... ON Monday last, the colliers working for Messrs Partridge, Jones, & Co., Varteg Works, held a meeting (which, however, was not largely attended), in the club room of the Hanbury Hotel, for the purpose of deciding whether they would accept of a reduction of 10 per cent. and have the privilege of working full time, or con- tinue at the old rate with a risk of losing a great deal of time. It was ...

... Moses Solomon, a German Jew, was charged with assaulting Sarah Ann Elkins, at Abersychan, on the 15th instant.—Complainant said that between 3 and 4 p.m. on Wednesday, the 15th instant, the defendant came to her house while she was having a cup of tea with a friend. She had had some furniture from him on the hire system that was to say, it was to be paid for by instalments, and when these ...

... THE LASX NIGHT OF OCTOBBR, All Hallow's Eve, or Hallowe'en, also known in the north of England as Nutcrack Night, and in Wales as Nos Calan Gauaf. has been from time immemorial celebrated (par- ticularly in Scotland and Ireland), by peculiar rites and customs, some of them even bordering on witch- craft and the supernatural, most of which, if not all, have for their object the finding of ...

... Hallowe'en was celebrated at Balmoral Castle, with unusual ceremony, in the presence of her Majesty, the Princess Beatrice, the ladies and gentleman of the Royal household, and a large gathering of the tenantry. The leading features of the celebration were a torch- light procession, the lighting of large bonfires, and the burning in effigy of witches and warlock?. Upwards of 150 torchbearers ...

... THE LEIGTHON BUZZARD MURDER. George Favei, a brother of the murdered woman, has been apprehended on a, charge of having ^killed the deceased. There are now three persons in custody for the murder, the mother and the brother of the deceased, and a young woman, the sweetheart of the above George Favel. ...

... A sad affair occurred on Monday night at a bonfire at Cradlev, Worcestershire. Two youths, David Taylor (16). and Felix Southall (17), said to be cousins, had been spending :be evening at a bonfire, and Taylor it seems made a remark about having the toothache. Southall was in possession of a pistol, and he went be- hind his companion, and putting his pistol towards his back, fired it with the ...

... INTIMIDATING WORKMEN. Three operative cotton spinners, named Peter Hulme Joseph Heavey, and John White, have 1,0.11 charged before the Manchester Stipendiary Magistrate with intimidating-» number of the hands employed &t the Brunswick Mill in that CIty. Some time ago several ot the spinners employ at the mill came out on strike, and a relay of men from Oldham was engaged to fill their places. ...

... Epps's COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND COMFORTING.—By thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern he operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a areful application of the tine properties of well- elected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast ] ables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may ave us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judi. cious use of such articles of diet that a ...

... The Paris Correspondent of The Times, writing on Monday, says :—A certain reaction of opinion is manifest respecting the conditional declarations qf Lord Derby. People are beginning, to feel that Count Schouvaloff was so anxious for the signing of the Protocol only because Russia, seeing in it only an ultimatum, Intended to make Use of it as an instru- ment of coercion authorized by Europe. ...

... It was officially announced that the German Court would go into mourning on Monday, and until the 30th inst., for Prince Louis Napoleon. ...

... The Rtpublique Franpaise considers that the event of the Prtnce's death has extinguished the Bonapartlst party. Do what it will, it say, the faction Is going to pieces. Most of the electors who remained faithful to the Empire will now the JRepublique Francaisc thinks, rally to the Republic. The Bonapartlst senators and deputies have meanwhile issued a proclamation, in which they Ray that, ...

... Epps's COCOA.-GRA TEF(;L AXD COMFORTING. By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition and by a careful application of the fine properties of well, selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a dehcately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judicious USCv KnmC eS diet that a ...