... nEtTTER',3 AND CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAMS. u TBE~C A RLISTMVAR. ai.AORID> Monday. TheCarlists have abandoned siege of imn. Republican troops have carried T** fresh operations against the Carlists in the Maes- distrct. HURKICANE IN THE WEST INDIES. ^inuston, Sunday-—A destructive hurricane swept over the West Iudia Islands, causing ^aease damage in this town. ...

... CAbtTAL'L'IES. • CARDIFF.—The CAPTJMH of the schooner Keturah, of Plymouth wal laden had .his right arm and hand badly injured by the boomi him just as his vessel wZ being hauled into the West Bute Basin. The captain, however, will proceed with the vessel. F ...

... , ?? a. ?? .. 7 - - A NN U AU, ?? Iy I - -- I earui NEAT11 12o1 ouci frtbennnrnleeling of tho Ifeathiii Cali fo helcotien of chief ningielrato for the oenuing ~Sfr tockjdare at the Gutidhali yontoriiay. r Tim MAI OSO (Mr, . BRYieAN), Onl taking tue chitir mov. so5ld the first businevs of the meeting was the choice at ti Of a gentleman to succeed him in hlia preuect offlao. Conn Mr.H. WYNsai fi ...

... The annual meeting of the .Neath Town Council took place yesterday. The first business was the election of mayor. ftlr GWYN said he had great pleasure in proposing Mr James Kempthorne to till the office for the ensuing year, although he felt there would be great difficulty in select- ing a successor to the gentleman who had presided over them during the last two years. Mr PHILLIP DAVIES ...

... VICTORIA ROOMS, CARDIFF.—Mr Hoffmann, the enter- prising manager of this popular concert hall, has this week engaged a number of artistes, of whom the Era. speaks in terms of high praise. Miss Kate Kaynes, serio-comic and characteristic vocalist Mr Arthur Short, comic and motto vocalist; Miss W. Chariton, serio-comic; Mr Churchill and Young Pete, n-gro comedians. The Misses Dale and Thirwall ...

... LOCAL HoNouw,. -We hear thatMr A. T. Pullin, B.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, and head-master of the Celli- gaer Endowed Schools, has passed very successfully at the Cambridge new theological examinations- COAL TRADE.—During the past week the house-coal trade has itbproved wondei fully, and there is every sign now that it will continue to progress. ...

... MR. GLADSTONE AND THE PAPACY. replies in the papers to Mr. Glad- stone's pamphlet, The Vatican Decrees in their bearing 11)11 Ciyil Allegiance. He says: I finc, in it a direct :uip.d to myself, both for the office I hold and for the writings I have puhHthed. I gladly acknowledge the duty that lies upon mo for both these reasons. I am bound by the office I bear not to suffer a day to pass ...

... PROBABLE DISPUTE IN THE NAIL TRADE. She t nailmakers of Bromsgrove yesterday decided to DP.6 Masters fourteen days' notice of an advance of fcent in their vuges. ...

... SCHOOL BOARD FOR PEN ART# A public meeting of the ratepayers of Penarth was held in the National Schoolroom last evening, called by overseers and churchwardens, pursuant to an order fr the Educational Department of the Frivy Council, that school board should be formed at Pera- th without in consequence of the required school a commodition 0*5 having been provided, and Ihe meeting was called ...

... The Morning Mail treats it as a bid for office, and heads its srtlde with the words Bearing up for the Port pro- tenant. It Snys Mr. Gladstone, having failed to establish his Protestantism— or as we ought, perhaps, rather to say, haTirg failed to put himself again en rapport with the English mind—discerning its present tendency, is about to make another effort to outbid Mr. Disraeli. It ill a ...

... r PROM OCR SHIPPING ItErORTElt. ] LATEST ARRIVALS IN PENARTH ROADS. CAKmyp^ Monday Night.—James Groves, s, Tight; 11 oonaV.^9P' ballast Leone. 4^4. ballast; Maranymph, li* u Emma and Ellen. 59, light: M. St Michel], 218, ballast; Victoria, 74S, light; Guisippina Amina, 440, ballast; Hesperia, 448, ballast; Charlotte, 74, ballast; Katie, G9, ballast: Alma, 39, light: Canadian 297, ballast; ...

... ,, i , A, S F iri'iJ T A~4 N Mvq.rw TdAlml, ()Frim, 4.30 &.mu {11tr :u rts ri''~E:LEl'AS.;S) FRANCE. PARIS, NOV. 9.- Tho follovviz& aro loarlV tho detillitive romulis of theo olowtion wlhichl took PlacO yesttr(lay :-Dopartullont of tho Drome: Iladier Monjou, Ropubliosu, t4,000; Morin napa1tist, 18o,00. Iu the Nord: 1'aisy, Ropublicaui, I I8,0(0r Fiovat, Bonapattist, 102,000. Inl the Ois3 Due ...