... R. H. W.—Your number has not taken a prize. We have no letters at present. If any come, they shall be sent. MANCHESTER ART UNION.—The priise-list may be seen at our office. District news, received on Thursday evening, was un- avoidably crowded_out. ...

... Cardiff Times Offices, Saturday, 4.0 p.m. CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. At die meeting to-day, J. Bird, Esq., in the chair, it was reported that there had been 26 admissions, and 34 discharges, leaving 301 inmates in the work- house and refuge, being an increase of 11 on the corresponding week of the previous year. From the collector's statement we learn that during the month, in St. John's ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF HEALTH. The adjourned meeting of this board was held on Friday last. Present: the Mayor (in the chair), Ex-Mayor, Aldermen Pride and Yachell, and Messrs. Mason, Smart, Langley, Jones, Bowen, Win stone, Watson, J. Bird, J. Thomas, Mitchell, and Nell. The minutes of the previous meeting were read, as also were the collectors' statements. THE RATES. The MAYOR said the amount of ...

... In consequence of the inclement state of the weather the market on Tuesday was small, and good cattle seem to have come into few hands which makes them both scarce and dear. Sheep of good quality are scarce and are selling at high prices, but the in- ferior sorts are a drug at any price. The few cows and calves which are brought to the market and which are promising are disposed of at high ...

... LETTER THIRD. In my last letter I made allusion to that famous Welsh chieftaifc, Owain Glyndwr. Owain Glyndwr flourished between A.D. 1315 and 1400. He was the son of Gruffydd Fychan, lord of Glyndyfrdwy, North Wales. He descended from the Princes of Powis. The names of his ancestors were well known in that locality so early as the year 1230. Lord Grey de Ruthin, who was a great enemy of Owain ...

... MONDAY. (Before R. O. JONES and W. D. BUSHELL. Esqrs.) CARDIFF'S FET ONCE MORE. John Matthews, remanded on a charge of assaulting his wife. Mr. John Tobin, beer-house keeper, Adam-street, said on Friday Mrs. Matthews ran into his house followed by the defendant. They quarreled about some money, and the defendant stripped his wife of all her clothes except her shift and stays. They broke a pane ...

... It is with extreme regret we announce that the negociations with Mr. Forman, for the purchase of Penydarran Works, by a Joint Stock Company, have come to aa abrupt termination, and thus the hopes once raised concerning the rehabilitation of this manufactory, and the restoration of a partially ruined neighbourhood, are dashed to the ground. While we cannot withhold a tribute of praise to the ...

... BEAUFORT. WINTERLY APPEARANCE.—During the last few days the weather on these hills: has been so severe that many of the old folks have designated it old- fashion weather, and the young and would-be-merry ones have been disappointed in their speculations as to Christmas sports. Old Jack Frost pinched so sharply that the young damsels were glad to resort to the old custom, and clothe ...

... The Revenue Tables present the gross produce of taxation for the year and quarter December 31. The net increase on the year is J5,897,026, and that on the quarter .£1,157,518. Taking first the quarter, we find under Customs, still the greatest of all our sources of revenue, a decrease of £ 364,000, explained by the changes in our im- port duties consequent upon the Commercial Treaty with ...

... LONDON CORN EXCHANGE.—MONDAY. The weather for the last few days has been most re- markable. After a hard frost of some duration, during which the thermometer has been down to as low as degrees below zero, there was on Saturday night a. sudden change, a thaw setting in. A very large quantity of snow has fallen, both in the metropolis and in the provinces. Last week's supplies of English wheat ...

... AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.If our great grand- fathers had been told that to make their boys good farmers they must let them learn chemistry, they would have very likely put down the person urging such a course of science to be blended with their son's education as a foo! ? and remarked, I never learned such dry stuff, and I got on very well without it. No, no, let un work, that's my maxim, 'twill ...

... THIRD JUBILEE OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH THE third Jubilee of the building of the first chapel of this ancient Baptist church was held on the 27th ult. On the previous evening two sermons were preached by the Rev. W. Williams, Mountain Ash, and the Rev. J. Lloyd, Merthyr. On Thursday morning, at 8.30, the Thanksgiving Meeting was held, at which some of the youngest and oldest members took part. At ...