... 223CREASE OF THE POLICE. It is announced from Dublin that the Irish Govern- ment have resolved on immediately increasing the police force of the country. The proposition is to enlist a considerable number of recruits for a limited period and it is understood that this is for the special purpose of instituting a system of night patrols. The recruits are to be taken mostly from tho army reserve, ...

... THREATENING A CHIEF CONSTABLE- At Chester police-court Patrick Walsh, an Irish labourer, was charged on remand with sending postcards, threatening to murder Mr. George Lee Fen wick, chief constable of Chester. Of the postcards addressed to Mr. Fenwick, the first was as follows: Dear Friend,—After a careful meeting you have been found euiltv and sentenced to death at our Buffalo Lodge this ...

... TUNIS. A correspondent telegraphs Bou Amena's spies have entered the French encampment during the night. Some were caught and were shot, and also the French goumiers by whose fault the occurrence took place. Si Sliman was not reached. Some of the goumiers sent on a reconnaissance passed the enemy. The officers of the Arab Bureau, being ignorant of the language, are obliged to have Arab ...

... AFFAIRS IN TURKEY. It appears,says the Constantinople representative of the Daily News,to be definitely decided that the ser- vices of the gendarmerie officers who have not left Turkey will be dispensed with next January, notwith- standing the repeated pledges to Sir H. Layard and Mr. Goschen that they should be actively employed. Osman Pasha has given an intimation to this effect to Colonel ...

... ART AND UTEKATUKE. MESSRS. OIlAP)r.s AND HALL will shortly publish in a colleeted form the Traveller's Tales of Mr. F. Boyle, now appearing tn All the Year Round. These records of the stories attached to curiosities gathered by the author ir. the course of his explorations of remote countries will bear the title of Legends of my Bungalow. ))1(. LUDWIG STERN has been eent by the Prussian ...

... Writing on the Welsh Sunday-Olesing Bill the Morni g Advertipr says: Scotland has long been in posroanon of the enemy; Ireland has since been sub- jugated DnW Wales has juat been se-zed. The out- work* sre won. The foe is at the gates, and will t-oon bt- at work with parallel and mine and 8torminiz uarty. We have seen his forlorn hope swell into overwhelm* ing majorities, and it is q lite on ...

... 11 BAB BKKN DHCTDKI) to GRA- t so Sir Ashley B-n K.0.S.U A su tnon b» exte-s-on of bis term ot Service 118 Ln-uU-n>ujt Governor 01 bengal, In consider- ation oi the important duties tie tuililled wben sitting as chairman ot the ibiu-iia IUO tlittec on Indian Army Organisation. 0 „ .RIX THK ANNUAL UttHWtjrEB. SESSIONS HELD at HnstiLfis it was shown chat only fifty-eight convic- tions tor ...

... THE DOTEREL COURT-MARTIAL. The court-martial upon the survivors of H.M.S. Doterel has been opened at Plymouth. The evidence related to the construction of the vessel, and it transpired that whereas tbe root and sides of the magazine were of iron, the 11 or was of wood. None of tue witnesses could explain wh) this was so, but they admitted that the bottom was thus less able than tho siaes to ...

... The third annual meeting of the South Wales and A Vest of England Bicycle Clubs was held at the Alexandra Park on Saturday. Mr. A. D. Ashfovd acted as starter, Air. J. Best as timekeeper, and Councillor 1). L. Lougher as referee, and the judges were Messrs. E. W. Jones, and R. C. Xeatc. The following were the results — ONE JtLE CLVII HAXIUCAI*. — First prize, a gold medal, given by Air. IN-. H ...

... NOTES AT THE CARDIFF 4 COUNCIL. [BY OUR CARDIFF COUNSELLOR.] I I would that the Mayor had been present on Monday, to exercise his good offices on the occasion of the special Council Meeting. But if the ex- Mayor with his over-powering presence had attended, matters might still have been smoothed over a little. But both were non est; even Alderman Taylor was absent, and plain practical men were ...

... A DIAMOND MERCHANT OF PARis has lost diamonds of the value of over £1000 sterling. He cannot say wbetb r they were stolen or fell out of hia pocket in the street. AN INQUEST AT ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL, into the cause of death of a man named Joseph Walteri,, aged 53, lately residing at 11, Marshall-street, St. Goorlgt,'s- road, Southwark, London, raaulted in a verdict of Accidental dextb. ...

... At the assizes held in Chester, before Lord Justice Baggallay, Williams v. Hugbes, an action to recover damages for breach of promise and seduc- tion, was trled. Mr M'Intyre, Q.O., M.P.. in opening the case, stated tbat the plaintiff was Bditb Agnes Williams, who had resided with her parents at Rhosy- medre, Ruabon. Defendant was an accountant and son of an iron manufacturer at Ruabon, and ...