... SOMETHING WHICH NOBODY CAN UNDERSTAND. THE third clause of the Sunday-closing Act has given rise to what scholastics and an- cient divines would have called a quasti-o vaxata, an expression which we moderns have, with pardonable desire to be as literal as possible, translated or pretended to trans- late, vexed question. It is one of those propositions which deserve to be immortalised. It is ...

... THE ANGLO-FRENCH TREATY. LETTER FROM MR. GLAD- STONE. MEETING OF THE COMMISSIONERS. rAUIS, Monday.—The English and French Commissioners met to-day to resume negotiations for the conclusion of the commercial treaty. M. Tirard, Minister of Commerce, welcomed the British delegates, and expressed the sincere desire of the French Government to conclude the new treaty of commerce with England. Sir ...

... NOT HUNG, BUT DROWNED. An inquest was held on Monday at the Town-hall, Cardiff, before the borough coro- ner, on the body of Alfred H. Leslie, a cook and steward, whose body was found in the Junction Canal on Monday morning. A boarding house keeper named Crawley, living in Bute-road, said that the deceased was discharged from a vessel on Friday. He came to his (witness's) house on Friday ...

... An inquest was held on Monday, before the borough coroner, 011 the body of Edin Lode, the captain of the Norwegian barque America, who was killed on Saturday by falling down the hold of the Friga., while the vessel was on fire in the Roath Basin on Saturday night, as has been already reported. Evidence was given that, the deceased assisted the mate of the Friga to put the hatches on the after ...

... | MERTHYR. TO QUIT.—At the }>o]iee-court, on Monday—before Mr J. Bishop, stipendiary—Wm. Jones, collier, «immo:wd for refusing to quit the Dynevor Anns Inn, Tirphil, on the roquest of the landlord, Joshua Aurelius, was fined 15s 9d inclusive. THE VAGRANT ACT.- fary Ann Stephens, single, arrested on Saturday evening, in Victoria- street, by a pfciin clothes constable named J amei (128), for ...

... DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM MORRIS, J.P.—The death took place on Wednesday moruing, of Mr William Morris, postmaster of Denbigh, of which borough he was a justice of the peace. The deceased who had attained tho age of 7-1 years, was formerly in business as a printer and stationer ih Holywell, and for many years filled the office of parish clerk of that town. ...

... REGISTRATION COURT AT RHYL. STRANGE AND VIOLENT LANGUAGE BY A TORY AGENT. On Monday, Mr Foulkes, revising barrister, held his court at the Board Room, Town Hall. In all the notices the court was announced to open at one o'clock, but for some reason or other the business was commenced before, in order to make room for the commissioners who were to meet at three o'clock. Mr P. Mostyn Williaans, ...

... PJWU TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. David Williams, of Lanrhyd, Velindre, in PeQ- bayr, Carmarthenshire, woolen manufacturer. W, Anthony, Oommertial-««i ...

... Pmvy-sEmioNs.-On Monday-before Dr F. G. Evans, Mr J. Jones, and Mr G. Phillips—no less than six persons were summoned and fined for neglecting to send their children to school. -James Trew, for riding without reins, was fined 5s and costs, or seven days' imprisonment. ...

... BARDDONIAETH. Y MAP. Uno epil ymchwiliad—yw y Map, Trem o'i amlinelliad Geir ar len o gyrau'r wlad, A'i holl agwedd i'r llygad. CADIFOR. ...

... AT THE PETTY-SESSIONS. on Tuesday, betore H. T. Williams, H. Jackson, and Dr. Llewellyn, Willi m Wood:, of Lhmvabon, was cha ge I with stealing a pair of boots, at Gellygaer, on the 1st inst., the iropeityof Morgan Thomas, and wa? committed to one mouth's hard labour.—Thomas Morgan, of Hengoed, was summoned by James Morgan, Fleur-de-Lis, for non-payment of wa¡rrs. Defendant v, as ordered to ...

... The New York Herald predicts between the 4th and 6th inst. rains, strong winds, or a gale. For Ruptures u-e ALLOOCK'S Pouots PLASTERS, far superior to the torturing truss. In Chilblains their use gives relief at once and, as a strengthening plaster, they have no equal. As mr.11). spurious imitations of these plasters are being offoiod for sale, the public arc strongly cauiioned again3t buying: ...