... WATCYN WYN ON ATIIAN FARDD. Whenever Wateyn Wyn appoars among the f Swansea Cymmrodorion—and it is none too often -he always finds a full room and the heartiest of Welsh greetings, and Tuesday night's meeting, over which Dr. John Evans, Pagefield House, presided, was by no means an exception. On this occasion the Poet of Ammanford's subject was unusually attractive to the confraternity, for he ...

... HEXHAM. Mr. Richard Clayton (Conservative) and Mr. Miles McInnes (Liberal) were yesterday nomina- ted to contest the seat at Hexham, rendered vacant by the unseating of Mr. Clayton's brother. ...

... FACTS FANCIES. « SOME COPIOUS SNUFFBOXES. The South Kpnsingf-c^t Museum contains many ran aud beautiful snuffb 3 of the last century, plair and enamelled, mi of papier mdche, horn, silver, and gold, simple *TIJ co, npliest? 1, 3mall and large. Curious materia.4 worl somedmes used in tht maniifac'tir- cf these t>o.;rs. Pome 63 years age potato wpre in rnmnton uro. They were made of potato pulp, ...

... NOTES ON NEWS. In the House of Lords A FOOLISH last night, Lord Salis- PHILIPPIC. bGry, the brilliant cliicf of the Tory party, as Mr. Gladstone called him, endeavoured to make party capital out of the fact that the Church Estate Commissioner thought it well to leiuse to allow a new ecclesiastical d.istrict to be created in Colwyn Bay. The arrangement of a new district of Llandrillio ...

... Some weeks ago the wife of a-workman kept a shop as-A small provision dealer in waR found, with her little child,, murdered in a; • behind the shop, and piirt of her valosbteg^, tod money stolen. CtrK'Bunday the murderer wasa j, aiRco vered in the pemon of a boyof 15 years oT age, the son of a workiBttm who formerly lived in le fsa'1JO hou^o with the. murdered wom«.n. He oused suspicions on ...

... THEfLOSS OF THE ROUMANIA. At the resumed' i»qfc»iry a,t Westminster to-da^^ resvpecting the losg of the steamsliip Rouma«ja.. Cai?t. Ha»»lboti^ one of the survivors, reeailed.\ saii^he coeld not'« say whether, if there-di&d been iitebeite^for-aMVthe passengers, and within reacli^ many of them wowftd have been saved. Cant. Darling, of the Clam Grant, stated that on the, night the^Roinnania ...

... MURDER OR SUICIDE. Yesterday some fishermen found tbn hod ot. Mr. Chas. Ke-unett. of London, floating shot-e at Beauliyu. AH efforts to restore con- sciousness were unsuccessful, and the sooti expired. IIo is known to havC WOu at Monte Carlo, and when picked vv his 'In-w had been cut. 1 lu,w. ...

... V tThe day^of1 noi»ination of^ candidates for the> 'Oiftesliead ^Scetion is fixed>for Monday next, and? f^he jpollin^-for the following Friday. ...

... Fears are expressed in naval circles that the Howe will never pay for the expense of raising her and fitting her for service. The sum payable to the Neptune Salvage Company, which is ex- pected to reach JE35,000, will probably not repre- sent half of the expense incurred in connection- o&re ot the ve^gi, ...

... WE ACCEPT WITH GRATITUDE. AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. DAVITT, M.P. Mr. Davitt was in excellent spirits. He had just come from a meeting of his party, and though, of course, the proceedings of the meeting are strictly secret, it was obvious from his demeanour that everything had gone well. Yes, he said, ve accept the Bill with gratitude, and we consider it a great advance on the Bill of 1836. Of ...

... HOME RULE'S BAPTISM OF FIRE. Itisbntnaturabthat Mr. Gladstone's Hornet, Rule Bill should meet with hostile and, some- times, bitter criticism at the hands of the 'Unionists; and it is equally natural that, in a highly complicated measure of this sort, Mr. :Gladstone's.own,foHowers may objeefcfco some of the details. We confess that wo were wofully xhsappointed with Mr. Balfoor's speech list ...

... BRUISERS AT SWANSEA. GLOVE FIGHT FOR £100. KNOCKED OUT IN THREE MINUTES. VICTORY OF THE SWANSEA MAN. A large number of the Sporting fraternity assembled at the Drill Hall, Singleton Street, Swansea, last evening, to witness a glove tight to a finish, for £50 a side under Marquis of Queensbury Rules, the contestants being Patsy Perkins, lace-of Swansea, and now of Merthyr, and John Thomas, of ...