... CORRESPONDENCE. SURVEY OF ABERDARE. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. SIR,—I have pleasure to inform you that the Survey of the Parish of Aberdare, upon which I have been re- cently engaged, received the approval of the Poor Law Board on the 19th instant, which will be duly communi. cated to the Guardiaus of the Merthyr Union at their meeting on the 24th instant. Your notice ...

... SHAVING BY MACHINERY.—Mr. William Johnson, of North Shields, joiner, has invented a shaving machiue. This machine is of a singular construction, and contains every qualification necessary for the process. In appearance it is not unlike an old fashioned arm-chair. But the must unique feature in the whole affair is the arrangement of tbe razor blades, which are fixed longitudinally on cylinders, ...

... Lola Montes has quarrelled already with her new hus- band, because he was jealous of a violinist, from whom she had received some slight attentions. The poor man raised a row, ani got kicked out of the house by his bride of a fortuighf, 1 THE CRYSTAL PALACE, SI'DCNHAM.—On Monday week the whole of the firemen selected from the London Fire Engine establishment left the brigade, and took up Th'1 ...

... AY EST E UN VALLEYS RAILWAY. Greenwich time is kept at all the stations on this rail- way. The Station Doors, at Newport and Blaina, will be closed three minutes before the departure of each train. UP. AVEEK DAYS 8T'NDAY ist'2ndilst2nd lst2nd ls(2nd lst2nd STARTING FROM & 3rd & 3rd & 3rd £ t3rd & 3id Class Class. Class Class. Llasa A.M. NOON. *-M- L-X Newport, Dock-street 7 0 12 0 5 0 8 0 j? ...

... PONTYPOOL IRON WORKS. THE CHOLERA! THE PONTYPOOL COMPANY, at the moment when that felt scourge, the cholera, has reached our shores, and when nO town or locality can confidently hope for an immunity front its ravages, have not been unmindful of the great responsi, bility that rests upon them, as the employers of so large portion of the working population of Pontypool and itø teeming districts. ...

... GEORGE BIRD AGAINST DAVID BROWN. Mr. Tripp, instructed by Mr. R. W. Williams, for the plaintiff, and Mr. Bird for the defendant. The plaintiff claimed from the defendant as one of the partners in the firm of Parry, Brown, and Co. the 8um of £ 19 10s., the amount of seven seamen's advance notes. The case was one of considerable importance to the tradesmen and brokers of the town, and turned ...

... TREDEGAR. COUNTY COURT BUSINESS. -TiruRSDiY. John Jotes, grocer, Brynmawr, v. David Evans, Bryn- mawr. Goods sold, 17s. 5d. To be paid by three in- stalments. Same, v. Thomas Jones, of Brynmawr, collier. Goods sold, t-2 14s.'3d. 5s. a month. Same v. James John, of rynmar, miner. Goods sold, 8sTo-be.paid on the 7th of November. Geotge Owen, grocer, of Rhymney, v. Wm. Williams, of Rhymney, ...

... [TO THE EDITOR.] looked, last Friday, in your local contemporary, iS^ti^g to see a reply to my last letter, from the Lover Fair Play, and w^fl much surprised at finding that he Win i written anything in the shape of an answer, as in clar d the Star of the 30th of last month, he de- Jr, 9 r&^dinesa to discuss the question of Church columns of that paper, and that in propria j j^8) however, ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BLYTH AND TYNE RAILWAY. On Tuesday a fatal accident happened on this railway, near Seaton Delavel. A man named James Conning, and his wife, imprudently got upon the line, when an engine and train came up, and notwithstanding the driver sounded the whistle and shut of his steam, neither of the l parties attempted to get out of the way, and the result was that the engine ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT HENRY GEORGE ALLEN and THOMAS ALLEN, Esquires, the Barristers appointed to Re- vise the Lists of Voters for the County of Glamorgan, will make a Circuit, and hold Courts for such Revision, at the several Times and Places hereinafter mentioned and every Overseer of the Poor is to attend the Court to be holden for Revising the Lists relating to the Parish or Place of ...

... Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, Dor his wife II widow. A MISER.—Douglas Jerrold mentions a miser 80 greedy that he wouldn't give up even 8n emetic. In the reign o! Charles I., a mayor of Norwich actually sent a fellow to prison fur sajiug tint the Prince of Wales was boro without a shirt. He is tbe best IICCuuut!int who discovers and corrects hiø own errors, wIth a ...

... COMMANDER CRAWSHAY BAILEY. The Hampshire Advertiser, of September the 17th, con- tains the following article, in reference to Commander Bailey, son of Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., of Bi,econshire:- A good deal of excitement has prevailed in naval during the past few months, consequent upon the expected trials by court martial of the officers of the Medea steam sloop, on the West India station, ...