... A WELSH ROYAL CADEMY OF MUSIC. It is well known that the establishment of a National Theatre would not bring about the results which might be expected therefrom. Art would have no impetus given it, and in all proba- bility public taste would not be educated fuither than it is now. But the Royal Academy is an institution of an altogether different character. Welshmen a Welshwomen have to take ...

... [PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM,! DUNDEE, Wednesday Evening.—The explora- tion of the wreck of the train, now lying in the River Tay, has been prosecuted with great vigour to-day, and has resulted in important discoveries. At the same time, however, it must he admitted that operations hitherto have been slow. The Government have at length evidently taken notice of this, for the Admiralty to-day ...

... ATTACK ON THE BRITISH AT GUNDAMUK. We have received the following from the India Office (From VICEROY.) December 30.-Bright reports Norman attacked at Gundamuk yesterday by Azma- tullah Khan and Lughman Chiefs, with about 2,000 followers; enemy driven off. Our loss, Lieutenant Wright, TL A., and one man killed; one man wounded. Norman advances to-day to re-occupy Sehbaba and Lataband. ...

... NEWNTHAM. COUNTY-CC R.T.—Th^ court was held on Wed- nesday. before His, H-uour C. Sumner, judge. One of the heM: was that of Organ v. Richard Williams. Tie parties live at Cinderford, and the action was bright to recover £167;; Id for masonry at the Teuperance Hotel,Cinderford. Mr Jackson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Goldring for the dcfeidant. It was contended that Williams was ageit ...

... GEORGE BEVAN BOWEN, LLWYN. GWAXB, NEWPORT, PEM. _7 (1'nROM OUR OWN REPORTEL) Monday, the 29th of December, waa a red letter daywi theeinabitants of the delightful little watering plaee-nownw*s Newport tor Trefdraeth), rembrokehbire, the occasion being one full of interet, as it was the day on which Mr. George Bevan Bowen, eldest son of Mr. James Bevan Bowen, the greatly respected member for ...

... At Leeds police-court, on Wednesday, Richard Gallkroder, a corn miller's assistant, was com- mitted for trial for having caused the death ot his wife by thrusting the stem of a tobacco pipe up her nostrils during a quarrel a fortnight ,igo. The tobacco stem caused a fracture of the skull and infl,iiirn-ttioti of the brain, which was the imme- diate cause of death. ...

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... GAS SHARES. The sudden fall in the price of gas shares, con- sequent apparently up-n the telegram in the Times relatiug to Mr Edison's doings at Menlo Park, suggests ti e reflection that neither stock- broker nor stockholders are mindful of the Horacian advice. The grateful and enthusiastic correspondent somewhat marred, perhaps inten- tiorally, the value of his admiration by referring to the ...

... CABINET COUNCIL. J SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] On Wednesday night summonses were isned for a Cabinet Council, to be held at tSie Prion Minister' official residence on Saturday tiext, sA three o'clock. ...

... COAL FOR THE WEST OF i IRELAND. ;;e { The Rev. Father Williams, of Tredegar, re. quests us to state, in refarence to his appeal for 'l coal f2r the starvingpeople of the West of Ireland, a LS that Mr. O'CallaghaD, Shamrock villa, Partridge u A road, [oath, Cardiff, will receive offers of coal and 1 as money contributions for its freight, for the ss Cardiff district. As previously stated. Sir. ...

... WOLVERHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The marked iron firms to-day advanced bars, sheets, and plates £1. Bars are now and Earl Dudley's JE9 12s 6d, sheets have become to £11. and plates £10 to £11. Buyers on Monday placed speculative orders at a rise of 30s. Hot blast all- mine pigs are £4 js. an increase of £1 on the quarter. Barrow hematites aad Tredegar pigs are 108 to £6. ...

... MONEY IARKET, LONDON, WEDNESDAY. The Exchanges have again been half deserted to-day. The Old Year is dying. and the uni- versal chant seems to be Let him die. We are promised all sort* of good things in 1880, and the question of questioua just now is—Shall we really yet them The probabilities are all in favour of the new coiner, and we 1 ope he I', il n t prove o thorough a fraud as his tin ...