... (Before E. J. PHILLIPS, Esq., and Rev T. EVANS.) CRUELTY TO A HORSE. Thomas Morris, a haulier, of Pontnewynydd, was summoned for cruelly ill-treating a horse by work- ing it in an unfit state.—P.c. Gardner deposed to having seen a son of the defendant's driving a horsp. in Sebastopol; he examined the animal, and fonna under the collar two large raw wounds, which must have caused intense pain ...

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... « A/rfi^ lon,g llst miSht be ma(le of men who have owed their advancement in life to a smart answei given at the right moment. One of Napoleon's vete. rans, who survived his master many years wn ...

... Mr. Tracy Turnerelli writes from the Charing Cross Hotel, under date August 2nd:— ...

... PONTNEWYNYDD. j BETHANY SUNDAY SCHOOL.—On Thursday, the 31st ult., the teaches and scholars jf the above- named Sunday School, with some friends, assem- bled together in oreier to partake of their annual tea, which was thorouglily enjoyed by them. After tea aud subsequent gainc> in a field, which was kindly lent for the occasion by Mr Jones, a public meeting took place in the chapel, when Mr ...

... The Bank rate is unaltered. A Cabinet Council was held on Thursday (yester- day) at the Premier's official residence, and was attended by all the ministeis. ...

... (Written for the Free Press.) Most people have, at some period or other experienced peculiar diffidence and embarrass- ment in describing scenes in which they them- selves were actors. To the present writer this feeling is somewhat enhanced by the fact that he is but treading in a track already well-tra- velled before, and by the knowledge that an interesting and able article recently appeared ...

... On Thursday (yesterday) a gamekeeper, named Donald Watson, was fined ±5 at Inver- ness for killing game in the close time. ...

... The Jumna troopship arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday. The Daily Chronicled reporter imme- diately went on board and thus describes his interview with Captain Carey: On boarding the Jumna I found Carey, looking well and in good spirits, and although his uniform betokened that he was a pri- soner, yet the arrest is merely nominal. Notwith- standing this, however, he was unable to land, which he ...

... GOVERNMENT PROSECUTION OF DIRECTORS. On Tuesday afternoon there was a stir among com- mercial circles in Bristol, as it had been whispered about that an application was to be made to the ma- gistrates for summonses against the directors and managers of the late West of England and South Wales District Bank that afternoon. The rumour proved correct, as Mr Hare, of the firm of Hare and Fell, ...

... PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS. The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the working of the Penal Servitude Acts have made their report, in which they give the following as the recommendations to which they attach the greatest importance :— 1. That in order to prevent contami- nation of the less hardened convicts by old and habitual offenders, a separate class should be formed (subject to the ...

... A PHILADELPHIA paper says: 'Rag gathering is the only business in this city which is worth pick- ing up.' THE lesson of the present hours—Sixty seconds makes one minute, and sixty minutes makes one hour. A Corkonian, on being asked at breakfast how ho same by that black eye,' replied that he ...