... CARDIFF, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1867. LOCAL MATTERS. THE revellers in local intelligence will have had an uncommon treat in the perusal of our pages this and last week. What with reports of a pro- tracted meeting of the Town Council, of the monthly meeting of the Watch Committee,of a spe- cial meeting of the Infirmary for determining the mode in which its Funds shall be increased, and of the ...

... Pigs, it is said, are a happy people. We may talk disparagingly about living like a pig, but it is nevertheless true that to live like a pig is to live like a gentleman. Although it is not permitted by the order of Nature that a pig should laugh cr even smile, he enjoys the next blessing of humanity—the dispo- sition to grow fat. How easily he goes through the world He has no fancy stocks ...

... IMPORTANT TO MOTHERS.—Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, for children teething, is perfectly harmless. It pro- duces natural, quiet sleep, by relieving the child from pain and the little cherub awakes, as bright as a button.' It cures wiud, colic, and regulates the bowels, gives rest to the mother, and health to the child. It has been thirty years in use in America, and is now sold in this ...

... METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.—Jcne. PEXIYKCH. Latitude Sl^l'N. Longitnle. 3°15'\Y. Height of receiver Above ground 1ft- li°- of rain gauge Above sea level 100ft. 5~Z~? Thermometer i s = mum. mum. »r \Qy? s o.j 1 .30*1^ &'> v\V. 2 0.-J ST 3nl 29-03 70 *3 X.X.WV 2 +3 N.W. 5 '6 u-3b 2 5th 29'o9 o-2 4,5; W.X.WJ o y !°-0i 9 etii ^y-79 62 -30 w.. 5 81 IU-18 0 7th -29-aO dJ N.W. 6 7o ...

... jail for Sarah, then she tried to get up because the K. ...

... According to a circular of Messrs. Colchesters and Woolnpr, there has been little alteration in the price of tallow during the past week; but a fair business has been done both in settlements of the month and for the end of the year. The latest advices from St Petersburg state that the exchange had declined to 32!d., an i the price for August delivery to 49 silver roubles, with band money. No ...

... MONDAY, JULY 22. The House of Lords presented all the appearances of a grand field day, inconsequence of the debate being taken on the order for the second reading of the Reform BUI. Every part of the gorgeous chamber became crowded shortly after the Lord Chancellor assumed the Woolsack. The Earl of Derby, in moving the second reading of the bill, admitted that he should have been perfectly ...

... TO COEBESPONDENTS. -Correspondents a.re requested to favour us with —communications as early in the week as possible, are obliged, every week, to omit many coinmu- ions which would appear if we received them be JThursday. °\iot undertake to return rejected correspondence titers send us anything they deem important they td preserve a copy. ...

... It is a sinsrular fact that there are now actually three baronets Prof siors at Oxford—Sir F. Ouselev, Music, Sir B. Brodie, Oiemistry atid Sir F. H. Doyle, Pott'}'. On Saturday it was confidently reported in Westminster Hall that Dr. Travels Twiss, Q.C., would be the new Dean of Arches, in the place of Dr. Lushiiigtoii. The Solicitor's Journal learns from a trustworthy source that the ...

... To the Independent Electors OF THE VXITED liOltOt'GH OF MERTBYR TYDFIL, VAYNOR, AND ABERDAKE. GR.xTT.EMrx,—Tho House of Commons having agreed unanimously to accord to our Borough a Sccoifil Repre- sentative, this just measure may he considered as ensured, and, encouraged by the ilatteiing requsitions I have received from so large and influential a proportion of the Constituency, I venture ...

... ADDRESSED TO THE EDITOR. I he Editor is not responsible for the opinions of his Correspondents. PONTYPRIDD FRIEND-IN-NEED SOCIETY. SSijj,.—Ssij^ee the demise of the Friend-in-need Society the numerous members of the same were at a non-plus as to their future necessities. Upwards of two thousand had placed implicit confidence in the stability of the society, and more so in their agent, Mr. D. ...

... On Monday morning, an inquest was held at the Queen's Hotel, Manchester, to inquire into the cause of the death of Mr. Alfred Raumgarten, merchant, who wag found dead in his bed-room at the above-name 1 hotel,under the following extraordinary circumstances: —Finding the deceased did not leave his be 1-rooin the chamber-maid procured a second key, and on entering the room was almost suffocated ...