... SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A ) RAILWAY GUARD. At the WtAtitubury Pulice-ooort, yaatarday, George Humphries, a goods guard, in the employ of the Great Western Railway Cumpauy, living at Wolverhampton, was charged with haviu £ j feloniously assaulted Clara Touka, a girl whoso > ago was said to be sixteen years, but who appeared younger, living at 40, Church-atrcbt, IWlastan, The guurt experienced ...

... The Recent Disturbance at Tonga. v i THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINA. TION OF MR BAKER. The report of Sir C. Mitchell, High Com- missioner for the Western Pacific, on the recent disturbances in Tonga and on the affairs of the islands, is issued this morning as a parliamentary paper. Sir Charles refers at length to the dif- ferences which appear to have commenced in 1874 between the Wesleyan Conference ...

... PECULIAR CHARGE OF LIBEL. Disgraceful Revelations. At the Maryiebnne police-court, on Saturday, efore Mr Cooke, Ernest John Gater, a tailor, of Woodstock-street, Marylebone, appeared before Cooke, to answer a summons charging him with having libelled Elizabeth Paddick, his mother-in-law, residing at Little Mary- eboije street, Mr Hillyard was for the complainant, and Mr Freka Palmer defended.— ...

... At Belfast to-day a labourer named Watson Spence and his wife were fully committed for trial, charged with the murder of their child, whom it is alleged, after being beaten in a barbarous manner by the male prisoner, was dashed by him into a vessel of boiling water. The child, which was entered in burial society, died a few hours afterwards in terrible agony, and the ease was reported to the ...

... [OBTAINING A,C0FFIN BY FRAUD. At tbe police-court on Tuasdxv—before Dr. J. D. James and Dr. Brown—Ellen Roach, an elderly woman, was charged with obtaining a coffin, value £ 1 0s 6d, from the Bedwellty Board of Guardians, by fraud, on 26th tilt.—Mr J. A. Shepard prosecuted on behalf of the guardiano. The facta of the case were these:—On 26th July defendant went to the house of Mr Phillips, the ...

... GHASTLY DISCOVERY ATGLYN- NH. A ghastly discovery is reported from Glyn N ii. A nu in tier of boys wre nutting near a disu-ed quarry at Pontneath-Vaughan, wnau one of them noticed the body of a man lying near. Believing he was asleep, the lad went up to the man and touched bis f'nee. To his horror the heari rolled away. Frightened almost out of his wits, the hid fled from tile spot,and ...

... A Missing Inman Liner. CITY OF MONTREAL BURNT AT SEA. The Central News Qneenstown correspon- dent telegraphs that the steamer York City has jusb arrived off the Old Head of Kinssle and signalled that she has the passengers and crew of the Inman liner City of Montreal on board, the City of Montreal bein burned at sea. Lloyd's agent has er>ne off in a steamer to intercept the York City. ...

... An inquest was held yesterday at Thurle« on !he body of a grocer named Timothy Shelly, had been burnt to death the day previously. The man's clothes became saturated with paraffin oil in his shop, and he stood by the fire to dry them. The clothes ignited, and were soon a mass of flames, and before any assistance could be ren- dered Shelly's legs, arm. and body were terribly burnt, and the man ...

... MIL GLADSTONE ON HORTI- CULTURE, Mr GI adstone, though suffering from consider able hoarseness of'voice, spokoon Thursday at the distribution of prizes to snces.fIl1 competitors at the show of the Hawarden and Buckley Horticul- tural Society, held in the grounds of Hawardeu Castle. He expressed'pleasure to notice that there was no diminution iu that district in the interest taken in ...

... The London and Nfwroit We-darn Itulway accounts for the past .half-year show a oaktnee sufficient to admit of a dividend at the rate 01 per cent, per annum. ...

... THE CHARITABLE TR3TS AC r. I Oa Saturday there issued amongst the Parliamentary papers a bill, hacked by Mr Jack- son, M.P., and Mr W. H. Smith, M.P., to amend the Charitable Trusts Acts, 1853 to 1869, so far as respects the office i-s of the Charity Commissioners for England and Wales, and the official trustees acting under those commissioners. The bill com- prises six clauses, ...

... On Saturday, at the Roose petty-sessions, Haverfordwest—before Messrs R. Carron, G. L. Owen, J. Phillips, and J. Thomas—Thos. Griffiths, a lad 15 years of age, was charged with indecently assaulting Martha Lewis, a little girl 10 years old. Two previous convictions having been proved against the prisoner, the bench committed him to prison for ten days, and ordered him to be sent to a ...