... IF among ourselves, ladies are sometimes known to take the initiative, we see no great reasons for nrudish excla- mations. or fny severe judgment on their conduct. The proof of the pudding, they say, is in the eating and the best proof of the wisdom or propriety of any step, is to be looked for in its results. Owing to the rigid adherence, in this country, to the custom above alluded to, we ...

... We select the following importantly suggestive obser- vations from a pamphlet, entitled Results of Sanitary Im- provement, by Dr. Southwood Smith, whose zealous efforts in aid of the Metropolitan and other societies, for improving the physical condition of the industrious classes, and whose practical information on the subject of vital statistics, give him a high rank amongst the benefactors ...

... We can have no hesitation, says the writer of an article in the North British Review, in assigning the invention of the Electric Telegraph to a humble Scotsman, who has left us only the shadow of his name. Just one hundred years ago a contributor to the Scotch Magazine, dating from Renfrew, published to the world the unell- tion of the Electric Telegraph in terms so distinct that they must ...

... THE CARDIFF NSILTHYR 6UAR81A! FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1851. We have heard that Major BRUCE, of the 74th High- landers, has volunteered his services for the war on the Danube. FRANCIS EDMUND STACEY, Esq., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, was, on the 28th ult., admitted to the degree of B.A., in that Uuiversity. LORD EISUOP OF LLANDAFF presented on the 2nd instant, to the House of Lords, two ...

... A Quarterly Meeting of the Council was held in the Grsnd Jury Itoom of the New Town-hall, 011 Monday last. There were present— Mr. John Batchelor, Mayor, in the chair, Alderman Lewis, | Alderman Morgan, R.M. n Moore, M D. | „ C. C. Williams, And the following Councillors •— Mr. W. Alexander I Mr. Grifli:h Phillips „ W. A. Bradley J „ It. L. Keece Montague Grover I Charles Vachell B. Matlhew. ) ...

... ABERGAVENNY. PETTY SESSIONS—WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1. Present-The Hon. W. P. Rodney, and Rev. G. W. Gabb. VAGRANCY. Two vagrants were brought up by P.O. Merewether, of Blaenavon, charged with making use of a false certificate, stating that they were two shipwrecked seamen, who had been taken off a wreck, at sea, and collecting contributions from the charitable. It also appeared that they went to the ...

... (rrom the February No.of the ATorrA British Review.) Alter npiMking of the Irish and Scotch branches of Celtic music, the wriier proceeds 1e and last pure branch of Celtic mmic is the f, f A't|,ough of a kindred, if not the same origin, as u ris- and Scotch, its conuexiou with them must have b*;en early severed, for it has assumed a distinct character. vV e lear l from Hantner's Chronicle ( o ...

... LOCAL MATTERS.—An extraordinary case of attempted felonious assault, will be found in the police report, in the 2nd page other important local arti cles are also inserted in that and the following page. ACCIDENT. -On Tuesday afternoon, a little boy was knocked down and ridden over in High-st., by an incautious young man, riding a spirited horse. Though stunned, the child was not much injured; ...

... FUNERAL OF THE LATE CHARLES RODNE* MORGAN ESQ., OF RUPERRA CASTLE, FOR BRECON. Yesterday morning, the interment of the remains of the late Charles Rodney Morgan, Esq., of Ruperra Castle, took place at the family vault, at the parish church of Bassaleg, amidst the deep grief of his bereaved relatives, and the sincere regrets of a large concourse of persons* (many of whom had known the innate ...

... A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DAFYDD AB GWILYM: [A WELSH BARD OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.] (Continued from our last.) WE may take it for granted that Dafydd ab Gwilym must have lived in habits of intimacy with the poets of his time, —amongst whom many, perhaps, were to be found not insensible to the charms of the mead-horn; but he does not seem to have been much devoted to it himself, for among those ...

... NEWPORT AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. THURSDAY MORNING, Feb. 9.—This day the mortal remains of Charles Rodney Morgan, Esq., lale M.P. for Brecon, were brought by the mail-train, via Liverpool, to Gloucester, thence to Newport, and onward to Tredegar Park, the seat of his ancestors. They were afterwards consigned to the family vault at Bassaleg. The tradesmen of I^ewj.9:l partially closed their shops from ...

... NEWPORT TOWN COUNCIL QUARTS^ MEETING. TUESDAY. Present —Joseph Latch, Esq., in the chair, in tb:Ëd of the Mayor; and Messrs. Davis, Jenkins, & M Turner, Lyne, Llewellin, Lewis, Dowling, Burton, Townsend, Knapp, Homfray, Mullock, Webb, Williams, and Batehelor. re The Deputy-Clerk read the minutes of the V p, Council meeting; and the Board considered ta reports (watch committee and Board of ...