... NEWPORT CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION. ANNUAL MEETING. The annual meeting of the Newport Conservative Association was held on Tuesday eveniug, at the Savings Bank Chambers, Stow-hill, when there was a large attendance. The chair was taken by the patron of the Association, the Right Hon. Lord Tredegar, who was supported by T. Cordes, Esq., M.P., and Messrs. R. W. Hamilton, R. G. Cullum, and L. A. ...

... The Times correspondent telegraphs from Lahore, February the 4th:—An official tele- gram from Jellalabad reports that a civil strife has broken out in Cabul. Yakoob Khan is shelling Chandol, the Kizilbash portion of the city. Numerous Sirdars have left Cabul with their families. THE DEFENCE OF CABUL. [STANDARD TELEGRAM.] HAZARPIR, February 3.-When the Wali and his party crossed the ...

... THE COUNTY HUNT BALL. On Friday evening la«i a fancy-dress ball, in con- naxion with the Alontnouibshire Hunt Club, was held at the Swan Hotel, Abergavenny, and passad off most uccossfully. The ball had been postponed to this date owiug to the death of tha Princess Alice, adeath in the Tredegar faraily, and the much regretted death of Mrs. Wheeley. There wero 40 couples present, but we are ...

... PEACE'S CONFESSION CONFIRMED. Tho Rev. J.n-Littlevood.Vica.r of Darn all, at an interview with the convict in his ceil on February l^th, spoke to him of the necessity of his making a full confession of his sins if he washed to have them pardoned and to obtain the favour of God: The convict replied that he had made such a confession and he then told the rev. gentleman how he roU!llered Police ...

... THE LADIES' COLUMN. Fireplace curtains should be iron ?ft. fhn. to Hi- „Vin* ^'iut-li, ana a very usual length is oit. 6m. Low dresses are never seen at dinner parties. Even when the front is an open square, it is ailed to the throat with lace. It has been found that a solution of perman- ganate of potash will cleanse a dirty -filter in a very satisfactory manner. I'-nv:—The best way of ...

... Prince Leopold distributed the prizes at the Birkbeck Institution on Tuesday, and expressed his pleasure at the stress which was laid upon technical education. In his opinion the British artisan, properly instructed, need fear no rival in the world, but if he remained untaught and ignorant he would be in danger of being outdone by the skilled and educated foreign workman. ...

... WE have received a communication from Mr William Thomas, draper, Commercial Street, stating that he is not the William Thomas, tailor and draper, Pontypool, whose name appeared recently in a contemporary among the local liquidations. STEPHEN WILLIAMS.—We have not published your letter on the tenders for coal for the reason that it is evidently written under a misapprehension. You say, ...

... The Evening Standard of Tuesday publishes the following from their Special Correspondent with General Roberts's C jlumn:— MATOOND, Sunday. Yesterday General Roberta held a Durbar, which was at- tended by all the headmen of the villages in the valley. General Roberts informed them that he had called • them together to speak to them upon the occasion of the withdrawal for the present of the ...

... FREE TRADE AND COMMERCIAL DEfULS ION. A meeting of city merchants was held at Cannon street Hotel, on Monday afternoon, to consider the present depression of trade. Two resolutions were carried, the first declaring that t ii great hopes of peace in the adoption of free trade had not been realised. as protectionist count ries were beating England out of the market. The second called for the ...

... THE BANNERCROSS MURDER. TRIAL OF CHARLES PEACE. SENTENCE OF DEJTH. The extraordinary interest which has gathered round the case of Charles Peace, this week convicted of the murder of Mr. Arthur Dyson, of Basnet-cross, Sheffield, induces us to give a full report of hia trial and con- demnation. This report is preceded by a narrative of Peace's antecedents, and of his conduct since his in- ...

... LIABILITIES, A petition for liquidation has been filed in una Manchester County Court by Jonathan Gill, of 3, Church street. Manchester, merchant and pro- perty dealer, formerly carrying ou business at tha same place in partnership with Win. Debscu Gill, as merchants. under the style of Jonathan Gill and Brothers, and now residing at Chcad'.o Unlme, and carrying on business there as a farmer. ...

... MJS • ^vCETT evidently has the most serious win as %ure which the Liberals next Kenera^ election. He nairieS/ Liberalism is often only another freqQ °r Cautankerous cliqueism; that is too 6p wastes its sweetness on the desert of factious fanaticism and semi-private obstinacy. Feeling this, he gave his Liberal friends at Ipswich and elsewhere a sage and serious warning. It is not more certain, ...