... LLANDAFF. POLICE COURT, MONDAY. (Before Messrs. T. W. BOOKER and C. W. DAVID, Mayor of Cardiff.) DRUNKENNESS.—Honorah Dalton, a. woman of bad character, was charged with being drunk and disor- derly on the 13th of December, on the LlandafF-road, near the Butcher's Arms. The prisoner absconded when the summons was taken out against her. Sent to prison for 14 days. FALSE PKETENCKS.—Thomas ...

... A LIBERAL VIEW OF THE CONSERVATIVE POLICY. The Standard says that the temptation of framing a programme for your adversary is always very great, and the task of doing so is seldom verv difficult. The Spectator is especially given to the fabrication of policies, not only for its friends, but also for its enemies. A curious instance of this propensity may be found in the article devoted to a ...

... IT has often been said by thinkers and observed that the great mass of mankind run in groove or follow their leaders like slieep. There is soluo truth in the doctrine, but we should be sorry tO say it is unmixed and pure. That many people do implicitly obey their chief-in a political sense we are speaking—it would be folly to deny btrf that a large section in every community exercise their ...

... LOCAL NOTES. « THE GOVERNORS OF THE GLAMORGAN- SHIRE PRISONS. THE hope which had been entertained by some of the local public, that the magistrates might deem it consis- tent with their duty to condone the charges against the Governor of Cardiff Gaol, has not been realized. The decision given at the Adjourned Quarter Sessions on Tuesday is adverse to Mr. Wrenn, who has been summarily dismissed ...

... MR. GLADSTONE. IT is generally considered that a man who has no enemies is not worth much. Measured by this proverb Mr. GLRDSTONE ought to be a person of considerable merit, for at this moment there are not a few persons who seek every available oppor- tunity of saying hard things of him. It has become in fact the fashion to abuse the Premier, and he who doe3 it the most vigorously stands the ...

... NEATH. SERIOUS FIRE.—On Wednesday morning a fire broke out in a building situated in Mr. Henry Lake's exten- sive timber yard, and it rapidly attained such propor- tion that for a long time the adjoining grain stofes of Messrs. Kenway and Rees, with some 15,000 bushels of oats, were in jeopardy. The efforts at arresting the progress of the fire were, however, so well maintained, that the grain ...

... At the Cardiff Police Court on Wednesday, before Mr. R. O. Jones Aldermen Pride and Alexander Dr. Paine Messrs. E. S. Hill and G. Bird, Mr. Simons, of Merthyr, preferred, on the part of Mr. Frederick Ware, woollen draper, of Duke-street, a charge against Mr. Robert Simpson and Mr. John Rintoul Mitchell, for maliciously publishing in the Wt--if.tra Mail, a certain false, scandalous, and ...

... An atrocious murder was committed at Birmingham on Sunday night. The murderer, Francis Thomas, about 52 years of age, is a paper-hanger, and his victim, Smith, was a fellow lodger about the same age, follow- ing the business of a carpenter. There had been some little difference between the men, scarcely amounting to a quarrel, in the course of Sunday aftern'oon, relative to some boards ...

... J U frm M P for the Eadnor Boroughs, 'ptarv for Ireland, has addressed his and Cluef becretoy for^ Tbe\loble lord>s recep. constituen s a thanks were of the conven- tion was warm, ana HIS Lli 1 r a a n Minister he was expected to touch upo™politics—to disclose the opinions of the Government upon some of the leading questions of the day. This he did briefly, and explicitly His utterances ...

... SIR R. ANSTRUTHER AT CUPAR.—On Tuesday afternoon Sir R. Anstruther addressed his constituents at Cupar. Whilst regarding the Irish policy of the Government as satisfactory, he condemned the Minis- terial conduct of the education question. He was ashamed of last session, and every department of the Government save one had been conspicuous for its failures, and that exception was the department ...

... (FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) THURSDAY. The present is probably the most trying time of the year for journalists. It represents that dangerous period of incertitude which precedes the era of substantial facts. Important resolutions are not so completely formed that one can depend upon their oozing out in an accurate form, and coming events do not cast such a tangible shadow before that one ...

... BRIDGEND. BOARD OF GUARDIANS.—Mr. J: C. Nicholl presided over a small meeting of guardians on Saturday. The Clerk reported that the anditor had gone over the accounts of the union during the week previous, and certified that there was a deficiency of 4*120 19s. Id. in the ac, count of the late Richard Leyshon, relieving-officer, and also some items were disallowed because there were no ...