... Notwithstanding the general complaints made in this port of tne low freightage and general unproductiveness that have been observable for months, it appeared that the exports for May at several of the ports during the past month was marked by an increase in the shipment of coals to foreign ports, as shown by the following list:— May 1866. May 1867. Newcastle 212,045 288,449 Cardiff 132,317 180 ...

... THE NEW INSPECTOR OF OYSTER FISHEBIES.—MRS Cholmondeley Pennell, late of the Admiralty, Whitehall, ha been appointed inspector in the first cases that have occurred for applications for several fisheries under the Oyster and Mussel Fisheries Act, 1866. By this Act, as our readers are aware, powers are given to the Board of Trade to appropriate, subject to confirmation by Parliament, portions ...

... COSTS OV LAW AXD JUSTICE.—A Blue-Hook 1 as bee.i prepared and issued, on the motion of Mi didders, showing in detail for the financial year 18do-6d tho charges borne by the public pursue for courts of law ani justice, for criminal prosecutions, and for the legal expenses of the pubiie departments. The total amount Was £ 1,750,590 in England, £230,392, in Scotland, £ 363,552 in Ireland, making ...

... j AGES OF GREAT LIVING LAWYERS. Ex-Chancellor Brougham sa years Ex-Chancellor St. Leonard s 8G Ex-Chancellor oi Ireland, Blackburn 85 Ex-Judge, Lord Wensleydale 83 Ex-Chief Justice of Ireland, Lefroy 01 „ Ex-Chief Baron Pollock Actiny Judge of Admiralty, Lushington 83 The following provincial instance of cchMUstt'cal longevity reminds us (after the above galaxy) of two lines of Dean Swift If ...

... THB ROMAN CATHOLICS AT LIVERPOOL.—The beauty fashion, and wealth of Roman Catholic Liverpool have received a tremendous public snubbing from Dr. Goss, their bishop. It appears that St. George's Industrial Schools in that city have been mismanaged —chiefly through want of tunds-aud have got into difficulties, and that the Bishop of Liverpool has taken them iu hand, raised money at his own risk ...

... BOARD OF GUARDIANS —At the usual fortnightly meeting of this Board, held at their room at the Work-house on Thursday week. George Watkins was selected, from numerous candidates, to fill the office of Porter to the Union, rendered vacant by the resignation of W. Hicks. PARHlH MEETING. A special Vestry meeting was held at Bedwellty, on Friday, 7th instant, to appoint an assistant Overseer, in ...

... To the Independent Electors Of THE UNITED BOROVGII MERTBYR TYDFIL, VAYNOR, AND ABERDARE. f OKXTLEMEX, ihe House of Commons having agreed unanimously to accord to our Borough a Second Repre- sentative, this just measure may be considered as ensured, and, encouraged by the flattering reciusitions I have received from so large and influential a proportion of the Constituency, I venture most ...

... (Si^stastital Jitfcllitjtitcf. Lord Derby was evidently in a difficulty when he offered the Deanery of Chester to Dr. Howson. It is an appointment which, though creditable, is not what was looked for. On political as well as ecclesiastical grounds others shon],1 have been considered. Though belonging to another theological school, the claims of Mr. Gregory of Lambeth, Air. Wall the Oxford ...

... CARDIFF, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1867. THE IRISH CHURCH. THE late impassioned speeches of Mr. MAGUIRE and Mr. ROEBUCK, on Ireland and the Irish Church, and the impending motion of Earl RUSSELL for an inquiry into the amount and nature of the property and revenues of the Establishment, and as to the means of rendering them more productive, have once more attracted the attention of statesmen and ...

... We have many times and often drawn the earnest attention of our readers to the claims that Cardiff had on the legislature of the country for the allotment of a second parliamentary representative. Whilst we admit the general principle that places of the largest popula. tion have a prior claim for extended legislative repre. sentation than those of minor importance in a numeri. cal point of ...

... ST. FAGANS. A MAD DOG.-On Wednesday the quiet little village of St. Fagans was thrown into a state of unwonted painful excitement in consequence of a large strange dog rushing through the streets evidently in a frightfully rabid state. The poor animal ran into the Plymouth Arms by one door, and out again by another and he then fortunately turned into the back yard, where Mr. Llewellyn, the ...

... MARRIAGES. June 10th, at the Parish Church, Llanelly, Breconshire, by the incumbent, the Rev. Arthur Griffith, Mr. Richard Havard (of Brynmawr), son of Mr. William Havard, Clynmeddig, to Lucy, second daughter of James Dare, of Weston-super-Mare. June 12th, at St. Mary's Chuich, Bryan stone Square, London, by the Rev. H. Freemantle, Mr. R. Llewellyn late at Mr. Smyth's) to Jane, youngest ...