... ABERDARE AND PLYMOUTH IRON. WORKS COMPANY. A statutory meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Richard Fothergill, M.P., and Ernest Thomas Hankey, trading as the Aberdare and Plymouth Ironworks Company, was held at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, London, on Tuesday; Mr. Robinson, of the Ebbw Vale Company, in the chair. The Chairman said he thought when they met on the last occasion it ...

... A meeting of the Liberal par-ty was held the Corn Exchange at Leominster on T-e, Thomas Blake, Shafteskurn House, los- was ch is candidate, but the chairman and leading Li' rais withheld their support. FUNERAL OF Mit. J. P. COH;;OLI>.—The funeral of the late Mr. J. P. C,)u:,ol,l,,>I.l' took pi on Tuesday afternoon. Business was almost enti-1 ;y Buspended, and the funeral procession was a mile ...

... DURING the past week extraordinary baro- metrical changes have taken place, and a number of lamentablo accidents have oc- curred in collieries. We naturally turn first of all to the deplorable loss of life in our own locality. At New Tredegar twenty- three victims have already been buried, and the works may yet when fully searched yield other dead bodies. The explosion near Taff's Well, on ...

... THE MIDLAND AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANIES. On Monday the Railway Commissioners (Sir F. Pee\ Mr. Macnamara, and Mr. Price) resumed the consider ration ot the application of the Midland Railway Oom» pany, for the settlement of certain questions Witt& regard to rates and fares between them and the Great Western Company. Mr. Webster appeared for the Midland and Sir EL ,Tames, the Hon. Mr. ...

... LORD DERBY AND MR. FORSTER, M.P. At a meeting of the Edinburgh Town Council on Tuesday, it was agreed to confer the freedom of the city on Lord Derby and the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P. Mr. Forster is to oren the Edinburgh Philoso- phical Institution on the 5th November, and it is ex- pected that Lord Derby will deliver his inaugural address as Rector of Edinburgh University in the coarse ...

... AUSTRALIA AND NEVV ZEALAND. Tha Australian and New Zealand Mail, via BrindM, Wat dowered in London on Monday morning. VICTORIA. tnewof papers are to 18. Parliament was to meet for despatch of business on the 25th, and a com- bination between the ultra-protectionists and the frea traders was considered possible, with the view of oust- ing the Government. The construction of the railway from ...

... ASSASSINATION IN IRELAND. Mr* Paten Bridges, agent to Mr. Nathanial Buckley, BtP-, -Wae shot on Monday night while going to- bis teeidetiMiaear Mitchelstown. He received two wounds la tiM back. Mr. Buckley holds large estates near Mitchelstown, and has lately had the land revalued, niri baa bom some correspondence about the revalua- tipala the low papers, and the tenants complain that ...

... NEW CIVIL SERXICE CO-OPERATION An adjourned general meeting of the shareholders (LIMITED). wta beld at six o'clock on Monday evening, at the Can- non-street Hotel, when the large hall Wi3 densely crowded. On Sir CECIL BEADOX taking the chair, Mr, Hi; A VEX moved, That this meeting considers that under existing circumstances it. is not expedient that Sir Cicil Beadoa take the chair. (Cheers ...

... KERKICK'S DANDELION- CorraE, refreshing, healthy, and much approved. is a most valuable beverage for preserving a healthy condition of the liver aud storaach, and as an aid to more potent medicines. In canisters at 6d., lOJ., and s. 6d. each. Shopkeepers may be supplied by the proprietor, or the following wholesale aeents Leonard and Robinson, Bristol. Clutterbuck and Griftin Bristol Hugh ...

... i THE MEfiTHFR POST OFFICE AURIVAL8 OP MAHR. ^Lid0ndBHs^°|Uth^n.J,?,st cf ^Slaud, Scotland, Pontypridd, Somh AV^c^^nd^Fore^n Verts', morn 'no-W'*1 Nortt-W .,Pr'?Lo' '.nsiand, Newport'.V[.»\.) 1 ontypruld, turuif], paid SO'HW YVfiies 12 50 after „ LOJTX>CK TtfiY HAIL. y LOJTX>CK TtfiY HAIL. ,7 ^?'Jdon» South :>f Tf.ia-lniHl.frelard, P.rs- toi, bio stcr, Newport (Mort/i, Pont) prid ...

... THE ROYAL COMMISSION AT NORWICH. Mr. Mendham, Town Clerk, on Monday said the use of messengers was necessary, as was shown by the fact that at the first School Board election, out of 11,800 circulars, 1,300 were returned by the Post Office. He suggested thM. to avoid employing su many messen- gers, the -.ture should make it incumbent on the occupier to give notice of his removal within a month ...

... POLICE COURT.—The whole of the business transacted at. this place all Tuesday last, was the grouting of some summonses for trespass, and the adjourning of tbree summonses, one of affiliation and two under the Master and Servant Act. The only magistrate who attended was Mr Rhys Hopkin Rhys, of Plas Newydd. TREDEGAR INTELLIGENCE PAUPERS' TREAT.-On Christmas Day the inmates of the Bedwellty ...