... A most influential public meeting was held in the Assembly Room of the Cardiff Arm* Hotel yester- day, Thursday. 16th February—having been con- vened by the subjoined advertisement:— «' PORT OF CARDIFF—The undersigned request a meeting of the pioprietors of land, minerals, and col- lierie*. and of ironmasters, manufacturer*, traders, and all psrties interested in the port of Cardiff, to be ...

... THE BALL.—A bachelor's ball came off at the Busb Ion on Thursday evening last, when there were about 80 persons in attendance. The ball was an exceedingly pleasant one, and the refreshments were, as usual, ol the best kind. We should have been happy to have given the names ot the ladies and gentlemen present, but wert- unable to obtain a complete liat, a considerable number being strangers. ...

... [Before John Batchelor, Enquire, Mayor.J DRUNKENNESS. &C. James B>yant, a seaman, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and was fined 5s. and costs. Thomas Samuel, Thomas Shepherd, and Thomas Ilcece were • imilarly lined. They were ail out at most unseemly hours. Thomas Samuel said •' it was a pipe of tobacco made him drunk. Harak Davies, widow, aned 30, was proved to have been lying down ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the SIXTH HALF YEARLY ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Briton-ferry Floating Dock Company will be held at the CARDIFF Aaau. Catditt. inthe Couuty of the 25th day of February instant, at Noon precisely. The Transfer Books will be closed on and after the 1Slh day of February instant, and will not be re opened until after the day of the said General ...

... CARDIFF P O L I C E.-THCKSPAT. (Continued from our fourth page.) [Before John Batchelor, Esq., Msvor, and Charles Crofts Williams, Esq.] Elizabeth Williams, an old offender, was charged with stealing money from the person of Wm. Lister, a pilot from Minehead, while in a house of iff-fame but as the com- plainant did not appear, she was admonished and dis- chnrged. Mary Ann Hull, another oH ...

... SHELLS FOK RUSSIA,-It is said that four railway truck- loads ot shells were sent off one day last week liom the Carron Ironwork, by the Caledonian Railway for the Czar -North British Daily Mail. Controverted Elections Committee lias been appointe I hy ti»e speaker lor the session. It comprilell Sir G. tirejr. Mr. Walpole, Mr. J. W. Pattea, Mr. It. Palmer, Sir R. Fergusou and Mr, Braiugtoa, ...

... THE Examiner some weeks since had an unanswera- ble uticle on the disputes between employers and em- ployed—& question in which the Society of Arts were about most injudiciously to interfere. We extract the pith of the article, omitting- all reference to the Society of Artg; & if the argument, as conducted by the Examiner, does not place this great social question in its true light,-if it do ...

... ( COlic/rider) from our last.) I now pus on to the evils produced by the over-crowded lodging-houses. Their magnitude can only be estimated by tho-e who have thoroughly investigated the subject. The number of the.e housc. in Cardiff [ have pretty correctly ascertained by return obtained by Ir. Stockdale, and they are 270 allowing 16 iumates for each house, certainly below the average, this ...

... CORN-KXCHANGE, This morning the quantity of English Wheat fresh up was contracted, and again of indifferent and second-rate Muality. The millers were, slow purchasers of Wheal. In some instances, tor fine dry samples as good prices were obtainable, but the low qualities must be quoted 2s. lower. In Foreign Wheat not much business transpired, at about the rates of last Monday. Barley was a ...

... THE CARDIFF ASD MERTHYR (iCAlti)IAiV. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1854. IT is now nearly forty years since the peace of Europe was disturbed. There is not, probably, a man amongst the gallant fellows to whom England looks for victory in battle, and who know nothing hitherto of danger but the breeze, to whom IMPRESSMENT is any thing more than a rude tra- dition. We would that it might continue so ...

... Oil Ti-e»day evening week, at the Temperance Hall, Merthyr, J. C FOWLER. E q.. Stipendiary Magistrate for the Di-trict, delivered the seventh of the series of winter lectures, in connection with the Merthyr Library, and took f r his subjects the important topics of Crime and its Anti- dotes. A highly respectable audience came together to hear the discourse; and Mr. Fowler imparted considerable ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next GENERAL HALF-YEARLY MEETING of PROPRIETORS of the ABERDARE RAILWAY will be held, pursuant to Act 01 Parliament, at the Door ISN, ABHRDARE, on TCESDAY, 28th iUit., at 11 o'clock precisely. CRAWSIIAY BAILEY, Aberaman, Feb. 13, 1854. Chairman. ...