... ECOND EDITION. I WMirLrEuN IAIL OFFICE, 4.30 A.M FOREIGN ITELLIGENCE. THE FRAINCO-CHNESE WVAR. `RLENCII REPRISALS. REPORTED HEAVY FIGHTING. t REUTERtS TELoR Ans.J PARIS, FRIDAY, A telegram received from Shanghai dated to-day states that a report is current there of a serious )engaggemnent having been fought off atsoa be-. twewn some French and Chinese ships of war. No details have yet been ...

... AWFUL FATALITY AT LL AN TRI > S ANT. On Saturday, Mr E. B. Reece, coroner, held an inquest at Llantrissant on the body of Thomas Evuns, who was subject to fits. On a recent evening he was seen to sit on the hedge of a hill above the town, and afterwards he was missed. At night his father and others instituted a search for him, but failed to Had him. Next morning another search party went to ...

... At the Cardiff police-court on Tuesday, before Mr A. Thomas, Mr Q, Bird, and Lieut.-Col. Hill, John Davies, a yttung man, one of a gang of gipsies on the Ely Common, was charged with assaulting and wounding Police-Constable Geo. Harbottle, by striking him on the head with a stick on the Ely-road on Monday night. The constable said that he saw the defendant on the Ely-road late on Monday night. ...

... WYLLARD'S WEIRD. A NOVEL, BY M. BRADDON. Author of LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET, PHANTOM FOBTUJJK, &C. CHAPTER XXIV.-AN ELOPEMENT ON NEW LINES. Mademoiselle Duprez occupied a first floor in an airy terrace of houses overlooking the Hoe. She was the kind of little woman to whom eating and drinking and fine dress are matters of very small- moment, but who could not have endured to live in a shabby ...

... A LLANDISILIO SURGEON'S j. PETITION FOR DIVORCE. In the High Court of Justice (Probate and Divorce Division), on Saturday, before the Right Hon. the President and a special jury, the case of Davies v. Davies and Tomney came on for hear- ing. The petitioner, Henry Ellis Davies, a sur- geon, practising at Llandisilio, near Carmar- then, prayed for a dissolution of his marriage with Elizabeth ...

... , THE WAR IN THE . SOUDAN. AN OFFICER'S NARRATIVE OF THE BATTLES AT ABU KLEA AND METAMNEH.' LFRoM TILE SsnDARD CORURSPONDENTI1 myORTI, TaUoaSDAY. us The following is the verbatim description of the fe-fights near Abu Elea and Metamneh which 1 have o just received from an officer engaged in them, who arrived here this morning. It presents so clear an account of the two battles that, at the ...

... An influential meeting of delegates, elected by vestries of the 14 parishes in the union, was held at the Assembly-room, Aberayron, on Saturday, to consider the resolution recently passed by the assessment committee, and subsequently ratified by the board of guardians, to appoint a public valuer to re-assess the whole union; aud to en- deavour, if possible, to devise some method of averting ...

... Scene—Scotch board-school. Small boy, to officiating''teacher Awanttae jine the book- keeping'clas Officiating teacher The junior class, I suppose—not the advanced ? Small boy; A t'hink a'll jine the advanced. Ma Blither h«s A t'hink a'Ii jine the advanced. Ma Blither hIlS a k>dger, an' a keep his book. ...

... HORRIBLE WIFE MURDER. SLEEPING WITH THE CORPSE. CONFESSION OF THE CRIME. John Wright, aged 53, of Orelton, Hereford- shire, gave himself into the custody of the police on Wednesday for the murder of his wife, Eliza. He was brought to Leominster and remanded. The prisoner, who is a saw sharpener, states that on Tuesday his wife came home and threatened to cut his eye out with a knife. He took ...

... A 9.m AFFAIR.—Au inquest was held before Mr W. V. James, coroner, on Tuesday, at the Landshipping Inn, upon the body of a child, aged 21 months, the son of James Jones, an army pensioner, residing at King-street, who lost his life by burning onSaturday night. The mother left the child with her husband, who was sitting on the bed, when she went out shopping, and upon her return shortly after ...

... Owing to complaints of the excessive cost of proceedings in bankruptcy through heavy fees allowed to official receivers, the 6 per cent, granted under the new Act will shortly be re- duced to 1. ...

... CARDIFF, Saturday. — English wheat firm; foreigi dull, and in buyers' favour. Flour unchanged. Onti Is per qr higher. Maize firm. Barley 6d per qt dearer. Other articles same as last. CARMARTHEN, Saturday.—(William Pugli's Report.)- A small market, and very few offers of grain, conse- quently prices remain much as follow :For wheat, from 32s to 35s barley, 30s to 32s white oats, 19s to 21s ...