... THE FORTH90 NGj FEANCHIS. BILL. se The electoral statistics ordered by the House of E a- Commons last session to be printed in view of the oh contemplated Parliamentary Reform next session t of be were issued on Wednesday, and we are enabled to e present them to our readers this morning so far as I 'l they affect ?? and Wales for the c g. counties, and Monmouthshire and South Wales for c tsthe ...

... 1-. C APTAIN A ND BOAT'S CREW MISSING. nday afternoon tbe screw steamer Tedciing- ton, cc ?,nd from London, light, arrived in Penarth Roads ir orders. Capt. Lacy, his second officer, seamen, left the steamer about dusk in the ,iter Penarth Roads in one of the ship's boats, and landed the captain at the Pier-head, Carrid. Capt Lacy transacted the ship's busi- ness at Messrs J. T. Milburn and ...

... [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] PARIS, Wednesday.—The British Government has communicated to the French Government the Queen's Order in Council decreeing the abolition of the British Consular jurisdiction in Tunis. ...

... A determined murder was committed at Bath on Wednesday night. Two young unmarried labourers, named Albert Miles aud Charles Kite, were drinking together in the Malt and Hops public-house, when some words occurred. They returned to the house and shook hands, but it was noticed that Kite held oat his left hand. He suddenly drew his right hand from his pocket, and stabbed Miles in the side of the ...

... THE ABDUCTION FROM A DUBLIN CONVENT. The abduofcion of a child from a Dublin convent a few weeks back, under circumstances already represented, has bean followed by proceedings to which the attention of Parliament will be called by the Irish members. A special detective employed in the case arrested a woman at Clonmel soon after the abduction, and she was tried at the county winter assizes on ...

... The publication by a member of the executive committee of the Licensed Victuallers' National Defence League of a scheme for the reduction of existing liquor licenses by nearly one-half marks an era in the history- of the English liquor traffic. The writer of Temperance Legislation and Licensing Reform —Mr James, president of the Plymouth Trade-Protection Society—claims to act on behalf of a ...

... CARDIFF. TJIB BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1883.-A petition was filed in the Cardiff Court-court on Thursday against Henry Curtis, grocer, Penarth-road, by Messrs Morgan and Scott on behalf of creditors. This is the first petition filed here under the new act. HAMADRYAD HOSPITAL Siirp.-Report for the week ending 2nd January, 1884 :—Number of patients remaining last week, 49; admitted since, 12; discharged, ...

... SAOBED CANTATA.—On Wednesday evening last the Bryninawr Glee Party performed in character, at the Institute, Dr. Parry's Joseph. Notwithstanding the short notice and unfavour- able weather, the hall was well filled with r.n appreciative audience. The principal persona- tions were :-Joseph, Mr David Jones, Bryn- mawr Jacob, Mr John Williams, U.C.W., Ebbw Vale Reuben, Mr Jacob Davies, Bryn- ...

... Lloyd's agent at Tunis wires that an English steamer is reported to have been wrecked on the Sorelli Rocks. The crew were saved, and are gone to La Calle. ...

... TO THE EDITOR. SrR,-In your issue of the 4th inst., in an account of the Carmarthenshire quarter-sessions, I read with some astonishment, with reference to the judges' lodgings at Carmarthen, the follow4 ing, which I presume is correctly reported The committee appointed to deal with this matter reported that they had found that for a great number of years the county of Carmarthen had provided ...

... [BY ADFTFR. ] The year of 1883 has drawn to its c!ose, and standing on the threshold of the new year, it is natural that we should take a glance over the shoulder and scan the pathway over which as a nation we have traveled during the preceding twelve months. The exclusive kinthip of a com mon tongue still gives us a distinct place in the federacy of peoples, though prophecies are now more ...

... EXTRAORDINARY CLAIM FOR £10,000 DAMAGES. THREATENED ACTION AGAINST THE CARMARTHEN BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The chairman of the Carmarthen Board of Guardians (Mr J. L. Philipps) was, at the meet- ing of the board last Saturday, served with a writ in an action which Dr. R. H. Howell, of St. Clears, threaten* to bring against the board to reeover j610,000 damages for promulgating a wilful libel that ...