... STABBING CASE AT NEWPORT. At Newport police-court, on Wednesday, Daniel Haley, babbler, was chStfced with cutting and wounding Thomas Dowling, another labourer. On Monday evening the men were in the Rising Sun beerhouse, Piil, and the conversation turned upon politics. Catherine McCarthy, the landlady, told the court she beard Haley say to Dowling, You have annoyed me before, and now you will ...

... Accusation against the Royal Niger Company. BERLIN, Tuesday Night.—In to-day's sitting of the Reichstag, Couut Herbert Bismarck made some disclosures about the negotiations between the German and the English Governments regarding the Royal Niger Company. Ger- many accuses the company of having over- taxed and illtreated and finally expelled German subjects from her owu territory. To the ...

... A painful scene was enacted in one of the cor- ridors of tbe Law Courts on Friday afternoon, A j well-dressed lady had been ejected from Mr 'j Justice Kay's divisiou, where certain cases were! being beard in camera, when suddenly piercing screams wero beard in all the adjoining courts. Instantly the corridors were filled with spectators, who found the iady upon her knees praying that fire ...

... Dr C. G. Furley, in an article in The Hospital on Sir James Y. Simpson, says Simpson never claimed to have invented' or discovered' chloroform. Various attempts have been made, and articles written, to take from him an honour which he never sought. Chloroform,' he says, was first discovered and described at nearly the same time by Soubeiran (1831) and Liebig (1832); its composition was first ...

... ( EXPERIENCES OF A DETECTIVE, BY JAMES M'GOVAN, Author of BBOCGHT TO BAT, HUNTED °0WN, •« STBANGK CLCKS, and TRACED AND- TBACKED. No. XLI. A STRANGE HOUSE-GUARDIAN. message from a benevolent lady in Heriot. J0*1 took me over there one forenoon, when I found I was wanted to test the genuineness of a letter. Now, no beting letter from a ttrangfi, is ever genuine, but this one professed to ...

... DEATH IN THITLLANTRISSANT CHURCHYARD. Edward England, a labourer* 57,di8tttmder' somewhat extraordinary circumstances on Tuesday night at Llantriaaant. He, with a number of othen, met in the porch in the imrth aide of the parish church, where harvest thanksgiving services were being held, and England, being, it is said, under the influence of dnnk, endeavoured to push his way to the front. One ...

... Lord Derby presided on Wednesday afternoon over a meeting held in Manchester to consider the subject of continuation schools. The object of compulsory elementary education had, he said, c in tbe main been accomplished, but there was justification for asking that willing lads who wished to carry their education further should be helped, Education at recreative evening schools t could not be ...

... A BOON TO MEN who suffer from Nervous Debility, Lost Vigoar, Exhausted Vitality, &e. A treatise explaining the renowned Marston treatment bj local absorption, the only positive cure without bj local absorption, the only positive cure without Stomach Medicines, will be sent in plain envelope, sealed, post free, upon application.—Address j The Mwston Ctwpy., High Holbom, london. ...

... FROZEN HEARTS: A Tale of Coronation Day Fifty Years Ago. By J. C. Manning (Cart Morganwg), Author of Gwendoline, Saul and other Poems, The Philanthropist, Ye Ballade of Ladye Marguerite. The Coastguard, and other Works. CHAPTER XXXII.—SORROWING IN THE SCNHHINK. The gladsome days amonp tho peaceful vine- yards of Bordeaux, with their cloudless skies and their never-ending sunshine, would ...

... BY VIATOR. By all means go and see Strata Florida I I do not refer to the railway station of that name some five miles beyond Tregaron, on the route from Carmarthen to Aberystwytb. The Strata Florida to which I refer may be conveniently reached from that station, as it lies only two or three miles off, and conveyances are usually in waiting to oblige those who prefer driving to walking. The ...

... OSSIAN'S SUCCESSOR, The Rev William Pierce, pastor of a large and prosperous church at Birmingham, has, by 252 votes against four, received a call to the pastor- ship of New Court Congregational Cburcb, Tollington Park, the late pastor (the Rev Ossian Davies) having to remove to Bournemouth on account of the state of his son's health. ...

... STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE. Mr Albert Backert, chairman of the White- chapel Vigilance Committee, writes as follows:- As chairman of the last formed Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, I have been questioned by a large number of people about to-day's discovery. From the time our committee was formed my colleagues and myself have done all in our power to discover the ...