... . - -I W DllNESDAY, JFANVY 1, IS9. ?? ?? o-a- - 0Un Tuesday the Glamorgmashire Court of Quarter Sessions mot for the trial of prisoners, I -- . i . , -. - - - - . , ., I the number of cases being not very Iarjre, and considerably lees than in tha corresponding period of former years. On the same day county business was transacted at the courts for Monmouthshire, Breconshire, Cardigan- shire, ...

... ALLEGED ASSAULTS AT A BIR- MINGHAM TOWN'S. MEETING. TUB MAYOR, AX ALDERMAN, AND MAJOE BOND SUMMONED. O.i li.esday, at the Birmingham police-court, M'plication was male for summonses against M*5 r iayor, the chairman of the watch committee t H. Wright, chairman of the Liberal Associ- > and Riajor BonJ, chief of uolice, for as- aaults alleged to have been committed at the lowa-hall, on the ...

... THE IRISH SCHOOL TEACHERS CONFERENCE. At the congress of the Irish School Masters' Association, oil Tuesday, in Dublin, some conti- dence was expressed in the working of the Inter- mediate Education Act, although tho curriculum is regarded as rather tentative at present. The view taken by the president ia that it will elevate the status of schoolmasters in Ireland. The Irish primary teachers ...

... ISECOND EDITIONI ,. I WUSTIRNY MAIL Oruxox 4,30 e..X 13MUTER'S TELEGRAMS.1 Q'E ROUMELIAN COMMISSION. sIR HENRY DRUMNOND WOLFF gAILENGED TO FIGHT A DUEL, GoNi8TM4 OL'Zf DlEC. 31, 7.30 P.mI - i ji , Mrechal has eudeavoured to provoke Sir r gar i D intmid Wolff to fight a duel, on I Wont of the latter's opposision to his con. wiseth Prnine Dondonkof, in reference to , tiths in Eastern Ronmelia A ...

... BOARD OF TRADE AND THE CENTAL. Mr Alderman Kadley, president of the National Association of British and Irish Millers, 6'J, Mark-lane, E.C., has received the following com- municatwn Hoard of Trade, Whitenall- gardens, S, W., Dec. 23, 1878.—feir,—With refer- ence to the deputation which waited on the President of the Board of Trade on ike instant, and to the memorials which have been ...

... A NEW ZEALAND-EMIGRANT SHIP ON FIRE. 282 PASSENGERS RESCUED. The Loch Dabor, arrived at Queensto vn, portsa.* follows -.—Nov. 11th, spoke ship Piak., from Loudon, for New Zealaud. Lat. 10 south long. 32 degrees west. which vessel wis on fire. Took 282 passengers from her, and accompanied her v. Peruambuco, and arrived there ou the 15th, ...

... ALE HD ARE. POLICE-COPRT.—AI tne weekly jiolice-court yes- terday, before the stipendiary, Mr li. II, the lion. II. C. Bruce, summonses were heard and orders maue thereon against severl {reraons for neglecting to send their children to school. A few cases of drunkenness aud assault were disposed of. All the c& ...

... Cardiganshire Quarter Sessions were begun on Tuesday, Air Charles Marshall Griffiths presiding. ■I here was a full court, 31 magistrates attending. On the motion of Colonel Pryse, seconded by Air C. E. Longcruft, Air A. J. Hughes, solicitor, was appointed county treasurer in the room of the late f • Jordan (deceased), with the proviso that £ A0J0 be the security, in place of £ 1,000 as here- ...

... CARMARTHEN. THE OARVABTIII.Y EXFKSSS. — A circulw dated the 28th December, states that owing to tAM indifferent support this newspaper has received since its establishment, five yea. ago, it h now ceased toexisi. If this be correct, it seems a pity that aa organ which has cojksisteotly advocated Liberal principles should be thus allowed to die is a county where its existence is in every way ...

... ENGLAND AND CYPRUS, The Berlin correspondent of the Telegraph ;;te2 that 1\ is in a position to pive a positive contradiction to all reports that En slant!, in the negotiations pending with Turkey, insists upon the formal abdication of the sovereignty oi Cyprns by the Sultan, the pourparlers which are in pro- gress merely aire, in conformity with the Conven- tion, at &n mulertarfjiu; relative ...

... Joseph Perkins, painter, charged, on ills own confession, with the murder of Mrs Samuel, of Burton-crescent, was brought before Mr Yaughan, at the Bow-street police-court, on Tuesday. It v as proved that the prisoner was suffering from delirkiin tremens, and there waa no reason to believe he was connected with the crime. He was remanded for a week. ...

... THE SWANSSA TOWiTcftUNfll.' AND THE fUAMWAY ouM- PAY. As will be seen by our report of the proceedings nt a special meeting of the Swansea Town Coun- cil, helu on Tuesday, it was decided to refuse the. consent of the Corporation to the application of the Tramway Company for a provisional order, enabling them v extend their line along the Carinartheu-road to Cwmbwrla. This decision is, we thiuk ...