... \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 ...

... SUFFERINGS OF MINERs.-The latest particu- lars at Victoria report that the Fraser and Harrison rivers were open, and that the steamer Enterprise was at Langley, with her bottom worn through by the ice. Great suffering had been experienced by the miners coming down. A party of about 120 had come down the river in canoes, until they struck the ice below the mouth of Harrison River. They then ...

... Three railway companies—the Taff Vale, the South Wales, and the Vale of Neath—have presented their reports, and declared their dividends. Each adverts to the fact of last year having been a year of deprivation, and consequently lower dividends have to be accepted by the shareholders. The Taff Vale, however, stands well, being able to declare 7 t per cent. per annum the Vale of Neath 3 per cent ...

... LITERARY APPRECIATION. — An American gentleman relates how, after leaving a paper of which he was the editor, and returning on a visit he wrote a leader for the new editor, and he really thought it pretty good-better than he had written for months. Next day old acquaintance with the paper in his hand. Ah, said he, this paper is but a miserably thing now nothing like what it was when you had ...

... INTELLIGENCE IN LANCASHIRE.-The Man- chester Examiner says in its answers to correspondents We are surprised to learn that at Congleton two bottles of wine have been staked upon the following question, Is 'upwards of 100' more or less than 100 ? More, of course. Upwards of a hundred means a hundred and upwards. This very abstruse question is sent us for solution on an average perhaps once a ...

... NRWPOnT COUNTY COUItT. The usual monthly court was held on Monday and Tuesday, before J. M. Herbert, Esq., judge. There were for hearing 2J5 new plaints, 10 adjourned cases, 63 judg- ment summonses, and 2 insolvents. INSOLVENTS. Re William Derrett, grocer, Pillgwenlly, appeared on his second examination. Mr. Champ opposed for the creditors. The insolvent was supported by Mr. R. J. Cathcart. ...

... ELEGANCE PICKED OUT.-There are some half-caste children living in Sydney; and these, semi- barbarous as they are, appear to have caught the smart- ness of their white compeers. There was one who used to sell oranges in the Circular Quay; and it was highly amusing to mark the easy way in which he would rid himself of a troublesome customer. One day a slim exquisite, with an elegantly-dressed ...

... ilabat and JWUttttg. THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF.-According to the Calcutta Englishman the object of the Commander-in- Chief's intended return to England is to lay his title and fortune at the feet of a fair lady, encouraged, probably, in undertaking his new campaign, by the. example of his brother in arms, the Duke of Malakoff. THE GUARDS' CRIMEAN MEMORIAL. — On Saturday the pedestal for the ...

... LECTURE.-—A very interesting lecture was delivered at the Independent Chapel at this place, on Monday night, February 14th, on John Bunyan and the Pilgrim's Progress, by the Rev. Owen Jones, Dow- lais. The lecture, which occupied two hours and a half in the delivery, was listened to throughout with unflagged attention by an overflowing audience. The chair was occupied by the Rev. Henry Oliver ...

... THE VSRDICT. The jury retired at 20 minutes to three o clock, and returned into court at a quarter to five, when, in answer to the questions of Lord Campbell, they said they found for the plaintiff upon the counts setting out the written libels, as well as upon the count containing the verbal slander, and that they were of opinion that the justifica- tion had not been proved. Upon the verbal ...

... SUNDAY, FEB. 20. Morning Lesson—Genesis i, and Luke iii. Evening Lesson—Genesis ii. and G.ilatians iii. MONDAY, FEB. 21. Cardiff Police at 12, for general purposes. Newport Police at 11. Mr. å. F. Davis's Popular Concert Monmouth County Court, at 10. Jenny Jones, Cardiff to Bristol, 7.0 a.m. Ely, Bristol to Cardiff, 9.15 a.m. Taiiesin, Burnham to Cardiff, 9.15 a.m. TUESDAY, FEB. 22. Cardiff ...