... The Select Committee on East Indian Fi met on Tuesday for the last time to consider Its In consequence of the incomplete nature of tl: e the evidence only will be reported, with a suggestion the committee should be reappointed next session. The Civil Service Commissioners give that at an examination for two county surveyorsbip Ireland, just held, the undermentioned candidates tained the places ...

... Saral MR. BARON CHANVELL, on Wednesday night, enter- tamed thetmembers of the South Wales bar at duiiiM., at his apartments in Charles-street. CONGKEGATIONAL CHURCH, WOOD, STKEET.-—A. tea and public meeting was held in the above churcn on Wednesday In connection with a movement for theimproveinent of the interior of the building. About £300 lsrequiren to accomplish the object, and 160 persons ...

... SHOCKING CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT GLOUCESTER. The Gloucester magistrates were engaged for two or three hours in the Infirmary, on Wednesday afternoon, hearing the evidence in a shoeing case of attempted murder, wherein the would-be murderer bad sought also to commit suicide. A girl named Annie Grey, alias Pullen, 17 years old, born in Wotton-under-Edge, has lived in Dean Forest, ...

... TREDEGAR. DEATHS BY DROWKIMG.—An accident occurred to Mr Brown a travelling draper, on Tuesday, while bathing iA a pond between Lbbw Vale and Tredegar, by which he. unfortunately lost his life. It appew thit Seleased was seized with cramp and sunk never to raise again. Im- mediately afterwards another man, named Daniel Carev plmjged into the same pond, and met with a similar fate* His body was ...

... RI N NARBERTH. ROURTUWAS HEWTRT'^?T-¥ USUAL MONTHLY sitting of this JUD-E.-PHILLSR S £ DAYLAST, before Mr. T. if. Terrell, Company This 1 T- ^HITLAND AN(^ Yale Railway value of a SHEEIFTN? J0N WAS brought to recover £ 2, the Honour SAVE ON THE defendants' railway. 'His Dares aid FLIT FOR Pontiff, with costs.-Thomas Ss wife Th?a^S J°hn' Stevens and Frahce^! ^SAIDT LMT 5LAINTLFFS claimed £ 5 ...

... The Tichborne claimant arrived: at Newcastle °n Monday. He was met at the station ftnd many thousands of people- „ and Mr. Whalley, M.P., who accompanied I11™* their way through the crowd. They cntf'ef^fowed che^r nage and drove to the hotel. The crowd •ing. Several persons were slightly injure^'J^ ^fCAr* iriage door broken. In response to the coring -of the poople outside, the claimant ...

... EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT.—A meeting of the shop- keepers of this place was held at the Town Hall on Thursday evening last, for the purpose of taking into con- sideration the present hours of closing, and with the view of adopting the half-holiday system enjoyed by the neighbouring towns. The Rev. J. Powell Jones occupied the chair. In opening the proceedings, the rev., chairman spoke of the. ...

... DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE IN PENARTH ROADS. TWO RUNAWAY SEAMEN DROWNED. A lamentable accident, which is entirelv attributable to the reckless folly of the sufferers, Wtd itsday ief-11 tJiree seamen and caused the death of two. An American ship, outward bound, from Newport, lay at anchor in the outer roadstead, to the west of the Monkstone- rock. The seamen, whose names have not been ascer- tained ...

... ABERYSTWITH. IMPROVEMENT COMMISSIONERS.—The monthly meeting of this body w^s on Tuesday. Mr. David Roberts presided, AND there was a FULL attendance of commissioners. The usual accounts having been passed, the Board pro- ceeded to discuss tenders for a fire escape, which had been sent in. The firms tendering were Messrs. Shand, Mason and Co., and Messrs. Merryweather and Sons, both of London, ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS. FRIDAY. The Courts opened this morning at ten o'clock. FIRST COURT. -(Before Mr. R. O. JONES (chairman) and the Rev. H. H. RICKARDS ) STEALING A WATCH AT SWANSEA. Wm. Stephens (16), butcher, was charged with stealing I a watch, the property of Thomas Kern, at Swansea, on 1 June 20th, 1872. Mr. Coleridge prosecuted. This was the case already reported in our ...

... THE ENGINEIvlEN OF THE STEAM COAL COLLIEIIIES. THE SHORT TIME MOVEMENT. Yesterday an interview took place at the Royal Hotel, Cardiff, between the members of the South Steam Coal Owners' Association and the delegated the enginemea in their employ. Mr. John Nixon sided, and the members of the association present were :-Messrs. D. Davis, J.* O. Riches. S. W. Kelly, D. Davies, G. Brown, G. ...

... THE HEAT NEW YORK. Tb :■ -v V'-ri: papers just arrived givv terrible accounts of ihe s -i:s o: man aud beast ill that city during the h'-at W t;. ...