BREACH OF PROMISE OF MAR- RIAGE.-DAMAGES £3,000. te In the Court of Common Pleas, on Tuesday, the case of " Webster .. William." was tried before Lord Coleridge and a special jury. The' plaintiff, Miss Elizabeth Webster, was a young lady, the daughter of a wool broker in London,

-FRANCE. BEMGNAfION OP THE MINISTRY ?? JtrtT «.— There was a very fall ?? tendance to-day iv the. National Assembly, and great excitement prevailed throughout the sitting. Imme diatoly on the close of the Assembly the Ministers held a Cabinet Council. After a short deliberation

Gbosvenob Lead Mining.— The object ol this company is to acquire the property and effects of a former company of the same name at Halkin Mountain, in the county of Flint. It is consequently a recon- struction of an existing company. The new company was registered on tho 27th ult

LOOAIs iNTJEaxiGENOfi. Chester Infibmaey.— The Secretary is much obliged to T. for 8s; Stf. donation, being the amount paid by the London snd North -Western Railway Com- pany for-detention of a passenger. ?? *> I»TH BsoiKßNT.— Lieut.-Col. and Brevet. Col. William Albert Stratton

THE LABOUR DISPUTE IN NOOTH VTALBS. At c fdll meeting of the members of the North Wales Coal Owners' Association, beld st the Queen Hotel, Chester, on Priday week, a letter, dated Bth April, signed by Willkm Davies and Bnos Turley, on behalf of the mop in ths various collieries,

Christmas-tree and Sale of Work at Runcorn. Last week two beautifiully frosted and illuminated Christmas-trees were exhibited, and a sale of work was held in Holy Trinity Schools, in order to raise funds to pay off tho debt due on the-repewing of Trinity Church. The sale was wel

Serious Effects of thb Lightsis© al,d "rj A correspondent at Over writes:— ln this uete ,l ?? v ' the storm raved with terrific violence on Jw f About eleven o'clock in the forenoon rain and teiUrJ ■town in such quantities that shops and house* i»^ 1 Hver part of Winsford were f

PEPPER SREET CHAPEL ANNIVERSARY. The anniversary services in connection with the Methodist New Connection Chapel were held on Sunday, when two sermons were preached (morning and evening) by the Rev. J. H. Robinson, of London, president of the Methodist New Connection Conference,

f\QrICT2 V; ■ : .j m The Annual Soijkbh.— On Monday the annual soiree in connection with the Malpas Beading-room was held, as usual, on the grounds- at the rear of the Wiffin Inn, Malpas, and was, as regards attendance, the most successful of any that has been heldl during the tw

The National Eisteddfod: Cymmbodobion Section. — This section is under the management of the Honourable Society of Cymrarodorion, and bas been established for the purpose of holding meetings in con- nection with the Royal National Eisteddfod, at which papers on scientific, liter