... THE riRST BoREs ON RECORD.—The Roman Augurs. AMERICAN ADVICE.—Never dispute with a woman or buy drucs of a boy. HEALTH.—An indisputable requisite, for business as well as for amusement, which young men spend the greater part of their money in damaging, and old men the greater part of their wealth in repairinŒ. The consequence of lending either a book, or an umbrella, or ycur name to a bill, ...

... SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Week ending Sept. 11, !8o3 £ -i:i03 14 11 Corresponding Week, 18.)2 £ 'GU1 2 6 ...

... It is understood that Prince Ftederick of Prussia has formally asked and obtained the sanction of the King to his requesting in marriage the Princess Roval of England. The publicity of this proceeding is sup- posed to imply a knowledge that the English Court will approve the union proposed. A choice in every way more suitable and satisfactory, we think, could hardly have been suggested; and we ...

... Came off on Tuesday evening last, at the Assembly Room, New Towu-hall, though not under the favourable circum- stances the arrangements so well merited. The night was a thorough wintry one; it was not only cold, but exceedingly wet, and undoubtedly many were deterred from attending one of the most successful productions of talent ever witnessed in Cardiff. We cannot, however, imagine how the ...

... SUICIDE OF A Nottingham papera record a melancholy circurnstance which occurred in the county 011 lhe 2nd insl. Mr. Thomas Marriott, of Lamb- cote-house, Radcliffe-on-Trent, a magistrate of Not- tingham, who hall ueen suffelÎlIg for some time past from indigestion and low spirils, and was on a visit to his son- in-law, the Rev. J. M. W. Piercy, rector of Slawson, committed suicide by throwing ...

... In what colour is a secret best kept ?—In-violate. Gas bills are, in military phrase, heavy charges of the light brigade. Some things are much better eschewed than chewed— tobacco is one of them. Why is twice eleven like twice ten ?—Because twice eleven are twenty-two, and twice ten are twenty, too. A cynical Frenchman once said there are two parties to a love affair—the party who loves, and ...

... A. TURKISH NAVAL REVIEW.—On Monday morning Oct. 24, at sunrise, the echoes of the Bosphorus were awakened by a furious cannonade from the whole of th 1 urkish and Egyptian fleets, engaged in exercising their men at the guns. The ships nearest the entrance of the Bosphorus, feigning the approach of the Russians, first opened th-ir fire, and the distant booming of their gum was heard near the ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. Lord Campbell presented a petition from the Oude Princes now in this country, praying that their relative the ex.King of Oude might be informed of the nature of the charges brought against him by the Indian Government. 00 the suggestion of Lord Redesdale, the petition wis re- jected, because the word ''humble'' had been omitted in commencing it. The Marquis of ...

... THE NEW GOVERNMENT. *'• Derby's first appeal to the country has not been made llot All the Ministerial candidates have been re-elected, with at a single defeat, but even without opposition. a thing is almost, if not altogether, unprecedented in our Witl lan??ntary history, and affords a certain proof of the favour winch the new ministry are regarded by the people at H co the slightest chance ...

... THE Loss OF THE STEAMER TAY.—OFFICIAL REPORT.- The report of Mr. Traill, the magistrate appointed to in- quire into the loss of the steamer Tay, was presented to the Board of Trade on Saturday morning. He attributes the loss of the ship to the extraordinary current which retarded her progress after leaving Vera Cruz. and not in any wrong or default of Captain Strutt. The conduct of the captain ...

... THE CARDIFF *M> MERNMT OUARDMN. SATURDAY, MARCH Yo. NOTES OF THE WEEK. INTELLIGENCE of the death of the Czar Nicholas reached us at a late hour on Friday night, some time after our first edition had been printed, and early on Saturday morning we published the event in a second edition,—a greater event than which, in point of im- portance to the whole of the civilized nations of Europe, could ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE CARDIFF AND MERTHYE GUARDIAN SIR,—Seeing in one of last week's publications your valuable paper assailed by one E. Hussej', for the unfair and one-sided manner in which you represented the case heard before the magistrates of this town relative to Harding v. Hussey, I think it my duty to say, as an eye-witness, and one that assisted in rescuing the lad from the grasp of ...