... S ThERSglIP DISSOLVED. William Lewis and William Henry Carter, ?? Lewis and Co., at Newport, Mon., engineers and atil- r repstrere. r TEB BlaTRBPTCY ACT, ;St3.-1IlOBIVINGI Edwin Beavan, St. jo as-place, May, Breconnshs. I Charles liles, Clytla Park-road, Newport. 2M11. builder and eontractor. i FEaST M5TrINGS AND DATES OF PUBLIC EyAkMIlNAIONS. ,, Jane Thomas and Martha Thomas, trading ar Ja e ...

... HAnHY ANDTCADOXTON LOCAL A special meeting of the above Board was held af Cadoxton on Monday atternoon, when there were present Mr Yi. D, Jotit,3 (in the chair), Rev Cauou Allen, and Messrs J. Robinson, J. Jones, P. J. O'Donnel', d- C. Meggitt, C. Morgan. W. Thomas, J. C. Pardoe (surveyor), J. Hughes (clerk), a°d C. (collector). A letter was read from the secretary or tte Barry Dock and ...

... PONTYPRIDD. FATAL ACCIDENT AT CILFTNYDD.—On Taes- day, at the B«ssetts Arm. Cdfynydd, Mr E. B. Reece, Cardiff, held an inquiry with reference to tf,e deatb of a lad named William Osborne, aged 13, who was killed at the Albion Colliery by being ttenck by a rope on Ccrwima* nigbt. Deceased was minding the rope on the pit bank, and by some means had his arm drawn into the machinery connected with ...

... THE WITHDRAWALS TO-DAY. I As this is the day upon which withdrawals of nominations must be made, we may expect to learn something as to the :final decision of the different candidates and their respective sup- potters. All attempts at arrangement of the dispate on the sectarian side have been unavail- ing. Up to last evening on change in the rela- tionship of the parties had taken place. ...

... General News. In reference to Mr Gladstone's review of the novel Eilen Middleton, the editor of Merry England states that be has a postcard written hy Alt Gladstone just a year ago which sanctions tha republioation of the review. If horses could form a union, they would assuredly strike against the neglect of the road- ways in Loudon whenever there is frost. It was distressing to sea how many ...

... JEN BY CANNIBALS. irices from San Francisco received at In on Tuesday state that intelligence c 1 there on December 23rd that the ot ee seamen of the British schooner rise were killed and eaten by cannibals at lond Island, one of the Solomon group, on ar 29th; and the newi of the massacre » been carried to Captain Hunt, of her pity's corvette Ruyalist,. he shelled the vil- pon the island. ...

... A horribl, been enacted at Gentillv. outside Par^ ere Madame Christophle killed her (jQ*and—a butcher—ia his sleep and then commi 3d suicide. The pair were both- young, and 1; i lately failed in business. Madame O'.ristophle two bullets in tlie temple, one of whic.. in its passage tore out an eye. Her husband b6ins had been blown out. Under the woman' body the police-inspector found a letter ...

... I PRESENTATION TO DR DAVIES, MAESTEG, On Monday evening a meeting of the workmen of North's Navigation Collieries was held in the Town-ball, Maesieg, for the purpose of presenting Dr Davies, the medical officer in connection with the works, with some memento in celebration of his marriage with Miss Aune Jenkins, of the Gelli. The only announcement of the meeting was a notification at the ...

... DEVELOPMENT OF MON- MOUTH VALLEYS. PROPOSED NEW URBAN DISTRICT. An inquiry was beld at Blackwood, Mon., on Tuegday before Mr A. D. Bernnjrton-the commission designated by the Monmouth County Council, as to the proposed conversion of the Bedwellty Rural Sanitary Authority into an urban district. Mr Daniell, barrister (instructed by Mr A. J. Sbepard, clerk, Tredegar), appeared for the applicants ...

... I MANCHESTER. CLUB HUNTERS' STEEPLECHASE.- Sportsman—>O More or RaLer Sportina Liie-o More or Hoheit; Field—Alba Land aud Water-Kaiser; Licensed Vie- tualleis' Gazette-N 0 More or Bachelor; Sporting Tllnes-No More or ilancir. MANCHESTER HANDICAP STEEPLECHAE.—Sportsman —Macph^rson or Belfry 6porrlag Life—Macpheraon or Belfry Field-Beltry Laud and w ater—sipabi or Astrachan; Licensed ...

... , . t j!e. GLxa;,.rorxB ? r. Gladstone (observes our London correspondenti has entered upon his eighty- first year in excellent health and spirits, and not the most determined of his political oppo- j nents will grudge him felicitations thereon. But it is another thing when Mr. Gladstone's t friends declare1 as they do, that the eightieth t anniversary of the right hon. gentleman's birthday ...

... OPTBRSVK OF FrBE.-Shortly before ote o'clock op iuesdiy atvi'rnoon some people passing down g M»rj-«rreet, near the Theatre Royal, noticed a of smoke issuing from the cellar of Our lijf s Cigar Di van, which is situated on the corner of Wood-street. The occupiert were ia- formed,but access to the cellar was presented by thifk smoke. The proprietor, Mr Salisbury, off to the fire-engine station ...