... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. (Before Mr. R 0. JONES and Mr. Alderman PiunE.) Xkclkctisg TO SHOW LIGHTS ON A NI-ESSRL AT AN- CHOR.—Thomas Wearn, captain of the schooner Eclipse, was charged with infringing the Merchant Shipping Act, by neglecting to show a light while he was at anchor in Penarth Roads. Mi\ Ensor appeared for the Board of Trade, by whom the prosecution was instituted. ...

... The marriage of Lord Garlies, M.P., and Lady Mary Cecil, is appointed to take place on the 18th inst. The Weymouth Local Board has adopted a drainage scheme prepared by Mr. Coode, civil engineer, the estimated outlay for which is £28,000. Mr. Miall, M.P., writes professing to believe that the recently published letter addressed to him by the Rev. Dr. Massingliam is not genuine, as he says he ...

... LATEST TELEGRAMS. CARDIFF TIMES OFFICE, FRIDA-J 4 a.m. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. DECLARATION OF THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY. VERSAILLES, Thursday.—The Assembly to-day adopted by 472 to 92, a proposal declaring that, with few excep- tions, salaried public functions are incompatible with the position of deputy. THE RUSSIAN REPRESENTATIVE AT WASHINGTON. ST, PETERSBURG, Thursday.—Prince Gortschakoff has ...

... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... COWBRIDGE. THE NEW YEAR.—Monday last being New Year's Day the tradespeople of this town closed their establishments, and business generally was suspended, in order to allow their assistants the benefit of a holiday. The weather being unpropitious out-door enjoyments were frus- trated, though, we doubt not, many managed to appre- ciate the day's cessation from business. During the late festive ...

... If there are any Ladies who have not vet used the GLEN'FIELD STARCH, they are respectfully solicited to give it a trial, and carefully follow out the directions printed on; every package, and, if this is done, they will say, like the Queen's Laundress, it is the finest Starch they ever used. When you ask for STARCH see that you get it, as inferior kinds are often substituted for the sake of ...

... CRUEL FRAUD BY A SHAM ASSURANCE AGENT. On Wednesdayat the Middlesex Sessions, Herbert John Budock was indicted for feloniously receiving a number of small sums of money as premiums for life assurance in the London and Manchester Industrial Assurance Society, Limited, and the Pearl Life Assurance Society. The case shewed the cruel fraud to which the poorer classes were exposed through the ...

... SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. THE TWO The Times, in diseasing the two cases prepared nndr the Treaty of Washington, says the British case is bus!- nes.s-like and lawyer like, digressing little, and never sow ing into rhetoric or sentimentality. Possibly the mind of an English reader may he unconsciously prejudiced in favour of English arguments, but, viewing the two cases as impartially as we can, we ...

... The average attendance of visitors for the last ten Chrismtas weeks at the South Kensington Museum has been 34,010, and for the last ten Boxing Days 13,431. It is stated that a few private friends of the late Mr. George Hudson met a. few days ago in Newcastle, and resolved to erect a simple marble monument over Mr. Hudson's grave. It is also-stated that Alderman G'ourley, M.P., is negotiating ...

... p Pa;.]. Tuesday, v arisij apparently determined take k«r ''revanche 1 tae Jorcililo deprivation or her customary fet-8 at the j This j-ear the shop> an-gayer, the oranges j,, re n,UU(Ji'ous, the visits and presents more universal f. *f» evun though the gayest and most thoughtless taint' • llUestioned, confess to considerable uncer-j -tht} J rea ...