... SATVURDLY'S POLICE. LICENSING OFFENCES AT NEWPORT.-At the New- port Perttv Sessions James Waldron, RILlway HEotel, ir Petersi one, was suntuaoned far pertitittingdrunken- 1e ness on his preumises on the 23rd ult. Mr. Eutchins *s defended. At nine p.m. on rite daV rntined a con- Ir stable saw twentiy men in the tap-rono, several of e- whom were drilink. This was not the first time .e defendant ...

... CARDIFF, -I, __-t NATURAkLISTS' SOC:ETY . A TRrP 'rni -n - ?? 'i A TRIP TO THE V1 ' YARDS AT CASTgL ie in COCH. [BY AP GwiTLrXr ad r daresey cmmny of youl readers wiji i reading the sub-heeding of this article, WenJ5 t where the Castle Cocht Vineyards are; -ut liters as re others who wvill need no telling that Lord o- Bute, thiough Mr. Pettigrew. his head gardeaer ' experimentirig in vine ...

... , B 1 ?? . ?? - l A . -- WuSTxrNt MAIL OF-icg, 4.30 A.M. nil f FOREIGN TELTIGECE T THE SOUDAN. BEPORTED DEFEAT OF THE MAHDI, Be He GENERAL GORDON'S VICTORY. mi WE tlxROM OUR CORR1SPONDLtNtT.1 pa Caiso, Aun. 28 (Evslui).-A report has reached nni bere that the Mahdi has suffered another defeat of )t the hands of the Fagallahs. frt Several of the claimants for the Alexandria in- tic lemnity ...

... .TH , F -EY. ,. I . THEm . Cib;PDEFF .~ MONKEY. l We have received a number of letters upon the I recent-incident in which a monkey suffered death at the bands of a policeman rafter a somewhat exciting chase. Our correspondents take all manner of views of the subject; some describe the shooting as downright orteity - one irate spinster asks indignantly, Can't the police be prosecuted ? While ...

... TiRE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. The Wesleyan Conference was resumed at Burslem, on Saturday-the President in the ?? Rev. R. Green presented the report of the committee appointed to consider the relation of baptised children to the Church. The return showed a very large difference between the numbers of children baptised and the numbers who were afterwards members of the Church. Of 1,017 baptised ...

... GLEA.NINGS. ?? >~t i ~ a. ?? . _ 5_ 0 In Kent, Surrey, and Hants excellent wheat crops are r expected. e Mr. Adam Chadwick, a well-known poet, died ?? B on Friday. 9 The Opera House in Paris is illuminated by means of r electricity. An exhibition of oil paintings and other works of art was e opened at Scarborough on Friday. f A serious fire occurred in Canterbury on Friday, caused by the ...

... ,, No -IaS - the r and addremm of ths, nrft ! ?? .0 tictionOU but fors theifrg tf ; 'e drs ~. two, ~ salorer s to e! r e o°f ?? day or two, the qutqioecr5 Cfl gsro5i arco, *r we cwinret retrn reiccef, sem,' B. T., West Brom ,c Y sion of the judges. o iu t bie hy Gas, Brierley Hill.-_Tnl1 e btet3 discharge he is liable. the tnadesman 5, l, R.-A stepfather is not bound t d after the age ...

... B W P ARyl [SLIA'. NT = -d d THE monotony of midnight squabbles over Irish votes has been varied this week by events in Parliament of Imperial interest. On Saturday the Conference met for what proved to be the last time. Mr. Gladstone, yielding to the pertinacious demand of Lord Ran- dolph Churchill, had consented to vary the arrangement originally made, and instead of waiting till Monday to ...

... I (All Rigk ersedJ 0 I I FROMK RICHES TO RUIN. ?? BY JAMES S. BORLASE. CHAPTER LII. IS WHrCH I!ATTwES REACH A CRISIS. Meanwhile Christmastide has passed over Crabtree Row, bringing the probarbial 'good cheer' to but very few of its iudwellers, and none to the Roscorlas or the Jacobs. The process server, happily for the many but uu* happily for himself, has been out of work for the entire week, ...

... TE' RATlLIAYS OF THE NILE VALL ?? e iilllyO of the Nilo Valley as a means of transport IV : si:, prlo(l expedition are of some conseqpuence at rcitaljt tooimeint. They are fragmentary aidl discon- o ?? tei It of Ismail P'aha's rather wild attompts cl ?? y lplt lil:e Unto a European eountry-at least the wI . , i't wvas to have a resemblance from its having o. ?? sy~toin front one -ndl to the ...

... ToNvs CoUNcILt-Yesterday the quarterly meeting of this Council was held, the Deputy Mayor (Alderman Minton) in the ?? Sanitary Committee recom- mended that the tender of Mr. J. Gorton for scavenging the Hartshill district for twelve Months, at £9170., be ?? Sanitary Inspector having reported pollu- tions of the Trent, and of the Foulhay and Lyme'Brooks, it was advised that notice under the ...

... I WESLEYAN THANKSGVTG MOTEMENT.,' The Wesleyan Thanksgiving Fund report has now been 0 published, and it appears that since the commencement of the movement in 1878 there has been raised in connection with it £6297,518. This is larger than either the centenary a . or tbe jubilee amounts. In. 1839 the Wesleyan society was just one hundred years old, and it was determined ] ,as a commemoration ...