... LONDON LETTER. [BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. I [SPECIALLY WIRED. I LONDON, Wednesday Night. The turn events took 011 Monday before the commission of judges is likely to have an important effect upon the progress of the action entered by Mr Parnell against the Times in the Scotch courts. Under the impressiou, entertained on both sides, that the commission of judges wuuld more or less tollow the ...

... REALISTIC PICTURE AT THE ART EXHIBITION. A realistic picture of the fire of Monday night last has just been placed in the Art Society's Exhibition at Cardiff. The fire was ketched from Windsor terrace by Mr Parker Hagarty, R.C.A., of the Liverpool Academy, who is the guest of Mr Edwin Seward in connection with the arraugement of the exhibition. Mr Hagarty has now produced a most effective ...

... Daniel Rowlands, traveller, of Cardie WM charged on Wednesday at Merthyr police-ctiurt- before Mr North and MrSuiyth—with embezzling JB1 belonging to W. E. Williams & Co., wine, and spirit merchants, Merthyr, his employers. Mr Chas. Russell James, for the prosecution, mentioned that the defalcations amounted to j672, and they were afraid it would really reach a much larger amount. They had ...

... LONDON LETTER. [BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. 1 [SPEOIALLY WIRICD. LONDON, Tuesday Night. The release of Mr John Dillon, announced this evening, comes with a shock of surprise upon his personal friends. There is mingled with this feeling one of grave apprehension. It is well known that Mr Balfour is not a man easily moved by feelings of humanity, or what he would call sentimentality. Since he has ...

... TO THE EDITOR. Slit,-In Saturday's issue of the Daily News there appears an account of a miners' meeting held at the above place on Thursday evening last, and it seems that the chief object of the meeting was to pass a resolution urging the magistrates to grant an application for a license to a building called the Victoria Hotel. Now, sir, I wish to ask what right had the work- men's ...

... MILITARY RIOT IN DUBLIN. THIRTY MEN WOUNDED. A Dublin telegram gives the following account of a military disturbance which has occurred thereA fierce fight took place on Tuesday evening at the Royal Barracks. A number of men of the Black Watch, the Highlanders, and the 5th Dragoon Guards quarrelled in the canteen over a statement on a pohtical question made by one of the men. A fight ensued, ...

... AN EX-CABINET MINISTER AT CARDIFF, A DISTINGUISHED VISITOR AT THE COLONIAL-HALL. Tbe Hon. T. L. James, ex-Postmaster-General of the United States, who was one of the most prominent members of the Garfield Cabinet, will address a public meeting to-night at the Colonial- hall. The meetinsr, which is held under the auspices of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion, will be open to all, and Mr James, Mr Arthur ...

... | RUSSIAN NAVAL MANOEUVRES. PC [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.] 3 t ST. PETERSBORGJ Tuesday Morning. — It is igl 'tated to-day, on good authority, that the naval t TiHnoeuvres of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea f oill take place at the end of September. ...

... SWANSEA. A QUEER KIND OF OBSTRUCTION.—At the Swansea police-court on T u c-s(lvy-be fore Messrs J, C. Fowler, T. Phillips, and W. Stone—A lad named William Morgan Burns, aged 14, of Hafod, was summoned for causing an obstruction on a pavement at the Hafod on the 18TH inst. It was proved that defendant was one of twenty others who were in the hubit of sitting across the pavement, and so totally ...

... RUGBY FOOTBALL UNION. THE QUESTION OF RULES. PROPOSED IMPORTANT ALTERA- TIONS. Ic is proposed to make important alterations is the laws of the Rugby Union game, and tbeae come on for discussion after the annual general meeting to be beld on October 4tb. A penalty for handling the ball and falline down in the scrimmage is made by the addition to law 14 of the words If, in the opinion of the ...

... IMPORTANT SALE OF SHARES AT CARDIFF. On Thursday afternoon Momrs Tregerthen jJonn and Company, auctioneers, of the Bute lJock«, offere^l for public competition at the -Cjxchangp, Mount Stuart-quare, a considerable number of shares held in local steamships, dry docks, and provincial tramways. There was a very large attendance, and bidding was brisk tbrougl.out. Lot 1, consisting of two 210 ...

... TO THIC KDITOB. SrB.-I observed a letter in one of your last week's issueR under the above heading, written by Mr Mark Lewis, Tredegar, the then Liberal gont for that division. The charges made by Mr Lewis, in my opinion, were nothing other than a bold and daring public attempt to injure Mr Morgan's caudidature. I see Mr Morgan has published a satisfactory explanation, and has made a clean ...