... A Cabinot Council was held on Tuesday after- noon, in Downing-street, all the Ministers being present except Earl Spencer. Mr Bruce Jones, who acoscientally shot himself on Monday, died on Tuesday morning from his injuries. Amputation was performed, but the patient never rallied. patient never rallied. At Liverpool assizes, on Monday, John Gib- bons, farm labourer, was charged with the murder ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] PERA, Tuesday.—The British Ambassador had yesterday an interview with the Grand Vizier. Lord Dufferin strongly advised that functionary to desist from any attempts to retrench the privileges of the Christian communities under Turkish rule, and pointed out that such a course would be inopportune and even dangerous both locally and with regard to international relations. ...

... CHARGE AGATNSTTCLERGY- MAN. On Saturday, at the Hammersmith Police- court, the Rev. William Handcock, vicar of St. Mathew's and Christ Church, Hammersmith, was charged on a warrant with indecently assaulting Ellen Rosaline Thomas, the wife of an accountant, residing in Sterndale-road, Brook Green. Mr John Haines appeared on behalf of the complainant, and Mr St. John Wontner for the defendant. ...

... BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—Mr R. H. Rhys pre- sided at the usual weekly meeting on Saturday. The clerk to the guardians of the Newcastle-on- Tyne Union forwarded to this board, with a view to their taking similar action, a copy of a resolu- tion passed by that body on the subject of the necessity of better provision being made for the treatment of habitual drunkards. This resolution prayed the Local ...

... PENARTH LOCAL BOARD. At a meeting of the Penarth Local Board on Monday night Mr c. W. Ingram preaided, and there were also present Messrs W. Shepherd, T. H. Belcher, G. PUe. and Beavan. The paving of James-street waa discussed, and the Surveyor waa instructed to prepare estimates of the cost of egectmg P'Tvate imnrovements m both James- etraet &nd Brootnoeld-pIace.—The Clerk read a etgned by ...

... ,f A SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT. H. SMITH, in reply to Gen. Goldsworthy, that the intelligence department was now and considering reportsrtwhichihad been r°eived at the War Offifca on the .state of j^Pment and readiness for service of the two ^/army corps. He was not at present in,a 8ltioa to make any statement oa,the subject. THK LBNACT LAWS. j,:ir MATTHEWS, in reply to Mr WillianrCorbett, t-^that ...

... YANKEE YARNS. HARD LUCK. What is the matter? Why do you weep? asked a kind-hearied gentlemen of a woman who was mopping her eyes. To-day is an unlucky day with me. My hus- band has been arrested for the thirteenth time this year for drunkenness. WHAT HIT RIM. Young Binks takes his country cousin, who is in the city on a visit, to see a baseball match. Ball hits C. C. in the eye. Gosh all ...

... Condition of the Building. A meeting of the committee was holu on Tues- day at the Guildhall, S-vansoa, Mr Sidney Hart- land presiding. Some discussion took place with reference to the condition of the library building. —Councillor Mason described its condition as disgraceful.—Mr. Wm. Richards sugaested that the attention of Captain Colquhoun, the chief constable, should be drawn to tne ...

... A sad accident, which terminated fatally, befel a child about fonr years of age, named Daniel Thomas, son of Joseph Thomas, 1, New-houses, Pontygwaith, between 10 and 11 o'clock on Wed- nesday morning. In the back of the house there was deposited an old tar cask, which contained soma shavings. The child got into the cask and set fire to the shavings. He was soon enveloped in fbmes, and when ...

... After the lapse of two months, during which time the services have been held in the recently built schools adjoining, the Roatb-road Wesleyan Chapel was re-opened for public worship on Sunday. The Rev Thos. Cook, one of the five ministers appointed by the Wesleyan Conference for evangelical work, preached two eloquent sermons to very large congregations. When the organ-pipes, which been re- ...

... The committee of the Aberdare Hall of residence have appointed Miss Hutchias lady principal in the place of Miss Don, who has resigned. Miss Hutchins assisted Miss Clough, the principal of Newnham College, Camqridge, from time to time for abouc two years uuring the building of the south and north halls, now respectively named the Old Hall and the Sidgwick Hall, by undertaking the charge of ...

... Through Nonconformist Spectacles. FINAL ECHOES OF THE CHURCH CONGRESS. Our weekly contemporary,the Nonconforinfstand Independent, contains in its last issue an exhaus- tive review of the Cardiff Church Congress from a Nonconformist standpoint. There i»JB»je^fcempt to veneer the proceedings. The selecti&^Car- diff for the Church Congress meetings of 1889 was not, it is remarked, without special ...