... CARDIFF. New PACKET CoMPANY.-Upwards of a thousand shares have been taken this week by parties residing at Cardiff and neighbourhood, all of whom are most sanguine in their expec- tations of success in the projected scheme of extra steam communication with this port and Bristol. Two steam boats in connection with the new company, are to start on the first ° VIIIERTLITY. J- Nicho 11, Esq., M.P. ...

... Parishes of St. Donat's, Eglwvrbrewis, Homingstone, Gil- stone, Cilybebyll, Llanean Llandyfodog, Lfanblethian Tlamreinor; Llanmaes, Llandow Llanhhaiigel, LHndn l St. Mary. St. Mary Hill, Werthyrmawr, Monknash, Matcross' and St. Brides Minor. Across, Church Services-English, Welsh.O • nltomnf^ o No Dissenting Places of Worship > Number of parishes, 37; number of churchp* -oESV. lish services, ...

... TOWK LETTERS.—So. 47. LONDON, including Parliament, has been, according to custom, holiday making, and right English holiday weather have we had. The Cockneys, as usual, did the rustic, as their fathers before them, in the royal park of Greenwich, and Lord John Ilussell started for Manchester to visit that great seat of intelligence and trade. His lordship's visit ig. said to be for the ...

... FRIDAY.-CROWN COURT. BEFORE JUSTICE PATTESO. It being Good Friday, their lordships this morning attended divine service, and did not sit till half-past one. The Court, in a few minutes after being opened, to-day as well as yesterday, was filled to excess. FORGERY ON THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Henry New, a downcast-looking person, was placed at the bar, charged with having at Ledbury, Winchcombe, ...

... BRECKNOCK AND ABERGAVENNY CANAL NAVIGATION. ICE IS HEREBY G lY EX, that the n?-st H.\LF-YEARLY MEETING and ASSEMBLY of the Company of Proprietors, of the said Navigation, will be held at the SHIRE-HALL, in the Town of on THURSDAY, the 25th inst., at Twelve o'clock at noon. JAMES PEIRCE, Clerk to the Company of Proprietors. Canal-office, near Abersjavennv, 9th April, 1850. ...

... [MOST INTERESTING SCENE AT TIJE SLArE ' .QUARRIES. re To -tie Edior of liae North Wales Chronicls, se ry Su,,-If you did notfsee, and haye not heaird'of the of extrabrdinary scene 'which took place at St. Ann's, in the Penrhyn Slate'Quarrips, on Friday last, I will tell you allaboutit. -- y OONE WHO DID SEE AND HEARl IT. or April 27. of L(e have heard of the scene, and regret we were not as ...

... GEN'8AL SEMEARY. a Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope report :lion'.hunting achievementsaby Brevet Mnjor Blen-l e kinsoppp and Captain Bates, of the 45th Regiment, ts' at a frontier station. Five lions and a leopard, all a. full grown beasts, were killed in two, mornings' shootings. .y A splendid new sepamer, 2,2o feet long, and'. with is two engines of 7 feet. strcre. is about to be con- a. ...

... IMPERIAL PAEtLIAMENT, HOUSE OF LORDS oXrONDAY, APiL'i 2'2 LoTd BLANTYI1'E toolt the oaths ntnd his seat as one of the representative peers uif Seoitl'lld. ol tire motion of the M51arquis of REEl)ESD)ALE, the Smoke Prohibitiomi Bill passed through corn- mittee 'lTre Duke of RICITIMIOND, moved for the np- pointment of a select commiteffe t6 inquire into the operation of asr act to prohibit tihe ...

... A GRIC UL T-UE . *VALUAD2fr, INFORMATION FOR FA5RMERS, isTA (rf56115the Agfricultualu Gazette.) ASTHi INOT-WANT NOT. It is an old maxim to of but. thoughl ancient, it wits never more useful theli ietor att thu presn dy Inteetithes of competition hist and frugality in ll nildepartirlitets of indtlitry, it is tie 2t's ;spirit ,f all fimprovemiti en L 511( in iagricuolture, Mannhi- I 0 s. ...

... LATEST FROM AMTERICA. - We find by thle Liverpool Albion that, the new pack-t-ship V'anguard arlive~d ~un Satihrday night from New York with two days hi~ter adyices than were blroughitby tfhelast steamer.~ Onthe 22ditliedebate on the Slavery Question still contuited to be carried on with considerable asceribity; n64 If we miglhtI jngo'fom -.fipeegqe 01'i'aio 6 'smitors, little ?? ot'an ...

... C A R D H. p REPORTED WBEC*.—Ij is reported here that the fine Brig Monmouth, which JeM.the Bute Dock, Cardiff, recently, was wrecked on last Oood Friday while on her voyage to Ball), U.S. of America# • Nhw PACKETS. .ls n?w forming to start two new packets between Cardiff and Bristol. Cardiff Fair, on Wednesday, was well supplied with stock, but very lew sales were effected, i he show of ...

... An Inquest was held at the Dinas woiks on Wednesday last, before R. L. Heece. Esq.,curoncl. on the bodies ofldras David, aged H, and Shadrack David, aged 15, both of whom died from injuries caused by an explosion of hre damp, at the above works, on Monday last. It appeared the deceased Shadrack David had a partner with him, ot the name 01 Thomas Williams, who, Oil the morning in question, ...