... A BIG FIRE IN PARIS. J ■— 61; One of the largest fires which have taken place in Paris since the destruction of the Opera. Comiqua occurred early yesterday morning,on tha tr Bouivard Richard Lenoir. It broke out in the Communal Board School, and, fanned by the. high wind, the fl.unea extended to every part of the building. The boys' school was burned down, but the firemen succeeded in savins: ...

... A satisfactory settlement of the strike in the Bolton cotton trade was arrived at (In Tuesday night, when the masters accepted the proposals of the operatives. The strike caused 26,000 work people tojbe put on short time,which meant a loss of £ 20,000 in wages in three weeks in the spinning industry, the operatives in coilateral .iadustriea also beicg affected, ...

... LLANDAFF POLICE-COURT. TO-DAY. I ROBBKRY BY A BOY.-At tlie LJanddf police- court this ii-orsg-before Colonels Page and Woods, and Messrs C. Thompson and R, ekar(is-a lad named George Jones, 10 years old, and residing at 4, Cross-street, Maindy, was charged by Benjamin Reed, of the same address, with stealing a counterpane and a sheet on the 19ch inst. inirg Reed R:\id she and her husband ...

... THE QUEEN AND THE WOMEN OF WHITECHAPEL. Mrs Barnett, wife of the Vicar of St Jude's, Whitechapel, has received the following reply to a memorial, which was signed by nearly 6,000 i women of the labouring classes of East London, | asking the ...

... It MIPiACLEO,.i AT GLASGOW. I Many sick persons and pulferers have flocked to Dalbeith Convent, Glasgow, where Canon Larkin, ;t young Roman Catboli j priest, is said tu have performed miraculous cures. Parsons have entered his presence w ith ciutches, and left without them. Arrong otlie'r alleged etires is that of Daniel Plinn, a miner, pged 70, who has, it is said, been afflicted foil mauy. ...

... REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE I IIEV J. TI-IOMAS, CARNU. A well informed correspondent writes respecting this event to the following effect :dr Thomas was born at Llangynog, Montgomeryshire, and was, when a young matt, a quarryman in that place. He was, therefore, one of the many quarrymen who have made their mark a8 preachers in the Principality. As a young man be was possessed of a good moral ...

... GOLDIE BROS., The People's Photographers Queen-street Studio, 66, Queen-street, Cardiff. A, kinds of old photographs, &c Copied and Enlarged rom C D.V. to life size. 527 Printed and Published try the Proprietorx DAVID DUNCAN SONS, at their Steam Priatisg Works, 82 and 83, St Mary-street, and Westgate-streefc in the towa of Cardiff in the county of Glaosergaa. ...

... The Septuagenarian Desires Longer Life. At the Newport borough police-court to-day, Mark Ryall, a white-haired old man, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. A young man, named Samuel George Sidney, was going over Newport Bridge shortly after nine o'clock on Monday evening, when he saw prisoner acting in a way that excited his suspicions. He watched him for a quarter of an hour, and ...

... District Intelligence. I CARDIFF. I CHAKLES-STBEET UONGKKGATIONAL CHURCH.- Last evening a concert was giveu at the school- room of the Charles-street Congregational Church, in connection with the Young People's Winter Evenings. Alderman Lewis occupied the chair, and there was a large attendance. The piece de resistance of the programme was Bradbury's cantata, Esther, which was rendered by ...

... STRIKE AT HOLLYBUSH COLLIERY. On Monday, the 31st of December, the oollieffB of the above colliery came out on strike because their employer refused to grant them any payment for cutting roads in stalls, work which it had hitherto been the*custom of t i men to do without receiving any payment. On Monday last a meeting was held at the Castle Inn, Argoed, to consider an offer made by their ...

... At Liverpool on Wednesday, Alexander Ingram, aged 68, was committed to the assises charged with the wilful murder of his step- daughter, a married woman named Barclay, whom he stabbed with a sword bayonetduring quarrel on Christmas Eve. Since the tragedy, prisoner's wife, the mother of the deceased, has died from shock. ...

... Two adjourned inquests were held at the Talbot Hotel, Newport, this morning, before Mr Martin Edwards, coroner for the district. The first was as to the cause of the death of John Pritchard labourer, employed at the Eastern Dry Dock, and who met his death on the 5th instant, by falling into the caisson chamber at the dock. The inquiry was adjourned that the coroner might inspect the place. He ...