... PENNY READINGS.—The first readings of the season took place at the Capel School-room, on Wednesday last. The Hev. Edward Jones being absent, Mr. Wm. Harding, of St. Fagans, kindly consented to take the chair. Mr. Hill presided at the harmonium. After a short, but concise, speech from the Chairman, the school choir was called upon to sing Ring the Banjo (ap- plauded); a reading, Mr. James James ...

... (To the Editor of the Cardiff Times ) SIR,—I cannot refrain from contradicting a variety of erroneous statements which have been made in some quar- ters respecting the fire that took place at this manufactory on Wednesday night the 10th instant. The facts are it did not originate from the boiler and stove, but entirely from accident. The damage incurred is so trifling that although the ...

... In the Manchester Court of Record, on Saturday, an action was brought to recover £10 in a betting transaction under the following circ1.Ullstances The plaintiff, a licensed victualler, named Moffitt, in Salford, agreed to bet a man, named Leach, in a trotting match for j650 a side. Articles of agreement were drawn up, under which they were each to pay a deposit of £10 at once, the remainder to ...

... It is reported that the Owl will not appear henceforth as a separate publication, but be absorbed into Echoes of the Hub. An oyster takes three times as long to grow as a s eep. Ihe creature must actually be four years old before he is fit for the table, whereas we can get very good mutton now-a-days in 13 months. PERILOUS FEAT. On Sunday, the 23d ult., a man swam across Niagara river, ...

... A man named William Wil1imson, a surfaceman! belonging to the north-west of Fifeshire, was on Saturday apprehended and brought to Cupar, on a charge of having murdered Edward Glenning, a grieve, in the service of Mr. Alexander Hunter, farmer, on the farms of Fordell-hill and Strathburn, two farms in the vicinity of Leuchars, the St. Andrew's Junction of the North British Railway. The ...

... THE OCCUPATION OF THE PAPAL STATES. THE INTERVENTION OF FRANCE. The Times says the Government of the Emperor Na. poleon and that of King Victor Emmanuel have taken up their respective positions. The French expedition to Rome, with which the FioreBce Cabinet was threatened, has been resolved upon in principle in full Ministerial Council at St. Cloud. The execution of this resolution has been ...

... To the Editor of the Free Press. Sir,—It is high time that the attention of the public and the local authorities should be called to the dangerous state of the public road leading from, the tvrnpike road, beyond the Twmpath, to the Race Furnaces and Bhendare. This road i., I believe, the only available route between the town and the, populous neighbourhood about Blaendare but notwithstanding ...

... (Cul/tinlled from our first editiou.) FIRST COURT—FRIDAY. The Chairman, J. S. Batchelor, Esq., presided at the above court on its being opened at 10 o'cloek subsequeutty C. H. Williams, Esq., sat with Mr. Jones. STEALING BEANS AT ABERDAUE. Thomas Davies, 25, haulier, was indicted for stealing 7ilbs. weight of beans and brun, the property of his employers, at Abcidare, on the 3rd of September. ...

... LOVE ADVENTURE. Sir,—I am averse to newspaper quarrelling, knowing it benefits few or none, and often unnecessarily creates discord and hatred. However, I cannot refrain fYom making one or two remarks on the 1! Adventure reported by 1\1. in your impression of Saturday, the 12th inst. In the first place, I am perfectly at a los, to find out the object M. had iq ricw by reporting such an ...

... Ir. Spurgeon has been taken ill again. He was tnable to preaeh last Sunday ...

... MARRIED SOLDIERS. A correspondent of the Delhi Gazette, writing from Rawul Pindee (in the Punjaub) on the 22nd of July, has some observations illustrative of the way in which it works in India :— My letter notifying that cholera had left the station was rather premature, for within a few days it made its appear- ance amongst the married families, and carried off several children and women, but ...

... The increased activity which has been displayed during the past few weeks by the metropolitan police while on night duty has greatly annoyed a number of low cha- racters, who, there is every reason to suspect, are warm sympathisers with the Fenian cause. In Holborn and some other districts the officers have been warned not to he too meddlesome, and openly threatened with violence. It is ...