... About Women. ON BEING PRESENTED AT COURT. As each spring comes round, says the Lady, the number of those desirous of being presented increases, and the reason for this is not far to seek. The usual number of Drawiug Rooms held each year is four—two before Easter and two after. These are now held at Buckingham Palace, instead of, as formerly, at St. James's Palace. One of the privileges ...

... I A HUMAN OSTRICH. An extraordinary case was investigated at Gloucester County Asylum on Wednesday by Mr J. Waghorne (coroner) and a jury. Thomas Anderson, 52 years of age, gardener's labourer, was admitted to the institution on January 23rd from Cheltenham Workhouse, and died on February 10th. A post-mortem examination revealed the presence in his 3tomach of a florin, two half-crowns, and 16 ...

... Messrs Cooper and Williams, provision mer- chants, the Hayes, will distribute 200 gallons of soup with bread on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week between 12 and 2 o'clock to the deserving poor of Cardiff. Persons desirous of availing themselves of this gifb should bring their juvs and basins. ...

... -Bat-oh-of Convictiolis. The following persons were convicted at Car- diff Police-court to-day of selling beer withoui licenses JohnKirby, of 24, Ellen-street, £ 10 and oostt or one month. Rose Slater, 15, Peel-street, £10 and costs ot one month. Jobn Buckley, 25, Stanley-street, £ 10 and costs, or one month. Several persons were also convicted for frequenting, fines, ranging from 5s and costs ...

... THREE WOMEN SUFFOCATED. An inquest on the bodies of three women, who were found dead in bed at Sunderland, on Wednesday, concluded on Thursday evening in a verdict of death by asphyxia. The evidence justified the theory that the flap of'the register stove in tho bedroom fell down. and that the slow combustion of the coal in the tire caused the room, which was not ventilated, to be filled with ...

... THE FLOWEKS THAT BLOOM IN THE WINTKR.— A correspondent writes to a morning paper It may interest your readers to kuow that) in the seven weeks ended with the 31st of December last I counted 1 ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE VICTUAL- LERS' ASSOCI KTION. The annual meeting of the members of tha Monmouthshire License Vtc?na?ers' Association was held at the West?tf HoCi?l, Newport, on Thursday. Mr S. Howells, of Blaina, was I appointed president for the ensuing year. and Mr J. T. Pritchard (Bunch of Grapes, Newport), vice-president, he having taken part with Mr \Dean and others ill the formation of the ...

... THE LIBERATOR PROSECUTtON. -? ALLEGED FHAUD AND CONSPtRACY RESUMED HEAR!NG. tLLNESS OF A DEFENDANT JLONDON, Wedt,qel-,Iy. -At the G-,iildbtll this morning Mr Atuerman Davies resumed the hearlllg of the charge of conspiracy and fr?ud ag&inst Rva directors of the B?four Gruup of Cotnpanic-s, Messrs F. COldweJl: I G. E. Brook. George Dfb!ey. Morre!) Theobald, und Major Wright. The case had been ...

... Missing for Six Weeks. fchn 4. Carles Henry James, aged 32, WIU/'JV08.'1'^ ak Tredegar-street, Cardiff. Bear 'n^ 'n t'le Glamorganshire Canal, |J4J ,e Lock, Cardiff, to-day. Deceased had been missmg from home for the past six woeki, and it was supposed he had gone to sea. ...

... I THE ALLEGED WORKHOUSE INHUMANITY. I j At the Clerkenwell Pobee-couvt Mr Wills, industrial officer, attended l1d ?aid that lie vvished to make an explanation with regard to the magistrate's complaint against the officials of the St. Luke's Workhouse of having sent a boy to the court insufficiently clad. The boy, Alfred Brimsou, had originally been c'uargvd with begging, and remanded to the ...

... I SOCIETY OF MUSICIANS. A meeting of the South NValeg section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians was held at the Guildhall, Swansea, on Thursday afternoon, Mr H. Radeliffe (Swansea), presiding. Amongst those present were Mrs Alfred Morris, Caerleon Miss Harriet Phillips, Belle Vue Miss Field, Messrs T. Davies, Cardiff W. T. Samuel and J. F. Tucker, Swansea E. Lawrence, Merthyr T. David, ...

... In a recent lecture at the Royal Institution, I B. W. Richardson says that the sleep of health dreamless. Dreams, says Shakespeare, children of an idle brain. It both the doctor. the poet are right, it follows that idle brains art unhealthy brains. No doubt there might truth in the inference, but that is not quite point. Are all dreams signs of a diseased dition ? To this the doctor says No ...