... We have additional particulars respecting the escape of Garibaldi from Caprera. It was on the night of Wednes. day and Thursday last week that he left the island in his ,,caf,oe,' anVT c°nT*yed to the point of the island of Maddalena which touches Caprera at a point where the posta steamer from Leghorn calls. The night was dark, and all appeared to favour the projects of the General, £ til ...

... CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS. NEW ASPECT OF THE ROMAN QUESTION'. JThe Times announces that the storm has blown over. departure of the expedition from Toulon is counter- Jaaded for the present, and something like an under- ending has been re-established between the French and *^e Italian Governments. Already, after what is described J? a severe encounter at Nerola, and the junction between routed ...

... The satisfactory position which the steam coal trade was said last week to have attained has not been materially altered, the exports still being something considerable, especially to Aden and Bombay. Proprietors and merchants believe that Government will require considerably larger quantities if the Abyssinian expedition is prosecuted with vigour, and at any moment a rise may take place in ...

... TRIALS OF PRISONERS AT CARDIFF. FIRST COURT.—FRIDAY. (Before R. O. JONES, Esq., J. S. BATCHELOR, Esq., and C. H. WILLIAMS, Esq.) STEALING BEANS AND BRAN AT ABFRDARE.- Thomas Davies, 25, baulier, was charged with having, on the 3rd of September, stolen 741bs. of a mixture containing beans and bran, the property of the Aberdare Coal Company, by whom he had been employed Mr. Hughes conducted the ...

... The Falmouth Docks Company have been compelled to recognise the necessity of surrendering their property to the Public Works Loan Commissioners. The Western Morning News states that this course has long been looked upon as inevitable. For the last two years directors have been crippled in their resources. They have made several appeals to the shareholders for the means to complete the works. ...

... COAL AND IRON TRADES.—We can record but little improvement in the staple trades, and we look forward to a very dead winter season. The Iron Trade :-At none of the works around here are the makes increas- ing, and the staff of vvotkmen are diminished rather than increased. Pig iron is firmer than it could be ex- pected, and this no doubt arises from the superior quality cf our hot and cold ...

... letters to iiiitor. WEIGHING BREAD. Sm,—Will you kindly do me the favour to insert this in your next issue. The other day, when visiting Caerphilly, I found that none of the bakers sold their bread by weight, as is now generally the case in places of much less importance. I should like to see a person of more ability than myself take the matter in hand, and induce the inhababitants to com- ...

... The usual monthly meeting of this body was held at the Town-hall, on Friday, the 27th inst. Present Alderman Pride, and Councillors J. Bird, Evans, Jones, Bowen, Whifien, P. Bird, Jenkins. Flint, Ingledcw, Eliiott, and Todd. The minutes of the last meeting having been read, Mr. Alderman PRIDE, in the absence of the Mayor, pro- posed that Mr. J. Bird take the chair. The motion was duly seconded ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE- FRIDAY. [Before R. 0 JONES and GEO. BIRD, Lsqrs,, and CI)l II ILL.) A CRF.W REFUSING DUTY.—^The twelve seamen to? iog to the Montgomery, APPEALED to THE remanded CB*RS^ refusing lo do duiy. Mr. ln«iedew appeared for THE pR' cuiion and Mr. Goodere for the prisoners. The ADTH'1 evidence was that of John Jackson, a rigger, v»ho Its aaged to examine the rigging ...

... The Times is keeping the great meat question before its readers. The leading journal takes it for certain that fish and butcher's meat ought to be cheaper. Mutton is 50 per cent. cheaper in the wholesale market than it was at this time last year, but between the cattle market and the butcher there is a broad gulf fixed. What, therefore, is the use of making sheep cheap if mutton is to remain ...

... BRISTOL BANKRUPTCY COURT. MONDAY. (Before Mr. Commissioner HILL.) Re A. WHILE, Newport, Coal Merchant.—Mr. Edlin opposed on behalf of the assignees Mr. Beckingham supported the bankrupt. The sitting was adjonrned until the 12th November. TUESDAY. (Before Mr. Commissioner HILL.) Re E. MORGAN, Newport, Licensed Victualler.-Thig was a last examination and discharge sitting.—Mr. E. Salmon appeared ...

... CAUTION TO SLEEPY BUTCHERS.—On Saturday, as a butcher was riding in his cart from Cardiff market, he sat down in the bottom of the cart and went to sleep, a usual practice of his on Saturday nights. On waking up near Meithyr DOVOB, he found that the tail board was down. and the contents ot the cart, with the exception of its sleepy owner, had fallen out, part of the things were found in the ...