... At the close of the adjourned quarterly meeting, the adjourned meeting of the special meeting of the Council took place. The Clerk read a letter addressed by him to the Local Government Board on the 28th September, and their reply of 7th inst, merely acknowledging receipt. The resolution of the adjourned quarterly meeting as to appointing a publie analyst was brought up, and after a discussion ...

... SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1872. TELEGRAMS received from Paris yesterday assure us that steps will be taken to test the validity of the right to expel Prince NAPOLEON from France. We are by no means surprised that such should be the case, since it is impossible not to feel that a blunder has been committed. M. TRIERS has proved himself so wise a statesman and so admirable an administrator ...

... [REUTEB'S AND CENTRAL PRESS TELEGRAMS.1 T FRANCE. tHE ANGLO-FRENCH COMMERCIAL TREATY. PARIS, Friday.—The complete text of the new ;^ttglo-Freiicli Treaty of Commerce, drawn up in r^glish, as arranged among those intrusted with s Negotiation, is in the hands r.f the French Go- berrlluent. The Treaty, as it now stands has beenrer- b apy approved by the French Government. It is now translated ...

... THE PRXXCE OF WALES.—lit is expected that HIS Royal Highness the Prince of Wales will, in THE hunting season, honour the Duke of Mariboro'^gh witb his presence at Blenheim Palace. FATAL, EXPLOSION.—At Bilstonf, Staffordshire, little girl named Noake has died from injuries received by the explosion ef a petroline lamp. The decea.se and another child had,, in the absence of their mothers* ploed ...

... A correspondent to the Central News says :—One of the measures which we shall have a right to look for next session is one for preventing corrupt practices at elections. This was promised last year, but Ministers had not time to fulfil their promise, and were obliged to re-enact Mr. Disraeli's expiring measure of 1868. Should Mr. Forster be more successful next year,we may be certain that a ...

... tbr: Tom Marshall, senior, well known as the clerk of tbtt Coure at various race meetings throughout the try, died at Northampton last night, aged 82. thrtbe Legislature of Massachusetts have decided that -f is authorised to establish schools of design in SUchVu ge. antl comPelled to maintain at least one school in every town of 10,000 inhabitants. ^ ...

... Yesterday, at Cardiff police-court, before Messrs. G. Phillips and W. D. Bushell, Matthew Johnson, a Fin- nish seaman, was charged with stabbing and mounding P.C. Smedley (17), with intent, while in the executiou of his duty. The circumstances were briefly reported in the South Wales Daily News of yesterday, when it was stated that at two o'clock that morning, while near the Taff Yale ...

... LANDORE. R \TR? VYFRS' Af FETING —A public meeting of the rate- paver^ Landore! Maesydd, ?l'reboeth and neighbour- hood, was held on Thursday, at the Siloh schoolroom, to take into consideration the unsatisfactory state of the neighbourhood in connection with the Swansea Local Board of Health, and also the desirability of bringing for- ward one of the residents of these localities as a ...

... AN ALABAMA CLAIMANT.—A curious claim connection with the case of the Alabama came before ,y Sorjeant Wheeler on Tuesday, at the Liverpool CoU»Y Court. A sailor, named Alcott, sued the Americau Cons Mr. T. Dudley, to recover £ 10, which he alleged to to him under an agreement in August, 1872, by which was to receive that sum as compensation for detention Liverpool. The plaintiff was detained in ...

... A sided over by his Grace the Duke of Devonshne tho Lord Lieutenant, the Police Comirittee presented a repoit, in ^tuch they referred in condemnatory terms to the con duct of Mr. T. O. Bateman, a magistrate. The noble n ai. °n the wbject of this report, I have to inform ourt ^t after examining the statements referied havinK been forwarded to me by the Police Committee, I thought it my duty to ...

... CARDIGAN. A bAD DISASTER.—Amid a heavy storm on Tuesday night two of the St. DegmelTs fishing-boats were driven 111 the direction of Aberporth, whilst out after herrings. One landed safely, but the other was wrecked five of the crew were drowned, the other two were saved. The men lost are James Llewellyn, Jno. Morgan, John Davy, 1 homas Lewis, and another, whose name we cannot as- certain. ...

... AXD CENTRAL PliESS TELEGRAMS.] FRANCE. I ^AMOUNT, Tuesday.—The German troops have the evacuation of the Haute-Marne Depart- Tuesday Evening.—The Temps announces Cardinal Bonnechose has arrived from Rome, HAS assured M. Thiers that the Pope has no J^ITION of leaving the City. J Tuesday.—Prince de Joinville spoke to- W\AT the inauguration of the monument to the OBILES who fell in the late war. ...