... BOAltD OF HEALTH.—The monthly meeting was held on Tuesday, the members present being Messrs, Toms, (in the chair) Coleman, Jones, Geake, Cornish. French, and Francis. After the minutes of the pre- vious meeting had been read and confirmed, Mr. Geake said in comptiance with the resolution of the previous meeting, Mr. Toms and himself had taken measures for the filling up of the open ditch ...

... feentl ftefog. The number of wrecks during the past year reaches a fearful total of 2029. The three Federal vessels destroyed at sea by the' Confederate war steamer Sumter included the Vigi- lant, the cargo of which was insured at Lloyd's about three weeks since. This is the firist loss the room has sustained since the present war risks have been acted upon. About a month ago Mr. Gr. Riddiford ...

... ST. FAGANS. THE BELL RINGERs.-On New Year's Eve, the ringers partook of supper at the Plymouth Arms (Mr. Llewellin's), after which they rung a merry peal prior to the departure of the old and the birth of the new year. The bells are new, and are well- toned, and the trial has proved that they are all that can be desired. The belis were well struck and brought down, ringing; the changes in an ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. DEATH OF THE TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN SUFFERERS. SHIELDS, Wednesday, Noon. During the whole of last night workmen were em- ployed putting up the cloth brattice in the shaft at Hartley Colliery. They have wrought very vigorously and successfully. The brattice is now completed, and the men are securing it by means of bunting. Pipes have also been fixed between the engine ...

... THE LATE DARING BCRGLARY.-About a fortnight ago, it will be recollected, a most daring burglary was committed in the neighbourhood, by some three or four men entering a house, and after threatening to murder the inmates made off with some £:3, all the money in the house at the time. Of course the po- lice have been on the alert, and four men have been apprehended on suspicion, one of whom is a ...

... The cutter Badger was ran down at Kingstown on Saturday evening, by the London steamer Leader. The cutter's crew had a narrow escape. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—A day or two after the death of his Royal Highness, Mr. Theed, the sculptor, attended at Windsor Castle, bv the Queen's command. It was her Majesty's wish that a cast of the Prince s hand should be taken, and this was ac- cordingly done, ...

... THE CKAWSHAY FAMILY.—This history, portions of which have appeared in our columns, will shortly be continued. OUR NAVVIES.—Miss Marsh, of Beckington, and lier navvies—model ones, not of beer, bacca, and strong swearing, but of tract propensities and reli- gious inclinations — was reproduced on Tuesday evening at the Temperance-ball, by the Rev. Mr. lance, of Newport. The hall was well filled, ...

... AMALGAMATION WITH THE GREAT WESTERN AND WEST MIDLAND. (Specially reported by ourselves.) Yesterday an extraordinary meeting of this Com- pany was held at the Great Western Hotel, Padding- ton, for the purpose of considering and determining with reference to certain heads of arrangement which have been provisionally made between the directors of the South Wales Railway Company and the direc- ...

... The Paris Temps says :— We are assured that the Attorney-General, the highest judicial authority of the United States, is of opinion that MM. Mason and Slidell should be given up. NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-A battle, it is reported, took place in Missouri, in which 1,300 Confederates finding themselves surrounded by Federal forces surrendered, with their baggage and equipments It is reported that ...

... OCRf Cardiff £ intcs. FRIDAY, JAN. 31, 1862. ANCIENT AND MODERN CIVILlSA' TION. TiME hallows the past. A tinge of gloff seems to linger aro.und the memory ofthoSØ achievements which were performed in the early stages of man's history. We neV0f think of contrast, and seldom venture a co0' parison, but take the dreams of the poet, and the tales of the mythologist, as creatio#^ too sacred for ...

... We have seen that an animal species imprinted its form on each epoch: the pliocene age was that of elephants. At the present day no elephants are met with in England, except at the Zoological Gardens; but formerly these living masses wandered about in herds. Gigantic elephants, twice the size of the largest specimens ROW existing in Ceylon and Africa, ranged the British forests, swam in the ...

... A few personal traits may be actded to our brief sketch of the prince who was on Monday laid in his splendid tomb. Professor Goldst-ucker, a fellow-student with him at Bonn, remembers lirin as the only prince who was a real reader there. I believe, says the professor, in a letter which we are allowed to quote, he never missed a single lecture. It was not the way with princes at Bonn. During ...