... 1OBTAINING M1NTSAON-sEY BY FALSE I PlREITNCES NEAR NliF'WPORT. I . ?? At the petty sessionsfor thedivision of New- port, held on Saiturday (before Messrs. L. A. Homfir a, F. J. Hall, . Ht. Hamilton. and Catptiin KinoxReikards), Johnt Bowen, aged tS, a shabby laoking fellow, Scaz charged withobtaining various 1 u7. Fiums of money hby false pretenres. The prisoner lie sos nppreltntded -at St. ...

... TERRIVIFIG EXPLOSION IN LONDON. 0 _ ._ - l A GOVERNMENT PC th BUILDING -WRECKED. |t In SUPPOSED DYNAMITE at OUTRAGES. r ALARM IN THE HOUSE OF RPI COMMONS, ?? . . ?? TI ATTEUMPT TO BLOW UP TIHE st -TUES OFFICE. I |PRESS ASSOCIATION TLROEAM. | r LONDON, THUeosoAy. 10 P.M. dt A terrific gas oxplosion occurred at the Local of Government Board Offices, Westminster, to-night, th which caused ...

... ' THE WEATHER AND THE CROPE. a , _ I I bu xt The Mark Lase Rrpreos of Monday says :-alo i During the past fortnight young wheats have been m( oe quite at a standstill. No doubtthechsck has bcen su oh beneficial to forward wheats, but the severe night Or Z., frostsof Thursday and Friday, which were accomn- 11, T. prnied by biting easterly winds, com ing upon the is lat, wvet kly, chin pilants, ...

... = = =4= = Atfrottrit M Ig-# I SA TURD Ye MARCH 17ze , 1 SSS. ST. PATRICE. Our.* ?? the Irish devote to-day E to the commnemoration of their tutelar Saint. a It is the custom with them on St. Patrick's Eve to assemble for vespers in the churches of their faith, where they listen to exordia C from their pastors, and to panygyrics on their i canonised patron, whose memory keeps as green in their ...

... O ;SECOND FIDI:1TIN I:3 WssTrsas MtAIL OFFITeR, 4.30 A.M. X LATEST GENERAL NEWS. n ?? ?? Sfr Hlerbert ?? Nvill move the adjourn- D meant, of the House of Comimous over the Derby t! Dava The Prince of Wales attended the opening of the Njorthbrook Club in Whitehall Gardens yesterday c afternoon. C Lord Dufferin arrived yesterdatv afternoon in ?? Paris fromu Vienria, and Nvill resume lis journey ...

... VI} && it% ' oA A/ .* V THURSDAY AMAY 10, Z1,38. :. ?? The particular trou ble of the Scotch Kirk t this tirae appears to be music-instrumental music-with regard to which, say the ac- I counts, there is likely to be a great battle- a : Remarkable has been the change which a rigid c Presbyterianism has wrought in the character § of a people naturally sojoyously dispositioned f as the Scotch. ...

... ,IFORTHCOMING -ELEOPION OF1 ! GUARDIANS AT CARDIFF THE NOMWMATIONS OF CAlNDIDATES. On Tuesday the nominations of candidates for i ?? election as members of the Cardiff Board of Guar- til dians were made at tho office of Mr. Stephenson, I . lat returning office, Queen-street, Cardiff. The event jil A is all the more important on account of the forthcoming election being the firsto a hi. ...

... -THE FENIAN ; CONSPIRACY. LO a- THIRD TRIAL at OF TIMOTHY KELLY. to n.- thz( NUoMIBER ONE. ei2 nt Car reporter has made inquiries with respect to au as the stitemert that No. i is at Scotland-yard, th and w ill be within the next month produced at WI to the witness table, and has been assured by the Lc so detective authorities that there is no truth Lo r- ,btver in the storv. s . 'mothy ...

... ITHE BARRY DOCK , T., ' BILL. ' ?? PROCEEDINGSz BEFORE ;.THE SELECT COMMITTEE. as CPROM OIR. OWN RPPORTERS.] WESTMINSTER, MONDAY. t On~the resumption of the Harry Dock IOquivY e1 this 'morning the firet witness called was Mr.. t Foster, managing director of the Sunderland Ship- I building Company, who, speaking to a large and I Ca varied increase of shiobuilding, especially Of Di Is steamers, ...

... DISTRICT NEWVS. 5e CARDEF1t1 es- CAN~TON CHUacR.-We have much, pleaure in miel eli stafting- that, notwithstanding, as our advertise- MNo. lie Iment stated, Ithe, love of many has g-rown cold 'ao hetowards the Church Pastorail Aid Soc~iety, after in f etwo eloquent sermons from tho Rev. W1. R. ire Thomas. M.A., vicar of Aberaychen, the offert-ories DYI at Canton Church amnountted 'to £~5 16s ...

... T -lE CYMMRODOIIIONSOCIETY.l ?? n THE REV. ?? CTLANFFRWD THOMAS brc [lo ON `WELSH HYMNOLOGY.' pai Flo ~ ~ ?? AS he A mieeting of the meinbe-rsof the Oymmirodorzion Su ly society was held on Thursday last at thle Free- In ;w intsons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, London, when P`t hie rite chair was occupied by Captain E. H. Verney, ofl ndl IRN. The generally interesting charactercof the thi he ...

... THE PR1OPOSED HIOSPITATL AT BILBAO. The plan of an English Cottage Hospital for saiors at Luchana, Blilbao, is, much to the regret of all interested itn the matter, for the present in abeyance. The sanction of 'he Board of Trade to the scheme has not been obtained, owving to their having received information that the Bilbao Hospi- tal is all that can be desired for English patients. Mistaken ...