... PETERSBURG, Wednesday.—A despatch from ,3^ announces that Messrs Larson and Jackson /rived there on the 4th instant, after a difficult ^ney. ftnd proceeded immediately to Irkutsk, tr 1IENNA' Wednesday.—The Ultramontane Cen- having decided to support the Petro- ^Uta Tax Bill, it is expected that the Austrian tinier can count upon a commanding majority the remainder of the session. *JE&IBKR(;j ...

... THE STRANGE CAS8 OF SHOOTING A BARMAID. At the Liverpool Assizes, before Baron Pollock John Mee, a machinist, was indicted for having at Lolion, on the 30th January, shot at a giP named Ellen Briercliffe, with mtent to murde* her.—Tho girl, it was stated, was a barmaid i* the service of her uncle, who kept the Ship at Bolton. On the 30th January the prisoned who had paid a considerable amount ...

... The Press Association is informed from Dublin on the best authority that no credence whatever is attached in official circles there to the extraordinary publication in to-day's Freeman's Journal. It has been read with extreme pain by the Viceroy, a.nd grief is expressed by the mem- bers of his Excellency's staff that it should have been made public. Early on Friday morning, a, man, about 55 ...

... AGRICULTURAL KOTES. Trencbiiicr digging1, owing to the tniM weather, wilt doubtless be to'erably forward. vantage sin u;d be taken of the frost, should it occur, to get all wheeling and carting completed, and also to pet imumre and vegetable refuse h>[>s turned over. i'.roccoli, not protected; globe artichokes, whre not covered protecting material at their base, will certainly he killed ...

... SWANSEA, Tuesday.—Wind W. strong. Weather cloudy. Passed East-barqtie Anne Beal, of Swansea; schooners H cnrietta and Electra; steamers Antelope, of West Hartlepool; Resolute, of Liverpool schooners Sea View and Margaret, both of Dublin. ...

... Thf Leamingkon borough magistrates on Frida.y rejected, by seven votes to five, the proposal to tTohibit processions of the Salvation Army. Bo',h the Oxford and Cambridge University Crews only went out for & short practice on Friday horning, but nothing very important was done by either. Major Hay, chief con-stable of Wolvcyhampton, 1>n Friday, distributed JS100, Government reward the ...

... THREATENING TO MURDER THE MAYOR. Great excitement prevailed at Chester on Friday, when the whole of the prisoners charged with riotous conduct on Sunday last and attack- ing tlie Salvation Army in Boughton, the Irish quarter of Chester, were placed in the dock. There was a very full bench of magistrates. Sir Thos. Frost, mayor, in taking the chair, said, I have this morning received a letter ...

... CHARGE Or WOUNDING WITH A KNIFE.—At the police-court on Wednesday, before Mr J. Bishop, stipendiary, Henry Williams, a labourer, was brought up on a charge of stabbing a woman, named Sarah Ann Jones. on Satur- day night, at Ynysgan-street. Complainant stated that late on Saturday night she was going to fetch a child from prisoner's house, when he turned round and said— What ara you doing ...

... THE CUOWN v. PKTKK CONSTANCE.—At Newn- liam county-court on Wednesday—before His Honour Judge Sumner—this case came on for hearing. This was a proceeding under the Small Tenements Act, 19 and 20 Vic., chap. 103, sec. 52, to recover the possession of Latimer Lodg-e and lands, near Cinderford, held by defendant under lease with the crown, the rent being under the value of L50. Mr Francies, crown ...

... SATURDAY, JUVE 10, 1882. ANOTHER WITNESSED DOUBLE MURDER. THE double murder perpetrated last Thurs- day at Ardrahan, in the county of Gal way, goes to strengthen the conviction that a Prevention of Crime Bill is not what is wanted at this moment in Ireland. No Act of Parliament is likely to prevent crime in a country in which criminals are almost never caught. When men can be shot dead in ...

... CXARIBALDI'S FLTNERAL. MADDALENA, Thursday, 6.30 p.m.—The re- frains of General Garibald w.>ra this afternoon interred in th. cemetery island of Caprera. -J-he funeral ceremony iastjd from a quarter to t0Ur until five o'clock, a storm of wind and rain raging the whole time. The coffin, which was covered with garlands of flowers, was borne by fome of the survivors of the Thousand Marsala, and ...

... CARMARTHEN COUNTY ROADS BUARD. THE TURNPIKE ROADS (SOUTH WALES) BILli; IMPORTANT MEETING*. A quarterly meeting fir the Carmarthen Coilfily Roads Board was held at the Shire-haiij Carrnaf- then, on Wednesday, Mr It. JennihgS) Geliydegj pfesidihg. and fchfefe being & large attendance of members. A very long discussion took place on fin appli- cation fro tit Mr J. Waddell, railway contractofi for ...