... 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 ...

... STREET IMPROVEMENTS. A contract has been undertaken by Mr Lean, of Gloucester, for the erection of a viaduct over the railway level cross- ing in Dock-street, leading to the old clock. This step, which is the outcome of several conferences between the Parliamentary committee of the town council and the directors of the Great Western Railway Company, will practically abolish the inconvenience ...

... WORKING MEN AND FUTtTB> LEGISLATION. [BY MR. THOMAS BURT, M.P.] With the commencement of another session £ Parliament the people who demand new legi labion. or the repeal or amendment of exisa, statutes, are making their voices heard with creasing vigour and volume. Probably thol cries were never louder or mora persistent than the present time. Among the numerous claima4 are the working ...

... The screw steamer Lesreaulx, of and for Cardiff, with iron ore, reported ashore under Penarth Head, was successfully floated off without dam- age, and pltctd:iu the East Bute Dock, Cardiff, on Wednesday night. ...

... At a meeting at Swansea, on Thursday evening, a vresentation of money was made under peculi- arly interesting circumstances. The recipient of the L260 which formed the gift was the R-ev. John Thomas, who for the past 16 years has laboured in religious woik at Swansea, notably as a tract dis- tributor. The life of Mr Thomas affords examples of self-denial which, perhaps, have few parallels in ...

... ANOTHER ALLEGED MISCAR- RIAGE OF JUSTICE. It is stated that an extraordinary rcvelationlias been made in connection with the charges of fraud brought against Mary Jane Fearneaux, who is alleged to have passed under the name of Lord Arthur Clinton. By representing herself as heiress to estates in London, Loughborough, and Ireland, she induced a man named Powell, owner of landed estates at ...

... ^HE YALDING MYSTERY. I>J-Rther P ...

... THE HEAD-CONSTABLE OF CARDIFF. THE LATE ALLEGATIONS. The committee appointed last week to make in- quiries into certain statements made by one or two members of the police force against the head-con- stable met on Wednesday. They sat several liours, and thoroughly investigated every charge, the result being, we believe, tnat they, dismissed every charge, and considered the head-constable ...

... THOSE who peruse our report of the pro- ceedings of yesterday's Parliament will not be much enlightened by so doing. Were it not that they are Parliamentary proceedings they would hardly be worth communicating to the public. This may not, perhaps, be a very gracious reflection to make upon the transactions of a body to which some of the most distinguished politicians, scholars, and statesmen ...

... THE CARDIFF VOLUNTEERS. IMPORTANT DECISION. At the Cardiff borough jxilice-court on Friday, before Mr R. O. Jones and Mr J. W. Vacheil, James Gillett, James Dowcll, Robert Bennett, Charles Lukins, W. E. Webber, Charles Elliott, Thomas Williams, Samuel Pinch, and John Phil- lips were summoned, as members of the 2nd de- tachment of Cardiff Rifle Volunteers, for non- payment each of being the ...

... adjourned inquest concerning the death of .a Moore was resumed at Yalding on jy^^y■ Mrs Clarke, who lived 15 months \vith theS ay> the accused woman, said she believed %k_ 8Carf found in the river Medway belonged to ■!3bBniJCc,U8ed. She saw her making one like it. On r 20th Mrs Pay went out, saying she to the aquarium with a friend, Mrs s saw no more of her tiiat day.— denied prisoner's ...