... UTHE ALEXANDRA DOCK. BILL. I RATEPAYERS' ;MEETING AT NEWPORT. On Wednesday evening a public meeting- was 2; held at the Town Hall to sanction the proposed ai opposition by the town council of the Alexandra for ?? Bill. T'ie chair was taken by the mayor at E te eight o'clock, but . quarter of an hour before the (Si In hail was pretty nearlv full. On the platform were mu t Messrs. 0. Goss, T. ...

... L NDO LE -. I v LU1N41-- ALErt7Z33 al O.N~ t A. L LONDON-, TuTEsDOAY fUnit. te it auestions graced, or otherwise. notice paper of thelltuse of Commons this afternoon. Of these the majority stoodJ in the familiar names of Irish grievance-| hunters, the reniatd.'r hawh-i reference to Egypt. TQ0 .a usd e was noisy rather than crowded, and its proceedings wvere watched I bv his Serene Highness the ...

... 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 ...

... HORRIBLE CASE OF LYNCHING. A very horrible case of lynching is reported from St. Martin's, Louisiana. The two men lynched were Joseph Jenkins and a negro, by name Eugene Azar. Jenkins's hands were not tied, and when he grasped the ropo by which be was hanging the crowd rushed 011 him with clubs, and broke both of his arms, heedless of the earnest solicitations of his wife, who was among the ...

... ALLEGED BURGLARY BT A RAILWAY PORTER.— At the borough police-court on Saturday—before the Mayor (Mr G. P. Tippins) and Messrs James and Hyam—Thomas Merry, foreman porter at Troy Railway-stration, at Monmouth, was brought up charged with having, on the night of the 8th inst., entered the Duke of York Inn, at Broadstone, in the parish of Dlxton, with intent to steal, &c. Mr D. H. Deakin appeared ...

... On Wednesday evening a large meeting of rate- Payers, convened by the Mayor in compliance with a r^ittisition which bore the 'signature of 20 burgesses, cÏII held at the Town Hall, Newport, to consider and tbte,rmine as to the desirability of petitioning against Bill promoted by the Alexandra Dock Company, a 'Power to extend their works, and for other purposes, ^authorising the payment of the ...

... ST. PETERSBURG, Monday. An Imperial decree addressed to the Senate is promulgated to-day announcing that Count Igna.- tieff, at his own request, made on the ground of ill health, has been relieved from the post of Minister of the Interior, and has been appointed President of the Academy and a member of the Senate, at the same time retaining his position as member of the Council of the Empife, ...

... ,ECOND EDITION WESnERN MAIL GS'FicE, 4.30 A.M. C JATEST GE NERAL NEWS, At the 'ujildhall, London, yesterday, Mr. Adrian pope, freeholder of property in Cloak-lane, City, .obtained a verdict against the Inner Circle Railway }an Companies for £P41,517, compensation for tlho com- gent pulsery acquireinent of his property. s'not An Aberdeen telegram reports the particl des- wver t-ucrion by fire ...

... i 7OW Ely a oREPORT OFAR. S. F. BATEMAN d cult an. sd tice and r to Mr. Batemnan's report, of which we have already thai He given what may safely be pronounced to be an by, heir accurate forecast, is a lengthened document co- the iext ..50 )ree cupying ten foolscap pages of print. After briefly gl tect reciting the fact of his visit to Cardiff last April. and not when, in company with the ...

... ~ . ~I WC ENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.) of t! on t IE HOUSE' OF LORDS,-FuniiAy, Cha! The Lord Chancellor took his Seat on the wool- q u P_ eacli at a quarter-past four. suffi COMPULSORY EDUCATION. RATES. tect. Petitions were presented by Lord Brays and enou )E Viscount Bury from Ronman Catholics in various M iL parts of England and Ireland in favour of relief whe from compulsory rates to school ...

... LIQUIDATION. — Charles Llewellin Bruton 55, Commercial-street, Newport, presentation tea' dealer. When a young lady refuses a marriage proposal it is a case of sleight of hand. John, said a teacher, I'm very sorry to have to punish you. Then don't; I'll let you off this time, responded John. At a printers' festival lately, the following toast was offered Woman—second only to the Press in ...