... Meeting of the Privy Council. I This morning his Excellence Lord Londonderry returned from London to the Viceregal Lodge, attended by Mr J. Mulhali, private saurelary. The administration of the Crimes Act will be discussed in conference at Publin Castle with the Chief and Under-Secretaries, the Solicitor- General, and the Inspector-General of Constabu- lary, and ia t:1C ^srnoon the Privy ...

... FACTS AND FANCIES. The heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high. Happiness and uuiiappiuess are qualities of mind- not of place or position. History cau be formed from permanent lDonu- ments and records but lives can only be written from personal knowlege, which is growing every day le-is, and in a short time is lost forever. An unpleasantness at a Mexican wedding recently resulted in ...

... Ten Per Cent. and a Bonus. We are informed that the directors of the Taff Vale Railway will, at the half-yearly meeting, on the 9th of August, recommend a dividend after the rate of 10 per cent. per annum and bonus at 4 per cent. per annum to be declared on the ordinary stock preference stock No. 1 for the half-year ending 30th June last, carrying forward a balance of £6,529 to the current ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE GARW VALLEY. About 11 o'clock on Wednesday morning a man named Howell-, employed at Llest Colliery, met with an accident which ended fatally in about five hours. It seems that Howells and his partner had been shot-firing, and somehow the falling rubbish fell upon the former of them, breaking his thigh and rupturing the bladder. He was attended by Dr Parry and his ...

... The State of Ireland. I THE CRIMES ACT. Placards proclaiming the city under the Crimes Act were posted in Limerick yester- day by the police, and eagerly read by thousands of people. At a meeting of the Corporation, the Mayor denounced the measure and denied the existence of crime. The act was aimed at the suppression of free speech and political organisation, but it would fail. A resolution ...

... The story told to the Chester police by a man named Michael Kelly that, having while in the army killed a nigger and been confined as a crim- inal lunatic in Broadmoor Asylum, he effected his escape last January, turns out to be quite true. How the prisoner got away from the carefully- guarded institution is uiikowii. He was taken from Cheater on Saturday, in company of two warders. Starvation ...

... A somewhat enrious incident is receiving the attention of the Chinese Envoy in Berlin. Early in this month an offiser of the Chinese transport Too-dan, which brought the crew for the ironclad now beiug constructed at Stettin for the Chinese Government, asked the Chinese Minister here to recommend a jeweller from whom the crew of the transport might purchase gifts. Hsii-Ching-Cheng did so, and ...

... nquest on the Murderer. An inquest on Emmeline Richardson. 18, and Richard Dalton Richardson, 23, was opened at Southampton on Saturday. The deceased man, &8 already reported, shot his sister with a revolver and afterwards committed suicide on Thursday night. The second sister, FIorencef 20, who was also shot at tbe same time, still ties in a very precarious condition, as the bullet has not ...

... THE WATER SUPPLY ATCARDIFF Owing to the long-continued drought, and the consequent scarcity of water, the waterworks committee of the Cardiff Corporation have found it necessary to issue a, notice calling the attention of residents in the borough to the great desira- bility of their using as little as possible, lest extravagance may involve the necessity of a more inconvenient restriction ...

... Painful Scene in a Pofice-court. A painful case was heard by the Liverpool magistrate yesterday. Two good-looking and well-dressed young ladies, named Edith Bamber and Florence Coburn, were charged with stealing a valuable locket, several umbrellas, and other articles from various houses where they pre- tended to engage apartments. Bamber is a daughter of a local builder. She is established in ...

... THE 3HO BATTALION WELSH REGIMENT. Annual Inspection and Ball. I The annual 28days' training of the 3rd Bat- talion (Militia) Welsh Regiment terminated on Thursday, when the regiment was inspected by Colonel Tucker, the brigadier commanding the 41st Regimental District. At 10.30 the battalion, to the number of about 900, paraded in review order on the ground adjoin- ing their camp, which, as in ...

... IMPERUL PARLIAMENT. II in Dol E OUR GALLEPT CORRE5PONDR1NT.) this, HOUSE OF COMMONS, Wmvansy. row Let 'A wonderful change came over the spirit of the La it proceedings upon the Land Bill this afternooni. acnd From the moment the Government announced or their oncesasions in the way of rent reductions eath ode, ?? War smoothed his wrinkled front, in- and the Land Bill seemed to have sailed into ...