... , GENERAL KEPW.- I . - . i, FIcR ON AN IN MAN STEAMER.-A fire occurred yes. a5 terday on board the Inman steamer City -of Rome, at re, Liverpool. Only trifling damage nvas done, but one work- et, man was suffocated. . . . l 1st A HORRIBLE DEATH.-At an inquest at Manchester inm yesterday, the jury returned a verdict of Accidental dceath in the case of a man named Francis Cox, tripe ir ...

... IIAIDEN SESSIONS,-Yestorday was fixed for the Easter Borough Quarter Sessions, but there were no prisoners for trial. The Mayor met the grand jury, thanked them for their attendance, and said the absence of crime was very creditable to the borough. BUUTAL ASSAULT ON A WIFE.-At the Police Court, yesterday, Charles King, cab proprietor, Queen's Square, ivas sentenced to two months bard labour, ...

... I I l ,- I WusTuawN M Own~eD, 4.30 Ax.a YUP'OttIGIN INTELLIGENCE. st 10 -cel it The German Emperor will go to Wiesbaden on of -the 18th inst., and will remain four weekws, to ?? statement that the King of Wurtemburg A] dhad joined th~e Roman Catholic Church is officially 1st edeclared to be without foundation. La ?? Bismarck proposes some really important W o hage in the Customns tariff, ...

... CARDIFF. THE PROPOSED OrsosMrIos-to Tx Ar.rxAnDRA (N iwrPoaR) Docr. BILL.-On Tuesday a notice was issueb by the town-clerk, to the effect that on the 8tw of Ma- a special meeting of the town council Nvould be held to considertheproprietyor opposing the Alexandra' (Newport) Dock Company's Bill in the present session of Parliament for certain dock extensions at Newport. At the same meeting it is ...

... > l - w X- - - ) Asp£fitetlt' Act - [D TE2ERSi3AY, APPsIL 20, ]882. . SIUNDAY TRAING AT CARDIFF. a, Having the sanctimonious example of- Mr.l ROBERTS and his Sunday Closing friends. before their eyes, the Cardiff Watch Corn-; mittee yesterday determined to adopt mea- sures to compel all tradesmnen in the towrn tol shurt their shops on Sunday. From the report presented to the committee by the ...

... ] COLLIERY ACCIDENT 1tER -i INIEWOASTTLE. |On Wednesday evening an accident occurred at (Be E illingwvorth Colliery,. near Newcastle, by wh~ich, it was feared, nine men and ao boy bad lost their lives. The old wvorkring shaft of the pit has been c-ha under repair for some time, and on Wednesday of £ morning a large quantity of stone fell, buryingth several men aind a boy who were in the ...

... APP-r-AIZU 1'0 lL41J^7v1,. *e ('letitta correspon dent of tile imea. in a telegrcm ¢it I5Y ,laste, ?? chacigo in the b In~t Oovsriorsitip of Bengal is the p Incipal item in i I a Deof thir week. Sir Ashley £(ldea completed * c years' temiro of office last Jaiuary, but lie had 7 ?? of his term to October in ordor to ?? ..,r timc spent by him upon the Army Commis- ll~owevcr} for some timo past, ...

... RAILWAY AND CANAL TseAFFIC.-The President of the Board of Trade has received a memorial from the Asso- ciated Chamber of Commerce in favour of emancipating canal traffic from the control of railway companies. THiE TAUNTON E ?? official return of the excenses at the recent by-eloection at Taunton hbs justbeen putlisfed, as follows :-MIr. Aliso PP, DLP., the successful Conservative candidate, £5 ...

... WEATNER FORECOASTS. Thle followin report was iessed from the Meteoroisg1c Oepartmehit nt 7 p.m. yestcrda~y: D~rssmos~. FonucAsas. 0, Scotland, ?? 'ISsouth-easterly winds, falling light 1.cotland, -E . weth 2; E°langd, ?? Improving for time. S. England, E. 'Westerly and isorth-weoterly breezes; fresh 3 E}ngland, E. ?? (to moderate; some sbowers, then flner. 4. Mile. COUTIU Is KNorthlwesterly ...

... LORD SALISBURY AND -SIR STAFFORD I ,.1 NOPTHCOTE AT LIVERPOOL. The series of Conservative meetings which will take place in Liverpool duriug the present week was inaugurated at Ormskirk last evening, when a cordia reception was givan to the ?? of Salisburyand Sir S Nortisote who arrived in Liverpool shortly after five b'clock and proceeded by trai:s to OrmE.irr. Sir R A Cross, M P. and. ...

... : I'VARWICK.' Tan SCIrOOL BOAan.-At- a meeting of the Town ?? yesterday, It was announced that the Department 7in London had decided to direct a School Board to be 3formed and it wvas arrarsged that a special Council meeting should be held to consider the subjact, .WOLVERH A.MPTON, FOUND DROWSED.-An inquest wan hell yesterday, at the Stag Inn, Horseley Fields, on the body of William E Yates, ...

... A LADY ON THE SITUATION. An Irisl lady, whose husband is an official, writing In the Timns yesterday, syn:- Slncs the commencement of tho agita- tion from which that infaimsous League sprung, I have never, loft. the house in company with my busband wlthout being armed, as he will not have a police guard. When any one of thb lower orders approaches to speak to my husband, or to get him to sign ...