... THE ENGLISH SUNDAY CLOSING BlLL DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF . ~COMMIONtS. IMPORTANT SPEECH BY THE HOME SECRETARY. fiE BILL TALKED OUT, LSPECOAL TrLLaAGIA.3 LFRo1M OUR OGLLERY COflE5MDOM T.] WESTMINSTER, WznmNEsDsAx. This was essentially acold water dayandthough thedisciples of anational coldwaterbeveragecould .not score, they at any rate occupied one whole sitting. After the preliminary stages had ...

... THE WEATHYR AND THE GRUX TRADE. [FROM MONDAY'S MARK-LANK EXPRESS.] On Tuesday last the weather became suddenly colder, and remained so until Friday, searching winds meantime prevailing. Little rain, how- ever, fell, except on Wednesday, until last night and this morning. Ou Saturday the temperature rose, and yesterday (Sunday) the sua acquired great powar, though the air was chilly. A little ...

... THE GREAT WESTERN AND THE EASTER HOLI DAYS.—The Great Western Railway Company, as usual, announce, numerous excursions to popular places of resort during Easter week, commencing on Thursday next. On Good Friday, the 5.30 a.m. newspaper train from Paddington will run to Swansea at the usual time, and special trains will run between Swansea (East Dock) and Neath (Low Level). Amongst the trips, ...

... TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—In the face of the fact that so many meetings have been held in localities compara- tively insignificant throughout Wales by the Liberationists and the Church defenders, I should like to know why has the town of Merthyr been made an exception in that respect? Several meetings have been held at Dowlais, and not one in Merthyr. Is the united absence of these religious ...

... - SHIRE VALLEYS RAILWAY BILL. In the House of Commons, on Tuesday, this bill came before the committee for the considera- tion of locus standi on a petition by the Alexan- dra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Rail- way Company and the Newport (Alexandra) Dock Company, Limited, who desire to be heard against the bill on its merits. Mr Pemberton presided, and the other members of the commit- ...

... The of Dundee, hound from Beaufort for whien passed the Lizard on Tuesday, reported having spoken ou the 13th of March the barqtie3 Fairmoullt, of Windsor, Nova. Scotia, and Glenrath, of Leith. ...

... MALICIOUS DAMGK. — On Satuidny before Messrs M. B. Williams and J. Glasbrook, and Dr. Paddol1-1. tramp named Webb was sentenced to a month's hard labour for wilfully damaging some shrubs belonging to M. Strick, of Harold's Moor. OBSTRUCTION.—For obstructing the thorough- fare by leaving a horse and cart across the road near Cockett Church, a youth named Thomas Morgan was fined 5s. MR CHAPMAN'S ...

... WRECK OF AN ATLANTIC STEAMER. TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE. Lloyd's agents at Halifax cabled on Friday evening that the Belgian steamer Daniel Stein- mann, from Antwerp for Halifax and New York, had sunk of fSambro. Itisreportedthatfour passen- gers were saved, and about 90 drowned. The above steamer was owned by the Belgian White Cross Line Steamship Company, of Antwerp, She was an iron steamer of 1 ...

... Gwilym Evans' quinine bitters. Cablegram from Ame- lica :—Last consignment to hand They are much appre- ciated. 6S522 ...

... THE SUNDAY CLOSING QUESTION. LLANTRISSANT SCHOOL BOARD. The Llantrissant School-board on Friday passed a resolution approving of the English Sunday- closing Act, but expressed an opinion that it would be advisable that the bona fide traveller exemption clause should be omitted from the measure. ...

... ABERGAVENNY. SUNDAY-OPENING OF THE CASTLE GROUNDS.— At the usual monthly meeting of the improve- ment commissioners, on Wednesday—Mr J. Bishop in the chair—it was stated that no suitable application bad yet been received for the tenancy of the refreshment-rooms at the castle, and tenders were invited for catering for .the public on Easter Monday. The horticultural society's application to hold ...

... FEARFUL CRIMES IN BERLIN. [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] BERLIN. Tuesday.—Berlin has been agitated by some terrible crimes. A girl was murdered by her lover, who, overcome by what he had done, was found next day beside the body. More ter- rible still, a man named Gioiiocb, returning home a mid-day, attacked his wife with a knife, killing heJ on the spot. Her sister, running to her assistance, was ...