... THE BATTLE OF ULUNDI. JBiUliLATION OF OUR SOLDIERS BY THE ZULUS. STEADINESS OF THE TROOPS. INTENDED RESIGNATION OF LOR]) CHELMSFORD. The Daily News publishes the following, dated Landsman's Drift, July ó :-The combat at Ulundi was singularly unvaried by striking incident. There was a big hollow square, and men in red coats on the back, rillcs in hand. For half an hour this square stood ...

... THE following interesting letter was lately received from a Pontypool man, Corporal Charles Jones, 2nd Squadron, Mounted Infantry. Zululand, South Africa, May 8th 1879. Dear Brothers,—I am now set down to write you these few I nes in hopes of finding you in good health as it leaves me at present, thank God for it. Dear George, you say there was some grand mistake some- where about our regiment ...

... INQUEST.—On Thursday week, an inquest was was held by E. D. Batt, Esq., coroner, at the Cross Keys Inn, respecting the death of Thos. Griffiths, aged 66 years, who resided in Hill Street. Mr W. Price was foreman of the jury. Dr Quirk deposed that he had attended deceased for about two years; he suffered from heart disease had seen him in the street two or three days before his death, and then ...

... At the Hampton petty sessions, Ellen Humphreys, a well-dressed female, who appeared to be about 27 years of age, has been committed for trial, charged with intermarrying with Henry Outram, her first husband, George Humphreys, a builder's foreman, being alive. The first husband said he was married to the prisoner on the 16th June, 1873, at St Mar- garet's Church, London. She had money left he» ...

... The Right Rev. Alfred Ollivant, D.D., Bistiop of Llandaff, was born at Manchester on August 16, 1798, and has therefore completed his 81st year. He is the olcjost bishop on the Episcopal bench. ...

... FIRE.-On Sunday morning a fire was discovered by Mr Henry Ray, at the shop of Mr Thos. Crease, basket maker, Ul, Commercial-road. Sergeant Evans and a staff of police-officers put out the fire in 40 minutes, but the larger portion of the con- tents of the shop, together with the plate glass front, was destroyed. The property is insured in the Insurance Company. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday, at ...

... On Saturday evening a train belonging to the Austrian State Railway, laden with petroleum and petty wares, left the rails near Pesth station. The sparks of the engine ignited the petroleum, and eight waggons were entirely consumed There was no loss of life. ...

... The readers of the MERLIN have been from titae to time amused by the productions (taken generaMy from a Bristol contemporary) of a humourous writer whose nom de plume is given above. A number of hi* pieces have now been collected into a book, puMisbed* by Messrs Houlston and Sons, London, and forr& a shilling's-worth over which an appreciative reader may make sure of a hearty laugh, Some of ...

... Thomas Mears, of Shadwell, was summoned for exposing and offering for sale beef which was unfit for human consumption. On Saturday, August 9th, the sanitary inspector of St. George's parish saw the defendant offering meat for sale on a temporary stall. On making an examination he found lOlbs. of corn-beef quite decomposed and totally unfit for the food of any human being. The meat was ...

... A STORY OF A RING.—A day or two since a jeweller of the Rue Rimbuteaa was much surprised by a visit from a working man, who offered to sell him a splendid diamond ring,, worth at least 10,000f., for the small sum of 4'J0f. His suspicions being aroused by the divergence between the value of the trinket and the sum asked for it by the would-be vendor, he said he would call at the abode of the ...

... A DOMESTIC DIFFICULTY IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. The Liverpool D uly Post says :-The presence in London of Cardinal Howard, who is the guest of his cousin, the Duke of Norfolk, in St. James's-square, is exciting considerable interest. His Eminence did not come over, as was stated, to attend the marriage of a kinsman, but for a very different object. The fact is Cardinal Howard has been ...

... TREDEGAR. ACCIDENTS.—OQ Monday, a collier named) David Itiiee, working in JSo. 4 pit, Siriiowy, met with a frightful accident. Sb was comings up the driitr when fey some means his leg-got entauglecJin the rope, aud U was twisted round, sustaining abad fracture of both-limbs.-On the same day, a L-gy, named Jones | who had been forbiddm; by his parent.-tcogo neasr tbe moontain incline, went' ...