must have uncon- sciously been floating in the mind of the author of Vanity ...