... BRISTOL PENNY BANK.-Amount of deposits re- ceived on Monday evening was Is. ld. the number of depositors 579; of new accounts opened 71. CAUTION TO HOUSEKEEPERS.—On Tuesday morn- ing, about half-past ten o'clock, a robbery was com- mitted in the house of Mr. Gaskin, Ciiftoc-h. me, Clifton. A young lady, residing in ht? houie, who had been engaged in writing, left the parlour window open, and ...

... ötgtU Cardiff SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1860. THE PILOTAGE QUESTION. CARDIFF and Newport are alike interested in this question. It has been frequently before the public, and has occupied the consideration of muncipal and other bodies from time to time. The Cardiff Corporation are about taking steps to rid the port of the anomalies which exist in reference to its pilotage, and we understand ...

... CAERPHILLY, THE FAIR on Tuesday was well supplied with horses, cattle, sheep, and all kinds of live stock- indeed it was the fullest fair which has been held this year. The day was dreadfully wet, and most of tfce business was transacted in-doors. Early in the clay a pretty general clearance was made, at good prices. An accident occurred during the day by aingr £ ;om his horse while riding ...

... MERTHYR. We are happy to inform our readers that the ex- ertions of Messrs. Overton and Russell, assisted by H. A. Bruce, Esq., M.P., have been crowned with complete success, and that the clause exempting mines, quarries, and tramways from rating under the Local Boards of Health has been rejected by the House of Commons. This will make a difference of nearly X2000 a year to the tradesmen and ...

... ABERDARE. The County Court, held before his Honour Judge Falconer, this month, was unusually devoid of in- terest, though a very large number of cases were heard. The only insolvent who presented himself was thrown overboard. There were entered for hear- ing 36 adjourned plaints, 357 new cases, 14 adjourned judgment summonses, 67 fresh judgments, and one interpleader. BOARD OF HEALTH.—The ...

... A LESSON ON LADIES-, HATS. (FpDm the Saturday Analyst arid Leader.) Let us contract our focus still more to a point, and throw it, at once illuminating and destrovni^ on the ordinary female hat of the day, our final and real object. We • have seen the wide Leghorn hat, iis front flappmg up- wards the breeze, and discovering, the sunburnt face of the Florentine Contadina, and we have seen the ...

... On Friday morning, upon the commencement of the business at the Police Court, his Worship the Mayor said he bad received a letter from the Ex- mayor of Neath, together with a gold watch, request- ing him to present it to Mr. John Lynn, for the very valuable services he had rendered during the time he was Superintendent of Police at Neath. He then read the following Neath, August 17th, 1860. ...

... In a few days a volunteer review will take place in this city. From pleasant Somerset and smoky Stafford, from the breezy downs of Oxford and the fumes and fires of Wales, from Bath and Cheltenham, and Bristol and Birmingham, towns as different as day and night, the volunteers will pour into the old city which two hundred years ago showed how armed citizens could fight. The committee of ...

... DBSEBTEB.—Hugh Price was charged with deserting from H.M.'s 16th Regiment of Foot.—Corporal Hannan enlisted the prisoner about 12 months since, and took him to Bristol en route to join the regiment. Since then he has deserted.— Remanded till Monday. ASSAULT.—Honora Callahan and Julia Hurley, remanded on a charge of assaulting Alice Kelly, were fined as. each and costs, or seven days' ...

... SERIOUS CHARGF.-On Friday, John Bonville Lewis, clerk to Mr. W. H. Thomas, coal exporter, Swansea, was committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement. DISAPPOINTED LOVE.—A domestic servant named Ann Davies, aged 20, was found drowned at the Mumbles on Saturday. A fellow-servant named Charles Cambridge had been paying his addresses to her. About a month ago she went to the Register Office to ...

... BRECON. COMMISSIONS SIGXI:I> I>Y THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF BRECKNOCK.— Roytil Brecknock Regiment of Militia.— Lieut.-Colonel Lloyd \aughan Watkins, M.P., to be Hon. Col.; Major Douglas John Dickinson to be Lieut.-Col. Commandant, vire W HIKING, appointed Hon. Col.; Capt. William Bridgwater to be Major, vice Dickinson, promoted Arthur Chilver fupper, Esq., to be Capt., vice ...

... Cardinal Wiseman has arrived in London from Paris. Cabinet Councils were held on Saturday and Tuesday. Convocation has been prorogued to the 23rd of October. Rajah Brooke, tired of long inactivity, is going out once more to Borneo. A short railway from Woodside Ferry to Birkenhead Paik, near Liverpool, was opened on Thursday. The receipts of the Royal Academy Exhibition for this year are the ...