... Bo utD OF GUAIUIIANS.—The first meeting the new board was held on Friday, Mr W. Lewis in the chair. Sir Lewis was unanimously re- elected chairman for the current year, and Mt W. Watkins, Wcrnycwm, and Mr B, Lewis, Glanhaiden, as vice-chairmen. The v arious com- mittees, were appointed with little alteration, but a warm discussion arose as to the election of the workhouse visiting committee. ...

... GERMAN OFFICERS IN THE TURKISH ARMY. A Berlin correspondent writes:—There has been much talk of late about German officers entering the Turkish army, and positive statements on the subject have been made, but there seems to be no real basis for any of them. If the Porte had made any application to the German Government for military instructors-it could only have been in- formed that retired ...

... The London Gazette, of Friday night contains an order in council, declaring the following area to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease, from and after the 30th inst. :—An area comprising so much of the parish of Oilian Acron, in the county of Cardigan, as lies within the following boundaries Turnpike-road fr ua Ystrad to Noyadd-ddu on the north the highway from Noyadd-ddu to Dihewid on the ...

... BOARD OF TRADE PROSECU- TION AT NEWPORT. At Newport Town haH, on Monday, Mr R. F. PauIIey. commander of the s.s. Goldcliff, one of £&. false declaration in the articles of his ship; also for discharging two seamen not before the shipping maater; and for shipping those seamen without an agreement being duly executed.—The prosecu- tion was specially directed by the Board of Trade authorities, ...

... MANCHESTER, Friday. — Our market to-day opens with a quiet appearance since Tuesday. Some clearances of cloth have been effected at very low prices, and holders again less easy to deal with, but the demand in general shows no improvement, and producers still complain of a poor and unprofitable trade in most of the brauches. Values are without change, being steady, at Tuesday's ruling. ...

... TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—At the request of cur Briton Ferry Band of Hope Union committee, I recently wrote to the eminent Dr. Richardson, of London, asking his opinion as to the advisability (on purely physical grounds) of undertakers drinking spirituous liquors to ward off sickness and infection under such circumstances as those in which they are sometimes placed in carrying out funeral arrange- ...

... At Dumfries on Thursday, before the Lord Jus- tice, Peter Davidson and Joseph M'Cormack, two well-known poachers of Castle Douglas, were charged with the murder of a gamekeeper nruned Russell, at Threive, in December last, and also with seriously wounding a coachman who was as- sisting him. The deceased and other keepers sur- prised a gang of poachers, amongst whom were the two prisoners. The ...

... URTDGEND. '?OCAI. LOARD oy HEALTH.—The Brat meeting of the newly-formed bo?rd w? hald ou Wednea- ù..y. Rich (rd elected), W. J. Lowifl, and M Richa.rds m ...

... DuNvrr.LE's OLn iRTsn WHMKY is recommended by the mefuca.1 profession in preference to i?nch bra-ndy. They ho!d tha largest stock of Whi.-fky m the wortd. Supplied in casks attd casM for borne use and exportation. Quotations on ?plication to DunviUe exportation. Quotations on plicatioll to DunviUe and Co.. Limited, Royat Irish Distilleries, Belfast. 98t5 HoLLpWAY's PiLLs.—fn order that the ...

... THE BAPTIST CWON. ANNUAL SPRING SESSION. At the Bloomsbury Chapel on Monday morning the annual spring session of this union was opened, There was not a very numerous attendance] amongst the delegates and others present being There was not a very numerous attendance, amongst the delegates and others present being the Revs. Dr. Stanford, R. W. Dale, Birming- ham Mr A. H. Boyen, secretary of the ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. Dr. Danford Thomas held an inquest on Wed- nesday, at the University College Hospital, Lon- don, on the body of Herbert Spooner, aged 39, single, of 13, Melton-road, Euston-square, for- merly guard of the Irish mail, but latterly a coal agent. The evidence showed that some years ago the deceased met with an accident, and had afterwards suffered extreme pain from the ...

... THE YALDING MURDER. The trial of Esther Pay for the murder of Georgina Moore, at Yalding, commenced at Lewes on Wednesday, before Mr Baron Pollock. -Mr Poland opened the case for the prosecution, after which Alfred Pinhorn, the bargeman who recovered the body, was called and gave evidence, which was corroborated by other witnesses. Stephen Moore, the-father of the murdered child, gave evidence ...