... „ [In this department the Editor wishes to give free scope to the expression of opinion. Certain conditions are requisite. J Brevity; avoid personalities; the name of the writer must be sent, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee. | The Editor is not responsible for the opinions of corres- | 1'ondents.] ft 1'ondents.] ft FOOTPATHS. f SIR,—Through the medium of your paper I beg to ...

... tuLL-. igji*ilJLiJLLi LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. IS. Although there will be large public sales of Colonial Produce this week, still rates ranged firm to-day, there being several home trade and export purchasers; but speculators are not dis- posed to make investments, moderate as prices range. In Russian Produce large transaction, and rates on the rise. Dye goods are still abundant, but demand being ...

... SIR CHARLES BRIGHT.-We believe that Sir Charles Bright, the eminent civil engineer, who has recently been knighted for his share in laying down the Atlantic telegraph, is the youngest individual on whom that honour has been conferred for many years. He is only twenty-aix years of age, having been born in 1882. j He is, we understand, the third son of Brailsford Bright, J Esq., and his mother ...

... fcMff Crates. SA TURD A Y, OCT. 23, 1858. WE have but little room to occupy with remarks in this part of our impression. What we do write will be confined to one or two matters that may be disposed of in a few words. The first relates to a paragraph which appeared in last week's Guardian,]the object of which was to prove that the low-priced- press in general, and the Cardiff Times in ...

... LADY STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE IN THE HAREM.—A Parisian correspondence asserts that Lady Stritrord de Redcliffe paid a visit to the Sultan's harem, to exhort tha ladies who inhabit those blissful regions theei fully to second their lord and master in his econo- mical projects. She gave them much practical advico, and explained that if they would learn to live a la Franqaise, they might enjoy much ...

... i^tabal and fflilitavg. ORDERS have been issued for alternate com- panies of the different regiments of Guards to proceed monthly to the camp at Aldershott for rifle practice. RECRUITING .—Since the hop-picking and har- vest operations have been brought to a close recruiting is proceeding very briskly in the several recruiting dis- tricts, the number of men enlisting being at the rate ot about ...

... THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. On the 15th inst. at the Guildhall, London, Lieutenant Francis Higginson, of the Royal Navy, attended before Alderman Salomons, and applied for a summons, under the Joint Stock Companies' Act, against the Atlantic Telegraph Company, of 23, Old Broad-street, for not having made a return to the registrar of Joint Stock Com- panies containing a list of the ...

... The Michaelmas Quarter Sessions for the county of Glamorgan commenced at the Guildhall, Swansea, on Tuesday, before Henry Thomas, Esq., Chairman, and a large number of magistrates. The grand jury were sworn and charged, and then the court proceeded with the county business. COUNTY PRISONS. A report was read, from which it appeared that, during the past year, two additional turnkeys, at ...

... feral Intelligent. The fine American ship C. C. Duncan, came into Me srs. Batchelor's graving-dock on Thursday to have an overhaul. A STONE COFFIN has been dug out by the men engaged on thePenarth railway works near Llandaff. It is very perfect but small in dimensions. GRAKD CONCERT.—On Monday evening next, ano- ther grand concert will take place at the Town-hall, under the auspices of the ...

... Ube OTourt, &t> THE QUEEN'S RETURN.—The Queen left Balmoral on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock. The weather, which had been stormy, was now fair, and, although the Grampian mountains were covered with snow, her Majesty travelled in an open carriage by Balater and Abovne to Banchory, a distance of thirty miles. The Queen was received at the Banchory station of the Dee- side Railway by Mr. John ...

... MESSRS. STRAHAN AND PAUL.-It appears from the City article of the Times, that a memorial is about to be presented to the government, through some of the first houses in London, praying for the pardon of Messrs. Strahan and Paul, who have now completed three years of the fourteen years' penal servitude to which they were sentenced. One of the grounds is that, under an act passed last year. ...

... At the working men's concerts at Liverpool on Satur- day evening Mr. Gladstone delivered an address in the course of which he said, Now what shall I say upon the subject of this entertainment? Don't be frightened if I go back to the beginning of the world— (laughter)-for I promise you I won't stay there; and if I mention the word it is only to say that they who consider music to be a ...