... THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. THE MINISTERIAL STATEMENTS. THE ZULU DISASTER. THE GOVERNMENT MEASURES. HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat at three o'clock. THE MILITARY FORCES AT THE CAPE. Lord TRURO gave notice that next week he should ask whether application was at any time made by the civil or military authorities at the Cape for additional military force, and what rein- ...

... SPECIAL TRADE REPORTS. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS AND EXCLUSIVE SOURCES.] SOUTH WALES COAL AND IRON SHIPMENTS. [SPECIAL REPORT BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CARDIFF, Thursday Night.—We have had a very heavy week. of coal clearances during the past week, and certainly not before it was wanted. The figures relating to the coal report trade since the beginning of the year have been most ...

... lIA RMF RS, Publicans, Builders, Professional gentlemen, Clerics, or others, can obtain without the mond loan Mike routine, advances in NUMB from f2O to f 2.000 on their own security. Leases, Note of hand, or deposits of collateral security, repayable by monthly or quarterly instalments, at their residence. Secresy guaranteed if required. Prospectus free on application. either personally or by ...

... IN PARLIAMENT, SESSION 1879. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. RHrMJSEY RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Special Meeting of the Merthyr Tydfil Local Board of Health, the govevning body for the district of Merthyr Tydfil, within the meaning of the Municipal Corporations (Borough Funds) Act, 1872, will be held in the Board Room, situate and beiug No. 71, High Street, in Merthyr Tydfil, on Wed- nesday, ...

... TllI~ AGIA , 7WAPR Cc:fo rvppor nd a ill India frite fom 3eJa1lsbabd: Within the hat week, we have bad an event, tW account of which not only illustrates what in po55ibla in . wr-when caried on in; a Mobammedan country,' but at the &sein time gives a little information on some of the ideas connected with the faith of the IProphet of God, as Mohammod is called. A fauatic was' shot bare the ...

... CATTLE DfA! M JN. T-1S UITD M!TA'$S. . Sin'tI take the Iiboit 'of ienditig yol ae dW airoular:iigsusod dn th6 lt..insauti ?? °b1 'SeoTetaryof the TieamuryAo the Uaite& tes ud sqnbt to ma tQ give' ,t Publiity bare,. frot 'which you Will perceive the precgtions taken by my ?? overnment to guard against' thi sliiien ,of diseased cattle, and esptoially to furnish igdarantee to this country. ...

... [BY TELEGRAPH.] HARwICH, FEB. 18.-A Ramegate smack brought the news here on the afternoon of the 16th instant that a large iron ship was ashore on the Long Sand. Accordingly the Harwich lifeboat, of the National Lifeboat Institution, proceededthere under oanvas, and found the endangered vessel was the barque Pasithea, of Liverpool, bound from Ham. burg to Cardiff in ballast. A steamer had also ...

... ?? 0- A feiW days ao thea fishermal of Looe, inl Cornwall, pikdu ie spr-hae and with gret diffculty towedit asore.To their disguist, however, the0 collec- tor of customs claie ?? s4 oal fishO Thursday it was put UP to auction on behalf Of the Crown, when a Mr. Norri, of Bristol, bou'bt it in at A the reserved Priced of £10, and madea it a present to ?? orgialrslors.' Mr Norris intimated his ...

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... ‘with in tase of the Corpora- ‘Trainways Giascow, Ly —The ton Ww: the inf noon in the Institute of was held yesterday The chair was- by Mr the duties of croupier were : vice-presi- of’ tho large a distance and @ pleasant wie ...

... DESPATCH OF TROOPS TO THE CAPE. ‘THE SCENE AT GRAVESEND. The first batch of reinforcements sailed yester- day from the Thames and the Solent—the 60th Rifles embarking at Gravesend and the 9ist Highlanders from Southampton. The 60th Rifles quartered at Winchester and Colchester had received orders to have 700 men and 35 officers ready to embark in the Donald Currie steamer Dublin Castle at two ...

... named John PoacHine BY Fazurze.—A Neilston parish, day—en having om the night of the 5th a rabbit on farm of Dunsmuir, im- erdered him sentenced him to 1 the exteat of £20 or suffer six months’ farther im- Tue —At Court—Bailie M‘Lachlan on Jehn M mason, previously Sea hee Mr Kellar’ Ca 4 him to be detained 40. eo being 2“ of the in Bt James Street, He was sen- he having on tenced to able ...