... At a recent meeting of the Alpine Club, Mr. Watts, of the Middle Temple, addressed the audience on the subjoct of a proposed exploration of the VlIotna Jokull, Iceland. An exploration devoted to this purpose would, he observed, possess peculiar interest, since the vast area known asthe Vatna Jokull, situated on the south-eastern side of the island, is at present wholly unexplored. Almost ...

... The inquiry into the petition against the relurn of Mr. E. J. Reed for the Pembroke Boroughs was te have come on yesterday, but when the time for the hearing arrived, the petitioner, Mr. Long, abandoned his application, and the petition was ordered to be withdrawn. We understaud that among the Tories of Pembroke Dock the intelligence caused great conster- nation and disappointment, inasmuch as ...

... DISTIOT, INTELLIGENCE I PONTYPOOL. X FOUR InQuEBTs iw OtiNE DAY.-Mr. E. D. Batt, A coroner, held no less than. four inquests at the al Town-hall, Pontypool, yesterday. The first was w touching the death of'a little, servant girl named Sarah Ann Richards. Her parents live near Bis. Farr, the Pontypool agent of, the. Western Mail, in te a passage leading out of Hanbury-road, Pontypool, Jf and ...

... THE FIFE AlD. CLACKMANNAN MINERS. A general strik.e IS TTUTLCipated amongst the miners of Fife and ClaclTM.AN°FN' consequence of the late Proposed further reduction of wage8, ...

... The strike of the ironstone miners in the Cleveland district has extended to Resedale. At a meeting at the latter place, it was resolved to expel any man from the Onion wno resumed work without the consent of the lodge. The owners have made USE of tbe strike clause in their contract. A great number of miners are leaving theliis&rict. ...

... DISTRICT JNTELLIGENCE. ?? §RIIFF. TrEE TR1eAuIIRR of the Infirmary (Wr. W. Done Bhrshell) has received the sum of £4 ()s, amcunb contributed by t00 wi)' kmrt emlployed at the Crown Preserved Coil Works, lauindly. Ai- W. ). JOIIN, IF1S1111ger to oir. T 1) T11mrn', themist, of the docks, has been elected a memb r (f the P1htrivacelutical Society. Poil;cihcO(JIutI. -- At thre Towvn-ha~l yesterday ...

... ItE, UTER'S AND CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAMS. THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY. ▼WTIRATTT FS Tuesday.—The National Assembly -I to D« Ser the rece8s. There was no Pres.- S £ £ WT»S REM'. APFCET ^dld KriSSSt VicVlWlents, and Secretaries mill be elected to-morrow. GREAT FIRE IN PARIS. •p ,—TR Mav 12.—There was a considerable fire yesterday in the Cite Ouvruresituated Hue Crozatier^ in the Bastille quarter. Several ...

... To the Editor of the SOUTH WALES DAILY NEWS SIR,—Will you kindly afford me a small space in your paper to correct the wrong impression which has and will be created by the statement (which appeared in yester- day S Western Mad) of the burglary committed in my house on Sunday evening. J As regards the caution I received, that was six months ago. and to this effect-that I had better not leave ...

... srssVri'M.& t state of things at the works in GlamoS ? -part1/ to not so brisk, and prices declined fSm ♦ re^&c-' wa* on catt'e. There was also a timiwJf* TH^RF?ES S]?EEV'AND HOW*1™ at the fair in April. les^»Ught after than ...

... MAT FAIR.—This fair has just been HTH better attended than usual at this time of WAS great show was made of cart horses?PRIC^ FT* A ran very high. Sheep were in ABUNRLL^ *S'* buyers. Cows and oxen were not too plen«F,?I T ? I their prices. The pleasure fair in T&T • KEPT crowded. LA THE evening was ...

... The annual National Asso- ciation was openeid AT AFTER^O PREIDED over by Mr M'Doi IALDI J TUE P„„B^L)ORT8 °f THE Various districts h ad BEEN 'referred ^,E^UDELIVERED his address, in which B° reterred TO^THE lately- appointed Royal C^OMMI831 NNWISE if TLM • AN^ said he felt it W.,ULD be MF T upon it W°PRE8EATA- tives of labour had refused t act upon it. Tie expected that they f-vould have ...

... 0- u, a% L W t t tv x :ff Xi WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 174. ?? lll The Bute Docks Bill passed Lord RED1ES- DALE, in the House of Lords yesterday. A few slight alterations were made. s It wa settled yesterday that the petition against the return of Mr. REED, for the Pembroke boroughs, should be abandoned, and an intimation to that effect was received by the Mayor. The body of a child has been found in ...