... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE GELLIGAER PAROCHIAL SAJOTAET Con- HITTEE met on Tuesday at tiie Junction Hotei. Mr L. D. Ilees presided. There were also Eresent Messrs L..Lewis, W. Matthews, IL rewis, and S. Lewis, with Dr Dyke, medic-.l officer, and Mf Jones, inspector of nuisances.— Dr Dyke reported the district to be in a good state of beattli.NTr Jones reported that the following owners of property had neglected to ...

... NORTH OF ENGLAND REPORT. Lsvec, L REPORT FP.O.M OUR OWN MIDDLESBOROCGH. Thursday.- The iron trade ha. daring tiie last few days, presented a much more cheerful tone. Makers have been stiffer in their prices, and an advance of fully 6d per ton must be recorded, No. 3, which could be bought at 32s 6d is now freely bought at 33. aud No. 4 forge is 32s net. No. 1 is 36s 6d to 37s. Many of the ...

... Sfr. Irving concluded his double benefit at the Lyceum on Saturday night. The house was again crowded to excess. Mr. Irving repeated his speech of tflb previous night, and the story of his financial success in the first six months of his experience as a theatrical manager and his promise of new dramas of interest for the future was greeted by rounds of applause. There is no doubt about Mr. ...

... AN APPEAL TO ROYALISTS. A telegram dated Pa?-t -Monday, says the Counnt de Chambord hit addressed a letter to the inlai-quis De Forests partying of the charac- ter of a manifesto. He refutes the charge of having on a former remarkable occasion, declined to avail himself of a former remarkable oppor- tunitv of ascending the throne. The country, he sav* in 1873 expected a kmg of France, but the ...

... At Croydon Assizes on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Denman, Alfred Spratley, a young man, surrendered to take his trial, upon the coroner's inquisition, for the manslaughter of Charles Cootes by having negligently caused him to be scalded to death.—Mr. Thompson conducted the prosecu- tion. and Mr. Ribton was counsel for the prisoner. -This was a prosecution instituted by the magistrates of the ...