... THE COWBRIDGE HOUNDS will meet Monday. Jan. 13 Castle npon Allum Thursday — 16 Landow Cross Roads At Eleven o'clock. THE TREDEGAR HOUNDS will meet on Monday Jan. 13 Llanrumney Lodge — 15 Tregwillym — 17 Dutfryn Each day at half-past 11 o'clock. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. Traffic for Week ending Jan. 5, 1862 dE4251 16 0 Corresponding Week, 1861 4357 12 2 SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Week ending Jan. 4,1862 ...

... STATE OF CRIME IN THE COUNTY.-The following sta- tistics were appended to the calendar of prisoners for trial at the last sessions :— THE GAOL AT CARDIFF. MALE. FEMALE. For trial at sessions 33 12 45 Ditto at assizes 1 0 1 Convicted at assizes 26 1 27 Summarily convicted 34 21 55 Debtors. 22 0 22 Total 150 NEW YEAR'S EVE.—The departure of 1861, and the arrival of 1862, were announced by merry ...

... 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 ...

... A REMARKABLE CASE -OF WITCHERY. IN the winter of 1861, a young landholder of sporting tastes, left the neighbourhood of Merthyr Tydfil, and ronin hand, wandered out among the hills, accompanied only by a faithful dog. Hill after hill he ascended, his spirits rising with every step, for the air was keen and bracing, and the frost-covered mountain grass crackled sharpley under his tread. Soon ...

... 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 ...

... THE GUARDIAN. CARDIFF, FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1862, 1.30 P.M. IT is absolutely amusing to mark the change of tone in the New York Press. It reminds us of the record of the manner in which the French Press veered round when Bonaparte escaped from Elba, commencing the daily announcements of his pro- gress with the Corsican ogre has quitted his den and ending with His Imperial Majesty reached his ...

... BIRTHS, MARRIAGES. BIRTHS. DAMES.—Jan. 6, at 7 Duke-street, Cardiff, the wife of Mr. P. Davies. of a daughter. HO WELLS.-Dec. 31, at Cardiff, the wife of Mr. Edward Howells, Adam-street, of a daughter. BABER.—Jan. 1, at Temperance Town, Mrs. F. Baber, of a daughter. GRIFFITHS.—Jan. 7, at Bridgend, the wife of Mr. Griffiths, Bear Inn, of a son. FACE1.—Dec. 27, at Berkeley-place, Brecon, Mrs. ...

... The monthly meeting was held at the Clifton Hotel, on Tuesday evening. There were present- Messrs. C. H. Williams (in the chair,) Page, Douglas, J. Evans, Thomas, and J. Williams. The first busi- ness, after the passing of the minutes of the previous meeting, was the examination of the tenders for maintaining the highway and footpaths for the year, which were as follows James Turner, £ 149 ...

... WHATSOE'ER thy cross-bear it bravely, Looking to the skies, proudly, gravely Falter not, but on, firm and steady, Lighter it hath grown—^aye already Man—with busy brain, alway striving, Or with eager hand, ever hiving If the world uncrown, mock, deceive thee If thy ships go down, fortune leave thee If fame's chaplet wither on thy brow, Toss the brown leaves off-the green will grow. Woman-with ...

... WTEST BUTE DOCK. On Monday last the arrivals were the Jane, Cochran from Southampton. Prallim, Tralee. Carvelt, C. C. Nobler and the Pink, from the East Bute Dock. No Sailings. ° TUESDAY'S ARRIVALS.—Exeter, 31, Weston. Ann & Eliza- beth 24, Bristol. Express, 45, Watchet. Conner de Marseilles 77, L'Orient. Charlotte Ann, Aberdovv. Soinsett, 278: Jersey. Celina, 102, Bordeaux. Victoria, 70, ...

... STAFFORDSHIRE IRON TRADE. From Mr. Samuel Griffith's Circular, Wolverhamp- Ion, January 4th, 1862. The Iron Trade of the pust year has not kept pace with the favourable anticipations entertained on all hands this time last year. The unsettled ftate of Ittly created considerable alarm in January and February. The monetary crisis in America likewise contributed in no small degree to damage the ...

... While the patriotic colonists were thus busily engaged, the authorities of the British government were no less busy appointing officers to receive and distribute the stamped papers and parchments; and over the waters of the wide Atlantic came the ships bearing the obnoxious documents. The people enrolled themselves in societies, under the title of Sons of Liberty; and many a time, in the ...