... THREE LADS CRUSHED TO DEATH. — On Friday morning a terrible accident occurred on one of the railways at Merthyr, by which the lives of three lads were sacrificed, their bodies being crushed in a fearful manner. It appears that notwithstanding the orders to the contrary, lads and others will persist in riding upon the front part of the mineral engines in giong and returning from work. Between ...

... The Manche>tr Courier says that Mr. II. M. Stanley has withdrawn from the proposed scheme for opening Africa to commercial enterprise and the iinal extinction of theslave traffic. In a letter to Mr. James Bradshaw, Mr. Stanley states that inasmuch as his health is now completely restored, and finding an unfriendly feeling towards him by certain gentlemen in Manchester, he at the be- ginning ...

... DARING BURGLARY & ATTEMPTED MURDER OF AN OLD LADY. In the following will be found further particulars of the outrage near Bristol referred to in another column About nine o'clock on Friday night the inhabitants of Pill, Bristol, were thrown into a state of the utmost excitement by the alarm given that Myrtle farm, about half a mile from the village, had been burglariously entered and a large ...

... The Globe understands that Baron Cleasby has tendered his resignation. lie was born in IHcO, educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, called to the bar in 1831, became a Queen's Coun- sell or in 1M51, aiul was appointed a Baron of the Exchequer in November, 1868, when he was knighted. In November, IS7;3, he became .of the High (Exchequer Division j. The learned Judge as very popular, ...

... The Committee of the National Workmen's Movement for the Abolition oi the Foreign Sugar Bounties met at Bristol on Tuesday, and passed a resolution which is to be communicated to the Continental Committees, pledging itself to re- doubled exertions to secure the repeal of the Sngar Bounty Laws. ...

... TROOPS FOR THE CAPE. Orders were on Monday issued for the First Com- rany of the Royal Engineers to be immediately brought forward for foreign service, and made up to its iull strength. It is expected to go to the Cape of Good Hope. ...

... THE ABERCARX EXPLOSION. ADJOURNED INQUEST. This jnquest M-as rm.med on Monday, at the Crown Inn, Aberoarn, bef..i\! the Coroner, Mr W. H. Brewer. Mr. Wheelhouse, Q 1' again attended from the Home Office, and there were present—Mr T. Cadman, Governmeot Inspector for the district, and his deputy, Mr. Donald Bain 'T. Waies, Government Inspec- tor for Seuth Wa' Mr. J. E. Ward, solicitor for the ...

... I SHOCKING ILL-TEEATMENT OF CHILDREN. At the Manchester Police Court on the 21th of January, Mary Ryves, the founder and propriavress- of an Orphan Home in Moreton street, Strange- ways, and who has also carried on a home for the reclamation of fallen women, was charged with having cruelly treated Ada and Alice Hol- land, aged respectively nine and eleven years, the daughters of Thomas ...

... The Jewish Chronicle tlJarns from Hong Kong that Mr. E. R. Beilios, a co-religionist, and late chairman of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank- ing Corporation, has placed £100G in the hands of the Governor for the erection of a bronze statue of Lord Beaconsfield in the city of Victoria, Hong Kong. ...

... Two engines coiiiu^u uu .ju^uay on the North British Railway, near Kirkintilloch. The driver and fireman were dangerously hurt. Both engines were wrecked and much rolling stock destroyed. Drought and the smallpox epidemic are increas- ing in the north-east provinces of South America. There were 473 deaths from smallpox in the capital of the province of Cerea. during the twenty days ending ...

... OUR POSITION AT THE CAPE. [FROM THE THIES, 1 We have as clear a right to forbid Cetywayo to threaten our colonies as we have to prevent the French from assembling a vast army at Pondi- nherry. But, assuming that the chastisement of the Zulu King and the destruction of his dangerous power are politic and just measures, it remains to be determined whether the Imperial Government or the ...

... MR. GLADSTONE AND THE RE PRE SEN- TATION OF MIDLOTHIAN. The Standard has reason to believe that Mr. Gladstone has decided to accept the invitation to contest Midlethian at the ner6 general election. The sitting member is the Earl of Dalkeith, eldest son of the Duke of Buccleudh. Both political parties are preparing for the contest. ...