... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN. SIR,—This is a text acceptable to every Conservative, and tie magistrates of the counties of Denbigh and Flint have now an opportunity of applying it by uniting those counties for police purposes. The Act 20 Vict., chap. 2, enables justices at quarter sessions to appoint a person as chief constable, although he may hold that office in any adjoining county or ...

... THE CATASTROPHE ON THE THAMES. WOOLWICH, Friday. Twenty-two bodies were recovered during last Bight and landed at Woolwich dockyard. A large staff of workers left for the wreck of the Princess Alice this morning to resume operations for raising her.—The Bywell Castle went down the Thames for a short voyage; the Board of Trade inquiry will not open until she returns.—A message was received here ...

... DEIFICATION. Some weeks ago, says the Atheraeum, we spoke of a Cauarese poem in honour of the Prince of \Yale2. In that piece the Prince was lauded as a veritable divinity, preseut to the sight of the inhabitants of the land of the Avatars. We have now to draw attention to two poems: the first is in Sanskrit, and it is by Ta. a Cband Sbastr. cf Datagunge, ivodaon, Meerur, X. W. P. the sv-cond ...

... COUNTY PETTY SESSIONS. Before Capt. Barker and E. Evans, Esq., DRUNK AT SUMMERHILL James Rolinion, miner, was charged witl being drunk and incapable on the 19th ult. P. C. Henshaw stated that at nine o'clock en the night in question he was at Summerhill, when he saw the defendant coming from the direction of Wrexham. He was very drunk. Fined 10s. and costs. ...

... PROPOSED CONFERENCE. The Austrian Cabinet on Sunday issued formal invitations to the Governments of signatory:Fowers of the Treaty of Paris to send reprssentatives to-ft con- ference to be held in Vienna.^ According to a St. Petersburg telegram public opiraon there, and more particularly at Moscow, regards the projected European Conference with disfavour. Some papers, in fact, speak of the ...

... OSWESTRY. TRINITY CHURCH.—The Earl of Powis promi-ed the sum ot JB50 towards the exfenswof the alterations to Trinity Church, but when the Vicar (the Rev F. Cashel) w ote to him last week for his sub enption, mentioning the fact that there wou d still bd a debt of £200 on the church, his lordship his usual generosity replied by sending a cheque for .£100 instead of .£:)0. RIVAL AUCTIONEERS.—Mr ...

... RHUDDLAN. THE ANNUAL HORTICULTURAL SHOW. The annual show of the Khuddlan district Horti- cult ural Society took place on Thur,dt% in tha grounds of the fine old castle at Rhuddlan, under the patronage of the High Sheriff of Flintshire. Maj)r Kowley Conwy and Mrs Conwy, of Bodrhyddan Hall. The society extend,; its operations over the whole of the district lying within five miles of the to VN, ...

... been very unpleasant for him. As, however, he hal been locked up for two nights, the bench would discharge him, hoping it would be a warning to him in future. He had no right to enter a house unless the master invited him to do so, and the servant had exceeded her authority in asking him in with- out permission. STEALING MONEY FROM A FELLOW LODGER. Thomas Jones, a. jobbing gardener, was ...

... RELEASE OF ROUPELL. WEYMOUTH, Friday. William Roupelh once M.P. for Lambeth, was discharged from Portland Convict Establishment yesterday. It was expected that a large body of persons would await his arrival at Portland railway station, and to avoid them he was driven in a cab to Waymouth station. Roupell was sentenced to pena! servitude for life, fourteen years ago; but his conduct whilst in ...

... HAWARDEN. PRESENTATION TO A CLERGYMAN.—On Tuesday night, the schoolroom of Pen-y-mynyd Church was crowded with peisons, with but few exceptions, belonging to the district, to witness the presentation of a hall clock and .£50 in money, the gift of the congregation and friends a tea and coffee service presened by the local lodge of United Oddfellows and a pencil-case subscribed for by the school ...

... THBOAT AFFECTIONS AND HOARSENESS.-All suf- ering from irritation of the throat and hoarseness will be agreeably surprised at the almost immediate relie. afforded by the use of Brown's .Bronchial Troohes,* These famous lozenges are now sold by most re- spectable chemists in this country at Is lid per box. People troubled with a hacking cough, a slight cold. or bronchial affections, cannot ...

... CUBA. The Spanish merchants in Cuba are said to be weary of the civil war, and have applied to the Madrid Govern- ment and the Cuba Junta at New York, urging them to do everything in their power to obtain a cessation of hostilities. It is asserted that theie peace overtures have met with positive rejection both at Madrid and New York. ...