... ABERDARE COUNTY COURT. THOMAS FALCONER, ESQ., JUDGE. His Honour, on hearing the first case in Bankruptcy in this Court, on Thursday, the 16th, said :— The common law relating to debtors against whom judgment was had and who were imprisoned under what were called writs of copias ad satisfaciendum, was singularly severe. The creditor was authorised to im- prison the person indebted to him, and ...

... AN ADDRESS TO THE JrBW IOUSTAIN AT THE rowir watt Thrice welcome, most auspicious fount! Oh, may thy sight make drunkards count, To what their earnings must amount, Now spent ia public-houses; And if they call on thee instead, They'll have more wisdom in the head— More cash in pockets, and more bread For children and for spouses. If they but try thee, and take heart, They'll soon feel rather ...

... 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 ...

... CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The weekly meeting was held on Saturday morning, John Bird. Esq., in the chair. The Clerk announced that during the past week there had been 62 admissions and 61 discharges, leaving a total of 373 in the bouse, 93 of whom were in the refuge. This shewed an increase on the corresponding week of last year of 55. The only public business transacted was the election of ...

... THE GUARDIAN. CARDIFF, FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1862, 1.30 P.M. A FORTNIGHT ago we alluded to a motion which had the week previous been brought before the Cardiff Board of Health, by Mr. Mason, in refer- ence to its Medical Officer. Our remarks were then directed more especially to the circumstances under which Mr. Mason introduced his motion. To-day We skall briefly discuss some of the functions of ...

... POETRY. M.S. 14TH DECEMBER, 1861. A living DAVID bowed as one man's heart The hearts of Israel by wise courtesy: Our fare is like, yet diverse; ALBERT dead, Bows down as one man's heart all Britain's hearts With mourning for a loss remediless. Mourn, Britain, mourn, and let thy tears run down, For thou hast cause: he whom thy heart laments, Tho' but the child of tbine adoption, was • Nearer to ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. RELIEVING OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES.—A singular case was brought before the Board of Guardians, on Saturday, in the form of a complaint made by one Henry Perkins, against Mr. William Jones, Relieving Officer, of Merthyr. This complaint has been sent by the person calling himself Perkins, to the Poor Law Board, London, and was an accusation against Mr. Jones for holding ...

... Arrangements are now In progress for extending the Post Office Savings' Bank system to Ireland. The Russians will hold a festival in August at Novo- gorod, to celebrate the thousandth year of their existence as a nation. A billiard marker, who lately passed his last examina- tion at the London Bankruptcy Court, attributed his misfortunes to the losses he had sustained through his principal ...

... The suspension has been announced of G. J. Jalvert and Co., iron fouuders. of York, with liabili- ties for more than £100,000.. Three bitterns were shot oti Gooclwick Moor on Fue^day. The presence of bittern on this moor is renerally considered to presage severe weather. ...

... LAND AND SEA FORCES OF THE GREAT POWERS. The following, according to the Almanach de Gotha, was the state of the disposable land and sea forces of the great Powers of Europe in 1861:— FRANCE. — Army on war footing, 767,770 men, 130,000 horses; peace footing, 414,868 men, 72,850 horses. Navy, 600 vessels afloat, building, and under transformation, carrying together 13,353 guns. Out of that ...

... Instead of this phrase being one of reproach, its origin re- Beets the highest honour on the Sons of the Scissors. In the year 1748, a poor orphan-boy applied at one of the fashion- able West-end tailor's shops in London, in which nine journey- men were then employed. The forlorn, yet interesting appear- ance of the friendless lad, touched the hearts of the benevolent tailors, who ...

... TWO HUNDRED MEN BURIED ALIVE. A fearful accident took place on Saturday, at the colliery works of Messrs. Carr & Co., of Hartley, near North Shields. A large beam fell down a coalpit, killing five men, and choking the shaft, cutting off from the upper portion upwards of two hundred men and lads. The following are the particulars SHIELDS, SUNDAY, 6 P.M. The men and lads have remained entombed ...