... PRODUCE MARKETS. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21. The rates of diseoulltare fully as high, there being a pressing demand for money.with a moderate supply. The Mincing-lane markets closed to-day on account of the Christmas holidays, and will remain so .until the 2nd of January, in PtrntTc aiiomuriES uownuca UOll cu aa>, aiiu ratesfCSS Consols foraccount are New Three's, 89; Three per Cent iteduced, 881 to ...

... 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 ...

... A SAD TRUTH.—What is harder than earning money? —Collecting it. COCKSHY ADVICE.—Don't carry your handkerchief in your breast pocket. If you do, you take a wiper to your bosom. A POSTHUMOUS WOKD.—Some one says, the lobster is a posthumous work of creation, for it is only read after its death. VBBY HABD LiNBa.—The two unhappy failures that have followed the attempt to lay down the Atlantic ...

... In the House of Lords, on Friday, the Earl of Lucan brought in a Bill to enable landlords to seize the glowing crops in Ireland. The Duke of Argyll brought forward the case of Mr. Ryland, whose disputes with the local government of Canada have been several times before parliament. The facts appear to be, that in 1841 Mr. Ryland held an office under the Coveruor-General ot Canada, of the value ...

... Magistrates present—C. Vachell, Esq., (Mayor,) and C. C. Williams, Esq. Emma William* was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in S'. Mary-street, on Sunday morning last.— Repri- manded and discharged. William Evans, hobbler, was charged with being drunk and breaking several panes of glass, at the Sunderland Bridge Hotel. —Ordered to pay the damage of the windows; also fined 5s. and ...

... On Wednesday evening the mournful intelli- gence was received, in Cardiff, by telegraph, that this most noble lady had died suddenly at Edin- burgh. Those who remember that the late Marquis died suddenly, and also that Lord James Stuart, his Lordship's brother, was in an equally unexpected manner visited by death, will feel how painful must these visitations be to the distin- guished family ...

... GENERAL IN TELL! GENCE. EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF HOPS.—Mr. Ellis, the large planter in West Kent, bag sold. his ■whole produce to an American'hotise, realising in one payment upwards of £ 20.000. PKOBOGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—It is expectsd that on the formal assembling of Parliament, on Tuesday next, it will be prorogued until the first week in December, aud that then it will be sum- moned for ...

... GREAT MEETING ON SUNDAY LAST IN HYDE-PARK, ON THE HIGH PRICE OF BREAD. On Sunday afternoon last an immense assem- blage of people took place in Hyde-park, as an- nounced the previous Sunday, to discuss the dear-bread question, and to consider what measures should be adopted to procure a cheap loaf for the working man, which he had an un- doubted right to expect after the recent abundant ...

... A correspondent of the Bombay Gazette, April 18th, writes:— I have now given you all I can at present glean concerning the celebrated rebel chief, Tantia Topee, whose military skill and ability were worthy of better troops in a better cause. I suppose his charge, proceedings at his trial, and statement will ultimately be given to the public for their information. The execu- tion was announced ...

... ltl WILLETT'S SPEECH AT THE INQUIRY. ^ilW?r Edition we gave an epitome of Mr. s addressed before the Inspector, but as there Plbl]0^ P°*pts in it which will bear extending, we ^is week in an enlarged form. fose t a(- the close of the case for the defence, ,° and spoke for upwards of an hour. He 0f „ e1.ad been most unfairly placed by the board Stan/I'lllans a ^se position. He had no right to ...

... At the Mansion-house on Thursday, Lieutenant Francis Higginson, who lately made several applications to the sitting magistrate at Guildhall with reference to some money which he said was wrongfully withheld from him by the Atlantic Telegraph Company, appeared before Sir R. W. Carden, in discharge of his bail, for having com- mitted an assault upon Mr. Alderman Salomons, the magistrate who ...