... LordKandoipi) OhurchiH and Lord Diraraven were at Newmarket yesterday, and the work of R. Sherwood's horses was done in their presence. Philomel had a capital gallop of one mile and a quarter, and a number oi two-year-olds were given some smart spins, four of them being stripped and sent at top speed five furlonga on 1 Side Hill trial ground, in compauy with Rough and Keady. ...

... A RARE BIBLE. I Two copies in excellent preservation of the first edition (1506) of the very rare version of the scriptures known as Lichtenstein's Bohemian Bible, have come into the hands of Mr Bernard Quaritcb. Only eight specimens of this edition of the black letter Biblij Czeska are known Apart from its rarity, the book in question is remarkable on account of its coloured wood-cuts, one ...

... The special feature in this evening's programme is the appearance of Mr Alice Shaw, the hdy whistler, whose performances have attracted so much attention, and who now makes her first appearance in Cardiff. Amongst other selections, she will this evening give the well-known passage, It Bacio. As tho leading exponent of a novel form of music, so popular has she become that on a recent occasion ...

... MR S. T. EVANS'S CANDIDA- I TURE. [FROM OUR SPECIAL RIEPORTER.1 I PONTTRHYDYFEN, Friday Night. It is difficult to describe the varied feelings with which the announcement of Mr Mortimer's withdrawal has been to-day received in the several districts of the division. There is, of course, a general rejoicing that the Liberal candidate will thus be spared a vast amount of unnecessary trouble and ...

... The Press Association gives on authority the following outline of Lord Randolph Churchill's L quor Bill The measure proposes to Rive to a popular authority, the county council, by means of com- mittees, the sole control over licences. It con- tains provisions for gradually reducing the number of licences that can be granted, the policy adopted in this connection being rather in the direction ...

... FAILURE li THE HARDWARE TRADE. The failure is announced in the London Bank nlpcy Court to-day of Higgitt and Bland, iroi and ,hardware merchants, Saurhwark Bridge road. The liabilities are estimated at £ 50,000. and the assets at a similar amount, ...

... THE TRAFFIC AT TREFOREST. Taff Vale v, Barry Company. I On Tuesday the Railway Commissioners, Mr Justice Wills, the Right Hon. Sir Frederick Peel, and Mr Commissioner W. P. Price resumed, for the fifth time, the hearing of an application by the Tuff Vale Railway Company to have a bonus fixed which the Barry Dock and Railways Company should pay them for collecting and delivering traffic to them ...

...  THE STRANDED BALLET  GIRLS, Appeal to the Public. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,—Anyone reading your article in last night's and this morning's papers would be under the impression that we had been receiving £.3 a week, but we wish it to be known that such is not the cise bad it been so, we would have been in a position to have reached our homes in London. Instead of receiving that amouut, we wish ...

... Thi?? SPACE IS left for any special event arriving hilet ise(titioiiisbeiug printedoif BAHEY DIVIDEND Barrv directors decided to- day to declare a dividend at rate of five and^a halfJ per ...

... Jake K-irain is not satisfied with his late six rounds contest with Corbet: and a match has been made between tueni to light to a finish, some time in lie X¡; J1\o!)tb. ...

... DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY, To-day a deputation of miners' delegates representing all the great coal-ruining centres Waited upon Mr Matthews at tho Home Office, and urged the importance of Government support of the Eight Hours Bill for colliers. The deputation agreed in representing that, owing to the vitiated atmosphere in which the coalminer Worked, his hours of labour should be ...

... AND JOURNA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1890. LocAL WEATEE FORCAST.--EmsterIy or oth- eeasterly wiande, moderate; cold, far. I In the Rouse of- Commons, yesterday after- noon, the subject of Rome Rule for Scotland was discussed; Dr. CTArs moving an amendment to the Address, submitting that the present mode 6f legislating for the domestic affairs of Scotland was unsatisfactory, and urging the ...