... Jiabal and WUitatg- PAY AND PENSIONS.—Her Majesty, W order in council, has been pleased to authorise w? ment of badge-money to petty officers of the and after the 1st of May inst., in the same man11 now enjoyed by able seamen-viz., one if for each good conduct badge, and as an addit10 ducement for the best and most intelligent petty sbi and able seamen of the fleet to join the gunnery and ...

... NOTWITHSTANDING Mrs. Partington's protestation that comparisons are oderous, we must institute a parallel between the doings of the Poor Law Com- missioners in the case of the Chorlton Workhouse Master and their doings relative to the Cardiff Work- house Master. As to the former, we quote the fol- lowing paragraph from the Western Daily Press of Wednesday last DISMISSAL OF A GOVERNOR OF A ...

... THE ODD-FELLOWS EXCURSION from Newport and Cardiff to Swansea, Carmarthen, Haverfordwest, and Milford Haven, came off on Monday, when about persons left this station at 7.15 a.m., and Neyland on the return journey at 7.;H) p.m. We have received a lengthened description of the Royal Dock-yard and other places visited by the excursionists, from the pen of an esteemed correspondent, but the ...

... ptcraturc. TAIT's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, for December. Lon- don: Partridge & Co. THERE is a great variety of well written matter in this issue. The political article with which Tait opens is devoted to the forthcoming Reform Bill, and the writer taking up the text which Government has itself supplied by sending to the country for returns on the rating of property, argues forcibly against the ...

... t. „ DEMURRAGE CASE. Denduyts v. David and Toms. (Tried before J. M. Herbert, Esq., County Court Judge.) This was an ac- tion brought by the plaintiff, owner of the Belgian ship Helene, against Messrs. David and Toms, of Cardiff, coal merchants, to recover the sum of £ 16 for three days' de- murrag • y Cjiarter-party it was agreed that de- fendants snould load the plaintiff's vessel in eight ...

... Efic OTveam of ttncù. ELECTION SONG. BY A FREE AND INDEPENDENT. I've a vote! I've a vote! for no matter which side, To neither whig, tory, nor rad am I tied: Up, up with the hustings !—'tis a gold mine to me; I've a vote! I've a vote! independent and free I heed not dishonour, I fear not the law, I've no conscience to guide me, no terrors to awe And ne'er like a spooney my vote will I yield, ...

... \ru Saturday ^ie weekly meeting was presided over att assett, Esq., the chairman being unable to end on aceount of sickness. Of the town guardians were present—Messrs D. Lewis, Cory, Twigg, fixandor, Willett, and D. Jones Rev. C. W. Evans, v- H. J. Thomas, Mr. E. P. Richards, Mr. Davies *), &c., &c. in^Gn ^'e Clerk had read the minutes prior to the of public-business, complaint was made y Mr. ...

... FREIGHT LIST. COAL. Brazils, West Indies, d'c. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 0 0 to 18 6 Aden 0 0 to 50 0 Messina 16 0 to 17 0 Bombay 50 0 to 55 0 Marseilles 0 0 to 18 0 Bahia 28 0 to 29 0 Malaga (ck.21s) 16 0 Buenos Ayres 35 0 Madeira Calcutta 50 0 to 52 6 0 to 17 6 C. Good Hope35 0 to 39 0 Patras or Zante 0 0 Cape Verds 16 0 Palma or Port Malion 18 0 Havannah 0 0 to 15 0 Palermo Hong Kong.50 0 to ...

... We learn that steps are taken to form and open a branch establishment of the above institution in Cardiff, in connection with the parent office in Lon- don, which has been already incorporated under the Act of Victoria 19 and 20, cap. 49, (Limited Liability Act), comprising a numerous body of shareholders, conducted by a board of directors, under the dis- tinguished presidency of the Earl of ...

... Cardiff Times Office, Saturday, 4,0,p.tn. CARDIFF BOARD OF HEALTH. There was a full meeting yesterday, aud several subjects of great financial importance were discussed. The Clerk presented an estimate of expenditure for the ensuing year, prior to making a new rate. It amounted to £G,437. The net rateable value of pro- perty rated for board of health purposes is £D2,296 and a rate of 2s. in ...

... THE FAREWELL LEVEE of the Earl of Eglinton is postponed to Monday, the 4th of July, upon which day the noble earl takes his departure from Ireland. BLONDIN, a tight-rope performer, is reported by the Niagara Falls Gazette to have ascended one of tho wire rope guys extending from the suspension bridge to the bank near the water s edge, a long distance over the boiling rapids. He also suspended ...

... The market on Tuesday was small in consequence of Cowbridge fair being the same day, and the sup- ply of stock for the week would have been quite different but for the arrival of beasts from Pembroke- shire, most of which were disposed of on Tuesday to the butchers of Cardiff and locality. Beef ranged from 48s. to 56s. per cwt.; mutton from 6d. to 7d. per pound to sink the offal. THE GAs.On ...