... THE fee charged varies in amount from 10', the most usual charge, to £1. In the list for the ensuing year there are six ptallions for which the fee is £113, 4- i (40 bre), English thoroughbreds. This is very small considering that a good deal of our best blood has been imported. The Italians have not confined themselves to the thoroughbred, for they have bought such well known specimens of the ...

... MR BRADLAUGHS~LIBEL ACTION. In the Court of Ssssion, Edinburgh, on WedoFL3J day, the case oi Mr Bradlaugh against Colston ADJ; Co. Edinburgh, for alleged libel in the life of Bradlaugh, came before Lord Trayner. The caS l had been delayed to see if a settlement could effected, but it was intimated on JWednesdw that the proposal had fallen through, and lordship, therefore, ordered the record to ...

... Mr Gladstone has addressed the following letter to a correspondent:- Sir,-I have censured, and I should continue to censure, the practice in Ireland of enlarging criminal sentences upon appeal, and of inflicting cumulative punishments in such a way as to defeat the evident intention of Parliament that no one should receive more tl,ati one month's imprison- ment under the so-called Crimes Act ...

... THE POPE AND IRELAND. GREAT MEETING IN PIKE NIX PAltK. SPEECHES BY MR DILLON AND MR O'BRIEN. I FROM OUR OWN COKHESPONDEN'T.] DUBLIN, Suuday. This afternoon a Jargely-Itttellded. Nationalist meeting was held in Piioea x Park to endorse the action of the Irish Roman Catholic members of Parliament in reference to the Papal circular. Several trades bands attended playing national air, The LORD ...

... SWANSEA. PRESENTATION TO MR W. H. EDWARDS.— Lieutenant Edwards, of the 1st Glamorgan Artillery Volunteer force, was on Saturday waited -on by a deputation representing the non- commissioned officers and men of his ibattery, and presented with a handsome glass (which can be used as a held, marine, or opera glass), as well a; with a beautifully wri^agiit silver match-box. The gift is a wedding ...

... THE JUBILEE CLOCK—Ever since Mr D. Pugii, AT. P., presented the tuivii with a clock on the occasion of the Jubilee, it has been the cause of repeated and hot contention at the local board. Having placed in the church tower, a section of the board objected to any portion of the rates being applied for its maintenance and care. A short time ago, on the board refusing to pay for gas that had been ...

... OBSEQUIES.—Ihe funeral of Mrs Yeo, wife of Mr T. Yeo, secretary of the Penrhiwceiber Colliery, took place on Friday, when a large concourse attended. Excellent wreath3 from the following friends were placed on the coffin—Mr and Mrs T. W. Yeo, Mr and Mrs W. Thomas, Brynawel, Aberdare Mr W. F. Thomas, Pen- rhiwceiber Mrs Yeo, Sketty, Swansea; the Penrhiwceiber office staff, and servants of the ...

... SATLRHAY NIGHT. Nothing could shake Johnny Morsau in the Man. chester Cup betting to-day, B to 2 being always taken. There was notidnc to choose between lissapherne- and Selby, and Reve d'Or, after opening at 10j to 15, left oil at. 6 io 1. takeu. scottish King was fcood 100 to 12, which pro-e w;is want, d tinaliy, and 10 to 1 was asked f,)r about Merry Andrew when the assembly at the club was ...

... DCNVTLLK'S OLD hUSH WH.JSKT 'econt-nende J by in prei eren-t,, i h;)I6 the s'toci or 1 u¡)Diiell 11: ,¿ ¿; Co htnt'Md, Royal Irish DisuUertes. BMiim.t. i0t)) ...

... SiR,—In your i.s.sns of the 16th yottr eorr* spuudent Sentinel'' trentsus to a fev.' comments on the above subject. First, be commences wtth profur-e praises of the masters principaliy invoiced, v'z..Mr Edwards and Mr Williams—his par excelletice tin-plate manufacturer, fair and 1'beral-minded employer, & ...

... Mr W. H. SflTH then moved that the order of the day for a committee on the impeiial defence (sxpensss) have precedonce this day of the notices of motion and other orders of the day. Mr BROADHURST opposed the motion. It was a breach of faith on the part of the Government, who had promised to keep a house that night for his motion with respect to distress in large towns. It might be said that ...

... SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A HORSE AT LLANTRISSAINT. iTAt Llantrissant police-court yesterday-before the stipendiary (Mr Iguatius Williams)and Mr E. John—Inspector Greenwell, of the R.S P.C.A., charged Thomas Williams (blacksmith), Davie: Lewis and Jacob Lewis (farmers), all of Pentyrch, with having, on the 17cb of April, cruelly ill- treated a horse by putting a piece of hot iron a foot in length iu ...