... By our ancest-*3- °F ll,e KOT-HTI Caiholic Church, Christ- Hia* was form'y called the Festival of L'ghts; and it was ii9u.*31 ;cn',V! an immense number of tall Ch:i-tmas candles, w «atl,ed evergreens. lighted up at trie same time wi-n the Yule log. Now Christmas candles are iners wys for tha juvenile portion cf the comniuivty and the*~are liberally dispensed by oil-men and tallow-chandlers ...

... To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. DEAR SIR,—AS your excellent and distinguished neigh- bour, the Bishop of Llandaff, continues to feel so great an Interest iu the prosperity of our Welsh Uoiversity, he will be glad to find, through your colurous, that St. David's Col- lege has made. and is steadily making great advancement in public reputation. The very Rev. the Dean has been ...

... kruu\\ eat s?: •dsresi.'ii^c from the c '•:Ji5ac ou'rst vts ;o lane aiv.t figuno •■> ...

... V'W NR' VJ „i_ WILLIAMS, Esq., the Cardiff Athencoum Eisteddfod was held in the Crown Court of the New Town-hall, on Monday last, and, under the intelligent and admirable presidency of W. DONE BusHELL, Esq., passed off very creditably. ThehaHandiisapproncheshadbppnneatty fitted up under the supervision of Mr. CHITTENDEN, clerk of the works, to whose gratuitous services the institution is much ...

... (No. 19.) Heartbroken on thy empty cot I gaze, And think of all thy fond, endeariug ways: My little one! My FIRST thy Christian name Diminutive. Thy mother's was the same. What wast thou not to met Ah, who can aay t All that a love that's doting can comprise, All that my SECOND can convey, Wast thou, lost Cherub, in tby father's eyes. But thou art gone, and o'er thy little bed Nature my ...

... 1 HE HUURICANE which did so much awful damage in vaiious parts ot the kingdom burst with tile wildest fury on this neighbourhood. O.i Christmas morning the roaring ot the wind was appalling. Occllsionally it seemed as if the vastness of the ocelli. had been upheaved by some terrible convulsion of nature, and was about to overwhelm the town, — iu fact, so startled were several persons that they ...

... The Speaker took the chair at two o'clock. The Treasury Bench v.as entirely empty. The late Ministerialists, having change 1 sides, occupied the Opposition Benches, and the Opposition of last week was ranged behind the Treasury Bench. Among the-e was Mr. liavter. the new Secretary for the Treasury, who was the only ineuibtrof the new Government piesent. NEW MINISTRY. On the motion of Mr. ...

... As a specimen of an old Welsh town. let me mention LlantriiMnt. Journeying from Cardiff to PeDcoed- — (wtiwers, gleaming wh-te houses, with a bold dark green iible ...

... Extract of a letter from an officer in the 74th Highlanders. Foit Beaufort, 8th Nov., 1852. I was called at two hours' notice from Post Retief to join in a large movement, some hun- dred miles northward, the destination of which is un. known; but it is said to be a six months' affair, and that we are to cross the Great Orange River. I have had eome hard, but successful, work lately, A. large ...

... [Before W. Williams, Esq., Mayor, and G. Phillips, Esq.3 SMUGGLING TOBACCO. Robert Nicholl, master oi the Temperance, a vessel constantly engaged in the coasting trade, was charged by Mr. James Rees, officer of the Customs, with having two pounds and a half of foreign manufactured tobacco on board his vessel, contrary to law.—The Tide Surveyor was present to conduct the case.—The defendant ...

... [OUTY free.J f PHE Board of Guardians of this Union will, at their I Meeting to be held on SATURDAY, the 29th day of January next, proceed to the Election ot a SCHOOL- MIS fRESS for the Union Workhouse. Sae must b3 fully competent to instruct the Children in Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic; and the Girls in Knitting and Sewing; and to give both Boys and Girls such other in- structions as ...

... As we anticip. the news from various qua realises our worst Nations of the destruction of late storm that tii Ireland on Christmas England on Sunda ::iir|i.sle, Exeter, Durham, cester, Banbury, -1 Buckinghamshire, con no--M iik. tale*. of disaster-, ...