... EtIE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE FOR\ - SOUTH WALES II AND MONMOUTMSHIRE. | at AN ARGUME NT FOR SWANSEA. as .- ir LETTER lIL I TO TUSE EDITOR. al SrM,-In my first letter I showed that Swansea wV St is more accessible than Cardiff to the whole of E i South WVales. In mv second I showed it is more si in harmony with Welsh sentiment and feeling. at To-day I shall show it to be in heartier accord with ...

... S\WrANSEA PUBLIC LIBRARY. aANOTHER GIFT OF PICTURES B Cu ay, 3111. DEFFBTT FRANCIS. Car mu lit An ordinary meeting of the Swansea Public ?? Committee was iekldat the Central Library at onl Tuesday afternoon. On tire mnotion of Mr. i V ?? Bath (the chairman), seconded by Mr. lost IRDaffett-Francis, M~r. G5. 13. Brook (vice-chairmlan) k esls wa's appointed- chiairman for thle ensuing year.- ...

... PoucE-cocBT.—On Tuesday, before Mpsf!rs E. D. WilHams and J. D. Jamet-, and the Rev. W. Hughes, W. H. Dando, 9, and John Webb, 11, were summoned for damaging points, by the Tre- d°gar Iron and Coal Company, Limited. The de- fendants pleaded guilty. P.C. Cronin proved the case. The bench considered the offence a very seri- ous one, and ordered the defendants to pay the damage, 4d each, and ...

... Re A. J. MMkaII, Brynmawr, boot and ebe. dealer, trading as Markall and Co. The nf«t general meeting of creditors waS held in Bristot on Monday, when a statement of affaira, showiC tiabi'ities JB1,176 143, and assets JB432 Us 10d,w« produced. It was resolved to liquidate the estate by arrangement. The largest and other tfadt creditors of Bristol and Cardiff; who waa appointed trusted in ...

... THE HEALTH OF THE POST- MASTEU-GENERAL. There is up to the present time no material change in Mr Fawcett's condition, which still continues to excite alarm. Dr. Andrew Clark visited the hon. gentleman at 3.45 on Friday afternoon, and remained in consultation for nearly an hour with Drs. Wright, J. Ford An- derson, and E. Garrett Anderson respectively. At 4.35 the following bulletin was issued ...

... ALARMING RAILWAY ACCI- DENT. A railway train at Chard, on Saturday night, fan into a siding through an error of the points- man. The train passed through the engine shed, and was thrown into an adjoining meadow. The passengers escaped with a severe shaking, and bo' h driver and stoker were miraculously saved. ...

... The Rev. C. J. Thompson, the vicar of St. John, at St. Andrew's Church on Sunday morn- ing, referred to the death of the Archbishop of Canterbury, which ha.d taken place that morning. He spoke of the Primate as one of the fathers of the Church, whose whole life, from the period of his filling the position of Dean of Carlisle, that of Bishop of London, and that of Primate of all England, was ...

... MELBOURNE,Monday.— Anaccidenthasoccurred on the Melbourne and Hudson's Day Railway, near Hawthorn. One person was killed and 50 injured. MADRID, Monday.—At a meeting of 143 Ministerial Senators, Senor Sagasta declared that the Government were perfectly free to carry out Liberal reforms, and appealed to the confidence of the majority. CONSTANTINOPLE, Monday. Marshal Fuadd Pasha has been ...

... Great distress was caused on Friday evening, at Brixham, by confirmation of the fears pre- viously entertained that the fishing lugger Minnie, of Looe, had been lost in a heavy squall, of Start Point, on Wednesday niftht. She waa in company with other vessels under full sail, when she was observed to dissappear, but it was not until this evening that news arrived that the body of one of the ...

... COWBRIDGE. THE Rev. J, Beynon Davies, of Cowbridge, has received a uuaniinous invitation to the pastorate of the Congregational church at Taly sarn, Carnarvon. ...

... MIDDLESBOROUGK, Thursday.—The pig iron trade has been, as was the case at Tuesday's market, very quiet this week. There has not been such slackness apparent for a long time, demand being almost nil, and there being no desire to do business. Consumers now begin to think that the chances are in favour of prices being lower all round, not only with pig metal, but also with manufactured iron. In ...

... GALE AND SNOWSTORM VESSELS ASHORE ON THE COAST. LOSS OF A nRIG AND ALL HANDS. About six on north- easterly gale, the steamer Gladys, of Whitby, from Antwerp to Sunderland, was driven on to the rocks at the latter port. She cams so near the quay wall that the crew, numbering 21. were rescued. She will probably become a total wreck. Two vessels went ashore at Noswick on Tuesday morning in a ...