... ARABI'S PREPARATIONS. ALEXANDRIA, Tuesday, 5 p.m.-Some movements have been directed from Ramleh to-day to ascertain whether Arabi has with- drawn any considerable force from his ad- vance lines in the direction of Mandara. The enemy was found to be still throwing up earthworks, while his vedettes in the Malaha lines shewed themselves as before. The -opinion of the authorities is that the lines ...

... PETTY-SESSIONS.—At the Town-hall on Monday —before Messrs D. Harries (mayor) and T. W. A. Evans—William Gravell, Mynydd-y-Garxeg, was charged by John Rees, labourer, with assaulting him on the 25th ult, Defendant was fined and costs, 8B 6d, and was cautioned by the magis- trates respecting his. future conduct, as he had several times been brought before them.—Mary Price, Abbey House,, summoned ...

... LLANELLY. A Boy DROWNED.—A lad named Edmunds, whose mother lives in Tunnel-road, was bathing- with some playmates near the harbour lighthouse on Tuesday afternoon, when he got out of his depth, and the poor little fellow was drowned. The body of the child Was- drowned on Wednes- day afternoon. PBTTY-SESSIONS.—At the Town-hall on Wednes- day, before Messrs Nevill and Tregoning, Thos. Reed, ...

... ASSAULTING THE POLICE.—'Thomas Jones was charged with having been drunk and disorderly, and assaulting P. C. Williams, bystriking him three times in the chest in Glamorgan-street, and was fined 15s and costs, or 21 days' imprisonment with hard labour the Stipendiary remarking that the magistrates were determined to inflict a severe penalty in all cases of assault upon the police in the ...

... A BRUSH WITH THE ENEMY. EXPECTED SURRENDER OF 2,000 BEDOUINS. THE ADVANCE OF THE BRITISH. PLAN OF~ATTACK, RUSSIAN INTRIGUES IN TURKEY. ENGLAND'S WAR PREPARA- TIONS. [FROM THE CENTRAL NEWS WAR CORRES- PONDENT]. ALEXANDRIA, Monday, 3.30 p.m.—After sending my last message yesterday evening I heard many conflicting accounts of the skirmish in the village of Meks, by some magnified into an ...

... THE STATE OF IRELAND THE ENNIS MURDER. ANOTHER AGRARIAN MURDER. PROSECUTION OF MR GRAY, M.P. COMMITTAL TO PRISON. DUBLIN CORPORATION AND MESSRS PARNELL AND DILLON. The unveiling of the O'Connell statue in Dub- lin and the opening of the exhibition of Irish in- dustries created a great amount of interest in the city on Tuesday. The streets were thronged, and there was a general holiday. ...

... THE EMBARKING OF THE TROOPS. [FROM THE CENTRAL NEWS SPECIAL WAR CORRESPONDENT. ] ALEXANDRIA, 11.15 a.m. — Almost the whole of the British force here is now em- barking in transports, only tkec regiments remaining as garrison. I leave this after- noon with the troops for the front, and hope soon to send news of our doings. The Egyp- tian Monarch, and two other transports have arrived. ...

... SUEZ CANAL DUES. A reply from the Foreign Office, to the tn* 0i rial from the United Kingdom Shipping, on the Suez Canal dues, hab oeived. It atatfea that the memorialists .9u Plaints have been submitted to the direotors of the Canal Company, who 000 objj- that stress should not be unduly laid on tn« gation to send vessels through the discontinuance of pilots here is out of »■[ tion, and that ...

... .NEWPORT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1882. THE EXIGENCIES OF THE GOVERN- MENT. THE Lords' Amendments on the Arrears Bill, and a possible misgiving as to the results which a dead-lock between tho two Houses might entail, have brought out the fact that the Government have no wish to appeal to the country on the arrears question alone. No surprise Cln be manifested at such a decision. Ministers are quite ...

... THROAT AFFECTIONS AND HOARSENESS.—AU suf. fering from irritation of the throat and hoarseaess wil] be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relipi afforded by the use of Brown's Bronchial Troches J These famous lozenges are now sold hy mpst respectable chemists in this country, at Is. 1^ ppr box. Peopli troubled with a hacking cough, a, ^slightcold, 01 bronchial affections cannot try ...

... The.report of the Select Committee- on railway rates and taces, which was finally adopted last week, makes the following reoommendataons: — TiM;t Chambers of Commerce and Agsiculture, as well as other similar associations, a locus ttavdi before 'the Railway ComoMaaion on the certificate of the Board of Trade. That a uniform classification of goods-should be adopted-over thewhole railway ...

... The second section of a new line of railway, from Spalding to Lincoln was opened on Tuesday for pas- senger traffic. It was built by the Great Eastern and the Great Northern Companies, and has been tested and inspected, and found to be perfectly safe. The Great Eastern Company alle new the joint owners, and having running powers over a line of railway from Maceh, in Cambridgeshire, to ...