... The Lord Chancellor took his seat at five o'clock. THE LUNACY ACT. The Lord CHANCELLOR, in reply to Lord Aberdare, said that Her Majesty's Ministers were very anxious to introduce a Bill to consolidate and amend the lunacy laws, but it was useless to bring ia a Bill at \1 ,is late period of the session. COMPENSATION TO WORKMEN. The order for the resumption of the debate upon the second reading ...

... DEAN VAUGHAN ON NATIONAL EDUCATION. THE WORK OF THE STATE AND THE CHURCH. HOSTILITY TO SCHOOL BOARDS CONDEMNED. On Thursday the Very Rev. the Dean of Llandaif, Dr. Vaughan, opened two new schools which have been erected by the Cardiff School Board, the one at Auamsdown, and the other South Church-street. The Adamsdown School is built of Castle Coch stoue, in the 19th century style of Gothic ...

... LATEST ARRIVALS IN PENARTH !ZOAL)S. go CARDIFF, Thursday.—Lussignano, 478, pitwood A Camoijli, 610, ballast; Eliza, 33, burnt ore Baron Blantyre, 1623, ballast; Sendenianden, 412, bajast Agostiao, 496. ballast Quaker City, 836, iron ore; Chiitern ss, 716, light; Gustaf Til- be rg ss, 585, ballast; Blenheim ss, 735, ballast; Native Pearl, 193, ballast; Burncoose, 65, light; llcne, Inl, ballast; ...

... On Thursday week the children attending Church Sunday school had their annual summer tr&t About mid-day the children, with their teachers,. at the school-room, aud, forming into a process^! marched to Penrhiwdarran Farm, whera a plenty* supply of tea and cake was provided. ...

... A Times despatch from Odessa contains the fol- lowing:—Count Loris Melikoff has commuted the death sentence passed upon a Socialist named Evraymoff at Kharkoff the other day. That makes four death sentences-two for political, and two for non-political offences-which, to knowledge, have been commuted in South Russia during the last few weeks. The second of the political instances was that of ...

... PRIZE DAY AT THE MERThYR I _j;,OQRIETAUY SWl ., The distributilof- X BV i6 I-iedistibutonf- the Prizes-at the Merthyr ProprietarY School (thudl- isnder the bead. Hs*.6rehip of Kr. T. Ftwoett, LAj,), previous to the 'nBmmer vaoation, took pl on Thursday moruzg. Tn addition tosnumberf ladyfnends of the pupils, tl wero SimOns (who resided), eo T. Cark, TJ. Dyke, CharlesH. James, W.-L Daniel, E. ...

... Major-General Turner, commanding at Wool- wich, issued the following order on Tuesday:- The Major-General commanding feels confident that the whole of the troops who took part in the sad ceremony on the occasion of the funeral of tiie late Prince Imperial of France, will learn with satisfaction that he has been requested by her Majesty the Empress to convey to the officers and men her thanks ...

... We last week quoted from the Bristol Times and Mirror a letter by W. L. Carpenter, descriptive of things as they are in America. We now take from the same source a sketch of a visit to Mr. Edison. The writer says—We left New York at 9 a.m. for Mr. Elisou's (of telephonic aud electric light fame), at Menlo-park. 24 miles from New York, on the main line to Philadelphia. We were armed with a ...

... In the House of Lords, yesterday, Earl do la Warrs Bill, compensating injuries to workmen, was again allowed to stand over. Some information was given respecting the use of continuous brakes, and the Marquis of Salisbury announced that the laat Russian soldier had left Roumelia. In the House of Commons Mr Roberts gave notice that next Session lie should bring in a Bill to abolish the sale of ...

... ISPSCL-VL TBLISGIIAM* FROU LrOr I ),.i UJENW. I The Alcazar from Cardiff to Sables d'Olonne, sank (1:1 Wednesday, after collis on with the Flamingo ss, from Bombay to Havre, > hich landed the crew at Dartmouth and proceeded. ...

... Mary Ann Smith, 20, a married woman, of 5S, Huntingdon street, Hoxton, was charged before Mr. Bushby, at the Worship street Police Court, on Saturday, with wounding Alfred Smith, by stabbing him in the back with a shoemaker's knife. Alfred Smith deposed that he was the husband of the prisoner, and that on July 25, when he came home from work, his wife accused him of being drunk. lie sat down ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES. The Summer Assizes for the County of Monmouth fi? T,,a week> at the county town of Monmouth, before the Right Hon. Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and the Hon. Sir Henry Hawkins, Knight, Justice' of the High Court of Jus. The Commission was opened on Monday by Baron Kelly. His Lordship arrived in Monmouth from Hereford at 2.30 n ra and was ...