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... CORRESPONDENCE. SIR B. HALL'S LETTER. To the Editor of the Cardiff an I Hertl/ll Guardian. to Sir 15. 11 ills assumption as to the general prevailing wish for a W eisll Bishop. Had the Clergy of the Diocese been polled to a man, Oil whom would their choice have fallen?—011 a Welsh- man, or ou the pious and accomplished Archdeacon of Handaff. BREVIS SED ACUTUS. THE CHAIRMAN'S CHARGE. —THF, ...
... The trade circulars, and the reviews of tra le and industry i in the leading journals from the great commercial and man- ufacturing centres, describe tbe transactions of the past year as moderately and satisfactorily profitable; and look forward to the promise of the year 18od as one of increased proht. The textile inmufactures in wool, cotton, and flax, are foremost in the healthful reaction. ...
... THE An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain, in the Years and Quarters ended the 5th of January,1849 and 1850, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof:- Years ended J;n. 5. 184'J. 1850. Increase. Decrease. ] £ £ £ £ Customs 18,9^:i.3Ct'j lS,63\7Pv-: «;j3 550 Excise 12,832,140112.753,815j 78,325 stamps C,110,848| 6,365,475j 254,6-'7 'faxes 4,14,7041 4,303,819; 10,855 ...
... THE CARDIFF AMI MERTHYR FRIDAY, JANUARY 18. is 50. Mr. BOOKER.—We have much pleasure in transferring to our fourth page of this day's impression, an abridg- ment of an artide that appeared in Wednesday evening's Standard, having reference principally to a great, meeting of the Country party, which took place in Lewes, on Tuesday, but incidentally alluding to our excellent neigh- bour, Mr. ...
... M F.F.TIXGS OF THE PROTECTIONISTS were held at Staf- ford and Ely on Thursday week. The meeting at Staf- ford hari ben advertised some days, and much industry had been exhibited in gelling together a large number of favourable tenant farmers. Hut Stafford is noted for its sturdy shoemakers, of Radical politics; and though the meeting was ostensibly one of Protectionists, and was convened in ...
... On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the GoldeH Lion Inn, Chatham, before J. Hinde, coroner for We4' Kent, touching the death of Ellen Bright, a young girl aged 17, who was killed on the previous evening by a tTger in establishment of Mr. George Wombwell, which h ...
... NEWPORT POLICE. —FRIDAY, JAN. 11. [Before WM. EVANS, Esq., ex-mayor.] ROBBERY AT CA ftDtFF. l-Villiam Paye, age.1 21, was charged with robbing his lod-ings at Cardiff. —William Abraham proved that he was a nailor, residing at Great 1 rederick-street, Cardiff, That (he prisoner lodged with him at his brother's house. Yesterday, about two o'clock, he found prisoner had decamped, taking with him ...
... GLAMORGANSHIRE EPIPHANY SESSIONS, MINUTES OF BUSINESS DONE.— The scaleof dietary pro- posed by the Secretary of Slate for the several county prisons was referred to the visiting Justices of eacu p.-ison to report thereon to the next sessions. Charles Crofis Williams, Esq. was appoiuied a visiting justice to the enmity gaol. Resolved: lhat, the committee ot the Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire ...
... CARDIFF POOR-LAW UNION. On Friday last a public meeting of the rate-pavers of CardifF was held in the Towr.-ha'.l—having been convene ) bv the Maynr, in accordance v?ith a r.»'jM«stion which wis s'gne I by a rrreat many respectable parlies—!of the purpose „f co »l>e propriety of petitioning the Puor-Uw Commissioners to withhoi.t t:»esr compliance 'Ai:h the prayer of the petition of the Board ...
... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. TEMPEHANCE. — OO Monday erenintr, Mr. Stephens lectured to the English Temperance Societies on Social Economy, confining his attention to the subject of poveriy and the means proposed for its extirpation. Political reforms, emigration, poor laws, and artificial standards of wage. were discussed in turn, and all dismissed as being ineffectual. The lecturer believed ...
... CORRESPONDENCE. INFANCY OF POTATOES AND TEA. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, SrR,—There was a beginning to everything however com- mon it may be learned John Evelyn says, (in the year 1C58) I have just eaten somc potatoes, Irish, tasting like an old bean or roasted chesnut, not very plea- sant till use have accustomed, yet of good nourishment and excellent use for relief of ...
... LONDON THIEVES. —Among the lowest of the low, the professed thieves, there still is left a rude sense of honor amotig themselves. Like the Arab in the Desert, whose hand is against every man, and every man's hand against them, they are faithful to each other, and they trust those who trust them. To meet the too frequently infinitesimal means of their customers, the shops in the neighbourhood ...