... TEE RLECTOR OF MERTHYR'S APPEAL ON BEHALP OF THE HOUSE OF MERCY. 'he er- TO THE EDITOR. ar- Sin,-I have been requested, as secretary, to ask you if you would kindly allow me to malke a shortappeal in your columns on behalf of the ore House of Mercy for South Wales and Monmouth. oss shire. ich I am thankful to say we have safely wveathered the great storm that caught us this time lst vear, and ...

... 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 ...

... To-day a prospectus will be issued of a new company, which will have an important bearing on the trade of the port so far as dry docks and en- gineering works are concerned. The company has been formed for the purpose of acquiring and enlarging the valuable system of graving docks lately belonging to Messrs Charles Hill and Sons, at the Bute Docks, Cardiff, and of extending and developing the ...

... ORDINATION SERVICE.—On Sunday the Bishop of St. David's held an ordination service in St. Michael's Church, when the following were pre- sented for deacon's orders: — Thomas David, B.A., St. David's College, Lampeter (Llauelly) Win. Ogwen Davies, St. Aidan's College (Pun- tardulais): W. J. B. James, St. Bees College (Bromyard): John Jones, St. Bees College (Car- narvon) and Thomas Howell, St. ...

... CHARGE OF CHILD ABDUCTION. Frances Barnett, 32, married, was indicted for the abduction of a child aged one year and eight months, the son of Mr M. E. Williams, a solici- tor's clerk, her master, residing at 45, Leipsic- road, Cainberwell, and also with stealing a gold chain, two brooches, and other articles of jewellery, value the property of the said Mr Williams. Prisoner was found at ...

... SUDDEN DEATH IN A RAIL- WAY CARRIAGE. Mr Alfred Cooper, an elderly gentleman, travelling for the benefit of his health from Croydon to Bettwsycoed, North Wales, was seized with illness on leaving Chester by tha newspaper express train on Tuesday morning, and died before reaching Connah's Quay, the first station out of Chester. Mrs Cooper, who accom- panied her husband, had the express stopped, ...

... A SEA-FARING GRIEVANCE. [BY AP GWIInI.) This is a day of grievances, and agitations of one-sort or another are AA plentiful as green gooseberries at this season of the year. We have in Cardiff just now quite a plethora of grie-eances, the labour clauses of the Bute Dock Bill beinq a fruitful source of discontent among the trimmers and other branches of labour whose interests are encroached on ...

... THE CRISIS IN EGYPT' THE ALEXANDRIA RIOT. ALEXANDRIA, Sunday (11.6 p.m.).—Order has now been restored, and the town is occupied by the military.. According to several accounts the disturbances commoncecl simultaneomdy at three different points, whence it w believed that the Outbreak was premeditated. CAIRO, Sunday (Midnight),—All is quiet here. Dervisch Pasha lias left for Alexandria. by ...

... AN INTOLERANT WELSH HECTOR. At Tuesday's Valley sessions, Mr Roberts, solicitor, Bangor, applied for a summons against the Rev. John Richards, rector of Aberffmw and a county magistrate for Anglesey, for unlawfully disinterring a body. From the statement of Mr Roberts it appeared that a widow named Maria Jones was interred in Aborffraw churchyard in Feb- ruary last under the new Burials Act ...

... LOCAL PRIZE TAKER. At the Hereford Agricultural Show on Tues- day Mr G. W. G. Thomas, The Heath, Cardiff, took the following prizes :—His brown gelding1 EL)rcn]es too]. lt prize in weight carrying hunters' class, and his bay gelding Crown took 1st prize for roadsters. L- Thomas also took two 3rd prizes for sheep. ...

... DEATH OF GARIBALDI. GARIBALDI IN CAPRERA. MADDALENA, Wednesday Morning. — The Washington has arrived with Signor Crispi, the chief of the Cabinet, and Signor Mario, and a company of soldiers. It has been decided that the body shall not be cremated, as Garibaldi wished, but conveyed to Rome for burial on the Janiculum. The embalming will take place to- day. To-morrow Prince Thomas and the ...