... I LOCAL COMMISSIONS. The London Gazette of Friday nig-ht contains the following — Wai; Office, Nov. 15. Militia Aktillery.—Ti:e Glamorgan Artillery (Western Division)—The undermentioned second Jieut.ellants to be lieutenants E. L. Colquhoun, E. J. Evans, aud C M. K-tnble. Enginickk Fortress Eorcks —Royal En- gineers, K >yal Mouiiiouthshire—Captain W. E. C. Curre to be tnajor Lieutenant the Hon ...

... I The Western Mail's Endless and Malignant Persecution. TO THE EDITOR. SIR, I am only called upon to deal with the statements and assertions made this morning in a letter addressed to the Western Mail by its printer. His virulence I can afford to pass over with a feeling tiiat does not even approach contempt. His fi rst statement is that the South Wales Daily News has not paid society ivajes ...

... A BIG FIRE IN PARIS. J ■— 61; One of the largest fires which have taken place in Paris since the destruction of the Opera. Comiqua occurred early yesterday morning,on tha tr Bouivard Richard Lenoir. It broke out in the Communal Board School, and, fanned by the. high wind, the fl.unea extended to every part of the building. The boys' school was burned down, but the firemen succeeded in savins: ...

... MONTREAL, Mouday.-A fire broke unt yestev- day morning at Peck and Benny's nail factory, an. resulted in the destruction of the buildings and Messrs MacDougall's grain elevator adjoining. The total loss is estimated at 150,000 dollars. ...

... A satisfactory settlement of the strike in the Bolton cotton trade was arrived at (In Tuesday night, when the masters accepted the proposals of the operatives. The strike caused 26,000 work people tojbe put on short time,which meant a loss of £ 20,000 in wages in three weeks in the spinning industry, the operatives in coilateral .iadustriea also beicg affected, ...

... MR GLADSTONE, [ DAILY NEWS TERFLGRAM.] NAPLES, January 30th, Night.-Favourecl by magnificent weather, Mr Gladstone and a party of friends yesterday went to Ischia on a steam yacht. They were received on landing by the commander of the penal settlement. Mr Gladstone inspected the Castle Prison and the curious grottoes. He was greatly interested in all he saw. From Ischia Mr Gladstone drove to ...

... LLANDAFF POLICE-COURT. TO-DAY. I ROBBKRY BY A BOY.-At tlie LJanddf police- court this ii-orsg-before Colonels Page and Woods, and Messrs C. Thompson and R, ekar(is-a lad named George Jones, 10 years old, and residing at 4, Cross-street, Maindy, was charged by Benjamin Reed, of the same address, with stealing a counterpane and a sheet on the 19ch inst. inirg Reed R:\id she and her husband ...

... THE QUEEN AND THE WOMEN OF WHITECHAPEL. Mrs Barnett, wife of the Vicar of St Jude's, Whitechapel, has received the following reply to a memorial, which was signed by nearly 6,000 i women of the labouring classes of East London, | asking the ...

... It MIPiACLEO,.i AT GLASGOW. I Many sick persons and pulferers have flocked to Dalbeith Convent, Glasgow, where Canon Larkin, ;t young Roman Catboli j priest, is said tu have performed miraculous cures. Parsons have entered his presence w ith ciutches, and left without them. Arrong otlie'r alleged etires is that of Daniel Plinn, a miner, pged 70, who has, it is said, been afflicted foil mauy. ...

... At Newport borough police-court to-day, Benjamin Bennett, labourer, was summoned for asi-xulting Z-chariah Richards, in Stow-bill, last (Tuesday) evening. The defendant had been at the political meeting at the Aibert-hall earlier in the evening, and was invited on to the platform towards the close, but, as he himself explained, did not get a chance to speak because Mr Nolan, M.P., took so long ...

... Henry George Cornwell, master baker, was rttrnmonecl at Newport police-court to-day for furious driving. Shortly after six o'clock on j.°nday evening defendant was seen to come o\Vn Stow Hill at a very fast pace, and though shouted to by a police officer, he eclined to stop until he had gone up portion of High-stieet, and turned into GrifBn-street. M.ere he was found stupened in a pubh- houee ...

... From To-day's London Letters. A LUOKY FELLOW. On dit that a well-known theatri- cal critic has come into a fortune variously estimated at from £ 10,000 to 220,000. THE HTH. Valentines as a means of inter- communication between lovers seem to have gone out aitogether. • I have seen (remarks the correspondent of the Liverpool Mercury) not one shop window occupied with them, save in low ...