... I A £ 20 Fine. The Wolverhampton stipendiary to-day fined a Widow named Clarke £20 and costs for selling milk adulterated with 16 per cent. of water. This was her third conviction. ...

... Mr Arthur O'Brien. Jones, surgeon to tha metropolitan police (Epsom division), has been found dead in his bed with a phial of prussic acid by his side. Ic is reported that he left a written statement explaining bis reasons for committing suicide. Mr Jones was 76 years of age. ...

... [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE BOHO.1 At a meeting of the Merthyr Burial isoara to-day, Mr E. P. Biddle moved from the chair that three paupers be buried in a grave at Cefn instead of one. This was seconded by Mr David Davies, Aberavou, and agreed tc, One thousand four hundred graves will be available each for two fresb burials under the operation of this motion. ...

... THE RECENT SUICIDE AT LLANTARNAM. With Reference to the painful death of a married -OlCan at Liantarnam, we are desired to state that the deceased was not suffering from religious kania, nor had she ever been an inmate of the 44YIum at Abergavenny, ...

... We regret to announce the death of Mr John Bra.ier, which took piace on Thursday at the age of 69 at his residence at the Mumbles. Mr BraUer was head of the well-known firm of Brader and Sons, of the Musical Instrument Warehouse, Wind-street, Swansea. He served his appr,-ntice.,I)it-, it and then came to S 'Uth Wales, settling at Swansea in resoonse to a pressing invitation from people of ...

... I Newmarket Training Notes. I (BY OUR NEWMARKET CORRKSPONDKNI ) NEWMARKET, Wednesday.—On the Bury side, Ban- bridge's Doric went six furlongs, Chaloner's Rigadoon and Barkham were sent a mile. George Daws«n's Ayrshire, Johnny Morgan, Editha, and St Patrick did a imilar gallop. J. Da won's sen, M.P. and RobtOrto galloued a mile and a quarter. Evans's Ginestraand Signonna went six furlongs. ...

... They say 7,000 book keepers are idle in New York. Bradford, jConn., has a seventy-year-old tele- graph messenger boy. It is witb -ancestry as with antiquity-nations are proud of bUe one, and individuals of the other. We wonlA like to see your mother, if she is not engaged- Seven-year.old Engaged! long ago, andgot married before I was born. Conversation warms the mind and enlivens the ...

... SINGULAR CASE OF DESERTION AT HAVERFORDWEST, Two Children left on a Door-step. At Haverfordwest petty session, held on Monday, Sarah Warren, a single woman, was charged under the Vagrant Act with deserting her two children. Superintendent Williams informed the bench that late on Saturday night he received information to the effect that two children had been discovered on the doorstep of the ...

... as Prbhate of the will, dated 19th October, 188,!of me the late Mr. Joseph Leopold Rosenheim, of r, Croxteth-road, Liverpool, cotton merchant, who 4 died on the l2th January last has been granted to the executors; his wife, Aire. Johanna Rosen- as hei4n; his brother Mr. Herman Rosenheim, of 3f Lime-street Square, London, wine merchant - his r, friend Mr. Benjamin Newgass, formerly of Liver- Df ...

... I~OUUrONDON CORRPONDENcE4 Members.allied in the House of Commons t this afternoon in hgh spiits at the prospct-of d a debate on the inrease In the ?? duties. n, Most of them went home again before eight is . o'cock, sadder but not wiser men. The debate t] would have taxed the itelligence of the is united Chancery bar. Mr. Goschen, Sir 'si r- Richard Webster, Mr. Gladstone, Sir Horacer k a ...

... Aa-0 -- -- - s THE MERCANTILE MARINE L SERVICE ASSOCIATION. ti The annual reeting of the members and aso- the ciates of the Mercantile Marine SernvieAmmxtion of l was held yesterday afternoon in the Council COan- as hew at the Town ll. The Mayor (Mr. E. H. bce Cookaon) presided, and amongst those present anc were Mes Clarke Aspi Thomas 31i~in, ra John Temple, Captain . J. Ward. pre- f eldent; ...

... FORECASTS FOR TO-DAY. i eN 0. Scotlalld, S. -South-easterly iyinds, moderate,. at. fresh: fair z7neralCy. l. Scotland, Li.-S mo 35as O. Z aeuinlana, N.E.-South-casterly winds, imoderrte; fair In unsetuled, and soene rain. at 3. Eugland, E.-South-caistOrly and southerly wind;s, n-hl, neeno1e~te; Close, unstiLeld, scale rain- hi thunder loclv. I t1 5 4. 'idland Counties--Ssime aq 3, 1 In 5 5. ...