... At Bristol Assizes last week, eight hundred pounds were awarded to Mr. Cooke, late traveller for a London floorcloth firm, against the Great Western Railway Company, as compensation for injuries sustained by him in the Bathampton and Hingley accidents in June and November last year. The company paid JE420 into court. At the same court the friends of a little girl named Langhland, who had her ...

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... THE LEICESTERSHIRE MINERS. Great dissatisfaction is felt by the Leicestershire miners relative to the decision recently come to at a meeting of the men to accept the 15 per cent. reduction in wages. Not half the men have yet resumed work, and some of the pits are entirely at a standstill. The lads protest strongly against any reduction, on the ground that. their earnings hitherto have been far ...

... A shocking outrage has occurred at Bolton. It ap- pears that a turn-out has existed for some time at Messrs. Slater's bleach works. On Saturday night, as three of the workmen, named Thompson, M'Ourley, and Wright, were proceeding homewards from a beerhouse in Slater's lane, stones were thrown at them. M'Ourley was knocked down and kicked by several men until he became insensible. Wright ...

... Rl,lyingto adeputation of licenr-ed grocers, the other afternoon, Sir Selwyn Ibbetson (the Under-Secretary for the HOlJle Department) said Government would give the subject mo3'. c,irefut consideration before they altered the law respecting grocers' wine and spirit licences. He could not promise off-hand that a Select Committee should b& appointed, but the Government would not propose any ...

... NEWS FROM AMERICA. PHILADELPHIA, April ;). — Washington telesrama state that a canvass of the House Foreign Affairs Committee indicates that the Committe will probably report a mild censure of General Schenck, that he did a reprehensible act in becoming a director of the Emma Mine and speculating in its stock, but that he was not guilty of any intentional dishonesty in originally con- necting ...

... CONSTANTINOPLE, April 7.—A conference was bald yesterday between the Grand Tidier, the Minister of Finance, and the English and French delegates, and it is stated that the bases of a financial convention were finally settled. ...

... AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. — A very numerously- attended meeting of the members of the Bedwellty andMynyddislwyn Agricultural Society was held on rriday evening, at the Greyhound Inn, Pontlanfraith. Mr. Watkin Waters, of Brynscawen, presided. There were also present Mr. J. Jeremiah (Tir Philkins), Mr. R- Woodin (Argoed Fach), Mr. John Morgan (Gelli- groes), Mr. J. Davies (Heol Ddu), Mr. D. Davies ...

... THE MURDEROUS TRADE OUTRAGE AT BOLTON. In connection with the brutal trade outrage, in which a man lost his life at Bolton on Saturday night, of the forty-one turnouts thirty-four were on Sunday appre- hended. At two o'clock onMonday morning twenty-nine were liberated on bail, but the lemaining five were kept in custody. Their names are: Edwin Ashcroft, 30: James Atkin, 33 John Barnes, 25 ...

... SUPPOSE!) LOSS OF A SHIP AND ALL HANDS BY COLLISION. A pilot, who arrived at Shields a few days ago reports having, otl Aartnoulh Sands, seen a screw eteainf run down a brig with all hands. The brig is supposed to have been from Shields. A Boy Hamlet, a lad aged 14. has recently been amusing the natives at the New York Lyceum. He does not appear to have been very favourably received, and the ...

... The solemn festival of Christmas was duly observed in all the Church of England places of worship throughout the parish. At the parish church there was an early morning service or Plygain, at which the Rev Asa Richards preached an impressive sermon. The old sacred edince was well filled. The decorations, which were of a chaste description, had been carried out by Mr. and Mrs. E. Edmunds, ...

... INQUEST.—Mr. Lewis, deputy coroner, held an inquiry at the Full Moon Inn, Scurfa, on Friday evening last, touching the death of Wm. Sage, aged 47, » timberman, in No. 2 Pit, Sirhowy, which event occurred in an awfully sudden manner, on the previous Wednesday. The deceased went to work in his usual health, and had not been down long when he was obliged to come away, and on the roud he expired ...