... The following circular has been issued under date of January 22 To the shareholders of the Llynvi, Tondu and Ogmore Coal and Iron Company, Limited, 98, Canon-street, London, E. C. The directors regret to state that they find it necessary to call the share- holders together without waiting for the time at which they will be prepared to publish the accounts for the half-year ending December 31st ...

... The funeral of M'Cartliy, the released Fenian prisoner, took place at Dublin on Sunday. The procession was four hours in passing from St. Stephen's Green to Glasnevin, round by College Green, the Castle, the scene of Emmet's execu- tion in Thomas street, and the public-house in a street near it where M'Carthy himself was arrested 12 years ago. It was not as large or im- posing as the funeral ...

... -The Speaker took ohe oLtrL. at fjui AFFAIRS AT THE CAPE. Mr. W. E. FORSTER asked if the Government had received any information as to a fresh out- break at the Cape. Mr. LOWTHER said they had received a telegram dated Januarv 1st. from Sir Bartle Frere, stating that Kreli's overtures for surrender had come nothing; that a column under Colonel Glyn had met with considerable opposition; that ...

... On Sunday morning a letter was read to the congregation at the Metropolitan Tabernacle from Mr. Spurgeon, who has been compelled to go to the south of France owing to continued ill-health. Before he left London he was greatly exhausted, and, besides other ailments, complained very much of pains in the head, the result of overwork and study. In his letter he stated that, though he has only been ...

... At Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex, a man has been killed by a bull he was driving. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone has returned to Hawarden Castle. The German Emperor will be present at the Strasburg military manoeuvres in spring. A MASK ox GLASS BALLS.—According to the New York papers, Captain Bogardus has success- fully accomplished the feat of breaking 5000 glass balls inside of bOU consecutive ...

... On Sunday morning as the congregation was assembling for worship in Christ Church, Leices- ter, considerable alarm was created by flames being seen issuing from the roof of the church im- mediately over the west entrance. The flames lighted up the gallery, and the roof being entirely constructed of wood, there was great danger of the flames rapidly spreading. Every effort was used to prevent ...

... Rio DE JANEIRO, Jam.7.—A new Liberal Ministry has been formed, composed as follows: Senhor Silveira Sinimbu, President of the Councihand Minister of Public Works; Senhor Hewal, Minister for War; Senhor Leonico, Interior; S«.uor Cafayetto, Minister faar Foreign Affairs; Senhor Villabella, Marine; Senhor Andradc Bfrtto, Finance. ...

... At the Cambridge Assizes, on Saturday, before Mr. Baron Huddleston, Peter Simpson, 22, soldier, was convicted oi wounding Frederick Southgate, a warder of the Ipswich County Gaol, with intent to do him grievous bodily harm. The prisoner said he intended to kill the wardeT in the heat of his passion, alleging that Southgate had tampered with his gruel and that he could obtain no redress from ...

... U S K A monument has just been erected in Usk church- yard, to the memory of the late Sir Digby Wyatt by his brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt, Esq. It consists of a red Aberdeen ledger, with chamfered edges, on which is the following inscription:—Here rest'the remains of Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt Kt Born 28 July, 1820 died 21 May, 1877. We asked life of Thee, and Thou gavst him a long life, even ...

... An exciting scene occurred in the Stockport Borough Police Court on Tuesday morning. A man of the name of Edward Charles Foy, described as an actor, from Birmingham, was brought up oil remand charged with felony. Directty after the case had been proceeded with the prisoner, who was seated in the dock, suddenly threw himself head foremost down a long flight of steps leading from the court to a ...

... JOHN HEATH'S EXTRA STRONG STEEL PENS ivith oblique, turned up and rounded points, Golden Coated, bronzed and carbonised, suit all hands, all styles, all ages, and all kinds of work. Over 200 pat- terns. Sold by Stationers everywhere, in 6d, Is, and gross boxes. The public are respectfully requested to BEWARE OF WORTHLESS IMITATIONS and to see that they really get John Heath's Pens. Should any ...

... The following letter from Midhat Pasha appeared in several of Monday's papers:—Sir, According to the latest news which has come from Constantino- ple. it appears that the state of the fugitives and emigre* is of the most alarming, most distressing, and most pitiful character. Terrified by former massacres more than sixty districts have been deserted by the Mussulman families on the approach of ...