... IMPORTANT STATEMENT. 1 {.CENTRAL NEWS TUFCEGBAJI.] ROME, Tuesday Evening.—Sign or Mane'mL has, to-day made an interesting and impottant#,fitate- ment in the Chamber, on the-'iateruaSwnaljitua- tion. He said that Italy,without detaching berpelf fromher former adhesion toihB northero^wers,, has entered into intimate- relations with. J3ngland,fe and has established with her a. community of views ...

... ALLEGED BURGLARY AT DOWLAIS. — At the police-court on Saturday, vthree youths, Patrick Mulligan, Wm. Power, and Michael Clifford, the last being known among his associates as the highwayman, were charged with breaking and entering a warehouse in the occupation of Mr James Farrell, pawnbroker, of Dowlais, and stealing therefrom various articles of clothing. The lads were committed to take ...

... VICTORY OF THE CHINESE. 75 FRENCH KILLED. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] HONG KONG, Saturday.—Intelligence received here announces that the French have been re- pulsed in an attack upon the Chinese positions uear KeTuu^, after sever?.fighting. The French los £ 75 killed and wouivded,. A combined attack ou Kelung and Tamsui is imminent, {TIMES SECOND EDITION TELEGRAM.! HONQ KONG, Saturday.—There has ...

... THE CHILDREN'S HOUH. COLUMN FOR GIRLS AND BOYS. BY MAGGIE SYMINGTON. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupation, That is known as tire Children's Hour. LonqftUow. ALAS FOR THE SPARROWS—CATKAPILLARS JUBI. LANT— CHAUX.ES DICKENS AT HOME- HIS SYMPATHY WITH CHILDRlCN-H HARD, HARD, THINGS I—THE EAGLE AND THE RAVEN— THE STONE IN ...

... Dymunir i'n gohebwyr Cymreig gyfeirio eugoheb- iaethau, Hyfrau i'w hadolygu,&c., fel y canlyn: Dafydd Morganwg, Morganwg House, lAantwit- street, Cardiff. ...

... Mrs Weldon applied on Wednesday, before Vice- Chaneellor Bacon, for leave to try the question of fact in the action against her husband with a jury. By her action she claimed £20,000 damages from her husband, in consequence of his having prevented her from gaining a large fortune by exercise of musical talents, and devoting herself to him. On this question of fact she desired the verdict of a ...

... BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—At the usual weekly meeting, held on Saturday, the Rev. J. W. Edmondes presiding, Dr. Randall, Bridgend, was appointed medical officer to the workhouse, cottage homes, and central district, Dr. D. J. Thomas, Nantymoel, to the Ogmoie district, and Dr. Llewellyn, Bridgend, to the western district. ART EXHIBITION.—The annual exhibition of the science and art class took place ...

... LOCAL. CARDIFF TORIES AND SECRET MEETINGS. THE Tories of Cardiffm a great many respects resemble the Fenians, and especially in their love of secret meetings. Just now the so-called Conservative candidate for Cardiff is in the town—come, apparently, for the especial purpose of attending what are styled the annual meetings of the various Conservative wards. On Tuesday night a member of our ...

... ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE ON THE BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL. NEW YORK, Tuesday.—This afternoon an odd looking package partially wrapped in a newspaper, to which a lighted fuse was attached, was found in the lobby on the second floor of a building in State-street. The fuse was extinguished, and on examination the package was found to contain a cylindrical and varnished tin box eight inches deep, and with a ...

... At the Marine Office, Bristol, on Tuesday, a Board of Trade inquiry was held in respect to a charge preferred against William Henry Conibear, mate of the British ship Travelicr, of Liverpool (holding a meter's certificate of competency), of gross misconduct and drunkenness on the 12th inst., he having signed articles to proceed in the vessel named on a voyage from Penarth to Singapore and ...

... It is well to point out that to get up a dinnet of great variety a cook should be allowed a wide range. How PAT EXPLAINED IT.—General Maxwell once had an Irish soldier-servant whom he found telling a most palpable falsehood. On being afterwards accused by him of saying what was not true, he drew himself up to military attention, and said, Pla.se, sir, I lost my priaince of mind. Louis Blanc ...

... BRECON. ASSAULTING THE TOWN CLERK.— At the petty- sessions on Monday—before the Mayor (Mr J. Morgan), Messrs J. Prothero, H. C. Rich, and James Williams—E. N. Bridgwater, of Talgarth, was fined Is and costs (altogether £1 4s 6d) for assaulting the Town clerk of Brecon (Mr John Williams) on the 13th inst., in High-street. The assault was of the simplest nature, and for the defence mitigating ...