... (Before the MAYOR and R. O. JONES, Esq.) SMUGGLING.—The mate of a Dutch ship, lying in the East Bute Dock, was charged with having concealed under his bed two boxes of cigars-and one pound of tobacco. Fined single duty, £2 18s., or one month. BEER-HOUSE OFFENCE.—Denis Donovan, landlord of the Osprey Inn beer-house, in Pendoylan-3treet, Newtown, was charged with selling beer on Sunday morning ...

... (From the Daily News of Wednesday.) It is now six months since the newspapers an- nounced to a startled public the first of those extraordinary meetings of fallen women which have been held by benevolent persons in various parts of this metropolis. We then offered the promoters of the movement some congratulations mingled with certain cautions which we thought necessary. The time has come for ...

... TREDEGAR. A PIC-NIC PARTY assembled on Monday last at the' Mill Farm, near this town, which was got up by the teachers of the Church Sunday school. About twenty couple attended, and it was pleasing to see them enjoying themselves. un]>leasant occurred. When evening came, they adjourned to the freemason's Arms, where they also enjoyed themselves. The ar- rangements were creditable to the ...

... BEULAH.—On Sunday last, about 1. 30, p.m., the friends of the Sabbath school connected with the Independents of this place, met at the chapel, whence they issued in an orderly procession to Llandaff yard, to celebrate the opening of the Sabbath school com- menced there the previous Sunday. At the village, they were met by the auxiliary branch, when the two formed themselves into one united ...

... Provincial EARNINGS OF A BEGGAR.—On the person of a cripple named Jos. Walker, just sentenced at the Dewsbury sessions to two months' imprisonment, for dog stealing, a pocket-book was found containing entries during forty days of the amount he had received in charity while pursuing his vocation. These sums amounted altogether to X9 14s. OJd., yielding him an average of 4s. lOd. a day. The ...

... JRarf^tg. LONDON, AUGUST 20. Demand falls off for Colonial Produce, and Stocks are large at present scarcely any variation in the value on acooant of the moderate parcels offering Russian Prod acts aotnmch m request, arid a fur Liter reduction for Tallow., lint rates about the same for Hemp and Linseed. Trade dull for Metals, and quotations receding for most articles. Purchases still large in ...

... THIS is now the important question of the day. The Lords, by their actions, give an unhesitating affirmative to the question—the people as unhesitating a negative, while the House of Commons, on whom the decision rests, keeps for the time in mute hesitation and refuses to express an opinion on the sub- ject. I A few evenings ago, the Lords, stimulated by their success with the Repeal of the ...

... THE MASSACRE AT DAMASCUS* It appears that the massacre at Damascus commend 1 in the afternoon of the 9th, and that before night 51 1 Christians had been killed. The first consulate attackl was that of Russia. The Russian and Greek conss took refuge with Abd-el-Kader. All the Catholic at > Greek churches and convents, as well as the. consulat,) 1 are burnt. The American vice-consul was wounded, ...

... EAST GLAMORGAN PRIZE ASSOCIATION. A very interesting meeting was held in the Town- hall, Cardiff, on Friday, the 17th inst., to distribute the prizes given by the above Association to about 150 children belonging to different schools in the district. The Bishop of Llandaff presided, and there were present a number of ladies and gentlemen, including the clergy of the town and neighbour- hood. ...

... FBI DAY.—Before the Mayor, and R. O. Jones, G. Bird, and C. VV. David, Esqr3. SMUGGLING.—Pieter Rossier was charged with smuggling of cigars. This case was reported in our last week's impression, and as stated then was left over for the Custom- house authorities to determine what course should he taken. Instructions having been reeeived, the captain was fined in the sum of £100, and £2 10 ...

... IN LONDON. Viscount Raynham, M.P. for Tamworth, on Friday, August 10, waited on Mr. Tyrwhitt, on the representa- tion of Mr. Samuel Warren, master tailor, residing at No. 9, Titchborne-street, Piccadilly, to complain of alleged gross ill-treatment to a young servant girl, in the service of'a lodger in the house of the latter, and who, since the last assault on her on Sunday last, had suddenly, ...

... It is curious to note with what rapidity well-directed enterprise and its indispensable accompaniment, wealth, have enabled humble fishing villages upon our coast to rise, within a few years, to the rank of important towns. The history of Cardiff presents a striking instance of this good fortune. It was anciently a very small town, con- sisting of a few houses, about a mile and a half from the ...