... Mr. Arthur Otway, M.P., denies being the author TJT ™ l)amphlet entitled Who is Responsible for the VV ar r and signed Scrutator. At the marriage festivities of Mr. Robert Clark, Super- intendent of Lowestoft Harbour Works, on Tuesday, a cannon burst on the Harbour Quay, and severely wounded two Coastguard officers, named Smith and Clark. A tiadesman, named Cooper, was also injured in the arm ...

... On Tuesday the Easter Quarter Sessions for the County were held in the Town Hall, Swansea, before Mr. n. 0 Jones, Chairman Mr. J. C. Fowler, De- puty-Chairman, and an unusually large number of magistrates. The grand jury having been Eworn, the learned Chairman briefly addressed them, observing there were only 16 cases in the calendar, and dis- missed them to their duties. COUNTY BUSINESS. The ...

... At the Hampshire Sessions on the 8th inst., Lord Eversley in the chair, Sir \V. Heathcote called atten- tion to the extraordinary number of assaults on females which had been committed at Bournemouth during the past year and a half, offences varying from the use of gross language to the most serious Crimes. To such an extent had these outrages been carried that a friend of his own (Sir Thomas ...

... .Tames Donovan, William Marr, and James Ives, coalheavers, were brought before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court on the oth inst., charged with in- timidating and assaulting Dennis Crawley, also a coalheaver, on the 14th of March last. The prisoners belong to the United Coalheavers' Association, of which the complainant also was formerly a member, but a meeting was held, and he was ...

... Ur. Spurgeon, in addressing a meeting of the Me- tropolitan Tabernacle Colporteurs Association on Tuesday night, referred to the condition of the farm labourer. It often happened, he said, that the clergy- man in a country district knew as much about the Gospel as a ploughman did about medicine. If people heard him for as many years as Methusaleh lived, they would not know much about Christ. ...

... '.TIGHT BETWEEN IHI LITIAM.—diaries orron, s. militiaman, from Birmingham, now training at Lea- mington with the 2nd Warwickshira Militia, was seriously injured on the 5th inst. in a light with Manion, a 'fellow-militiaman. The two had been drinking at the Warwick Tavern, Regent-street, and a dispute arising they went to fight in Regent Grove. Orton was knocked down and brutally kicked on ti ...

... THE INDIAN BUDGET. The summary of the Indian Budget, sent by telegram to tliis country, shows that a surplus is anticipated, and that it chiefly arises from the Income Tax. The gross receipts of Government are £4U,OOO,OOO. The Income Tax is levied at the rate of 1 per cent., and it is just possible that a reduction will be made by the Anglo-Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer. Should such be ...

... ACCIDENTS.—A collier, named Richard Foster, had his leg broken and also received other injuries, on Thursday, by a fall coming upon him at the New Rhoswen pit.- The same day a collier, named William Thomas, got jured with the trams in the New Place pit. CONCERT.—On Thursday even'ng a concert was under distinguished patronage, at the Drill Hall, in aid o the British School. The large hall was ...

... PONTYPRTDD. CLAIMANT'S DEFENCE FUND. A meeting of the believers in the Claimant and those who wish to give him another opportunity to test his case was held in the Butchers' Arms, Pontypridd, on Friday evening. There was a full attendance, and upwards of £ 6 was subscribed. ...

... The was a short supply of beef, and a quick trade with slight advance in prices, best debcriptions realising 76s. per hundred weight, and inferior 70s. A fair supply of sheep, and quite as dear as last week best wethers, out of wool, 8$d and 9d. in wool, lid Store cattle dear and trade slow. Short supply of pigs and prices from 10s. to 10s. 6d. ...

... j fHE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. The correspondent of the Morning Post telegraphs from Rome on April 8th, as follows :—The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Royal Family of Denmark, left Rome by a special train this morning at half-past ten for Florence. Prince Humbert, the authorities of the city, and the mem- bers of the British Legation were assembled at the railway station on the ...

... ARCHDEACON DENISON ON CHURCH AFFAIRS. In his arcihdiaeonal charge at Taunton, on Monday. Archdeacon Denison insisted that the old relations of Church and State were passing away, and predicted the disestablishment and disendowment of the English Church, although doubting whether it would occur in his time. Worse than that, however, he considered was the establish- ment and endowment of no ...