... TiHE ORDER TO OLOSE PUBLIC W HOUSES. X On Monday the following publicae were called 01 before the Mayor of Newport, Mr. Stevens, and B] Mr. Wanabrougb, they baving disobeyed the order of the magistrates1 isened on thareoent election day, to close their respective heuses at two p.m. They ?? Lewis. Bunch of A Grapes; Georue Henry Evans, Bush Inn; James Leonard, Olive Brsach; James Smith. Dolphin ...

... liETTERS TO THE EDITOB. 00 A1 orrespondents must wate on on sos of D the paper @ ,ou or their leters wiU bo rdejet-d. Tbt6 Xx. rcpot qdertake to return rejects -unet~euder now *Mlrmnst0ne We anot publish ny ltter unles the wrte? sends hie urX :nox AND ADX)s;r , rnot ?? for pubkll D cation, but as a Guarantee ot goon Mfit. D RICIACRD TEONs8 (Rhoudda VaUloy).-YOi commriuDi' cation is fbeSIous. B ...

... Judgment was delivered on Monday by Lords Justices Brett. Cotton and Thesigcr in the case of IVjt-rs v. Metropolitan Railway Company, argued on 'he 7th inst., when the decision was reserved. T.i plaintiff had been injured through falling out or t train on the underground line, and had his arm crushed. His case was that a porter had pushed him in a carriage as the train was moving off the ...

... AN AGED SHOPLIFTER. Jane Jones, a married woman, 0n 1 charged at the Merthyr Police-court. q{ tP day, with stealing, on three different o ajs0 fo last three months, 73 yards of fla»ne„*oPerty^| yarus of flannel, and a serge skirt, tlie P tra ...

... EASMFLWUMELIA. PHTLIPPOPOLTS, April 17. The Provincial Assembly has to-day voted the Budget for Eastern Roumelia. The revenue is set down at 73.738,896 piastres, and the expenditure at 72,865,346. ...

... CAPE Tow, lIlarch 30.—A Select Comrr.ittfe of the Transvaal Legislature has recommended all increase of the hat tax to jEl. Affairs iu Basuto- land remain in statu quo, ...

... OTERO'S CONFESSION. MADRID, Sunday. The Diario Espanol has pub- lished what purports to be the confession of Otero to the Duke de Sesto. Otero said that he was de- ceived and led astray by the members of an association by whom he was directed co kill the king. « ...

... THE TOWEll OF THUTIL To the Editor of the SOUTfI WAT.ES DAILY XEWS. Slit,—tail you give me any idea of the height of the lower of J ruth ? If a Ii: tIe body like Morien can chiub to the top of it, or be seen by the raked eye when he is there, it cannot be nearly so high as most people suppose. Morien himself informs us that he weighs only 28 lbs. He cannot have beeu far from the Tower of ...

... SWANSEA, Wednesday.—Wind SW. Weather hazy.—Steamers Progress, of Penzance Ogtnore anab'evern, of Hayle; schooner Naphtali, of Caidigan. ...

... TERRIBLE SNOW STORM IN RUSSIA. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. The Orenburg Listok says that for up ards of a month Orenburg has been severed from the rest of Hussia by snowstorms of a severity hitherto unknown, l^or three weeks railway communica- tion has baeu stopped between JSaratoff and Olen- burg owing to the immense drifts that have accumulated on the line, aud although thousands of soldiers and ...

... PoLti1 C)-rT, -At this court on ftionday, Williams, a dissolute character, was sent to hard labonr for 14 days, for stealing a purse containing 9s. 61., from Samuel Eva-A& labo-.wer, of Rhym» ncy, in a house of ill-fame at Ynysgau.—TV# boys, named Bott, were ci.arged with stealing* meerschaum pipe, a gold ring, and a pouch, from tne pocket of an overcoat left hanging in the porch of St. ...

... MERTHYR. THE rector of Merihyr has been re-elected pre- sidenc of the Merthyr and Cefn Children's Hospital. THE High Constable presided at a meeting of the Merthvr and Dowlais Coffee-Tavern Com- pany on Tuesday evening, when the deputation appointed to visit the Cardiff taverns reported the result, and steps were taken to have large pre- mises in Victoria-street immediately fitted up for ...