... (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) LONDON, THTTRSDAY. An English summer is said to consist of three fine dayh and a thunderstorm. An English winter may be defined as three days' frost and a gale. We have had real winter weather in London since Christmas Day, though the cold has not been nearly so severe as in the Eastern counties, or even in generally mild Devon and Cornwall. Our snow-fall, too ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY. (Before Mr. R. 0. JoNES and Mr. W. ALEXANDER.) NIGHT CHARGES.—William Harris was charged with being drunk last night in Edward-termce, where it appeared that he was very hilarious under the vinous inHuences of the festive season. When asked if he was guilty, the defendant said that he believed so. Discharged with a caution.—Jane Biown, charged with a ...

... -'FRIDAY, DEC. 31. fahristmee , wih it .,happy associations and reunicsoI' has come and gone, Long wyas its festival Cui~p t -?h a bow tmansient piovea %hraitbj dhow'sooh, ý'P. te IL wt5u 6a Wbii 6 sdji'M bi:eathdd arnd the me su'she oo olr remoriee newed? tan that 1einecrablo ec ?? farewell h0 to be* ruing. ?8P e Passing on to district go?sip, I may 10'ntiou that the me ,e Wednesday of ...

... FRESH DISCOVERIES AT FOM?EII. of neaw ,te A correspondent, writing to the Athenaeum, under date Mr. ai. December 18, says :-b Op Artistic and antiquarian news is brought up to me from Gre n Naples by our southern winds. It is not much, but will in- wee no terest your readers who may have visited Pompeii. Only grer & i fortnight has eolapsed sines I reported important die- men ks coveries that ...

... The monthly meeting of the board was held yesterday. 0 The Mayor presided. Aldermen Pride, Reece, Alexander, and Bird, and Co'dncillors Nortli, Bird, Lewis, Evans, Flint, M'Connochie, 1di,-en, 'Jones, and Elliott were-also present. The minutes were read and. confirmed. CO LLECTORS' STATEMiENTS. The collector for St. John's repoided that the amount col- eacted to the end of November was £1,265 ...

... CHURCH APFOINTMENT.—We are glad to learn that the Rev. Edward Jones, of All Saints, Cardiff, has been appointed to the living of Bedwellty, in the room of the Rev. J. R. Morgan, deceased. This appointment will give universal satisfaction, as Mr. Jones is an effective and energetic clergyman. ...

... t-ATEST INTEILLIGEN?CE ROUMANIA. T1 BUCHAREST, Dm. 30. M. Zulanfauscl'ial, diplomatic agent, h an- nounced to the Government of Prince Charles tue that Austria has proposed to the Porte the recog- th nition of the title - umilnim Prineipalities. Ji In the Ronumnian Chambers an exciting debate W ,rose on the ?? in reference to the oti Jewish quest'o, and the Goveinuient declined of to adopt ...

... OCbt Carbiff (Times. SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1870. MR. GIFFARD AT THE DRILL-HALL. EVERYONE is acquainted with the difficulty with which an exotic is made to bear fruit in an alien soil and climate. The young sapling is protected from the natural air of its new locality, provided with an artificial atmosphere, and watched with incessant vigilance by the anxious nurseryman. If in course of time a ...

... THE OHILD MURDER.—The inquest on the murdered child found in a ditch near Mr. Pullin's meadow, on the banks of the Afon Lwyd, was held at the Three Cranes, on Friday, before Mr. Batt. Dr. Williams, who had made a pos: mortem examination, showed that the child was born alive, and that death had been caused partly by a blow on the head and partly by strangula- tion. An open verdict was returned, ...

... THE ENTHRONISATION OF THE BISHOP OF EXETER. The ceremony of enthroning Dr. Temple took place in Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday. The Bishop entered his diocese on Tuesday, and staying during the night at Sowton at the house of the Rev. Prebendary Sanders, his old master at Blundell's School, Tiverton, came over to the city on Wednesday. At the East Gate his lordship was met by the civic ...

... OA.Uh1TARTEJBN, FAwcy Ditm BALL--Ater the lapse of several .ear A I Z fancy dress ?? held at ?? on Wednes. Id4y night, which was quite as successful, as its prede- Job cessbrs were wont to be, and created no emell amount of OriL ,tmipqt,MO? 0 tyqj, : T Q 9wVany (including the dlito Ohe of Carmartbenshlre anA several lames and gentlemen from BrE adjoining counties) began to asseeble about nine ...

... lionthanMv. GiflVd himself. It is just fixity of tenure 9 which, without inlringing the rights of property in > land (which, whatever he may say, are essentially r different from other rights), succeeds in communi- eating to the tenant that incentive to exertion and » Self-denial without which it is impossible for hiH\ to I tise in the scale of civilised being. A passing laugh at the Welsh ...