... 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, ...

... From principal Stations on the North Eastern Railway to Stations on the South Wales Railway by Trains leaving New- a.m., f?oinf» forward trom York at 11.45 a.m, From Swansea to York and Hull by 2 p.m. train. JAMES ALLPORT, irenera! Manager ...

... THE BRECON ELKCTION PETITION. THE TORY MEMBER UNSEATED. The trial of the Election petition against Mr. Howell Gwyn, M.P. for Brecon, commenced at the Shire-liall, on Thursday, before Mr. Baron Martin. The counsel for the petitioners were Mr. Serjeant Ballantine and the Hon. Chandos Leigh, instructed by Mr. Cobb, solicitor and the counsel for the defence were Mr. H. S. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. ...

... THE CHARGE OF FRAUD AGAINST ADMI- RALTY EMPLOYEES. At the Central Criminal Court, on Friday, the case in which James Thomas Gambier, a clerk in the Admiralty, and William Rumble, an engineer in the Royal Navy, are indicted for unlawfully conspiring together to obtain by false pretences from Nicholas Mahon Maxwell the sum of £;:)0, came before Mr. Justice Hannen. The Attorney- General, with ...

... On Sunday last a disgraceful scene took place in Sefton Church, near Liverpool. A great deal of ill-feeling has been occasioned in the neighbourhood, in con- sequence of the appointment of a new curate who had introduced Ritualism. After the sermon had been concluded on Sunday, the greater part of the congregation assembled in crowds near the communion table, and created such a disturbance ...

... CONCERT.—The Lantwit-Major Tonic Sol-Fa class, under the conductorship of Mr. W. G. Jones, gave a concert on Thursday evening week at the Town Hall in this town. The audience was very small. The choir upon the whole acquitted themselves creditably, and should our neighbouring friends again feel disposed to give us another concert, we hope with a lower scale of charges for admission they may ...

... AN interesting scene was witnessed on Tuesday at the London Terminus of the Midland Railway. Three hundred and twenty-seven men, women, and children, London artisans, labourers, and their fami- lies quitted a capital which can furnish them no subsistence, and started on the journey to Canada. Their passages will be paid, they will not be landed penniless, and everything has been provided to ...

... TEACHERS' EXAMINATION.—On Friday last, the general examination for the teachers engaged in British schools of this district, was held at the Treorky United Collieries school. The Taff Vale Railway Company kindly gave orders for the issue of return tickets at a fare and a half, for the accommodation of the teachers. The trains also stopped at Treorky for the day. The weather was ex- ceedingly ...

... BRIDGEND.. ENTERTAINMENT. — Woodin is again visiting this neighbourhood, and on Friday evening he enteitained a respectable audience for about two hours with his usual success. The representation is entitled 6 Carpet Bag, and the rapidity with which he transforms himself into the various characters, together with his success in P^i^oration, entitles him to the place he has attained m the ...