... The Man About Town. A change sweeps over the members of the Cardiff Town Council when the Marquis of Bute occupies the chair. Yesterday I scarcely recognised them. The genial smile of the Deputy Mayor invites jocularity all the schoolboy pranks and merry gibes of the Councillors ripen under it and come to a mellow and fruitful fullness. But the austere dignity of Lord Bute withers them up. It ...

... HEAVY FINE ON A FOOTBALL I TEAM. Much indignation w ...

... COL! ACCIDENT AT NEATH I Ase. • lent befelaman namedG. Francis, of Nen r • on Monday. He was employed as a Court Herbert Pit. One of the j¡ook 'Í to* tram became disconnected, with .It that Francis was knocked down u over by loaded trams. He was evere: his spine being injured, and eevera. bs broken. Dr D. Ll. Davies tttend, ,nd hopes are entertained of his recover; ...

... I THE GRAND THEATRE, CARDIFF I Mr Elphinstone's Benefit. The following is a copy *f a telegram received from Col. Boane to-day To Elphinstanc, Grand Theatre, Cardiff. Certainly, I will be there to perform fer your benefit on Tuesday nexib -BOO.E. ...

... A MAD BULL ON A RAILWAY. Traffic on the London, Chatham, and Dover I Rilway was much impeded this morning by a mad bull that had somehow got on the line. About seven o'clock the animal went careeering along between Camberwell and Wandsworth and was met by a Midland train running from Victoria. The animal careered right round and passed the train without injury, but was then followed up by a ...

... A boy aged, aged 211z years, died yesterday in Dundee Infirmary from terrible injuries by burning. He was amusing himself in his mother's absence, when he was seized by a man named Patrick Fearey, and held on the tire until the lower part of his body was literally roasted. The man was seized, and has been committed to a lunatic asylum. ...

... FLOWER SERVICE AT CARDIFF, At Bethany Chapel, Cardiff, the fifteenth annual midsummer floral service was held at seven o'clock this morning. There were from four to five hundred persons present, the youthful element largely predominating. The sacred edifice had been charmingly and chastely deoorated with a profusion of choice wild flowers and hardy annuals. The Rev W. E. Winks, pastor, ...

... THE ASSAULT ON THE BAtUFF AT CRYMMYCH. Mr Robert Lewis, the bailiff who was assnnlted at Crymmych Anna on Friday, and has since been laid up at Cardigan, is fast recovering. He is now able to go out for exercise daily, and does not appear much the worse for the ill-treatment h& experienced. Efforts are being made with a view of bringing the offenders to justice, but it is very doubtful whether ...

... I Lnr? Ca:-i?town ba? been appointed Liberal j j n hip in the House of Lords, vice Lord Wenlock. ...

... FOOTBALL. ] YNrsnm Jr?tin TKA?f at'e opan to arrnn?f ? matches wiili any junior team .avwjuv.! •. ...

... At Leamington, yesterday morning. Edmund Ross Chance, described aS a gentleman, Gloucester, was fined and costs, and also sent to gaol for a month, for interfering with the cam fort of passengers in a Great Western carriage- from Birmingham to Leamington, on the In of October. Defendant entered a third class carriage in a state of intoxication, and with a bulldog. Two gentlemen who were in ...

... SHIRT STEALING AT CARDIFF. At the Cardiff police-court to-day—before Mr T. W. Jacobs—Edward Payne, a laci of 15, was charged with stealing a shirt, value 2s, fram No. 91, May-street, the property of William Allen, on the 5tb instant. Prisoner had been twice before charged with offences, and was now sent to gaol for seven days. ...