... NOTES FROM LONDON. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, FRIDAY. The new Liberal club started recently will be opened before Parliament meets, and be called the Devonshire Club, after the Duke of Devonshire, its first president. Mr Gladstone, Mr Bright, and Lords Westmoreland and Lansdowne are the trustees. It is rumoured in the Law Courts that Vice-Chancellor Malins and Mr Justice Mellor ...

... On Saturday, the ordinary weekly meeting of the guardians of the Newport Union was held at the Board- room, Lord Tredegar in the chair. I There was an average attendance of guardians. Cheques were signed and handed'to the several relieving officers for distribution in out-door relief as follows :—Mr J. P. Williams, £ 24 Mr John Walters, £ 55; Mr J. B. Jones, £ 40; Mr Evan Jones, £ 56 total, £ ...

... BAILEY V. BAILEY. On Saturday Mr Bristowe, Q.C., applied before Vice- Chancellor Malins for an order permitting the carrying out of a compromise which had been entered into between the executors of the will of the late Sir Joseph Bailey and of the late Mr Crawshay Bailey. The late Sir Joseph Bailey devised under his will a large real estate to his grandson, the present Sir Joseph Bailey, with ...

... CARDIFF. ACCIDENT.—A lad named Timothy Good, while walk- ing along Crockherbtown, yesterday, was knocked down by a Hansom cab. He was conveyed to the infirmary, and theace home. VOLUNTEER SUPPER.On Thursday, the non-commis- sioned officers of the 16th Glamorgan ltifie Volunteers held their annual supper at the Black Lion Inn, Colour- Sergeant Gazzard occupying the chair,and Colour-Sergnt. ...

... SCHOOL BOARD FOR ^^TEYNTON.—It has been decided that a school board shall be formed for this parish, to e nsist of five members. Up to this time there have been eleven gentlemen nominated, namely—The Rev ...

... THE IRON, COAL, AND HARDWARE TRADES OF THE WEST MIDLANDS. [SPECIAL BEPOBT BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—Vendors were unusu&Uy anxious to-day to talk up the trade. The least favourable circumstance was quoted in connrmation of the view, and circumstances of doubtful import were held to possess evidence in snpport of the contention, strong as proofs of Holy Writ. It cannot, ...

... The Detxoit papers give many particulars of the disaster to the steam propeller Brooklyn. The vessal, which be- longed to the Northern Transportation Company, and was bound from Buffalo to Chicago with a cargo of g -ncra'i merchandise, exploded her boilers eight miles below Detroit, and sank almost immsdiately. The Free Press says: — There was only an instant's warning. Passengers and crew ...

... WOUNDING CASK.—At the petty-seasiens on Monday, before Mr U. H. Page and Mr G. Phillips, Thomas Riley, on remand, was charged with unlawfully wound- ing James liyan, a labourer, of Mary Ann-street, on the night of the 20th of June, with a poker. Inspector Thomas said that the prisoner stated that he inflicted the wound in defence of his sou. The charge was reduced to that of common assault, ...

... ACCIDENT ON THE TRAMWAY.— On Saturday evening a fatal accident took place on the company's tramway here. It seems that an engine was coming along with some iron ore, when by some chance it got off the rails, and was forced into a mine clump. The side of the engine-box was forced in, and smashed the trucks all to atoms. The stoker escaped, but the driver, a married man, received such injuries ...

... CARDIFF BOROUGH EXTENSION. THE PURCHASE OF THE GAS AND WATER WORKS. LORD BUTE AND CATHAYS PARK. REMOVAL OF THE TURNPIKE GATES. A special meeting of the Cardiff Town Council was Wd at the Town Hall, Cardiff, on Thursday, foe- the .purpose of determiaiag whether « Bill should fee pro- moted in the ensuing session of PacGament for the exten- sion of the municipal pwrposes, the enlargement of the ...

... THE INFLUENCE OF TRADES' UNIONS AND CLERGYMEN. Mr Macdonald, M.P. for Stafford, was present at a meeting of ironstone miners, held in Glasgow, and com- menting on the importance of trades' unions, he said they were the source of more charities, and had done more to make comfortable the homes of the poor than all the clergy of England and yet the clerical influence was the first to denounce ...

... THE CHEMISTRY OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE. Perhaps one of the ablest and most entertaining lec- tures of any that have been delivered under the auspices of the Cardiff Naturalists'Society, was that which claimed the attention of a crowded audience in the Assembly-room, Town-hall, Cardiff, on Thursday night, under the presi- dency of Mr Franklen Evans. The subject was, The Chemistry of the Breakfast ...