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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS

... WELSH CHARITY SCHOOL.-The 143rd anniversary of this Charity takes place on Monday next, as advertised in our first page. The order to add Mr. Ralph Ormsby Gore's name to the list of vice-presidents arrived too late. It will be seen that Lord Dynevor is the president. II HOMO. -Ueccived on Friday Morning; too late for this week. ...

CARDIFF POLICE MAGISTRATE

... We believe we may heartily congratulate our borough on the appointment of Robert Oliver Jones, Esq., Bar- rister-at-Law, to the Police Curial Chair at Cardiff. We have reason to know that the wishes of a great majority of the ratepayers have for some time been d:rected to this result, the character of this estimable Magistrate being well known to them. His proverbial integrity and impartiality ...

MURDER OF A GREEK SEAMAN AT SWANSEA

... COMMITTAL OF THE ACCUSED ON A CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER. On Wednesday morning last, the inhabitants of Swansea were thrown into a state of excite- ment by a rumour that, on the previous night, a brutal murder bad been committed within the immediate precincts of the borough, and that two men had been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the commission of the crime. Subsequent events ...

LITERARY V A 11 I g T IU S

... LITERARY V A 11 I g T IU S The man who W:1- ïilIel with emotion hadn't room for fiis dinner. Brave actions are the substance of life, and good sayings the ornament of it. A man may be great by chance, but never wise and -rood without taking pains for it. It is said thit no fort ever suffered so much from a single battle as the pianoforte from the Battle of Prague. What is better than ...

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... FRANCE. The secret police agents who were sent to England to collect evidence in the aff-iir of Orsini and his accom- plices have returned to Paris. General Lespinaese, Aide-de-Cmnp of the Emperor, is nominated Minister of the Interior and of Public Safety, in the place of M. Billauit. The Minister of Justice has assigned the batonnier of the order of advocates for the defence ot Orsini. Some ...

DEATH IN GAOL

... Out of this evil seek to bring forth good.Milton. THESE is many a tragedy enacted in humble life, by the majority of us overlooked or un- known. A little home is shattered never more to be a home again-the stay, the support of a family is wrecked, founders on a sea of misfortune, and is borne away for ever, and forth from some humble dwelling go the widow and the orphans to seek the cold ...

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... The whole amount of contributions to the Indian has reached the sum of t3429929 18s. 4d., of which the but some £ 20,000 proceeded from subscriptions in a United Kingdom. Of the aggregate otf^iing* foreign States France alone furnislu-d upwards of fourths, the list beiug headed, as our readers will ieme^ ber, by the Emperor and the Imperial Guard. The newspapers will not be allowed to publish ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... SHAKSPEARE AXD HIS WIFE.—To free our poet from the imputation which is suggested by a comparison of the date of the preliminary bond (Nov. 20th, 1582) with that of his first the preliminary bond (Nov. 20th, 1582) with that of his first child's baptism (May 26th, 1583), some recent biographers have anxiously informed us that in those days betrothment was often regarded as a sufficient warrant ...

RHYMNEY RAILWAY COMPANY. j

... RHYMNEY RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE is hereby given, that the EIGHTH ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING of the PROPRIETORS of the RHYMNEY RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the Offices of the Company, No. 28, GREAT GEORGE-STREET, WESTMINSTER, on SATURDAY, the Twenty-seventh day of FBBBUABY instant, at Three o'Clock in the afternoon pre- cisely, to receive a Report from the Directors, and for other the ...

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

... The Prince & Princess Frederick William of Prussia entered Berlin on Monday. Thep were received by about 200,000 persons who had congregated in the streets and who saluted them with hearty cheers Con- spicuous among the specators where a number of Englishmen, who stood together under the union jack belonging to the English Consulate, and who gave the Princess an unmistakeable British Cheer. ...

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... DR. LOCOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS.—Extract of a let • ter From Mr. J. Frou> Chemiet, Dorchester. Gentle* men,- Having just received the following, I beg to haud it to you, as a further proof of the excellence of Dr. Locock's Pul nonic Waters, which are generally spoken of in this t)eightJourl,ou'¡ in terms of rhe highest commendation. gentleman, a clergyman, called on me this afternoon, and ...