... POLITICAL SPEECHES. Sir John St. Aubyn, Bart., and Mr. Pendarves Vivian, members for West Cornwall, add -essed their constituents at Penzance last week. Sir John main- tained that the serious measures of repression and restriction, under which Ireland had been placed, absolutely necessary, and had produced a more satis- factory state of things. The war in Egypt was forced on the Government, ...

... lMimillllliilin MONMOUTHSUIRE REVISION COURTS. The result of the revision in the Borough of New port is a net Conservative gain of six votes. On Friday the Revising Barrister (II. H. Amphlett, Esq.), sat at Newport to correct the county lists of parishes in the Newport polling district. The Conser- vatives were represented by Mr. W. J. Lloyd, Mr. W. Wade, and Mr. R. P. Williams Mr. Bailbache ...

... CAIRO, Oct. 23, 7.5 p.m. Professor Schweinfurth communicates the fallowing news from the Soudan:—Last June 6000 Egyptian soldiers* without provisions and tired, were surrounded by the followers of the Mahdi, or false prophet, and massacred. The news of September 13th is as follows:— Abdel Kader ie in despair-at not receiving rein- forcements. He asks for Remingtons and ammu- nition. Khartoum ...

... The Government intends to create another division of the Royal Marines. Messrs. Jones, iroa and coal masters, Dudley and Walsall, hied a petition-is the Walsall Bank- ruptcy Court on the 20th instant. Liabilities £ 78.000 assets £ 50.000. Her Majesty^ troopship Tyne arrived off Wool- wich Arsenal on Monday with 167 sick amd wounded men from Egypt. The Clan Stuart, which was stranded 30 miles ...

... A non-commissioned officer in the 84th York and Lancaster Regiment, writes from Cairo, under date of 13th Oct.;—We left Kassassin about 6.30 p.m., the 12th Sept.; halted, after marching six miles on the desert, and laid down on the saud to snatch a few minutes' sleep. After a brief rest we again fell in; perfect silence was kept, and we were told that not a shot was to be fired, but that the ...

... THE RHONDDA & SWANSEA |' BAY RAILWAY. BAY RAILWAY. THE WORKS TO BE PROCEEDED WITH. ) For some time past there has been some anxiety; on the part of the general public to know ths, result of the invitations offered for tenders carry out the works connected with the above undertaking, which comprise 15 £ miles of perma- nent way, including two tunnels, two miles and ...

... LATEST HOME TELEGRAMS An Aberdeen telegram states :-It is officially iutiinatod that tlif- Ooort will leave Balmoral on Wednesday, the i5th Nov em Jei. Mr Waddy, Q.O., and hull. Kay Shuttle- worth have intimated then- willingness to contest Edinburgh, if invited. James Whyte, a butcner, remanded at Forfar, oil Wednesday, charged with the murder, -it Montrose, on Monday, of his wife and mother- ...

... BELLE VUE HOTEL AND RESTAUR ANT.-Ordi* ary daily; Public Baths, Carriages on llue. Oj.posit* the Post-oflioe, High-street, 6 063 HARRIS, of Merthyr, can take your photo o. D&iut your portrait eaual to any 4 6^881. ...

... THE TRIAL FOR MURDER AT SIERRA LEONE. The trial of the two ex-employes of the Church MisfiOiol1a.ry Society, William l1'. John and John Williams, together with their wives, on the charge of the wilful murder of a young native girl in the year 1877, at Onitsha, on the Niger, concluded here on the 16th instant, after a twelve days' healing. The prisoners were convicted of man- slaughter, and ...

... ADMIRALTY CASE AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff county court on Friday—before his Honour Judge Herbert, and Captain Jenkins and Mr Treatt as nautical assessors—the owners of the British steamship Estella brought an action against the owners of the Danish schooner ZSordby to recover damages for injuries inflicted upon the latter vessel in a collision with the former at Cardiff.—Mr G. C. Downing ...

... DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR STAFFORD. oS-llp.EWSBURYS PJ/.VSION BURNT DOWN. /S) AM AGE £ 100,0C0. fnge^reHall, Stafford, one of the seats of the 0f Shrewsbury and Talbot, the promier earl of England, was burnt to the ground on Thursday tnorning. It appears that between four and five a.m. the fire was discovered to have broken out in one of the state bedrooms. The domestics and labourers on the ...

... NEATH. SHOCKING DKATHS are continually recorded irom Cancer, Seurvv, JCin ...