... SWANSEA DAY SIGNAGLING STATION. MUMBLES LIGHTHOUSE, NIL)nday. -Wind, SE., fresh. Weather cloudy. Nothing signalled up to the time of despatch, ...

... THE CASE CF THE SHIPOWNER AND THE UNDERWRITER. UNWILLING aa shhownera and underwriters may be to lia-.t; any thing in the shape of parliamentary interfer ence with pre- sent arrangement, there are few event* more probable than that something will shortly bc done in that direc- tion. The article from the pen of Sir EDWARD REED, which appears in this month's Contemporary, a very long extract ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BERLIN, Monday Afternoon. Instructions have, it is understood, been issued by the War Office that the whole of the troops of the last reserve, or Laodsturm, in the provinces bordering the Russian frontier, are to be armed with oesdle guns. ...

... The convict Dr. Thomas Gallagher, who WAS convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for complicity in the London and Birmingham dyna- mite conspiracies, was visited some time since by sister, Mary Gallagher, who journeyed from America for'that purpose. Miss Gallagher had a second interview with her brother on Saturday last at Chatham Prison, where he and several, others of the dynamiters are at ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BERNE, Monday.—The doctors have now aban- doned all hopes of saving the life of M. Bechtler, chief engineer of the St. Gotlurd Railvay, who was injured in the recent accident at the St. Gothaid Tunnel. Every means has been tried, even to the performance of the operation of the transfusion of blood, but witholt avail. ...

... Titi, 183*5. tl tlie jsioba v.iC of the United Kingdom for the year ended the 31st December, 1883, compared with the preceding year, has be on issued from the Treasury. Tin receipts are Customs, £19,810,000, showing an increase upon the preceding year of £ 352,000 excise, £ 27.120,000, showing an increase of £ 12,000; stamps, excluding fees, etc. land tax. £1,054,000, increa e f 9, C a) r- oz ...

... THE COMPARATIVE NUMBER OF CON- FORMISTS AND NONCONFORMISTS IN WALES. TO THE EDITOR. Srn,-I beg leave to submit for adoption the following simple but decisive plan for settling this matter :— j As Cardiff contains the greatest number of | sects, it will serve my purpose admirably as a means of explaining my plan. Let, say the last Sunday in January, 1884, be, after a fortnight's public notice, ...

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... i WALES [BY ATUTFK. The year of 1S33 has drawr. f-tatid:-isr ou the threshold of the •, r:>.tural that we should take a o'u. shoulder ar.d scan the pathw^v ovt^r nation we Lave travelled during the pu twelve months, Th lusive kinship of a mon tongue still fv >s us a distinct phica in u fcderncy of peoples, though prophecies are more than ever rife of a. time coming when tie dear old language ...

... A telegram from Lloyd's agent at Nicolaieff, dated 31st ult., states chat navigation to that port is closed. ...

... On Monday, at the of the Bristol Local Marine Boaird, Ohacta William Armstrong Young, engineer of the British ship, hIe of Arran) was changed that be, having on the 30th of August, 1883, signed an agreement and account of thecrew, was guilty of gross acts of inifcoiidtict and drunk- enness, and particularly on the 2nd of October, at Newport, in that he neglected to ji-in the ship, and a ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] NEW YORK, Sunday, Midnight.—Mr George W. Lane, President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, is dead. The death is also an- nounced of John M'Carthy Scully, the well- known Fenian. It is stated on high authority that Mr Vilferd has resigned the presidency of the Northern Paci- fic Railway. ...