... BRECON. COUNTY COURT.—On Thursday, before Judge Falconer. -David Thomas v. John Thomas. This action was brought by plaintiff, who is a blacksmith, residing in Llanfaes, to recover £ 10, the value of furniture which he alleged were left to him by his mother prior to her death. Judgment %vas given in favour of defendant. — John Thomas v. William Maddy. The plaintiff in this case is a fisherman ...

... SWANSEA. MR. GEORGE GWYNNE Dum, St. Mary's Hospital, of Swansea, has passed his examination for a diploma, and been admitted a member of the Royal College of Sur- geons. A SAD CATASTROPHE.—An inquest was held on Wed- nesday before Mr. Gascoigne, deputy-coroner, at the Arches public-house, upon the body of Peter Meehan, a single man, 36 years of age. From the evidence adduced it appeared that ...

... BRIDGEND. TASTE FOR PORK. -At the petty sessions on Saturday, a woman named Elizabeth Davis, of Maesteg, was charged with stealing 5 lbs. of pork, the property of John Tudor, a pork butcher. On Monday last he missed a piece of pork, and prisoner having been seen in the shop just pre- vious, suspicion fell upon her. A search was made and a piece was found in her house, and after some hesitation ...

... Commcttiiil and JMiivlict^ntelliijcntf. MONEY MARKET. —TUESDAY. The Home Funds are unchanged, but there is a decline of 1 in Erie Railway Shares. In the market for HoU1 Railway Stocks, Metropolitan is lower, North Eastern and Great Eastern but on the other hand, London* and Brighton is i better. In Foreign Stocks, Turkish Five per cents of 1865 and ditto Six per Cents of 1869 are i lower, ...

... THE MURDER OF FOUR CHILDREN. The inquest on the bodies of the victims of the Pad- dington murder was held yesterday. The evidence was to the effect that NichoIIs was a desponding man, and believed by his wife to be sometimes out of his mind. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Nicholls committed the murders and suicide while in an unsound state of mind. ACTION OF THE BRISTOL SCHOOL ...

... NEWMARKET PLATE (Criterion Course).—Gift 1, Leila and Little Heroine, dead heat for second place. NEWMARKET HANDICAP. General Peel's Enfield, 5 years, 6 st 13 lb (Loates) 1 Mr. Naylor's Marmora, 4 ye,¡rs, 6 st 61b (Archer) 2 M..Lefevre's Lighthouse, 3 years, G st (Major) 3 Mr. Moffatt's Molly Cobroy, 4 years, 6 st (Brook- The following also ran Hannah (Maidment); Shan- non (Hunt); Falkland ...

... A CONTEMPORARY ON LORD BUTE'S MARRIAGE. i c Alluding to the marriage of Lord Bate, tho °^o Wales Press say* :—It is true Lord Bute's not our views, and we believe that were the prevail in politics they would lead to tiie degra1-'8 jg((, and probably the ruin, of the country. It is that he might as well throw his money into invest it in a newspaper mission to convert the pality to Toryism. ...

... The Speaker took the chair at four o'clock. POSTPONEMENT OF MOTION. Mr. MIALL postponed his motion with respect to the disestablishment of the Church of England until the 17th of May. GALWAY ELECTION PETITION. Sir ^COLMAN O'LOGIILAN gave notice that as soon as the inquiry before Mr. Justice Keogh into the Galway Election Petition was concluded, he should call attention to the interference of ...

... HER LOUD AND MASTER. Monsignor Capel, says the Echo of last night, has just instructed the young Marchioness of Buto what relation she is henceforth, as a good daughter of the Church, to hold towards her newly-wedded husband. After reminding her that in swallowing the wafer had received God, the Monsignor, in tho nupti' benediction, informed Lotliair, twice over, that lie was Lady Bute's ...

... BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—At the weekly meeting of this Board,, held on Tuesday (Mr. Howel Gwyn in the chair), and subsequent to the re-instating of the various members of committees, and the re-election of chairman and vice- chairmen a discussion took place on the small-pox epi- demic, which eventuated in the carrying of a motion put by Mr. Parsons, and seconded by Mr. Price, that a num- ber of the ...

... The publication of several letters is unavoidably postponed. ...

... The inoiathly meeting of the Cardiff Chamber of Commerce was held on Wednesday. Mr. G. T. Clark, the president, occupied the chair, and there were present —Messrs J. J. Heist, S. S. Howard, Tellefsen, Ronn- leldt, A. T, li ucoyich, W. J. Trounce, E. C. Downing, J. A. Wilson, Thomas Morgan, Angel, junr., Old field, H. B. Buckingham, S. D. Jenkins, Curtis, G-otterell, Sayee, &e. The papers laid ...