... SPORTING NOTES. [WRITTEN BY 'PERCEPTION FOR THE CARDIFF TIMES.] On making my first acquaintance with the readers of your journal-at least with those who hear or peruse with pleasure any information re- lative to the National Sport, I cannot but ex- press a hope that ere the racing season of 1862 is numbered with those that were, the pro- phecies of Perception which will be given at various ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12. Several private bills were brought in and read a first time. The usual list of members excused from attendance on com- mittees, as being beyond the age of sixty years, was read and agreed to. The report on supply was brought up, and the committee of supply was fixed for to-morrow. A supplementary naval estimate was laid on the table by Lord C. Paget. ...

... THE STEWS BUDGET. A copy of the bill which Mr. Cowper, the First Commissioner of Works, intends to introduce into Parliament, on the subject of the Thames Embankment, has been forwarded to the Metropolitan Board of Works. The embankment is to be confided to a commission to be specially appointed for the purpose. Four members of the Metropolitan Board and two of the City com- mission of Sewers ...

... JUSTICE IN ROME. tinder the present regime, in the Eternal City, it is a matter of child's play for the rich offender to escape panish- ment by bribery, and for the Government to wreak its ven- geance on all suspected of disloyalty, and to make a show of justice by unmitigated severity towards the poor and friend- less criminal. The stories current here illustrating these assertions are quite ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. THE AMERICAN WAR. Earl Stanhope inquired if it were true that six more vessels laden with stone were sent out for the purpose of being sunk in Charleston harbour? He had hoped that the vigorous remonstrance of the noble lord would have prevented the recurrence of such acts. Earl Russell said he had received no information on the subject, but he was glad of the energetic ...

... AN EXTRAORDINARY COMMUNICATION,—Much re- spected and benevolent sir,—Winsley.near Batli.-Allow me to thank you for the means of recovery from one of the most distressing coughs to which any person could possibly be subject. Before taking your Pectoral Lo- zenges I had been troubled witb my cough eight years, and. had been, of late, accustomed to consider it quite con- stitutional; it had also ...

... Duixicixio FotUaTAIN. -Tim drinking fountain lately erected in this town by thle Duke of Marlborough, has been, Fe officially handed over to the Corporation by his Grace, for to the use of the public. The following is a CODy of thle letter all to the Mayor in reference to this graceful act t- Up Blenheimt Palace, Feb. 14, 1862. ad Mr DestsSta,j-Ibeg to address yeoas Mayorof thtcboroslhj, do ...

... Charles Lamb, in ae liter to Coleridge, asks, by the way, may not the Oyles of Somer setshire be remotely descended from Kigg Lcae. Talie oasv my first letter, talkeaway my second letter, take assay all my letters, and I nm still the same-the postman. 1tREcD D VIT.-The Rev. Dr. M11'Lood %%as proceedingfrom the mnarse of D-- to church, to open a new place of worship. As he plassed slowly and ...

... SOUTHIAMPTON, Feb. 4. This beadi.g, which for the last three or four weeks has al so repeatedly been encounterel in the columns of Thek Toises, appears, it is to be hoped, for the last time to slay. , The small blockade has been rmised, and both 'saecoroert B and Aeashvtille are low fsee of our waters Notwithstandinig r the close ?? which, since the 5th of January, the Y first-named vessel has ...

... B3ANBURY. l AIN JU U l:X. BilTrns.-Feb. 6, 6at 1Fariborouclr Vicarage, Mrs. IR. IH. Cholimondeley, of a son.-Feb. 6, Mirs. A. White, Adderbury, of of a son. MA1ns,)ED.-Feb. 4, at Sibford Gower, by the Rev. Edw. of Eliot, Mr. F. Manning, Silford Ferris, to Esther, only Be daughter of Mr. Thoarsar Rtimell, Rye Hill Farm, Sibford Gower, [This notice is substituted for the one in last week's ole ...

... P409014 - .A-ME t5 c EW WEFBR. ?? ?? AJ13Y1;,1 .Yn ne ehreu y rbifyn a hwn y m ae y P uAT b R. Thomass Bangor. yn o yned yaml9se gyda'i ygrif af Etholedigaeth. a ,Galgad yr Efengyl. Digo yw dyweydei. bod yn atteb yn Lwi i yogrifat, blaenorof yr ywdwr ar yr un pwngc. Cynnwysa yr 6rthygl ar ?? Ffydd, o waith Dewi Mo0 amioryO o feddydiau g -;reidaibl z daedd i fagu ysbryj y iff6hh*ilid. Y ...

... LATEST- NEWS HA.D O o, ,-aj ossnw BY ELE02'AO TERLBGMAPH. .OiTSE O1F COMMONS-WznlrmSDh. TbheSpumrR took the chair at twelve doclock In2rep to M,. Em na 8ir GGREY said -the second reading oE thwitegistration of Births and Deaths (freland) Bill would not be -proceeded with to-morrow. T39 WEIPPINGL MM MWr. EiLDFIEgi91novs the second readinpottbe Whip. ping BAlL Sir G. 4 BES said-the Isepectors ...