... LOCAL MARKETS. CARDIFF MARKET, SEPT. 26.—Beef, 6d. to 7|d. per Lb. 50s. per cwt.; mutton, 7d. lamb, 7d.; veal, 6d. to 6|d.; pork, 6|d. to 7d.; geese, 4s. to 4s. 6d. each; ducks, 3s. 6d. to 4s. per couple; fowls, 3s. to 3s. 6d. per couple; butter, Is. Id. per lb.; eggs, Is. per doz. potatoes, 15s. to 18s. per sack; turnips, 3s. to 4s. per sack. COWBRIDGE MARKET, SEPT. 29, 1846.—Wheat, 7s.. to ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That A SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will be held at the CASTLE INN, MERTHYR, on TUESDAY, 10th Nov. next, at 11 o'clock precisely, for the purpose of empowering the Directors to borrow Money, as provided for by the Company's Act of Parliament. J. J. GUEST, Railway Office, Aberdare, Chairman. 23rd Oct., 1846. ...

... LLANDAFF PETTY SESSIONS., (Held on Monday, before the iievds. Geo. Thomas and R.Prichdrd, and Walter Coffin, Esq ] — John Williams, of Ely, charged by John Crawford, farmer, of Llancarvan, with furiously ruling over him on the 1st of October. Allowed to settle out oj Court.—Kiehd. Rfmbron, labourer, of Llanedarn, charged by James Merry, with cutting down underwood at Wainwenwood, value Is. and ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SEVERN.—On Thursdsy week a lad named George Kerby, fell from a barge into the river Severn, near to the lock gates of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, Gloucester, and before assistance could be rendered to him, he was drownded. There was a great depth and strong current of water in the river at the time, and the body, it is supposed, was carried off some distance, and ...

... Boaisite siws, Her Majesty has a bracelet, ornamented with fouf ttiagnificent diamonds, formerly the property of female royalty, the death of each possessor having been unhappy and uniinjely. One of them belonged to the Princess Charlotte, two to ftlatie Antoi- nette, and the fourth to Mary Stuart. Prince George of Cambridge is about to join his regiment at Limerick. Sir Robert and Lady Peel ...

... AWFUL STORM.—LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY. LLOYD'S, Saturday Afternoon.—This afternoon's post has brought to hand accounts of a most fearful storm occurring off I the western coast, during Thursday and Friday. Tho loss of life | and property has been truly frightful, and no doubt, by tho next mail, more appalling disasters will be communicated. At New- port, Pembrokeshire, the gale burst forth at ...

... CARDIFF POLI elf— MONDAY. [Before the Rev. Jas. Evans] Edward Jones, of Llandaff, weaver, was convicted in the penalty of £1 9s., including costs, for having unpro. yokedly kicked a dog in the most cruel and cowardly way, in St. Mary-street, at an early hour on Sunday morning last; in default of payment, to be imprisoned for fourteen days. Superintendent Stockdaleaud P. C. Thurston gave the ...

... MERTIIYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. PUBLIC LIRHAUY.—The members of the. Merthyr Literary Institution, whose lectures and debates have been so frequently noticed in our columns duringthe last fourteen months, encouraged by the success attending their exertions, are desirous of effecting still; greater good by inciting their tellow townsmen to aid them in the establishment of a public library such as ...

... I'TIIJILIII_L JLL, TIIR TABERNACLE TFA PARTY.—This tea narty was pretty well attended on Monday last. ilir. Williams is famed for providing his friends with good cheer and on the present oc- casion, the infusion of Souchong was as flavoured, and iiie co-rant cake as lich, as they have usually been, and both were pier.iifoliy supplied. FOUND DEAo.-On Monday morning last, on one of the Cyfarthfa ...

... The writer 011 the subject of the Parrot Portico should frankly append his nasuo. We send back, by this day's post. the letter of lament. concern- ing; the Aberystwith, &C kail way and if returned in a less questionable shape, we may probably give it insertion. A Friend in Town. The article alliuled to first appeared in the MERLIN, but Tulit alter honores. Complaints have frequently readied ...

... THE SPIRIT OF EDUCATION IN DOWLAIS The Dow- lais Tradesmen and Workmen's Library was opened on the 1st August, 1845, with the low subscription of Is. 6d. per quarter, or sixpence for monthly subscribers; and to shew the spirit of the inhabitants of this place, it at present contains 700 volumes, nearly all of the best authors of present, and standard works of past, days. At the committee ...

... FAMINE IN IRELAND. THE lamentable accounts resulting from the ruin of the potatoe crop in Ireland, which every post brings from that unhappy country, are absolutely heartrending. It is a melancholy thing to consider that a people naturally so generous, and whose spirit of hospitality would share the last morsel of bread, or cup of milk, with the wayfaring stranger, should suffer the gnawing ...