... At0INDON AND LOCAL NOTES. SC' [FROV &U&, OWN COERESPODENTS, I Dc TUESDAY NIGHT. iL The understanding that the Foot-and- Is 'Mouth 1ill of the Government would be con- n( 'sidered upon the question of the retention 1o of the Lords' Amendments brought down to as the House 'to-dav a large following of the °l squires, together with an equally formidable { ar force of the aposties of cheap beef and ...

... X THE DEBATE ON THE BnO~t- English taxpayers cannot regard Mr. CHILDmERSS Budget with much cheerfulness. It is unpleasant to learn that the growth of expenditure swallows up the whole enormous Revenue of eighty-five and a half millions sterling, with the exception of a paltry quarter of a million, a sum not large enough to supply any margin for contingencies-such, for instance, as a new ...

... On Monday at Westminster the hearing of an arbitration between the Great Western Railway Company and the Central Xales and Carmarthen t Junction Rrailway Company was proceeded with before thle Railway Com missioners, Sir F. Feel, Mr. Price, and Mr. Miller, Q.C.--rhs applicalits (the Great Western) are the owners of the South Wales r Railway, and work the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway, which ...

... y CyNNWYSIAD. garcourtt Salisbury, a Churchhill ?? ?? 3 Gobabydd Llunda~lu . . . . 4 persol Dinbych . 4 Llithoedd Craig y Forwyllt .. .- 5 yr Anger Cogh, &GO. Barddonirteth - .5 LlofdOu . . . Dadeefydiad a Dadwaddoliad yr Eglwys Wladol ?? 6 Cymdeithaafa Tredegar ?? .. ?? ?? 6-7 Genediaathau, &o. ?? ' 8 ?? EthyglU ?? ?? ?? ?? . Newvdalon CymTeig.1.. . Stnitkfictd Dinbych ?? ?? ?? .. ,11 ...

... UNDAUNTED WOMAN IF anything could dishearten women, and drive them to despair, the prospect of their exclusion this session from all share iu the Franchise Bill might have that effect. They have worked very hard for admission to the privilege, and have hitherto failed to in- fluence those whose co-operation is in the highest degree necessary to success. Mr WooDALL's amendment proposing to ...

... The Press Association Dublin correspondent telegraphed on Tuesday The Dublin police dis- covered last night 20 bilis printed on black- bordered paper, with the words Impregnable Invincibles will have revenge God save Ireland! Cartridges were attached to the documents, with green ribbon. One placard, with a cartridge attached, was found in the letter-box of the Privy Council Chamber, Dublin ...

... COnHESPONDINCE. SPECTATOR (Pentyrch).—Your coinimuiieaLoii c .nn-t appear anonymously. CRXMONA's wiil hare our early attention. ...

... INSTITUTE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. SUMMER MEETING AT CARDIFF. PROGRAMME OF PROCEEDINGS. A meeting of the executive committee appointed to make arrangements for the meeting of the la- stitute of Mechanical Engineers at Cardiff in August next, was held in the Grand Jury-room of the Town-hall on Wednesday evening. Mr T. Forster Brown presided, and there were present Sir E. J. Reed, K.C.B., M.P., ...

... [RENTER'S TELEGRAM.] NEW YORK, Fridiy.-Tlie Sugamore Cotton Mills at Fall River, Massachusetts, have been destroyed byiire. The loss is estimated at six hundred thousand dollars. ...

... SWANSEA BAY GRAYING DOCKS COMPANY. The dividends paid by the Dry Dock companies in Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, and Penarth have doubtless directed particular attention to this class of enterprise. Nor is this surprising. It is not every day that shareholders fall in with a specu- lation which bnng-s them in froUl 10 to 22 per ccnt.-and this is what is paid by dry dock com- panies in the places ...

... HE LATE MR JOHN LANCASTER.—A corres- pondent writes to say that from a perusal ot our obituary notice of the late Mr Lancaster it m .g be supposed that he was unseated. on petition after contesting Wigan, the fact bemg tlat Mr Lancaster was defeated, his opponent being un- seated, ...

... A correspondent, writing to the Fiiiczncicil and Mining News of Saturday,says :—I have returned to-night from a week's sojourn in Wales during which time I have had ample time for pondering upon the mutability of human affairs. To-night I have read the able leading article iu yesterday's of the present state of affairs in this country, and from a Welsh point of view, at any rate, I can confirm ...