... An important change in the Assize arrange- ments of the country is announced. The system of grouping counties is to be aban- doned. The Oxford Circuit will be taken by Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and Mr Justice A. L. Smith South Wales Circuit, Mr Justice Stephen; North Wales Circuit, Mr Justice Wills. Both civil and criminal business will be taken at these assizes, which, in conse- quence of ...

... It hs been docidei to ask Lord Salisbury to fix his visit to Carnarvon for Primrose Day, April 18th, when it is proposed to have a great demonstration of Primrose League Ha- bitations for North Wales. ...

... LLRRTES anb The news of the death of Mr Absalom Humphreys cast a deep gloom over the morning service at the Welsh Wesleyan chapel, on Sunday last. A few had heard the news before entering the chapel, but the majority (including the Rev. Isaiah Jones who officiated) heard it for the first time after the service had commenced. Since Brunswick chapel was opened, Mr and Mrs Humphreys occupied a ...

... EPP3 S COOOA. —GKAT £ FUL AND COMFORT ING.- By a thorough kuo Pledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, an ± by a caretul application of the fine properties of weil selected COCOA, Mr Epps has pro- viaed-our breakfast tab.es with a delicately flavour- ...

... M E L I D E N. At the Liverpool Bankruptcy Court, on Monday, the following local case was heard, before Mr Regis- trar Cooper:— Be Charles Malcom Stewart.—Mr Pedder (Field and Weightman) appeared for the petitioning credi tor in this matter. The debtor was described as a clerk and limeburner, having recently held a quarry at Meliden, near Rhyl. He came up for public examination. The statement ...

... Mr Gladstone returned to Hawarden fr,om Studley Royal, on Friday last. At Chester Station he h d a conversation with Mr Samuel Smith, M. P. Several distinguished visitors are expected nt the Castle in a few days, including Earl Granville. ...

... THE APPEAL TO CAESAR. THE scene in the House of Commons on Tues- day and the following two nights has been perhaps the most excited and animated of the present session. All our readers will have heard of, if they have read not, the articles entitled Parnellism and Crime, and the leaders based on them which the Times has from day to day been deluging the country, and which make infamous and ...

... Itofces nnb SUmmafJ2. We are glad to be able to inform our readers that the death rate of the district of Rhyl for the past year according to the report of the Medical Officer of Health read at the last Commissioners, meeting, was only in round figures 16 per 1000 of the resident population (the lowest for many years), and if the number of visitors here during the season were taken into ...

... MOLD FARMERS RESOLUTE. A meeting of tithepayers was held at Mold on Wednesday, when it was reported that Captain Knight, the principal titbeowner in the district, had served a ten days' notice on a number of tenants, and refused to concede ihe 10 per cent. reduction demanded. The meeting resolved to urge upon tenants to ad- hAre to the demand for 15 per cent., and to refuse payment without it. ...

... VISITORS' NAMES.—At the Hydropathic—Mrs Simpson, Dublin Mrs & Miss Boulton.Soathport Mr Angus, Hexham-on-Tyne Mr Howl, Bir- mingham Mr Alexandra, Hungerford; Mr and Mrs Buck, Crewe Mr Thomas, Manchester Mrs Bishop and family, Stoce, Staffs; Mr Bamsden, Chester Mr Hickman, Birmingham Mr Royle, Chester Mr Foster, Ashbourne Mr and Mrs Gilbert, Chester Mrs Clay Gibson, Liverpool Mrs and Master ...

... By making a solution of shellac with borax, in water, and adding a suitable proportion of pure lamp-black, an ink is producible which is indestruc- tible by time, or by chemical agents, and which, on drying, will present a polished surface, as with the ink found on the Egyptian papyri. ...

... The Penrbyn memorial fund has reached the sum of 21,002. The Builder of May 28th gives some inter- [ esting .Sketches in Shropshire, by Mr Henry D. Walton, including the entrance porch at Park Hall, near Oswestry. A few days ago at Shrewsbury, Sergeant- Major Hammond of the Shropshire Militia buried a grandchild, while his own grand- father is surviving. He is nearly 100 years old, and is in ...