... The Money Market Review deals with the sentence of five years' penal servitude passed on Mr. James Freeling Wilkinson, the late managing director of the Joint Stock Discount Company. Remarking that the jury strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy j on account of his previous good character, the Review observes that with such a recommendation in such a case it is difficult to deal. It is the ...

... According to circular of Messrs. Colchesters and Woolner the market has been firm throughout the week, and prices have been well sustained, a consider- able amount oi outstanding contracts having been settled for January to March delivery; but little business has been done for the end of the year, this period being much neglected. ...

... OCR LOCAL CANTATRICE.— Miss Walters has proceeded to London to finish her musical education. Merthyr, Dowlaid, ftttd Swansea have seat forth vocalists of some renown, and we hope that Miss Walters s futures career will enable us to say that Tredegar has produced one second to none in the Principality. THE FROST.—The return of the frost has been welcomed by those whose love to spend an hour or ...

... HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. THE grand secret of attaining happiness is to secure good health, without which life is stripped of all its pleasures. The first irregularity of any function should be checked and set right by appropriate doses of these fine purifying Pills, which strengthen the system by thoroughly cleansing the blood from all impurities. They balance disordered action, remove the cause of ...

... Our readers will be glad to learn that the British Museum has been quite recently enriched by the purchase, for .£48,000, of the famous Blacas Collec- tion, for so many years well known as one of the richest and most instructive collections of antiquities in Paris; and they will, we think, justly appreciate the courage of the present Chancellor of the Exche quer, who has not hesitated, even ...

... CAMBRIAN. The adjoarned half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Thursday at the Langham Hotel Mr. J. W. Johns in the chair. The Chairman said that at the original meeting they did little more than read the report of the directors and present their statement of accounts. The board had had very long discussions as to what course should be recom- mended to the shareholders on the present ...

... PE.VIY RCH. Latjtti.'o 3ic:;rx. |.o-z>i: 3015'W. Height of ivt-ivev S Above ^rouiri lft- fin. of rain gauge ( Above sea l.-v.-l 100ft. •I o 13 ■ | = I • Date. t; -2 5 -s = *9 a.m. I § i j-s I™3 | !3. 1-2 i ~'s i I I.S !i, .= .= J) '^5 =1—72 — j™1 «(3 -o —' — Is: 29-80 34 K>-K. 3 4 79 — 4 2nd ..J 29*9'2 38 S.S.K. 1 2 89 ...

... CARDIFF POLICE COURT. FRIDAY.—(Before R. O. Jones, Esq.. Aid. Alexander, W. D Bihhell, E-q., and Dr. Edwards.) ASSAULT.—Julia P:u*ies and Dmiel Davies were convicted of having assaulted Arthur Gotitrh, on Saturday last. The feinu'e^lefendaut was fined 10s. and the male 5s. and costs, or 7 imprisonment each. AN OLD OFFENDER.—Ellen Griffiths, a wretched creature, who is perpetual'j- in tiouble ...

... The great flue from the boilers of the Tropical Department ran in the direction of the tower, to the staircase of which the chimney shaft forms the newel. This flue, carried on arches, horizontally, through the distance leading up to the storage space, and throygji that very space itself, is supposed to have had much to do witii the disaster, whether otherwise arising fiom spontaneous ...

... TRIAL OF MR. J. F. WILKINSON.—The trial of Mr. Wilkinson, late managing director of the Joint Stock Discount Company, has terminated. He was found guilty, but the jury recommended him to mercy on ac- count of his previous good character. He was sen- tenced to five years' penal servitude. A STATION-MASTER IVILLRD.—On M'lulay evening a fatal accident occurred at the Aitriiiehum railway 6tatiou ...

... KOMANTIC DKATH.—A young lady drowned in tears. A rascally old bachelor says the most difficult surreal oper- ation in the world is to take the jaw out of a woman. There is a gentleman so passionately fond of music, )a is always blowing his own trumpet. F TPHER.— A batchelor arithmetician says a gu l- a lun when she cau-es one to sigh-for her. TIIE REPORT MAT >-N ONE EVER THOPGHT OF CON- ...

... •Ihe sanitary, or rather unsanitary, condition of the Mercantile navy is described in an important letter written by Dr. Stone to the editor of the Times, who, desirous of ascertaining what grounds there were for the conflicting opinions on the subject, determined to judge for himself, and with that view has visited nu- merous ships in the various docks on the Thames. Respecting the larger ...