... TAFF VALE RAILWAY. Traffic for the Week ending March H, 1859. £3J51 9 3 Corresponding Week last Year. £ 3 )36 15 7 QUEENSTOWN, March 12.-Put in, 11, the Williama Mary, from Cardiff and Milford for Tamgona (rail* way iron), through stress of weather. ...

... CAERPHILLY. A DOG's GRASP.—A tolerably-sized terrior dog was sporting with boys the other day by fetching sub- stances from the brook. The animal failed to find a stone which was thrown in, but it brought out another that was 6 inches thick, 1G or 18 inches long, and weighed 241bs. How it could have grasped so large a substance and brought it out of the water, was a marvel to many who ...

... FOUR LIVES SAVED BY THE ROYAL SOCIETY'S EscAPE.-At a few minutes past one o'clock on Monday morning. Police-constable 55, of the C division, disco- vered that the premises belonging to Messrs. Dawson, No. 18, Vere-street, Oxford-street, Marylebone, were on fire. The officer immediately raised an alarm, and in the course of a few minutes several persons made their appearance at one of the front ...

... FOREIGN CLEANINCS. IRON TRAM-ROADS IN PARIS.—The carriages which run on the iron tram-road to St Cloud, Sbvres, and Versailles, and which have hitherto started from the entrance of the Cours la Reine, on tlje Place de i corde, now take up passengers in the RnP T • front of the Colonnade. order that thP part of the tire of the wheels of those carriaD-o?10' m? injure the road of the Quai des ...

... i'KOJI PLYMOUTH TO SlEliliA LEONii. BY C(EDO ILLUD. 0 CHAPTEB III. At the expiration of two days after our departure from Teneriffe, we arrived within the torrid zone, but the tropic heat of that feve ed region, tempered by cool trade winds, did not prove inconvenient until we uearedCapc de Verde, when- as if a foretaste of the horrors of the African climate—we ex- perienced the torments ...

... Before Aid. Lewis, W. Done Buahell, and T. E. Heath, Esqrs. STEAMNO COAL.—James Mc.Glyn, a boy nine years of age, from 7, Pendoylon-street, was sent to gaol for seven days. and to be once whipped, for stealing coal from the T. V. Railway. DSORDERLY WOMEN.—Mary Griffiths, a young woman, aged 21, from 1, Frances-street, charged with using obscene language in South Church-street, was admonished ...

... REINSTATEMENT OF Mil. JOHN, MASTER OF CARDIFF UNION. The usual meeting of the Cardiff Board of Guardians was held on Saturday last, the Chairman, Evan David, Esq., presiding. At the hour for special business, The Chairman rose and said he had that morning received a letter from the Poor Law Board, in reply to a memorial all- dressed to them by 42 of the Guardians of the Union, eight of whom ...

... Scientific. —-f-— PEAT Moss.—Sir James Matheson is about to erect extensive chemical works for the manufacture of paraffine, &c., from peat moss-the cost of which will be several thousand pounds—at Garrabost, near the town of Stornoway. Experiments have, been already made by two gentlemen of high reputation, and with a satisfactory result. These works will be a source of employment to a large ...

... SUPPOSED MOBDEB AT HIBWAIN. The dead body of a man named William David, agpd 30, a haulier at the Hirwain Iron Works, was found in the stible of the Hirwain Caslle public-house. on the morning of the 8:11 ins'. It was at first supposed tInt. he had fallen through the loft over the stable, but on further examination it 1\ a; supected that this account of Ihe death was improbable, and suspicion ...

... S^ttowat^rebsi. ^eorge P. Bond has beat appointed Director IWL observatory at Cambridge, U.S., to succeed Ms J~*r? the late William C. Bond. of every kind in Saa Ffanciseo has '8 ftS ■ a rnipuise from the diiseovery of geld %ft; 1Sk Columbia, which Was induced aii immigration • ciwmtry.' London, colonial wool sales, which com- -en 24th ult, lermififiatefl em Tuesday, March iSd c es have been ...

... Hcntiems aiib DEATH FROM AN OVERDOSE OF AMMONIA.— On Monday evening an inquest was held at the Two Brewers Tavern, Jermyn-street, St. James's, before Mr. Langham, deputy coroner for Westminster, on view of the body of Mr. William Webley, aged forty-six. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was lately proprietor of the Railway Tavern, at Crawley, in Sussex, but had retired from ...

... RAILWAY BTLLS 1859.—The general report ot the Board of Trpie- shows that 172 bills for rail. ways in Groat, Bittain have been deposited this session, of whvh 129 authorise new works; 70 bills by new cooppnies authorise the constructioa. of 768 miks r. railway, and 59 by old companies 3fil miles: t.e tola) length of linQ. therefore, is 1,129 miles, in addition to 95 miles of deviation Jines and ...