... :IMPORTANT ACTIONS PENDING. I According to the Nottingham Daily Express we have not yet beard the last of the alleged abduc- tion of the little girl Plessy Brinniloy, at Notting- ham, or of the demand made by the local priest for the custody of her young brother, who is now an inmate of the Gordon Boys' Home. The Rev. Canon Douglass, who claims to be the guardian of the younger children of the ...

... The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph writes to-day :-A terrible case of mutiny has occurred in the Paris Opera-House, of all places in the world. A youthful coryphee, who was going through a rehearsal under the careful superinten- dence of the dancing-master attached to the establishment, suddenly grew mutinous because the choregrapbic professor bad found fault with some of her ...

... FEARFUL SUICIDE OF THE EX-CONVICT BENSON. [OKNTEAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] I NIW YORJt, Thursday—Benson, the notorious convict, who has been involved in many big swindling transactions, and whose latest venture was the fraudulent issuing of » large number of tickets professing to be bona fide admissions to Madame Patti's concerts in Mexico, bag committed suicide by throwing himself from a staircase* ...

... I Training Accidents. I Verdigris, by SpringUeld out of Griselda, broke her leg while at exercise at Newmarktt this morning, and Trenton, by Pellegrino out of Quern Esther, who was purchased by Captain Machell at Mr Benzon's sale on Wednesday, and cubsequently sold to Mr Leopold de Rothschild, split his pastern. ...

... District Intelligence. I CARDIFF. I EONGCROSS-STEKET ClilpLL.-The Rev H. E. Stoijt). tii NotLiugiiaiii, who is on a short visit to Cardiff, will preach at Longcross-street Baptist Chapel this (Thursday) night at 7.30. Mr is one of the most popular and successful Baptist ministers in the Midlands. PEOPIIRTR SALE.—Oa Wednesday afternoon, at the Queen's Hotel, St. Mary-street, Mr W. H. F. ...

... GHASTLY DISCOVERY AT NEWPORT. Early this morning, as steamers were being warped out of the Alexandra Dock, the body of a man was seen floating in the lock. A boat was procured, and the remains recovered. They are those of a middle-aged man, apparently a sailor or a fireman, and appeared, from their decomposed condition, to have been in the water a fortnight or three' weeks. Several gold coins ...

... WESLEYAN EFFORT AT NEWPORT. At the third anniversary of the Wesleyan Mission Schools, Price-street, Pillgwenlly, last evening, Mr P. Rowe, of Cardiff, presiding, plans were produced showing that it is the intention of the leaders of the missions to proceed with the erection of a handsome chapel. The Rev. J. S. Silcox, formerly on the Newport circuit, who was instrumental in getting the mission ...

... ATTEMPIEO SUICIDE NEAR FERNOALE. On Sunday afternoon, between 1 and 2, Mr Jauies Jppson, contractor, of thn Commercial Ho!el, F,.r d,,Ie (late of Cardiff), attempted suicide by cuttinar 1-ii throat with a knife. Jnpaon rode down from Ferndole to see his mother-in-law at Upper Boat, near Pontypridd, and, without any warning, he went to the bnck premises, and soon afterwards was found with his ...

... THE TWO MACS AND THEIR RIVALS. In the Court of Queen's Bench-before Mr Justice Manisty—an action has just been heard which was brought by Mr Frederick Michael Maccabe and Mr Patrick Joseph Maccabe against Mr John Patrick Macnally and Mr John William Young Maccabe, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful using of plaintiffs' professional name of The Two Macs, and for an injunction ...

... What the World bays. The Queen intends to confer the Order of the Garter upon Prince Henry of Prussia on tba occasion of his marriage. Her Majesty personally invested the youvg- Prince with the Bath (G.C.B.) when he was stayiug at Osborne a few years ago. The King of Portugal, whose health has been in a very unsatisfactory state for several months past, will leave Lisbon shortly, on his way ...

... Our National Defences. ENGLAND'S UNPREPAIiEDNESS. MR W. H. SMITH'S RESOLUTIONS, The Daily News, commenting on Mr W. H. Smith's resolutions on Imperial defence, says that the Prime Minister, if we may judge from bis so- called reply to Lord Wolseiey, is so occupied with diplomacy and with Irish policy that he has no Cue to spare for such trifles as the security of the Empire. It is a pity that ...

... General Boulanger. i ■ I HIS RETURN TO PARIS, I The Paris correspondent of the Tintes writes to- day: General Boulanger reached Paris this morning, but his return had a farcical character, and it is evident that the Parisians do not take him seriously, whatever may be the case in the provinces. A number of policemen were posted outside the station, and about a hundred youths had collected. The ...