... LOCAL MARINE BOARD FOR CARDIFF. AT the dejeuner given at the launch of the Rook- wood, on the 1st instant, an allusion was made by the builder, in the speech in reply to the toast of the day, as to the paucity of owners of ship property in Cardiff, and our inability, therefore, of having a Local Marine Board at this port. A feeling seems to prevail amongst some members of our community that if ...

... A.RCHBISHOP MANNING ON SECRET SOCIETIES. On Monday Dr. Manniug preached at Islington and made some allusion to Secret Societies. France had taken tho lead of the other countries of the Continent in this respect, and society had been tainted by such illegal associations. The revolutionary prinoiples promulgated in France had produced a bad effect in Italy. They all knew of the con- spiracies ...

... ROBBERY BY A CLERGYMAN The Rev. Charles Robert Henry James, B.A., was brought up on remand befoae the Cambridge borough magistrates on Tuesday, on a charge of stealing three spoons from a woman with whom he was lodging in Park-street. He graduated at Trinity College in 1829, and after taking his de- gree,, and receiving ordination, was appointed to the curacy of Shefford, in Bedfordshire. He ...

... A shocking murder was perpetrated in Miller-street, Manchester, bctween twelve and one o'c]ock on Saturday. Bonjamin Crawshaw, a tailor, met his wife, Susan, about twelve o'clock on Saturday night, on her return from mar- keting, and induced her to accompany him to a public-house in the neighbourhood. He there met with some associates, and asked- his wife to give him mODey. to pay for drink, ...

... On Monday Mr. Edward Watkin Edwards, whose extra- ordinary evidence in the Overend, Gurney, and Co. case caused such excitement, attended in Mr. Commissioner Holroyd's court to make his explanation. Mr. Edwards in the beginning said there were many circumstances-especially a severe illness which affected his memory-to prevent him giving such answers at the recent inquiry as he otherwise would ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LONDON, THURSDAY. One danger is safely past—Ministers have got over the difficulties presented by the Irish question, so far as to prepare a Queen's Speech—Message, rather, for the day of Royal Speeches is gone by—and to meet Parliament with an unbroken front. Not the less, however, are there prophets of evil, who predict that this same question will yet break up ...

... FENIANISM IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND. The Cork correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette writes :—Some hopeful signs are beginning to shew them- selves through the gloom of Irish politics. There are indi- cations of a reaction amongst the middle classes against the overbearing dominion of Fenian agitators and sympa- thisers which we have had to endure for some time past. In the town council on ...

... Is A DEATH OF A inquest held an evening or two si|e; Srriek, coro- ner, ou the body fJIrs. jr^'arfjt Perrett, wife of the Kiate of a steiii%oa[, t.diAg fetween Swansea and -Liverpool. The ^inaii living a most intem- perate life for ptlet, one of the witnesses stating that one iy the had visited an ad- jacent public-hojj 11,) les tlijm iort.y-tjrues Being her heiirj^ xv-|ii! Oj^ned, and the ...

... Sites ta the hihrr. THE GAME LAWS. SIR,-Will you allow me space in your valuable paper to make a few remarks Ton the game laws, and the de- struction the rabbits and hares are causing in our country. F don't hesitate to say that they are destroying thousands of bushels of the poor man's bread in the county OF Glamorgv.11 alone; and what must they be doing in the whole of Eng- land and Wales ? ...

... A^QED ATTEMPT TO POISON A PARTY. ..jut l,4C-0 or 1.500 men, women, and cliildien assem- a bail on Monday evening, at Wolverhampton, at a Tel! tea meeting to Fiddler Joss and bis wife, on the ?°jd n of nine weeks' Revival services which they na\en ]j,]ding in t: at hall. Ample preparations were E}a^(1r s:itisfying the demands of the keenest appe- t^but no sooner had the tea been poured out, and ...

... CAIRA. CAB ACCIDET.-On Christmas Day, as Mr. Evans, of the Great House. Micliaelstone-super-Ely, was driving home in a hansom cab, by some means or other the horse fell into a ditch by the side of the road and was drowned. Mr. Evans and the cabman were not injured, and as the water in the ditch was but a foot deep, it is presumed the horse was stunned by the fall, and so suffocated. ...

... SCANDAL IN HIGH QUARTERS. The whisper of a, grave scandal has become so loud in circles where reliable information is generally to be found, that it is no longer possible to leave it unnoticed. It relates tu a very high personage, whose position ought to place him high above the breath of suspicion, but whose private life is sullied by excesses which threaten to bring disgrace upon the order ...