... At the Cardiff police-court on Monday, before the Stipendiary and Dr. Paine, Charles Smith was charged with assaulting P.C.'s John Aplin and Henry Evans, The Constable said that on Saturday he saw prisoner in Charles-street, Koatfi, about half-past eleven in the evening. There a crowd round him. He was challenging everybody to fight. Asked to go away, he refused, and on being taken into ...

... EXPLOSIVES IN GERMANY. r SPECIAL TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, FBIDAT. The Federal Council, possibly in view of recent events in England, have just decided in favour of an alteration in the existing law relating to the manufacture and sale of explosives. ...

... SWANSEA BAY SIGNALLING STATION. MUMBLES LIGHTHOUSE, Friday.—Wind W. Weather fine. Passed steamer Reliance, of Douglas. Ptuttd West-ship Helen Burns, of Swansea. ...

... I) was opened by the borough coroner h!*18 old ln to the death of a girl five aJ, jniied Ellen Hutchins, living with her ej Sotng j ^a'rns-street, who died in a sudden tlie Mysterious manner about half-past Us, Wetif morninpf. It appears that the a i?al hea]fi ked.the pro\ious night, quite in her v,eartv », aving partaken, with her father, of t,, How H, P^er of broth. About seven in the atl ...

... FIGHTING IN A RAILWAY TRAIN.-At the police- court on Tuesday—before Mr J. G. James and Mr Brown—Thos. Hall and Morgan Morgan were summoned by the Great Western Railway Com- pany for fighting in the railway carriage on the 5th March. Benjamin Jenkins wa.s similarly charged. Mr Gnstard appeared for the company, and said that they were anxious to prevent the recurrence of similar disgraceful ...

... Their Lordships met at a quarter-past four o'clock. RUSSIA AND CENTRAL ASIA. Lord CRANBUOOK asked whether the Govern- ment were prepared to lay on the table the papers relating to Central Asia, and the progress of Russia in that part of the world. Earl GRANVILLE aid he did not think that at the present moment there would be any public advantage iu presenting the papers asked for. THE ...

... LONDON LETTER. [SPECIALLY WIRED.] (BY OUR GALLERY CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, Sunday Night. The circumstances connected with the pro- posed protection of the Houses of Parlia- ment by the military are curious and in- structive. When the necessity for invoking the aid of the military became clear to the Home Secretary, a list of the public build- ings to be cared for was drawn up. First in ...

... A French vessel was seized on Saturday at the moutl.. the Yalm River, Devon, and is detained for being concerned in extensive smuggling opera- tions. Six casks of brandy, sixty 1Gs of tobacco, and large quantities of cigars had been landed, contraband. Extensive smuggling has prevailed thereabouts lately. ...

... On Wednesday last the parish of Laugharne was thrown into a state of excitement by the announcement that a labouring man, with a wife and two children, one a baby in arms, had eloped with a young girl of 15 years of age. The rumour proved too' correct, and the fugitives were traced and followed as far as Ferryside Station, and it is supposed they had gone on by train to Llanelly. The wife and ...

... RHYMNEY. BEDWELLTY SCHOOL BOARD The forthcoming election is likely to be a hotly con- tested one. Several meetings have been held by the Congregationalists of this district, and at the last meeting the Rev. W. Charles, B.A., pastor of Moriah Church, has been selected to represent that denomination at the board. Several other candidates are expected to come forward. ...

... THE WELSH IN LONDON. [FROM OUR OWN CORBESFONDKNT.] The annual tea and public intetiug in connec- tion with the Metropolitan Welsh Episcopal Church waa hdd at the L'tsrary Institute, Ald®ate-sli'rtefc, on Monday evening, Mr J. H. Pulestou, M.P., presiding.—in opemng he pro- ceedings, the Chairman expressed the gratification he felt in assisting at these annual social gather- ings, which, in ...

... PROPOSED TESTIAIONTAL. INFLUENTIAL MEETING AT HAVERFORDWEST. On Tuetuav afternoon a meeting of subscribers to the general testimonial which it is proposed to present to Archdeacon Lewis, the Bishop-elect of Llandaff, was held at the Shire-hall, Haver- fordwest. The Very Rev. Dean Allen, of St. David's, presided, and there were present Earl Cawdor, Mr C. E. G. Philipps, Lord-Lieutenant of ...