... COUNTY STATIST.1CS. An official return, lasurd] by tho flome-oftloo, gives facv dettils as to tho coot of thbpovsonmd irD fr ti ?? of property In this district, tho h nusiber and Coot of Oilr crimuinal population, and the ennmber of ?? held'( ill 187 in oauses of caunie or sudden doentl, The0 cast Of the is police in Moriornenlirohr wss forteyr c sielilg Sopitniber 2(, 1873, £9,260 50 9.1 ; 01 ...

... HINDOO PATRIOTISM, ST The Calcutta correspondent of the Times as: writes :-I heard a pretty story the other day, cir- sb cumstantially told, and if it is not circumstantially 1S correct it ought to be so. It certainly is true gene- at dsy rally, and It presents a picture of one beautiful pe niry trait of Hindoo character-the Hindoo's attach- pe unt, ment to his earliest home. You have often ...

... SIECOIA .U )DEII2~ 5i.rstili Dfal Onioa, 4.S AN.M, ?? s TVl.EOiAMII.) 71'1E CAR1,18T BLOOCADE ItUNNEiR. PA1,8, liio+. 21. Threo of the crow of thei lhlocianle ?? Miovos lhavn ooon liberated. ZANOCE. PVAss, Nov. 21.-A' Bill has beon Iud r bteforo tho 11lunicipixl Council of l'aris for a lottery loan of 2) inillionu. ITALY. a Bo10,m Nov. 2. -IThe IPuko of Aosta hns loft for San Rieio,. Trhe ...

... TEE MASTERS' STATEMENT. TO TIE EDITOR OF TKE WESTERN ( Siot,-Inasmuoh as the various newspaper reports a respecting tbis matter contain many mis statements, I and are calculated greatly to mislead, we think it a right to lay before the public the exact position of affairs, a In the sprirg of the present year there was a Veneral reduction of colliery wages throughout the i country, and, ...

... S ~e WE3DNESDAY, NOT'}3MRBR 25, 1874. t c The council of the MonmouthshIre aud South Wales Collierles Association met at s S- ?? - a: %. - I noutn vvalest 1jc[,eL'ib ?? u- tat Cardiff yesterday, to discuss the alleged ne- cessity of malking a further reduction in the wages of the colliers. The meeting ex- pressed a unanimous opinion that the present condition of the coal trade necessitated a ...

... Sir Henry RIawlinson has communicated to the n 3n members of the Royal Geographical Society the v d, decision of the Government to send out a new Polar 0 Pt Expedition, and referring to Mr. Disraeli's letter C said:-I am unable to inform the meeting of the h :es exact measures which have been tasen in y 1w pursuance of that letter, but they will have rt, seen accounts in the daily papers which ...

... MR. GLIDSTONE AND THE IRdISE I LIBERALS. Mr. GLADSTaNz called his Expostula-: tion ' ditinctly a political one ; bat it is only now being taken up on purely politi- cal grounds. We ventured to suggest two, things on the first appearamzC of the pamph- let, viz , that the great battle would rage round the term civil allegiance, and that Mr GLADSTONE had finally brokoa with the Iriah ...

... CORRESPONI)ENCE. 1 S6'100L ACCOMAIODA2'ION ,AN]) CJOM * 1TULk1 Y A 71'f1NDANCE. I TO T1IE P.DITOR OF T1E WItargUN MAITL. I SIll,-Allow nm to call attention, through your Gc r co1lruon', to a portlon of tico ?? Act nand its operations that preoee hoevily and unfairly upon , 0I e 11] 11naogero, . r The Act (C00a1o ii) AetU forth that there Nhall sl be I rovided for every sthooi dlltrict a ...

... LI 'I'E VAT1CAN DECREE CON- lTROVYLMStY A &IJ? VAiIko ra lMR. GL.ADSTONE AND 91 THE 111181.1 L~ordl Acton, In a letter which occepita nearly O'clo Rlreo and ahaif columnrs of the T'hnese, writgs: - and in nmy endeaviour to show that the safety of the ta Statv io not affected by the Vatican, decrees, I Mr afrllo that they Rosign to the Papacey no power 7 over temporal icanonern greater thana ...

... The monthly official return of paupers receiving relief from the poor-rates in England and Wales (minus about 3'3 per cent. for paupers In lunatic S asylums and vagrants, not included in those returns) shows that the number was 801,142 at Michaelinas, 1872 ; 755,664 at Blichaelmas, 1873; and 721,538 at Michaelmas, 1874; this last number being 9 9 per cent, less than at lIichaelmas, 1S72, and 4 ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIUENCF tvvorvv.- CARDIFF. F]RN.- har3 yesterday vesri' L Out at No, 30, Peelstreet, anl dA 'f nY fireibroed of *lotling In a front hov, - damag to aqumehtitY over, by thoe prompt Au The Inmates, how- water, soon .itonguih ?? of buckets of In cO5 g-ARD PQfT' nnthorilamef. find that the dtbo- A VAIMIgl,-WO ?? glad to ,ceintly bnn tiran dia oef ?? Cardiff hoe very ested that tf ...

... AV6TAT ON BOAPID A SHIP AT SWANSEA. At 1he Swanusea ?? oourt, yesterday (before illr. Fiwler and Alduriian Tlnon. rhillips), \Illians Ilvughten, a sittowand on bonrd tho barquo ?? PLs Iilneijd Jlames JAndereon, thosocend mnate of thal V IIncsI, vwith ?? g Wisn. The o t Irrlrlh, Ia V.'FeC' of rix hundred and thirty tons, h~lis frs il Sandeln, but recently arrived in Swansea frons liverpool. ...