... 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. ...

... 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, ...

... EX.W-1 yays more easy, as well PRAISE and encouragement are a ce*ngure. yet the latter as more popular, than caution an^ prcsent occasion, are more frequently eedei narv character. ^r remarks will be of a caut^n ? tcr8, that the sub- It has been noticed. in se^e but slowly, and that scriptions for the exhih^n P ificenc0 on all occa- towns famous for thcir P^sCfe[t in the subjects brought ...

... Our accounts from Madrid are of the 25th ult. On the 22nd, two young Mussulmans and a Protestant girl of 16 received the sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation in the church of San Luis. The church had been magnificently decorated for the cere- mony, which was celebrated by the Archbishop of Toledo. A detachment of halberdiers lined in the choir, in which were placed the neophytes and the ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE EASTER QUARTER SESSIONS Commenced at Cowbridge, on Tuesday at ten o'clock, before the following Magistrates — HENltY THOMAS, Esq., Chairman. Sir G. Tyler, K.C.B. T. W. Booker, Esq. R. N. Carne, Esq. Hugh Eutwisle, Esq. Robt. Boteler, Esq. li. Frauklen, Esq. M. P. Traherne, Esq. It. Lindsay, Esq. J. Bruce Pryce, Esq. Chas. C. Williams', Esq. II. Austin Bruce, Esq. Cant. Hewett. ...

... SANATORY CONDITION OF MERTHYR TYDFIL. Mr. T. W. RAMMELL, superintending inspector, has just published his Report to the General Board of Health on a Preliminary Inquiry into the Sewerage, Drainage, and Supply of Water, and the Sanatory cpo lition of the inhabi- tants of the town of Merthyr Tydfil. He commences by adverting to the period when the inquiry was made; and gives a history of the ...

... THE ARCHDEACON OF I.LANDAFF'S REPORT ON THE STATE OF POPULAR EDUCATION. We have much pleasure in presenting our readers with a copy of the animal report of the Education Board, which was read with so great interest at the annual meeting at Cardiff on the 14th Feb., and we trust that its circulation through our columns, may tend to attract larger attention and increased support to this valuable ...