... AGENTS :— CARDIFF.-At the Publishing Office, 17, St. Mary-street the Railway Stations, and of all Stationers and New. Agents. NEWPORT-At the Cardiff Times Publishing Office Mr. CORNER, Publishing Agent, Commercial-street; and of all News-Agents throughout Monmouthshire. ...

... jBotRetfj. rONDON. MOHDAY, SEPT. 27. Although large quantities of Colonial Produce are announced for public sale this week, yet rates ruled firm to-day, and several home-trade and continental orders were executed. Consump tion is still larger than last year, but stocks remain heavy. A more ready sale for Russian Produce, and less disposition to sell, although supply on the increase. Dyegoods ...

... STATISTICS OF SUICID Mr. Buckle has asserted, in his able and interesting recent work on Civilisation, that the number of suicides is a constant quantity —in other words, that suicides, like other so-called crimes, occur very regu- larly. In the five years, 1852-56, it is shown by the Registrar-General that 5,415 persons put a period to their earthly career by self-destruction-viz., 3,886 ...

... DR. BOOTH ON THE EDUCATION OF THE WORKING CLASSES. On Saturday evening the Rev. Dr. Booth delivered a lecture to the members of the Leeds Mechanics' Institu- tion on The Self-improvement of the Working Classes. The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., presided, and, in introducing Dr. Booth to the meeting, observed that that gentleman, in the absence of any government inspection or system of ...

... MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS. A light blue-book of 300 pages contains some miscel- laneous statistics of the United Kingdom, from which we take the following figures. They are compiled by Mr. A. W. Fonblanque, of the Board of Trade, and the latest return refers to the year 1856. There were in that year 22,080,449 persons living in England, Wales, and Scot- land-viz., 10,802,279 males and 11,278 ...

... TO SUBSCRIBERS. Our Subscribers will please observe that the present issue commences a new quarter. They will greatly facilitate the collection at snbscriptions by directing the amount to be paid to our collector when he pre- sents our printed receipt. ...

... InMripnrce. BEGONF. DULL CARE.—Mr. F. Maccabe gave his first entertainment, entitled Begone Dull Care, at the Town Hall, to a numerous and respectable audience, on Wed- nesday evening. The concert-room was fitted up in a superior style for the occasion, hy Mr. C. Wharton, who has engaged the services of Mr. M iccabe the stage being furnished with foot-lights, and retiring rooms on either side ...

... FROm THE LONDON QAZETTE; BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24. G. M. GRANT, Cheapside, City, trunk manufacturer. vv. HAPGOOD, Southampton, ironmonger. G. GODDARD, Berwick-street, Oxford.street, and Little New- port-street, licensed victualler. C. W. WIMRAHAM, Charterhouse-lane, warehouseman. J. FLOWERS, Cheltenham, grocer. J. REDMAN. Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff manufacturer. TV. BARRETT, Halifax, ...

... NEWPORT TOWN COUNCIL. The ordinary meeting of the Town Council took place on Tuesday last, when there were present the Mayor (in tlte chair), Messrs. S. Homfray, Latch, Burton, Lyne, J. Davies, J. Lewis, Sheppard, G. W. Jones, T. F. Lewis, j Hynrtman, Hsrrhy, Graham, Moore, Morgan and Knapp. j The Sujierintendent read the police report, and asked to he allowed to divide the sum of two guineas ...

... TO THE FREE AND INDEPENDENT BUR- GESSES OF THE SOUTH TVARD. GENTLEMEN,—The period for which you elected X me as one of your representatives in the Coun- cil Chamber of this Borough, will expire on the first of November next. I have recorded as the best test of my fitness to serve yon in municipal matters. Those votes will show that I have been on all occasions the unflinching advocate of ...

... LAUNCH OF THE FLOATING DERRICK. A launch, which excited an unusual amount ofinfertst and curiosity among nautical men and members of various scientific professions, took place on Saturday from the yard of the Thames Ship Building Company late the works of Messrs. Mare and Co. It is a vessel constructed for carrying one of Derrick's cranes intended to be used for raising sunken vessels of any ...

... Ireland A LANDED ESTATE WON FROM THE SEA.— Extensive improvements have been recently effected in the neighbourhood of Sharon, in Donegal, by Mr. William M'Cormick, the railway contractor. From the Inch the sea has been driven out, and a plain of the richest land, at present loaded with a luxuriant crop, now spreads itself over the former bed of the waters. Upwards of 6,000 acres have thus been ...