The Herald of Wales and Monmouthshire Recorder. — 1884-03-15 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND.' preprinting £5OO Thitlipe had recovered from This society has now recommenced operations at a debtor to Olientj the mounds of Siiu, _on the borders of Lake Meuzaleh, In the Delta, and Mr. W. F. Petrie, its agent, is now The Lieutenant-Governor of Halifax has been actually beginning the work of exploration. It is informed from ?ttaimathat the dynamitera are beneath throe !nomads that the once famous city of Tanis (the Biblical Zoan) is buried, and the expected to renew &air attempts to injure right to ogoaaata on this site ha. hoan at Government property in this city. society. This CODOrafien on the part of Government is mainly due to the kindly A woman named Ecoleaton cut her infant's the Khedive, and to the generous interest of throat, nonr Ennoorn, on Monday morning, and Momper°, superintendent of excavations in Egypt. Mr. Petrie, who has gained considerable reputation as an afterward,' out her own. The child in dead. and Egyptologist and excavator, by his book on the the woman is not expected to recover. ; Her " Pyramids and Temples of Ghieeb," hoeing just comitted a rapid archmological survey of the mono& husband's illtreatment is alleged to be the came i Lower Egypt, has finally fixed on Sau as his base of the act, of operationalird now, as above stated, actually A telegram says that the , Berlin Foreign thowuresrit'were eminently successfullaaNt ayvil e'tZohueeglei Office has informed the Ottoman Ambassador unable himself to take a prominent part in the work that the only advice it oonld give respecting the of szcavation, has kindly consented to edit any inthat which may be discovered by Mr. Petrie. &mien, was that the Porte should make the best arrangement it could with England. At Edinburgh, on Monday, Robert Vickers and Win. Incas were convicted of the murder of John Fortane, gamekeeper, and John McDiarmid, rabbit trapper, on the Earl of Rosebery's estate, in Lee. last. The execution will take place on the 31st inst.  The "New York Herald of Saturday pubBelies an article in which it ttdvocates the adoption of preventive measures regulating the Fhipment abroad of exploaives. The journal adds —"It: is not honowable to us as a nation that our porta should bomme pouttaot departure of explosives ancrrnachinery intended for amennation in a country with which we are friendly." An order, suepending the Rev. Mr. Grace, vicar of Welling and Teeter of Evtou on the Weald Moors, Shropshire, fer eighteen months, was argued on Monday by the Bishop of Lichfield, after due consideration of the evidence given before the recent Ronleiptical Commiasion at Welaiggleit,Aspohatest to enquire into the series:a elbarias made against the reverend  gentleman. Mr. Bradlaugh, in addressing a meeting on Saturday evening, at the Hall of Science, Old street, City road, London, said he did not intend to make any effort to take his seat it the litigation commenced by the Government was conducted with reasoosble expedition; and should the decision be in his favour he should most certainly seek to obey the law and take hiS seat. If the executive Government could not enforce the law he would smart it while he Eyed Annie Yates, an unfortunate, was murdered in Berton Crest, on Sunday morning. A well. dressed man accompanied her home ea Saturday night, and in the morning screame were heard, but no notice was taken of them. The man afterwards left the house, and aubsuineutly deceased was found with a severe wound on the head, and a towel tied around her mouth. The crime is precisely similar to the murder of a prostitute in Great Coram street, some years ago. A telegram from St. Petersburg on Monday says :—The necessary grounds have already been assigned for the delimitation of the new frontlet between Russia, Persia, and Afghanistan. It is proposed to separate the Amu Darya district from the province of Turkestan, and include it in the Trans-Caspian -Governorship, which arra ngercent will place the direction of Shivan affairs under General Komaroff at Askabad, and render any interference in that quarter on the part of the Governor-General at  Teehkend impossible. The "Daily Newe" says :—" The fact that in the present state of opinion in the House of Commons, there ie no ohanoe of referring the  , on