... PAST EVENTS IN OUR ISLAND I RECALLED. I MARCH 26tb. 1857-John Mitchell Kemble, Anglo-Saxon. scholar, died, aged 50. Be wrote The. Saxons in England. 1861-(Good Friday) A collision of two pleasure boats on Hollingworth Litke, near Roch. dale, resulted in the drowning of five men. 1867-After criticisms by Mr Bright, the Reform Bill was read a second time without a divi- sion. 1870—An aero ...

... THE WEEK'S MARKETS. CORN Glonce3t6r, Sr.tnrday.-Scarcely any Eugli8h wheat on offer. Foreign wheat—Plates, 29s 9d to 30s 9d. Galatz maize dull, 225 3d. Bessarabhtn maize. 24s 6-J. Weather close. Newport, Wednesday.—There was a moderate attendance, and a fair amount of business was done. Wheat slow sales, but slightly cheaper owing to fine weather. Maize 6d per qr. cheaper. Barley, oats. and ...

... CORN. Cardiff, Saturday.—The uemand for English wheat is quiet at unchanged rates. Foreign wheat steady at iast week's quotation, b'lour in good demand, and sold at last week's prices. Oats and barley quiet and unchanged from last week. Maize and beans firm. Peas a slow sale at barely late prices. Gloucester, Saturday.— f> nf?lish wheat -reds, 38 5d whites, 3s 6d to 3s 7d per bushel. Fpreign ...

... OCTOBER 1st. 1843—A monster Repeal meeting took place Sunday at the Rath of Mullagbmast, co. Kildaxe. 1852-Eliot Bjwer, the Paris correspondent of the Morning Advertiser, murdered Saville Morton, of the Dailv News, by wound- ing him in the neck with a knife when leaving his house in the Rue de Seze. 1854—(Sunday). A general thanksgiving for the abundant harvest was observed with great ...

... JANUARY 15tb. 1844—The Queen and Prince Albert proceeded on a visit. 1846,-A monster meeting was held in the Free Trade Hail, Manchester. Mr Cobden advanced able arguments for the immediate and total abolition of the Corn Lttws. 1867—A great crowd were skating on the ice of the ornamental waters in Regent's Park when it gave way, and 34 persons were drowned. 186S—Michael Bfu t and James ...

... JANUARY 29th. 1838-Lord Brougham, in the course of presenting an anti-slavery petition from Leeds, took occasion to speak at length, and with great animation, on that traffic, which he said flourished under the very expedient adopted i to crush it, and increased in consequence of the very measures resorted to for its ex- tinction. 1842-Mr Gregory, Conservative; defeated Lord Morpeth in the ...

... NEWCASTLE-ON- TYNE(2seats)-34590. Plummet „— _C 15,097 Re u wick.C 14,752 Storey L KM88 Cap*. Iiambtoa.. „ ,L 10!453 No change. 4264 1892. 1895, JJtodey L 12983 I Hamond U 12833 Ram U 11244 j Cruddas U 12170 j John Motley L 11862 Lib. majority. 1739 [-Craig L 11154 } Hamtml„ „Eab. 2302 i Agg. U. majority 993- MORPETH-8490. T. Bart. — .—L 3,117 Barry U 2,707 Majority .10 No change. 1892. 1895. ...

... MAY 14th. 1850-Hcnri Joseph Stepban, a, horn-player in the orchestra of her Majesty's Theatre, committed suicide by throwing himself from the top of the Dakc of York's Column 1S55—Fall of3 the Atlas Iiou Works, Southwark, and destruction of a largo quantity of shot and shell prepared for the Army in the Crheea. 1857—Robert Barr;3, eldest son of the poet, died, aged 71. 1868—Mi- Gladstone ...

... ALLEGED UNJUST SCALES. Charge Against the G.W.R. Co. The G.W.R. Company were the defendants ia a case at the Cardiff Police Ccart on Tuesday, in which the Cardiff Corporation Weighlw and Measnres Department prosecuted the company for hanug, in the branch parcel receiving office at 5, Pearson- place, Cardiff a spring platform weighing machine which was unjust. There was a further gammons for ...

... FUSILIERS' HEAVY LOSSES. 12 Killed and 41 Wounded, The War Office reports the following casualties sustained by the floyal Welsh Fusiliers at Frederickstad on October 24th:— KILLED—3824 Private W. Thomas, 3049 Lance-Corporal A Morris, 2084 Private, Foley, 2096 (9) Privata W- Williams, 1232 Private G. Jones, 1737 Private W. Evans. 5156 Lance-, Corporal E. Underwood, 3826 Private B. Jones, :5729 ...

... SELF-ACCUSED OF, MURDER. A Drunken Father's Crime. On Monday night at Barnley Dennis O'Hara, labourer, aged 45, gave himself up to the police on a charge of murdering his daughter, aged six. O'Hara had been living apart from his wife for about eix months, and had been drinking heavily. The child was seen near his house after leaving school on Sonday afternoon, and was afterward* found ...

... The Bishop of Llandaff at Baglan Church on Monday evening dedicated a fine peal of bells presented by Mr;i Griffith Llewellyn, Bftglan Efill, and an add-on to the cb»a«9i.« ...