... DI öLhe Cardiff Cimes. i SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1867. THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS. BANKS, railways, and contractors, all seem alike to be overwhelmed with ruin. Companies whose credit has been beyond question, and firms whose solvency Ud reputation might have commanded any amount If Of capital from the commercial world, have now lifted into bankruptcy, and brought ruin upon thousands. Since May of ...

... BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—-At the meeting TO Mr. J. C. Nicholl was IN the chair. A reply Cox's letter respecting the admission of Oliver (W ?AU TO a London Hospital was read, and it was de- T-bat the case be left in the hands of the doctor at °8EA Infirmary, and that he be supplied W1[B JB0 Mecbanical apparatus for his patient. A bill, bad been sent in from the London hospital where Sefton had been ...

... CARDIFF COUNTY COURT. (Before Judge HERBERT.) The usual monthly sitting of this Court was opened at the Town Hall on Wednesday. The sitting will, it is expected, last till Saturday, as there were more than 900 cases set down for hearing. Most of them are. however, of a trivial cha- racter, and possess but little public interest. ACTION FOR ILLEGAL DISTRESS. J. Edmunds v. H. Bennett.—Mr. Morgan ...

... For many a year, says the Pallltfall Gazette, mysterious little stories have been wafted to England from the Cur- ragh-hint8 and glimpses of a certain colony of poor wretches there, who lived as nobody else in the three kingdoms lived—poor wretches called wrens, because they live in holes in the banks. And as lately, it is said, that things are not so bad as they used to be some years ago, ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LORD DERBY has now & bishopric and deanery to dis- pose of, and in the present condition of the church his difficulty must be considerable. Lord Palmerston ap- parently used to consider that the best bishops cou'd be made out of the must hard-working parochial clergy- men, all other things being equal. Among the bishops whom he appointed were the rectors of Marylebone ...

... PWLLPANT QUARRV.THORE «RE great many English. men and Scotchmen empioyeu ac this quarry under the Marquis of Bute. Every effort is made by the Trustees to secure the comfort of the men. The Trustees pay a clergyman for officiating amongst them. Divine service is performed every Sunday in a long room at the quarry. Great improvements continue to take place in this town. Houses are increasing ...

... Rattazzi gave in his resignation and that of his col- leagues at one o'clock on Sunday morning. The King replied that he would communicate his reply during the course of Sunday, and when he did so he accepted the resignations. The Temps cherishes the hope that the position has really improved, and that the new Italian Ministry will be able to maintain a modification of the September Con- ...

... 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 ...