... 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 ...

... Via Sydney we have papers from New Zealand to the 12th of November. His Excellency Sir George Grey, accompanied by the Colonial Secretary, Mr. Fox, left on a visit to the Bay of Islands and Hokianga, in H.M.S Pelorus, on the 4th. It is hoped that this-the commencement of a series of peaceful campaigns in the Maori territory-will end in restoring the friendly relations between the races, and ...

... At the Central Criminal Court, London, Mary Ann Hamilton, 37, was charged with the wilful murder of her son, Henry Hamilton. The circumstances under which this charge was preferred were of the- most painful and di-tressing nature. It appears that she and her husband occupied a wretched lodging in a court in Oxford-street, and they had two children, the deceased, who was about eleven months old ...

... TUESDAY.—Before J. M. HERBERT, Esq., Judge. The following was the cause list: Old causes, 5; ad- journed case, 1; new ditto, 160; commitments, 8; total 174. Of these, 59 cases were struck out, leaving a total of 115 for trial, a larger number than usual, which prolonged the sitting of the court till late in the after- noon. The following alone presented legal points of importance or interest ...

... JENKINS'S UNIVERSAL SALVE has been held in great repute for 150 years, and is still the best remedy for wounds, bruises, and sores of all kinds. Sold by chemists, at Is. 1 d. per packet. INSTANTANEOUS CURE FOR THE TOOTHACHE Bunter's Nervine, immediately on its application, gives permanent relief by causing the painless destruction of the exposed nerve in decayed teeth, forming at the same time ...

... WE are very apt to [grumble at a certain condition of things, when such condition is due to our own exces- ses, ignorance, rash speculation, or the like, and to grumble superlatively when it arises from circumstan- ces beyond our own control. There is a fine tempta- tion for a display of healthy expletive afforded us by a sample of the latter but we will endeavour to show that the condition is ...

... PRESENTATION TO DAVID WILLIAMS, ESQ., YNYSCYNON HOUSE. (From our own Correspondent.) WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THE prominent and noble part which Mr. Williams (Alaw Goch,) has always taken in connection with Eisteddfodau, has endeared himjto his bardic country- men. The active, energetic, and self-denying character of his labours in connection with the recent National Eisteddfod has earned for him ...

... LIST OF ALL THE FURNACES IN AND OUT I OF BLAST IN THE SOUTH WALES DISTRICT. Proprietors'Names. § £ I || c 3 O O w i—i ''Aberdare Iron Co. Abernant, Gla- morgan.. 3 0 3 .GlynNeath,, 3 0 „ Aberdare ,,651 Bailey, Crawshay Aberaman 3 3 0 Briton Ferry Iron Co. Briton Ferry 2 2 0 Booker, T. W. & Co. Pentyrch 2 2 0 Brogden & Sons Tondu 2 2 0 Crawsha}', William. Cyfarthfa and Ynisfach „ 11 11 0 ...

... SAVED FROM THE HALTER. The following account of the case of a girl who was wrongly executed in the year 1766 is given by a celebrated French uthor (and quoted by Mr. Peter Burke, Serjeant-at-Law, in his Romance of the Forum) as an instance of the injustice which was often committed by the equivocal mode of trial then used in France :— About seventeen years since, a young peasant girl was ...

... LIFE IN CHEAP LODGINGS. It is a very old saying that one half the world knows not how the other half lives. And that is equally true of sleeping. Poverty, indeed, often ac- quaints us with strange bed-fellows. Those who have never tasted the reverses of fortune may scarcely credit the difficulty a poor man experiences in pro- viding a home or a shelter. Reader, your eye may perhaps have ...

... ENGLAND AND AMERICA. LIBERATION of MESSRS. SLIDELL and MASON. Official Telegram. FOREIGN OFFICE, JAN. 8. A telegram, dated the 27th December, was received at the Foreign Office from Lord Lyons, soon after four o'clock this afternoon, announcing that the United States Government had consented to deliver to him the four prisoners when and where he pleased. The following news has arrived by the ...