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... A LIBERAL REGHSTKATION TBICK. William Thomas Kisdon was then called on, and objected to by the Liberab. The claim is not worth special mention, but in the hearing of it an episode occurred of the most astonishing and discredit- able character. Mr. Strowbridge, the Liberal agent, handing over a rate-book to the Conservative representatives said You see that his name is not, on the rate-book. ...

A BRUTAL FATHER

... At the Westminster Police-court, on the 11th inst., Charles Legg was charged with brutally assaulting his daughter, Mary Eliza Legg, 13 years old. The prisoner has been married three times, and the only child—that one in question—was by the first wife. According to her evidence, three years ago, when at Dorchester, he seduced her. This illicit intercourse has been kept up ever since, and seven ...

IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS I

... + THE CARDIFF AND MERTHYR GUARDIAN has been Established upwards of Thirty-seven Years, and has a highly influential and ever-increasing circulation in South Wales and the West of England. As a Medium for Advertisements the GUARDIAN is unrivalled in the County of Glamorgan or the Town of Cardiff. Advertisements, letters, and other communications in- tended for insertion in the whole of our ...

THE HOUSE OF LORDS

... IF Mr. Bright could predict as well as he can predicate-that is, if he were as good a prophet as he is a speaker, or if his prescience were as re- markable a gift as his insolence—we should never have seen the letter which he wrote a short time since to his sympathising constituents. As if utterly to confound Mr. Bright, the Lords, as he calls the members of the Upper House in a some- what ...

THE COMINJi ELKCTION

... THE time has arrived when the Electors of the United B roughs of Card.ff, C'wbridgc, and Llantrissant must put th .se questions to them- selves: Are we, or are we not. to be repre- sented in Parliament ? Are we to have a mem- her of hiu h character, able and willing to speak on the current qu stions of the time, to watch our interests and defend them when assailed, and to forward those ...

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... justice. George, whose tongue seems to be as slippery as his finest lather, talked at a tremendous rate to trie Court, but it turned out that there had been^ some attempt at a settlement; George had received 3s. 6d. and a noggin of gin to recover bis blood.—George Your mother got the money back, and I paid for tiie gin myself, no thanks to you for it.—He has got a strong back and I have not; ...

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... TO CORRESPONDENTS. NOTICE.—The Railway Time Tables are published with as much care to ensure correctness as possible, but should they contain any errors, the publisher does not hold himself responsible for any inconvenience they may arise therefrom, as changes sometimes take place in the arrival and departure of trains without the knowledge of the Editor. ...

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... Ijirtlis, -lila^iageji, anil BIRTHS. CORTLEL-On the 25th ult., at The Lodge, Beaminster Dorsetshire, the wife of Captain J. W. Costley, late Royal Welsh Fusiliers, of a daughter. LEWIS. Recently, the wife of Mr Thomas Lewis, en- gineer (T. V. R.), Treherbert, of a daughter. VACHIlLL. -On the 5th mat., at 18, Charles-street, the wife of Mr. William Vachell, of a son. MARRIAGES. GORDON—EDWARDS ...

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... THE Weather AND THE CROPS.—A gentleman who has been travelling in Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Monmouth- shire, speaks most encouragingly of the hay crops. Mowing has begun in many places, and the grass falls heavdr III many plac ...

CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS

... The usual weekly meeting of this Board was held on Saturday last at the Board Room of the Union Work- house, E. W. David, Esq., chairman, presiding. After the usual minutes of the preceding meeting had been read by Mr. Stephenson the recently appointed Clerk of the Board, The Chairman stated that he had received a com- munication from Miss Jenner, complaining of a nuisance at Wenvoe which she ...

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... The committee for promoting the working men s ex- cursion to Paris are desirous that some practical good should result from the visit, and have, therefore, pro- posed that a fund should be set apart for the purpose of awarding prizes to those excursionists who furnish the oest essays and reports on the subject of their visit. A selection of these is to be published in order that subscribers to ...

PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, Mar. 12. Lord Dunsany, in moving for an Address to the Crown for Various reports relating to Captain C. Coles's designs for tur- ret-ships, expressed an opinion that the Admiralty had not shown themselves very friendly towards that officer, whose ingenuity and industry could not be disputed. The Duke of Somerset, after stating that he should not ob- ject to the ...