... CARDIFF PILOTS' REGATTA. The annual regatta of the pilot boats of this port took place on Monday. There was nothing at all pretentious about the announcements of it—the Pilotage Board of Cardiff did not, a-j the Pilotage Commission of Newpoit did the other week, contribute a handsome sum of money for prizes-or if they did the fact did not publicly transpire. No distinguished names were ...

... BRISTOL. DIVIDEND.—The Bristol Steam Navigation Company have jllst paid a dividend at the rate of £3 per share. This is a fall of £1 per share comparaJ with the pre- vious dividend. SENSATIONAL PKEACHING.—On Sunday, in consequence of many persons being unable to obtain admission to Pithay Chapel wheu the Rev. Master Enoch Probert, a boy of 12 (from Wales), delivered sermons there some week or ...

... A letter from Faenza, dated 27th August, states that the robberies, violence, and assassinations were daily on the increase. On the 24th, between Faenza and Forli, more than twelve highway robberies took place on the same day above thirty persons were also robbed of all they had between Faenza and Brisigheila. The authorities asked for a reinforcement of gendarmerie, but none were sent and the ...

... Some statistics which have lately been published of bush ran,'ing in New South Wales during the last few years show to what an extent this institution has grown in that colony. Since the month of June, 1864, a period of three years, eleven members of the police have been shot dead by bushrangers, and sixteen wounded by firearms in attempts to capture them. Fifteen other persons have also been ...

... THE PAY DAY.—On Saturday last the usual pay jtook place, and every thing connected with it passed off gatis- factory. THE ENGINEER OF THE WORKS.—We understand that Mr. Fairnburn, from the North of England, has been ap- pointed the engineer of the works instead of Mr. Moyle, who has resigned his appointment in consequence of ill- health, and goes to the south of France. THE WATER WORKS. —This ...

... curious particulars relative to the manufacture of railway locomotives in Germany. It appears that m 1864 the num- her of locomotiyes on the German raiJways was 4,.GS, 574 of which were manufactured abroad while Germany now not only bailds her own locomwitzenand, Itsly, Franc: and Russia. The number of engines now used on the of ...

... SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS. The teachers of Sunday-schools are meat frequently persons who take to that form of work from a desire of doing some good to their neighbours, and with a con- sciousness of having no peculiar aptitude for any ether kind of ministration (we are quoting from The Queen). But people do not consider that to teach and govern children, so that they shall really be benefited by ...

... SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 3867. LOCAL TOPICS. IT was whispered in Court on Thursday, during the licensing meeting of the magistrates, and the belief in its correctness seemed general among the lawyers as well as the laymen who conversed upon the subject, that certain of our worthy magistrates have incurred a serious penalty by taking part in the licensing of public houses. We refer of course to ...

... Some details of this shocking occurrence are to hand. The first collision occurred in the middle of the Peak Forest tunnel, lj miles long, and 1 miles on the Derby side of the Chapel-el-le.Frith, on the Midland Railway. When the cattle train came in collision with the ballast train, a girl seven vears of age, the daughter of a black- smith at Dove Holes _was instantly killed, she being in the ...

... On Wednesday the above race terminated in a victory for Achievement, who, it appeals, had regained her two-year-old form, when she defeated nearly all her competitors. Hermit, after winning the Derby, was installed first favourite for the Doncaster event, which he maintained up to Tuesday, when, after taking his gallop, racing critics perceived that he was much dis- tressed, and Achievement ...

... itself to 10udlyatf1rming the pacific intentions of this coun- try, public opinion is moverl by what i8 taking place on the frontier of France. 1°neasyat those voluntary abnications which are already changing the Confederation of the North into a single sovereignty, at those new armaments, and that incessant pressure on the States ot the South to hasten their military organisation, it fears to ...

... Glamorganshire General Agricultural Society. AT a Meeting of the Committee, held the 3rd day of September, 1867, at the Bear Inn, Cowbridge, to consider the desirability of exhibiting HORNED CATTLE at the next Show, to be helden on TUESDAY, the 24th instant,-It was proposed by Mr. John Garsed, and seconded by Mr. William Huntley, That the Resolution passed at a Meeting held on Tuesday, the ...