... A STATESMAN S ADVERTISE- MENT. The current number of the English Illustrated Magazine contains a diverting and instructive article from the pen of W. Outram Tristram on Coaching Days and Coaching' Ways. There are also striking and beautiful illustrations by Hugh Thomson and Herbert. Railton. Referring to the castle at Marlborough, a famous posting house on the road between London and Bath, Mr ...

... Liberal Victories. Tuesday being the 1st November municipal elec- tions were held throughout the cooutry. In more than the usual number of instances there was no contest at Tuesday's municipal elections, and the boroughs in which elections are not fought upon party political grounds appear to be on the increase. Last year the contests from a party point of view were for the first tim ...

... A Windfall for a Stevedore. — The Glas gow correspondent of' the Central News states that a stevedore named Thomson, aged nearly 80 years, has inherited from a brother, who died on Monday afternoon, a sum of £ 200,000. He was at once informed of his good fortune by his brother's lawyers, and received the informa- tion without the slightest display of elation, or, iadMd, of any IlDotigllt ...

... ELOPEMENT WITH A BAKMAID. A romantic elopement has occurred in connection with one of the oldest aristocratic families in the kingdom. The chief actor is a high-spirited youth, whose age is given as not more than 17, and who is the only son and heir of one of the county families of East Worcester- ( shire, and whose name occurs in Doomsday Book. The father of the youth is a retired captain at ...

... A Mason Crushed to Death. On Tuesday afternoon a serious accident occurred at the malthouse situated on the East Moors, Cardiff, which resulted in the death of a mason who was engaged on the premises. The building in question has been only lately erected, and is very substantial in appearance. It fronts the Gas Works road, and is situated near Bland's timber yard, on a broad expanse of moor, ...

... That cattle and cows keep in much better con- dition when well housed than when insufficiently sheltered is an agricultural axiom widely accepted, but acted upon to a surprisingly small extent. The cow occupying a good stall, with a manger within easy access, is much more likely to recoup her owner for his expenditure than an animal stalled in a shed rotted by the rains of succeeding winters, ...

... BY W. A b rah aiii, M. P., Ryfi, abo n. MINING INQUESTS AND MINING INSPECTIONS, With respect to coroners' inquests on the bodies of persons whose deaths may have been caused by any explosion or accident in or about mines, the following provisions shall have effect uader the new Mines' Act Where a coroner holds an inquest, of which notice is required to be civen to the inspector, such inquest ...

... RUMOURED MINISTERIAL CHANGES. Mr Ashmead-Bartlett to Become Irish Seoretary. The Belfast New3 Letter announces that Mr A. J. JBaUour will become leader of the House of Commons next session, and Mr Ashmead- Bartlett will siicceed hiin as Irish Secretary. ...

... DOWLAIS IRONWORKS AND THE RArES. At the ordinary meeting of the Merthyr Board of Guardians, on Saturday, Mr W. Jones pre- sidinlf, a letter was received from the Local Government Board, sanctioning the payment to Mr Frank James, of JB110 10* for his services as clerk to the Union Assea-inent Committee for the year. — The Deputy-Clerk now presented returns relating to the amount of rates paid ...

... BEHEADING A GUEST. Some whaie about the middle of the century, Count M mtmayeur, of the Moutmeny ...

... SOUTH WALES CHAT. There may be a National Institute after all, but it will be on distinctly Welsh lines. Welsh- men will have no hybrid society, managed by men altogether out of sympathy with the national aspirations, A desperate attempt has been made to found an institute which would not have been a Welsh Institute. But the subscriberi saw through the little game and held back the sinews of ...

... M*Spurgeon says, a wild goose never lays a .tame-egg.1' No it n«ver does; but then the egg Witt'become tame, Mr Spurgeon, it you keep it long enough. Tamt ? Insipid, sir, in^ip d 1 And j after that it will begin to grow wild again, wilder than ever; so wild that its own mother wouldn't recognize it. She wouldn't want to; she would want to dis own it, as unfit for any u*« *ave te attend ...