... WAY OF i ,8KN0!NQ .OHRiSTMAS, 1'1ham police-court on Saturday, ..••dressed man, named Alfred bed 25, was committed to the e Quarter Sessions on a cse-stealing. The evidence e,d that the prison'sr was in Ciielteu- on Ohristmas ave, and started out into the at two on Christmas morning. He went Itthe village of Staverton, three miles away, and (bout 5 a.m., while the cows were being milked, ...

... MANCHESTER NEW YEAR MEETING. TO-DAY'S RACING. ORDER OF lW¡O;iING-New Year Hurdle, 1 Hunters Steepteehase. 1 30 :selii,ia Hurdlf. with 60 sovsa.dded, 2: Manchester StefpL'fhase, 2 30 SeUina: Hurdle, with 100 i-ovs a.dded, 3 Qmlifyins Steeplechase, 3 50. Race, with 60 sovs added -EccentriciLy. aIlLlpJper (by). Denser (4y). St Crispin (4y), : ...

... A BRECON SCANDAL. Police-court, on Friday, an affilia- -kable character was heard, in retired farmer, ex-deacon arth, and a Sunday a.. e motion! and chapels Qf the catholic dioceses of oouthwark. The sacred tartefliliv decorated for th. At the Pro-Cathedral, Kensington, George's Cathedral, Southwark, • im- congregations assembled to witness th« ration, with all the imposing ceremonial the ...

... LIFEBOAT SERVICE AT TENBY. On Sunday morning, dtiring a strong gale from the eastward, the lifeboat launched, m response to signals from a vessel in distress in Caldy Roadstead. Sue reached the vessel, which proved to be the Louisa, coal laden, for Teuby. The lifeboat iett three irr2n on board to assist m bringing her into Teriay Harbour with the evening' tide, the vessel having sprung a leak. ...

... SWANSEA. ANOTHER CHILD SCALDKD TO DEATH.—At an inquest held at tiie Royal Staudard Inn ou ihe body of a child named Ruth Maud Cornelius, who died from the effect of scalas oa Thursday, it appeared that the child, while sitting on her unc.e's lap, placed her hand on the tea table, upset a cup of boiling ten, and sustained sucu scalds on the face that she died soon afterwards. A verdict of Death ...

... LIZRD SIGNAL STATION. THE LtZARD. Saturday.—W nd E, fre-h. Weather Pa88(i Nlai-y b.'th ot Aberysttvith; Tuermopytoe. of Aber(ieen steamers Ui.!pnnia, of Liverpool; 130ill and Fitzwi!uMQ, of -%IiLt(ilesb.-uugii Hepi.a.rchy, 01' London, PCls.sd of of Cork; Tharnes, of Pe!lzi ...

... TERRIBLE AFFAIR AT CARDIFF. SUPPOSED MURDER OF A HUSBAND. A SHOCKING STORY. Between Saturday afternoon and Sunday morn- in last, a shocking affair took place at Cardiff, ■j involving the death of a most respectable man. The victim was William Phillip: who resided at 14, Pembroke-street. He was 73 years of age, and having led a frugal and hird working life. he bad amassed a little property, on ...

... CHARGE OF NIGHT POACH- ING AT LLANDILO. EXTRAORDINARY CROSS-SWEARING. Fur upwards of four hours on Saturday last the r«'ig,straies at LJandilo police-court were engaged in JiiV- stigating a most remarkable charge of night £ oaohinsr. verdict ot th In Ùcø of the evidence is much ciiscussed. The sitting magis- trates were Messrs J. Feel, Herbert Peel, and Major Thursby Pelham. Tiie defendants ...

... r SIX PERSONS MURDERED. Wing-Shang-te was a native of the Chiangta district in Kiangsu. On the death of his f»tiie>h his mother again married a man named F' h Weu-h, by whom she had a son, P'an Chih-lin* Before his death P'an W^-a divided hia little farm of two mu equally between his! son and his stepson, and expressed a wisb r that they should live together in the three mud huts which formed ...

... W e ngrd to annonmce that with the dose of the year Mr T. p, O'Connor, i'iI.F., ceased to contribute our London Letters. The important undertaking which he is about to engage in-the starting of a new Loiabm paper—will render it impossible for him in fntnre to devote the tirncand attention requisite for a daily letter, and he has consequently been compelled to resijn the duty which for lhe ...

... AI-LEi-ED BI T! IN G CA SE AT LISWERRY At. Newport county police-court, on Saturday, Francis Goodman, black-niith, Li-.Wi.-rry, • umiDoued for assaulting Morris Edwards, hobbier, Nash. On Christmas Eve the complainant saw the defendant in the King of Prussia Inn, Liswerry, and told him thai he had not hod his pony to his liking. Defendant called him a liar, and offered to light, him for a ...

... AN UNFORTINATE COW. A valuable milch cow was rubbing itself against a pump in the farmyard of Hr Candeland, of Cod- dingtoii, when the covering of the well gave way, and the animal was precipitated to the bottom, a distance of 20ft. There is a depth of 24ft. of water ihthe well, and ths poor creature kept itself afloat^fd^five hours, when a rope was ultimately got ar&iod it, and it was beirg ...