... The Correspondence de L'Est publishes a letter from Monastir, which gives the most grievous details as to the brigandage now rife in Mace- donia. It reports that no fewer than 200 persons have been murdered and roSbed within the last two months. Two brigands, named Shakir and Osman, each of whom has committed more than 20 murders, are said to be terrorising the country. They were marauding in ...

... Welsh Sunday-closing Act. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE NEXT VISI r TO SOUTH WALES. The Commissioners resumed their inquiry to- day at Rbyl in the Town-hall. Lord Balfour of Burleigh presided, and the other Commissioners present were Lord Emlyn, the Hon J. T. Hibbert, Sir R. Harington, MrH. Lloyd, and the secretary, Professor Rhys. There was only a small attend- ance of the general public. Before the ...

... TO-DAY'S SHIPPING. I Lloyd's Casualty Telegrams. I The British steamer Peconic has put into Norfolk (Virginia) with her machinery out of order repairs will require several days. The Norwegian barque Sylphiden, from Cuba for Europe, with cedar, put into Charlestown, leaky probably must discharge. The steamer Radnor, of Rotterdam for Newport, with ballasc, has been towed into Falmouth with her ...

... Welsh Sunday Closing I Act, THE ROYAL COMMISSION. SECOND SITTING AT WREXHAM. I WRUHAM, Wednesday Evening. The proca^diugs to-day at the Royal Commis- sion wore certainly of a ons-jided character. The remarkable unanimity of the testimony brought forward by the representatives of all classes of the community, and by clergymen of all religious de- nominations, must have made a deep impressiou on ...

... STEALING A CORPSE. I A Vienna correspondent telegrapbs: On Saturday afternoon the son of a hospital porter was walking with his mother, for whom be was carrying a bag which they were to deliver to a professor of anatomy. A tall man followed them, and sud- denly seized the bag and disappeared with it. The thief will have bad an unpleasant surprise on opening the bag, as it contained the head of ...

... Speeches by Mr Maitland, M.P., and Mr Warmington, M.P. On Monday, Brynmawr was quite en fere, the occasion being a visit from the popular county member, Mr W. Fuller Mait- land, who was nccompanied by Mr C. M. Warmington, M.P. for West Monmouthshire. A large number of the Liberal committee met at the Rehoboth vestry, and, headed by the County Liberal Brass Band, under Mr J. Foxball, marched to ...

... The Citation not yet Served. f The Freeman's Journal states that no attempt has beeu maae to serve the citation either on Mr Parnell or Mrs O Shea, although a week has elapsed since the petition alleged to ha%e been 1;lIted, and the practice is to serve citations immediately when possible. Mr Parneli's solicitors (Messrs Lewis aud Lewis) are ia- structed to ascertain whether a petition has ...

... TO-DAY'S MARKETS. CORN LONDON, Friday.—Little or no business doir.o; in wheat, and prices remain nominally the ialize as la-t Monday. Flour very slow. Bailey dull. Oars and maize quiet and nominally unaltered. Arrivals Uritisb-Wheat, 1,.350 qrs; barley, 2,120 qrs. Foreign —Wheat, 28,150 qrs; bjrley, 21,060 qrs; oats, 12,440 qrs; maize, 1,320 qrs; ilour, 28,240 sacks. GLASGOW. Friday.—Marker ...

... Lying in State. I [CENTRAL NEWS TKLEORAM. | Vf*NNAt Monday.—Owing to the an- flounceuient that the public would bo this morning admitted to the Court Chapel of the Hofbnrg to see the lying in state of the late Crown Prince Rndolpbf a vast crowd gatbered at ail early hour round the entrance, their numbers ;ncreasing every minute. Two battallOu of infantry and a squadron of cavalry Were drawii ...

... THE ATTEMPT TO POISON BY I A TUTOR. Our Swansea reporter telegraphs:—Though no information has reached Swansea con- necting the gentleman whom a Ger- man tutor attempted to poison with the family of the Swansea stipendiary magis- trate, it is a fact that Mr Fowler has a son named John Bacon Fowler, that he is an archi- tect, and that he is now oa the continent for the benefit of his health. ...

... 'ibis space is left for any special eveat arriving wbibs this edition ia beircar crlntsd (,3, i 'LlLU-_»LHJ ■ ■■ ...

... CRIMPING AT NEWPORT. At Newport borough police-court to-day—before the Mayor and Mr G. Hoskins-Louis Goule, boarding-honse keeper, and Henry EvansoD, runner in his employ, were summond for board- ing theBritisb ship Queenscliff without permission of the master. The vessel was towed up the Uek on Thursday last, on the completion of her voyage. Evanson hoarded the vessel near the Pilot's Pill, ...