... I Here and There. A circular city railway is to be constructed in Mr G. J. Goschen, who was born in 1831, cele- I brated his birthday yesterday. Charies Lamb declared that it might sweeten a m'.m's temper at any time to read The Corn- Angler. If the besetting sin of boys is activity in the wrong place—called mischief so the besetting sin of giris if often extravagant emotionalism—called ...

... FERNDALE MINERS. I Fear and Distrust: HAUUERS CAUSE INDIGNATION. I [SFHCIAt.TKLKCHAM TO TllE I.:CHO.) In accordance with the agreement arrived at by the Ferndale miners yesterday, work has not been resumed at any of these collieries. One ot ourrepresentatives visited the district this morning half expecting to see a, repetition of yesterday's scenes, but all was quiet, and, with the exception ...

... Rhondda Hauliers on the March. PONTYPRIDD, 11.45 A.M.—A body of hauliers this morning marched to Gilely Colliery, near Tonyrefail, and there induced men nt work to go on strike. The processionists are now proceeding over the mountains in the direction of Ciydach Vale, the rumour having gone furth that work is being carried on. In the Rhondlla. Valley every pit is idle. ...

... Second Day. I The fifth annual show of the Cardiff Hovticui- teral Society was continued to-day, and it was hojied that the popular prices of admission on an early-closing after- noon woind attract a sufficiently large number of visitors to mak e up for in takings on Tuesday, as compared with those of the opening day la-it year. It. however, has to be taken into account that last year's show ...

... Breach of Promise. ACTION AGAINST A CARPET DYER, Damages £200. Yesterday, Mr R. C. Heath (UIKIM- Sheriff fo» Warwickshire) and a jury sat at the Victoria Courts, Birmingham, for the purpose of assessing damages in an action brought by Retta Harman, spinster, Kidderminster, against George Day Turton, carpet dyer, also of Kidderminster, for breach of promise of marriage. £ 1,000 were claimed. Mr ...

... Three children of Mr Shepherd, tobacconist, were suffocated by fire at Croydon last night. ...

... At a meeting of the above board, held yester- day, Mr D. Morgan, miners' agent, in accord- ance with his notice of motion, moved that the clerk be instructed to send to the Education Department the whole of the particulars of the special meeting convened on July 3rd, at which it was decided to close the schools on the day of the RoyaJ wedding, with the view of drawing the attention of the ...

... I Letter to a Cardiff Ret. I A resident in Cardiff li»s d from one of the survivors of the Vict letter in which some very interesting referere made to the recent naval disaster. In Irse of his communication he say.% writing uda Uay, July 17th Nothing new has tcked up from the wreck, and this points tfact that most of the drowned were entom the ship as she turned over on them, niscape iLn- ...

... THE VICTORIA DISASTER. I Illness of Captain Burke. The Press Association is informed that Captain Hon. Maurice Bourke, late of H.M.S. Victoria, has arrived in London. He has been compelled to keep his bed during the voyage home from Gibraltar, having contracted a chill, which resulted in a slight attack of jaundice. Cap- tain Bourke is now staying at the residence of his mother, Lady Mayo, in ...

... Further Recovery of Bodies. I LATEST INCIDENTS. J Distressing Scenes. I [SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE ECHO.] PoKT lALBOT, Tuesday.-Early this mornmg large crowds of people went down to the beach, where two additional bodies were found, having bean washed up by the sea. They were those of a young man concerning whom nothing is at present known, and of a girl who was subsequently identified ae ...

... fHE ACCiDENT ON WiMBLEDON COMMON. C,e,ath of the injured Gunner. The p.jor feUowv.'howa.s injured by the Mow- m? b:tCk of the breech of c\un at \Vlll1uJedon last week has succumbed to his wounds. He was very cheerful up till Frtda.y, butmortiticattion then set i, a,nd, though his ...

... One of the characteristics of Mr Blackmoro he author of Lorna Doone, is his micro- scopical handwriting. A specimen appears in his signature to a portrait with which a new edition of the fain JUS novel is embellished. Blackmoro looks in his old age like one of Ins own West-country yeoman. OaijKLUMi is a plaster as thin as silk which iiever iails to remove rorns and bunions and reduce ...