... CH0LERA_AM0N(RTHE AFGHAN TROOPS. THE RUMOUR CONTRADICTED. A Silllla. telegram says tiiere is n > foundaiion for the statement published by the London even- ing pafjers, on Friday, that the cholera is causing srreat mortality in the 10th Hussars and 17th Regiment. The Vicerov has determined to dis- pense with a considerable number of officiais of the Public Works Department. ...

... THE TIN TRADE. The recent dispute at Vernon Tinworks is shewing a favourable aspect. The proprietors, having received an order, required the men to work 40 boxes of plates per diem, but the men in view of the pending notice to terminate all contracts at the works, refused to work off more than 30, contending that the output ought to be restricted. Mr Morris and the men having met, the matter ...

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—At the police-court, on Monday, the Stipendiary on the bench. John Bell, a young man, was summoned for neglecting his work at Mr Daniel Jones's boot manufactory. Defendant is an apprentice y. ith Mr Jones, and evidence of his neglect having been given, order was made that he should return to work. —Mary Ann Griffin, Margaret Reardon, and M >rgaret Drisc ;I1, three young ...

... DTHE REV0 L UT10N'A RY MOVE- MENT IN RUSSIA. ST. PETERSBURG, Saturday.—The first Court-martial held in Moscow since the pro- mulgation of military law took place on Thursday. A private gentleman named Nicholas Zenikolf was sentenced to loss of civil rights and 12 years' hard labour in the mines for having attacked and insulted a sentinel. The Official Messenger states that in the district of ...

... STRANGE CASE OF BIGAMY. At the Hampton petty-sessions, Ellen Hum- phreys, a well-dressed female, who appeared to be about 27 years of age, has been committed for trial, charged with intermairying 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. Margaret's Church, London ...

... FOREIGN. THE BURNING OF SERAJEVO. PROBABLY one of the greatest conflagrations on record is reported to have taken place in the end of last week at Serajevo, whereby the whole of the commercial quarter of the city—the centre of the capital, including the splendid Servian Church, the Catholic Church, and a large number of houses, have been reduced to ruins. The fire commenced on Friday, and 760 ...

... MONMOUTllSHIRE BITUMINOUS f\ *.v i COLLIERIES district working^ucb08 collieries of the than nrftviram f« .i, mu°h more regularly now Sr cent r^nil he of the recent 10 been felt »n v 'i the reduction has not number of workuSin^the^ aiiticiPa*;d- The collieriaa V- e various bituminous Stha atMmn6^ diminished some having left Glamor/a,^0 uand- house«>al collieries of earnings are much highJr ...

... GREAT FIRES IN SPAIN. 34 LIVES LOST. MADRID, Thursday.—Several fires are re- ported in the Spanish provinces. In one case 34 lives were lost. ...

... ALLEGED ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN DEAN FOREST. James Hobbs. residing near Blakeney, in the Forest of Dean, was found, on Wednesday night, in one of the enclosures with his throat cut. It is supposed that he had made a second attempt at suicide by drowning, as he was discovered near a quarry pool, not only bleeding iu the neck, but wet through. Drs. Webb, of Blakeney, and Carlton, of Newnham, ...

... NEWPORT TRADE REPORT. [SPECIAL REPORT FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,] NEWPORT, Thursday Evening.—During the week the trade of the port has been steady, and without anything of particular im- portance to note, a fair amount of business is doing. Owing to the favourable weather and wind a large number of vessels have left the ports, so that the docks' wharves present rather a bare appearance. A ...

... ALLEGED INFANTICIDE AT tJOLEFOHD. VERDICT OF IvIANSLAUaHTER. Mr Carter, the Forest divisional coroner, held an inquiry at the police-court, ou Wednesday, on the body of a newly born and fully developed child, the parentage of which traced to Sarah Baylisf, a domestic in tne service of Mr and Mrs Yarworth, of Ellwood. From the facts elicited at the inquiry, it appeared that the young woman ...

... [FJWM TUESDAY N-IGIIT'S I GAZETTE.] Wm. Sketchley, of Abergavenny, Mon., builder. Rees Evans, of Llanelly, Carm., grocer's assistant, late a grocer at Pontardulais. David Tegid-street, Bala, Merioneth, tinman, glazier, and dealer. ...