... ABERGAVENNY. POLICE COURT. — WEDNESDAY. nd 1 (Before Captain HILL and R. REES, K*. any DRUNK..—John Conolly, a labourer in tbe C1 of Mr. Crawshay Bailey, was charged by rbe t ,rje^ with having been found drunk and incapable, r'' ajg ing home from a diuner given by his master workmen. — Defendant said he was very sufry. hrol Hill: Well, its Christmas time. I suppose yf> had a headache over the ...

... POLICE COURT. — SATURDAY. (Before Colonel BVRDE, C. J. PARKES, Esq., and E. J. PHILLIPS, Esq.) DRUNK.—William Morgan and Patrick Donovan, the latter of whom did not appear, were charged with drunkenness at Talywain.—P.C. 104 proved the case. -Morgan was fined 10s., and Donovan, who had been fined in December, was fined 20s. Sarah Pritchard, who did not appear, was charged with being drunk ...

... CoBriiG, April 10.—Her Majesty Queen Victoria and her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice arrived here at ?ignt o'clock this evening, and were received at the railway station by the Duke and Duchess of Saxe- Oobure and Gotha. ...

... Ire the TREDEGAR. CHRISTMASTIDE.—The festive season of ellhe bal has come, aud is now a thing of the past. The itcrn and grocers never provided more lavishly thajj, occasion under notice. The country farniera/ some fine poultry, Mr. Watkins, of Cwmddu, *n Gomer, of Beaufort, having an assortment e^T worthy of notice. The market on Saturdh the largely attended, and the good stuff provide^-ef~! ...

... LORD ABERDARE AT DARLINGTON. On Saturday, Lord Aberdare formally opened a new Training College at Darlington, being a college for the North of England in connection with the British and Foreign School Society of London, making the fourth possessed by the society—two being in London and one at Swansea. The whole cost of the college, including laud, will amount to about £ 15,000, X 000 of which ...

... THE BALLOT ACT. The report of the Select Committee on Parliamentary and municipal elections was laid on the table of the House of Commons last week. It deals only with the machinery for voting by ballot, and recommends imme- diate legislation with a view to remedy existing defects. In view of the conflicting decisions as to what is the proper construction of the directions for marking ballot ...

... ALLEGED MURDER BY A GENTLEMAN. On Saturday, at Warwick assizes, before Baron Huddleston, George Underhill, of the Hollies, King's Heath, described as a gentleman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Alfred Parkes, at Birmingham, on the 12th January last. The prisoner, about half-past nine at night, was going down Stephenson place to the New street Station. He was drunk, ran against a man, ...

... RAOUSA, April S.-According o intelligence re- ceived berefrom Sclavonic sources, the conferences in the Suttorina have been broken off, the Voivodes hav- ing returned the Russian agent. M. Weaselitzky, the same replv as-that given to Baron von Rodich. Gra- hova, which is mves ed by Uselaz, still hwlds out. CONSTANTINOI'i.k, April 10.— The Porte has received a telegram from the Governor of B- ...

... NEW YOKK. April 7.—The latest intelligence re- ceived from Mexico, via Havannab, and dated March 30, sfates that trade was paralysed, and that the insur- rectionary movemen s continued, promoted, as was believed, by the Church pnrty. The insurgents were ofllciallv estimated to number enly about 1000 men, principally in the provinces of Oaxaca and Vera Cruz. The Diario states that only small ...

... The Freeman's Journal publishes some information about gambling hells, which flourish in Dublin at race-meeting times. It says:— The scene presented in the South Anne street gambling-hou-e on the night of the 5th was of a most extraordinary character. There was no feature of concealment about the matter. The door was open, and any one could walk in, just as he could walk into the coffee ...

... ALLEGED MURDER IN DEAN FOREST. At the Gloucestershire Assises on Monday, before Mr. Justice Field, Joseph Bidmead, a collier, was charged with the wilful murder of Elijah Read. The following were the facts- as detailed in evidence:—On the evening of the 17th January prisoner, deceased, and a number of other colliers were drinking together at the Rose-in-Hand public-house in Ruardean, a village ...

... THE ROMANISING OF A Pi,OTl->T.\NT CATHEDRAL. A few dnys since the Dean and Chapter of the Bristol Oatbeciral juthorisad the Dean to take steps to remove the statues of Pope Gregory, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Ambrose, and bus relief of the Adoration,from the new north porch of the cathedral, Men are now engaged in taking the figures down. ...