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... FORTIFICATION OF THE Mumbus.—The important. work of the defence of the Mumbles, COUITJlanding the- roadstead at Swansea Bay, has been under taken by Go- vernment, and the first steps for the erection of an effi- cient defensive work have just been taken. A battery of heavy guns is to be erected on the Lighthouse Island, inaccessible to an enemy, the water /l? • surroandi& ifc wit)^ a strong ...
... EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. The Editor does not h ...
... THE LATE SioRN.—On Friday morning se'rmight this district was visited by a brief but severe thunder storm, causing considerable damage to property and endangering human life. About a quarter to ten the inhabitants of the place were startled by a very vivid flash of lightning, accompanied by loud thunder, and at this time Plymouth House, belonging to Mr. Evans, and prominently situated near the ...
... SHIPWRECK.—A. report reached Swansea on Friday, that the barque Sir Henry Pottinger, Capt. Barnes, from Caldera to Swansea, with ...
... RE DAVID GOODMAN, CARDIFF, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER.—This was an adjourned last examination sitting. —Mr. Clifton, for the assignees, stated that at the last meeting it was suggested that the bankrupt should be furnished with a list of the circumstances upon which explanation was required. This had been done, but nothing had been received in the shape of explanation from the bankrupt, and in ...
... x.SAR,rI.1have lateIyin y°«r columns several accounts of the landing of the French in Wales, all more or less incor- rect; but especially one by Mr. A. Ridgwav, adding so largely to the general mass of inaccuracies, that I feel it incumbent upon me (though very unwilling to enter into such contro- venes), to send you a short statement of what really did occur On Wednesday, February 22, 1797, 1 ...
... BLAEN AVON. ACCORDING to announcements made in several of the local papers, the new mill at the BIaen. avon works—which reflects the greatest credit on that very remarkable clever young man. the designer of the new forge—was to have been opened for regular work on Tuesday last, when, as is usual on such occasions, and as may have been assumed in this instance, some grand demon- stration was to ...
... The funeral of Lord Macaulay will take place in West minster Abbey on Monday January the 9th, at 1 o'clock. The members of the Legislature and the gen- tlemen of distinction in tetters, science, or art, who may be desirous to show their respect to his memory, are re- quested to signify their wish to Mr. C. Buxton, M.P., 7, Grosvenor-crescent, as the apace in the part of the Abbej chosen for ...
... The monthly meeting took place at the Clifton Hotel, on Thursday evening. Present, Messrs. Green- hill (in the chair), Evans, Smart, Douglas, Ensor, Page, Thomas, and J. Williams. After the clerk had read the minutes of last meeting, he read a copy of & petition against the application for additional powers of the Canton Market Company, which after reciting the powers of local boards of ...
... (Seiural itos. A revival of the rumour has taken place of the probability of an early proposal for a Russian loan through Messrs Rothchild and Co. A Frenchman, known amongst half-a-dozen other Barnes, as Anguste Gustave Gilson, was brought Wore Mr. Selfe, at the Thames Police-office on Saturday, charged with obtaining, by frandulent pre- tences, an oil painting worth £ 240, from M. Schen- e^l, ...
... AN EXTHAORDINAKY ADVENTURE IN RUSSIA. CHAPTER VII. ( After having paid his modest reckoning, and made his ar- rangements with the Monjick, who agreed to couùuct him to Arsanus, Frautz left the next morning in a sledge, made in the form of an open box, and drawn by two horses, they left Piloksdovo on the left, proceeding along the banks of a small frozen river called Piana, on which were many ...
... PRIODV^OSRDD. U. fones, Yxw., Orchard Villa, Caerdydd, a Miss S. Venables, Liverpool, Nadolig, 1859. WED I awydd, a rleol,-a chuaw, Merch ieuane synwyrol, Deuawdd, lieb un nawdd vn ol, Wen SARAH, i JONES siriol. I doi'r amed aur yma,-yn oes rwydd JONES, i'w Orchard Villa, i-: Bydded tear ei boddhad da, L Yn oes wyrion, i SARAH. (Swnai luniaidd perfddelw, a pher rosyn gwiw, Ddywenydd i deimlad, ...