... i'loinc The Shipping Gazette has recorded 394 wrecks since the first ot January. Land and Water announces the death at Regent's Park of the comparatively large chimpanzee from catarrh. It is understood that the return of her Majesty and the Court to Windsor Castle will be the beginning of a somewhat gayer season than usual. The Irish Times of Saturday states that it has been determined to ...

... 1VTOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a SPECIAL GENERAL SESSIONS of the PEACE for the County of Glamorgan will be holden at the TOWN HALL, Bridgend, in the said County, on TUESDAY, the Twenty- sixth day of FEBRUARY, lS(j7, at One o'clock in the Af- ternoon, for the Appointment of a CHIEF CONSTABLE of the Police of the said County, in the room of Captain Napier, deceased, and for other general purposes ...

... A paragraph appeared on Thursday in the columns of a contemporary in regard to the Abyssinian captives, which, if not corrected, may lead to considerable mis- apprehension of the course the government have taken to procure their release. The paragraph is to the effect that on the 28th December Colonel Merewether had left Aden for Massowah to hand over to the Emperor Theodore the machinery and ...

... CIGAR-MAKING IN HAVANA.—There may be small manu- facturers of Havana who own but two or three slaves, or em- ploy but two or three workmen, and they may do their work in a brutish and uncleanly manner; but so far as my own ex- perience at the Hija de Cabanas y Carvajal's renders me a trustworthy witness, I may vouch for the scrupulous cleanli- ness and delicacy with which every single stage in ...

... The American House of Representatives, after a warm debate concerning the suppression of Protes- tant worship in Rome, has decided to discontinue the American legation in that city, and will hereafter be represented there only by a consul. A young Greek at Washington has given to the American parers a letter he has received from Athens giving an account ot the murder by the Turks of nine ...

... MEN AND THINGS, MEK and their circumstances are always current topics. Circumstances have often much more to do with men— their habits, their tastes, and the aspect of their cha- racter, in tho estimate of others—than the most distinct attributes of personal predilections. It is a. very sug- gestive problem, Which is tho master power ? that of the man in forming the circumstances or that of ...

... TUESDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Esq., and Captain R. T. Roberts.) Affiliation Order.—David Lloyd was summoned by Eliza- beth Williams as thefather of her illegitimate child. Last court day the ccise was adjourned as the defendant wished to offer a defence. To-day he did not appear, and had been to the complainant and wished to settle the case.—An order of 2s. 6d. for the first six weeks, 2s. ...

... Feb. 24.—SEVENTH SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY. Morning Prayer. Venite -119. Daily Psalm—129,130. Te Dcum—1,3. Jubilate—131. Introit-US. Responses—Nares in F r Hymn—237. Afternoon service at half-past three. Daily Psalms—132. Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis— Nares in F. Anthem, Praise the Lord.Hayes. Hymn—164. Litany and Sermon at 7 o'clock in the evening; hymn 1G8 1, 2, 5, 6 188, 11, verses i, ii, iii, and ...

... GL^JICilO. AS3HIHE ADJOURNED QUAIITEE SESSIONS. Yc.-ter-: y tho adjourned court of Quarter Sessions wr.soye->i i>y I!. 0.' Jones, Esq.. chairman, A. Passer, jt i-iiruini:. Rev. H. H. Ricicards, S:c.. tor tne other business. THK (IIIAN D JURY. S. Nash. Esq., Cardiff, Foreman Denis Culi, Ponty- prMd J, M. Haynes, J. Hollyer, D. Jotham, W. Kitchen, d. Kent. J-M;irychurch, J.1oore, Cardif f; Thos. ...

... LLAXDAFF CATHEDRAL SERVICES. Feb. 10.—Fifth SUNDAY AFTER EPIPHANY. Morning Prayer. Venite,—3- Daily Psalms—61, 62. Te Deum—9, 2. Jubilate—63. Introit—137. Responses—Gladstone in F. Hnnn-GI. Afternoon service at half-past three. Daily Psalms—65. Magnificat—Arnold in A. Nunc DimitÙs-Arnold in A. Anthem, In my distress''—Hop- kins. Hynin—l't.i. Litany Sermon at 7 o'clock in the evening; hymns, ...

... The following gentlemen have been appointed magistrates for the borough of CardiffHenry James Paine. Esq. Henry Jones Evans, Esq. Alexander Bassett, Esq. Captain Johnson. R.X. Edward S. Hill, Esq., and Samuel Nash. Esq. THE INFIRMARY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUARDIAN. SIR,—In the present deplorable financial condition of the Infirmary, perhaps it may not be altogether useless to draw public ...

... TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH. The second session of the seventh Parliament of the Queen was opened yesterday by the Queen in person, with the usual state pageantry. On her way to the tlouse her Majesty re- ceived the heartiest demonstrations of loyalty from the vast crowd congregated in the line of the procession. The usual formalities having been gone through on her Majesty entering the House ot ...