... TWO CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH. A fire which took place in the house of Mr Thomas Jackson, baker, in Great Ancoats-street, shortly before midnight, on Monday, resulted in the death of two children and serious injury to two other persons. The family lived in a room above the shop, and consisted of Mr Jackson and his wife, two children, and a servant girl named Tunbridge. The girl went upstairs ...

... MIDDLES Bono UGH, Thursday.—The pig iron trade has kept moderately firm this week, the immediat e cause being unquestionably the restriction which it is intended to carry out by putting 18 furnaces out of blast next month. Prices through this cause have already risen Is 6d per ton, and makers anticipate a further rise, inasmuch that for spring delivery they ask Is per ton more than for present ...

... MUMBLES LIGHTHOUSE, Friday.—Wind, W, strong, Weather squally. Passed East-steamers Ransome, of Penzance Rhine, of Hull; schooner Sofia, of London steamer Caerau, of Newport; schooner C A, of London. ...

... 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 ...

... THE LLANTRISSANT CREMA- TION CASE. PROSECUTION OF DR. PRICE AND HIS HOUSEKEEPER. FURTHER MAGISTERIAL HEARING. At Pontypridd police-court, on Wednesday, a. vast throng assembled within and without, bent upon hearing the cremation prosecution of Dr. Price, the well-known eccentric Llantrissant sur- geon, &c. There were on the magisterial bench Mr Gwilym Williams (stipendiary magistrate), Dr. ...

... [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 ...

... Accrington correspondent telegraphs: — ^central strike committee's balance sheet *'eavjAincrease of contributions from the ftrjinta f sbeds at work, and also considerable ?! trades. Many oi the latter class that uill, however, not be repeated, so Mtli thr 1113,111 support of the strikers will rest stori t ^'eavers who continue at work. At le^Ucti ,Vo ni^'3 have resumed work at 5 per cent ^'■se ...

... COLLISION ON THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY; DELAY OF PASSENGER 11AINF3. Last evening, Rbout Seven o'clock, a Collision occurred through a coal train running into ] the tail end or a ballast train a, liicle below Navigation Junction, Frotn th fact that the line was blocked, and there was no communication between Cardiff and Ab„dare Junction, but very few particulars can yet be obtained. Cn enquiry at ...

... TOWNS MEETING. THE WATERWORKS SCHEME. ANIMATED DISCUSSION. At the C.'own Court, Cardiff, on Mouday, a meeting of the ratepayers of the borough was called by the Mayor for the purpose of consider- ing the expediency of promoting a bill authorised by the town council to be introduced in the next session of Parliament. Early in the morning bills were posted about the town headed Ratepayers Beware ...