... Whether the streets, or the arches which decorated the streets, were the most attractive, it would be difficult to say, and as many recondite considerations of art and taste are involved in tiiequestion, we prefer leaving the decision to the intelligent jury which passed both streets and arches under review. Certes, the streets of Cardiff were trans- foimed, and St. Mary-street especially. ...

... The day school children were regaled at their different schools. The schools, and the number of scholars feasted, were, approximately, as follows:—St. John's 1 586- St. Mary's, 1,100 Catholic Schools, 1,280; Wesleyan, 386 National schools (IBute-terrace), 351 • Havannah Indus- trial school, 63 Miss Shand's, 90 Ragged school (Fre- derica-street), 70—total, 4,819. They made their public ...

... c« mp-riage of Lord Bute was celebrated hero with Witk'' iable festivity. The houses were fairly decorated dags and floral devices, guns were fired, bells rung, !(, .•> better than all, a dinner was given to trie aged and •tirm p00r 0f t>ie town. Upwards of six hundred children ^eve also regaled; and rustic sports, for which modest Wzes were given, enabled the young athlete* of the borough to ...

... THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI TELEGRAPH. COPENHAGEN. Thursday.-The submarine cable be- tween Hongkong and Shanghai has been again repaired and is working. Telegrams by the Northern route arrive constantly in less time than the difference of time between the countries. ...

... At the Hampshire Sessions on the 8th inst., Lord Eversley in the chair, Sir \V. Heathcote called atten- tion to the extraordinary number of assaults on females which had been committed at Bournemouth during the past year and a half, offences varying from the use of gross language to the most serious Crimes. To such an extent had these outrages been carried that a friend of his own (Sir Thomas ...

... .Tames Donovan, William Marr, and James Ives, coalheavers, were brought before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police-court on the oth inst., charged with in- timidating and assaulting Dennis Crawley, also a coalheaver, on the 14th of March last. The prisoners belong to the United Coalheavers' Association, of which the complainant also was formerly a member, but a meeting was held, and he was ...

... Ur. Spurgeon, in addressing a meeting of the Me- tropolitan Tabernacle Colporteurs Association on Tuesday night, referred to the condition of the farm labourer. It often happened, he said, that the clergy- man in a country district knew as much about the Gospel as a ploughman did about medicine. If people heard him for as many years as Methusaleh lived, they would not know much about Christ. ...

... '.TIGHT BETWEEN IHI LITIAM.—diaries orron, s. militiaman, from Birmingham, now training at Lea- mington with the 2nd Warwickshira Militia, was seriously injured on the 5th inst. in a light with Manion, a 'fellow-militiaman. The two had been drinking at the Warwick Tavern, Regent-street, and a dispute arising they went to fight in Regent Grove. Orton was knocked down and brutally kicked on ti ...

... THE INDIAN BUDGET. The summary of the Indian Budget, sent by telegram to tliis country, shows that a surplus is anticipated, and that it chiefly arises from the Income Tax. The gross receipts of Government are £4U,OOO,OOO. The Income Tax is levied at the rate of 1 per cent., and it is just possible that a reduction will be made by the Anglo-Indian Chancellor of the Exchequer. Should such be ...

... PROyi*c- A.WILL.-—'Lord Penzance has pronounced m favour of the will of the late Miss Cordelia Angelica Reed, the owner of the ruinous property which for so many years disfigured the south-west Corner of Stamford-street. The old lady Jeft the bulk of her fortune, amounting to about £100,000, to the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton. ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS EXHIBITS-A meeting of the ...

... BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. In the Court of Monday, the case of Watkin v. Rainey was heard. It wa.s an action for an alleged breach of promise of marriage, tried on the 24rd of February last at Guildhall! before Mr. Baron Martin and a common jury, resulting in a verdict for the plaintiff with £3;)0 dal11ages. ■air- Huddleston, Q.C., now moved for a rale f°r a new trial, on the grounds that there ...

... Oa Wednesday the tdwn was visited by a large number strangers, who, content to see the decorations alone, prudently avoided the crush of the day before. The crowds .? the street were large all day long, and at night when illuminations in the streets in front of the houses and Public buildings were again lit. tlie throng of people was f!,r»>st as great as before. Although the wind took more ^ ...