... A special meeting of the Newport Town Council was held on Tuesday at noon, at the Town- a o consider the resolution of the last ...

... MR. CRAWSHAY BAILEY AND THE BKYNMAWR JSTFLK CORPS. — Mr. G'rawshay Bailey, who has for a large number of years been the most liberal Captain of the Brynmawr Rifle Corps, has for certain reasons sect in his resignation, which has caused much regret in the Corps. THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF PART OF TREVE- TO THE ABERGAVENNY UNION.—At the Board of Guardians on Thursday the 22nd inst., the Clerk ...

... The Master »4e Rolls last week continued the injunction aga i Baron Krupp obtaiaed by Mr. Vavaseur for e(K ioying an invention for copper ringed projectiles, for which patents were granted in 1866 and 1874., ...

... Dean Stanley was present, last week, at Darlington at the celebration of the first anniversary of the opening of a training college for schoolmistresses, in conueetiou with the British and Foreign School Society, of which he is one of the vice-presidents. In the evening he delivered an address to a crowded audience in the Central Hall. In a short address in the afternoon lie alluded to the ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. SATURDAY.—The Speaker took the chair at ten minutes after twelve o'clock. The Consolidated Fund ( £ 9,641,960) Bill was read a third time. The Public Health (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Settled Estates Bill, as amended, was considered, and ordered to be read a second time. The IIouee then adjourned at 12.15. ...

... A Berlin telegram in the Tim.es says The Emperor and Prince Bismarck concurring in the opinion of the numerous party who believe that free trade principles in the last phase of German commercial policy have obtained greater preva- lence than the country can well afford, it is pro- bable that the comprehensive inquiry into tho state of German industry and commerce de- manded by the ...

... NEWPORT CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. The annual social gathering in connection with the above highly-flourishing Association took place last (Thursday) night, and proved a magnificent success. Sceptics who doubt the existence of genuine Conser- vative working men, would probably have felt their want of faith rebuked if they had given ever so cur- sory a glance at the scene presented in the ...

... A Dublin correspondent writes:—Mr. Sullivan, son of the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and Miss Exham, daughter of Mr. Exham, Q.C., were drowned on Tuesday through the upsetting of a heat off Bray. ...

... A harvest thanksgiving service was held on Tuesday last, at the Parish Church. The service was read by the Rev. J. Griffiths, vicar, and the lessons by the Rev. Asa Richards, Home Missionary, after which two eloquent and appropriate sermons were preached by Revs. George Thomas, Coity, and Peter Williams, Neath. The church had been niccly decorated by Mr. 1¥ld Mrs. Edmunds, Pantglas. On ...

... The will of Mr. William Matthew Coulthurst, late of 59, Strand, has been recently proved, the personal estate being sworn under £ 600,000.—The will, dated January 26, 1874, of Peter Wood, M.D., late of Woodbank, Southport, Lancashire, who died on the 15th ult., was proved in London on the 14th instant by James Wood and Peter Frederic Wood, the sons, and William Norris Heald, the executors, the ...

... NEWCASTLE, Monday. At eig-fc o'clock this morning a ferry-boat wa' swamped upon the TyoG at hytoo, six miles west of Newcastle, resulting in three persons being crowned The river, owinx to the heavy rains, fio )ded, and just when the passengers were abuii- to land from the boat, the hood carried i. away from the shore. The boat got broad !'t ...

... On Saturday night there were meetings in Chelsea, Hackney, Hammersmith, West Brompton, and othei metropolitan districts, held by niembtrs of the Magna Charta Association, for the purposes of making ar- rangements for holding a monster demonstration in Hyde Park on Easter Monday in favour of the release of the Claimant. At Chelsea a letter from Mr. Guildford Onslow was read, in which he said ...