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Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, Glamorgan, Monmouth, and Brecon Gazette

CARDIFF POLICE.-FRIDAY

... (Before R. O. Jones and T. E. Heath, Esqrs.) Henry Clements and John Smith, two drivers of Cacrphilly. were charged with assaulting passengers in one of the South Wales Railway carriages, and also with assaulting Mr. Thomas, Inspector of the Company's police. The case was sent to Newport, the offence having been committed within the jurisdiction of the magistrates in that district. Thomas ...

POETRY

... SONNET, ADDRESSED TO CHARITY, By a Recovered Patient of the Cancer Hospital, London, ac- companied with half-a-sovereign, gratefully and humbly presented in aid of the Building Fund of that much required and most beneficial Institution. 0, Charity! I thee invoke With grateful heart—with voice of love! O, breathe thy spirit on ray verse, The affluent, and the good to move! A mite thy humble ...

POETRY. !

... SIGHING CAN NEVER RAISE TIlE WIND. A plague of your sighing-l never knew good of it; Wasting the body, weakening the mind- Like a French vol-a it-vent, 'tis a puff without food in it- Keep up your spirits and keep down your wind. Life is a race; we are all entered in for it Waste not your breath—you'll need nil you can find Take your sighing to Lombard-street —who'll give you tin for it ? ...

GENERAL NEWS

... Baron Brunnow has appeared at our court in an entirely new style of court costume. The new Russian civilian court dress is a tunic richly embroidered in silver. On Good Friday the Prince of Wales attended his Royal parents, and partook of his first communion, which was administered by the Dean of Windsor in the private chapel of the Castle. Mr. J. J. Mechi, of Tiptree Hall fame, was, on ...

LONDON CATTLE-MARKET —MONDAY

... There was to-day an exceedingly short supply of beef, and in consequence the trade was biisk and mJde better prices for all kind?. Scots MADE 4'. 6J. very firmly. and other descriptions of beasts from 3S. 10J. per atone. The supply of mutton also was short, being under 15.000 bead of sheep and lambs inclusive. A slight improvement took place in the mutton tiade, but the questions given below ...

LATEST 3Sr3EWS-

... ALLAHABAD, March 2û.-Cornrni8sioner Yeh reached Calcutta on the 22nd inst., and will be under surveillance until further orders. Mehundie Ale Khan, styling himself Prince of Hampoon, who was arrested on the 2nd, has been released from confine- ment, and required to live under surveillance. By steamer Euxine, Malta, April 14. We (Times) have received the following telegram from our Malta ...

ITHE MUTINIES IN INDIA:

... THE MUTINIES IN INDIA: THE FALL OF LUCKXOW. The following letter from the Bombay correspondent of The London Times supplies the details of this gallant affair, and likewise particulars of the present state of affairs generally BOMBAY, MARCH 24. — Our news by telegraph from the Commander-in-Chiel'E camp comes down only to the igth-five days ago—when the last position of the enemy in or around ...

CARDIFF AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD

... BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. —A meeting of the general and local committee was held this (Prid-iy) morning, in the Grand Jury-room at the Town Hall, the Mayor in the chair, when it was resolved to invite the in- habitants of Cardiff to co-operate with the sub-committee in decorating the. town on the society's visit, so as to give it a fitting reception. A sum of jB50 was ...

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... VIOLENT THUNDERSTORM.—On Saturday afternoon a violent thunderstorm passed from the west over liazely- heath, near Bramsbiii. At the same time a carter in the employment of Mr. John South, with four horses, was leav- ing a field in which they had be..o ploughing, when a flash of lightning struck the poor fellow and all the horses to the ground. Two of the horses immediately got up and another ...

EPITOME OF FOREIGN NEWS

... The Paris Conferences, it is said, meet on the 1st of May. The colony of Victoria has made, by its organ, the Legislative Assembly, the noble donation of £25,000 to the Indian Relief Fund. Gas is all the rage at present in Australia. Companies are being formed iu Geelong and in the towns on the diggings for the supply of this illuminator. T'e Morning Post Paris Correspondent says I have ...

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... THE TRADE OF LIVERPOOL.—The Liverpool Customs Bill of Entry contains the following statistics :-Customs duties received in the port of Liverpool on the under- mentioned goods iu the month ended March 31, 1858,— Coffee, £ 4,586 18-. 4d.; corn, meal, and a )ur, £ 13,237. 7?. 9d. molasses, £ 7,384. 12s. IOJ.; sugar, £79,8t7. 17s. Id.; spirits, £38,718. 12s. lid.; tea, £ 43,034. 5s. 6d.; tobacco, ...

LITERARY VARIETIES

... FOND OF SOCIETY.—Housekeepers who buy second-hand bedsteads. The work may make a man unfortunate,! but not miserable that is from himself. He who does his best, however little, is always to be distin- guished from him who does nothing. A coffin, said an Irishman, is the house a man lives in when he is dead. Why is it easy to break into an old man's house ?—Because his gait is broken and his ...