... The Pegasus, a six-gun composite sloop of war, was launched last week from Devonport dock- yard. She was commenced about a year ago. Her frame is of iron. The scholarship founded by the Prince of Wales j in connection with the Norfolk County School has been awarded to H. L. Brereton, son of Preben- dary Brereton, of Exeter Cathedral. The importation of hams increases. Numbers come from Canada. ...

... The Rev. Walter Trevelan Bullock, a retired clergyman and J.P., of Witham, Essex, on Mon- day took a quantity of poisonous lotion in mistake for medicine, and died before medical aid arrived. ...

... On Tuesday, a concert was given by 1000 children t the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool. The spacious plat form thus crowded partly gave way, and about 800 them came down. some of them a couple of feet, other, more. The children, panic stricken, shrieked, and scene of intense excitement ensued. Fortunately, tin drop was not sufficient to cause fatal injuries, the worst cases being attended to at ...

... LATE GENERAL NEWS The Queen aud Princess Beatrice, attended by their suite, will, it is understood, according to the latest arrangements, leave Balmoral on Friday afternoon and arrive at Windsor early on Saturday morning. A marriage is stated to have been arranged between the Prince Imperial of France and the Princess Thyra of Denmark. Tae contemplated alliance is believed to have been ...

... An English Calvinistic Mothodist Chapel (capable of holding from 400 to 500 people), built at a cost of about XFOOI), has been opened. The Rev. Aaron Davies, of Pontlottyn, is the architect, and the builders Messrs. Morgan and Evans, of Pont- newynydd. The Revs. Professor Howells, president of Trevecca College; Thomas Evans, Merthyr; Aaron Davis, Pontlottyn and John Jones (Ap Idrisyn), Brecon, ...

... Five Men Killed.—Several Injured. On the 7th inst. a fearful explosion took place at Silverdale, in a pit almost adjoining the colliery, and in the same seam in which the explosion recently occurred at Apedale, the property of Messrs. Stanier and Co., by which over 20 men were killed. By the explosion on the 7th instant, which occurred through an accumulation of gas, five men were killed, and ...

... THE Newport Town Council have lately been charged with an unwillingness to look the Free Library ques- tion in the face, and with a desire to postpone, if not silte die, at all events to some more convenient season, all thought of carrying out the extension scheme lately brought under their notice. Nothing is easier than to level accusations, and to some, nothing is more agreeable than to ...

... THE EASTERN QUESTION. The following particulars of current events have been transmitted during the week by Correspondents of London daily papers, through Reuter's agency, &c. — THE BERLIN CONGRESS. ARRIVAL OF THE EARL OF BEACONSFIELD. BERLIN, TUESDAY NIGHT. The Earl of Beaconsfield arrived a little before eight this evening. He was met at the station by the whole personnel of the British ...

... mS EASTERN QUESTION. ♦ The following particulars of current events have been transmitted during the week by Correspondents of London daily papers, through Renter's agency, &c. :— THE BERLIN CONGRESS. IMPORTANT CONCESSIONS BY RUSSIA. BERLIN, SUNDAY NIGHT. England has achieved a most signal victory, the greatest since Russia agreed to the holding of the Congress, and even more important in its ...

... Mr. Henry Nottleship, M.A., fellow of Corpus Christi College, formerly of Lincoln College, has been elected to the Corpus Professorship of Latin, vacant by the resignation of Professor Palmer. The weather has been again favourable for the Commemoration, the flower show in Worcester College gardens being very numerously attended. In the evening New College gave a concert, and later on the ...

... LOCAL AND DISTRICT NEWS. AT the ^examination of the pupils of the Llan- ] daff Deaf and Dumb Schools, Llandaif, held on Friday last, at the Town Hall, Newport, the fol- ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT WHILST BATHING.—A little boy, a pupil at the Monmouth Grammar School, between 13 and 14 years of age, was drowned on Friday last while bathing at the Gamblings, the bathing-place on the Wye. The name of the de- ceased was Charles Jjlewellin, and his parents keep •an hotel at St. Pagans. near Cardiff. The fatal 'accident is alt tbo re sod hnynoyer rose but once, as if he had done ...