... To-day a prospectus will be issued of a new company, which will have an important bearing on the trade of the port so far as dry docks and en- gineering works are concerned. The company has been formed for the purpose of acquiring and enlarging the valuable system of graving docks lately belonging to Messrs Charles Hill and Sons, at the Bute Docks, Cardiff, and of extending and developing the ...

... THE NEW SLIDING SCALE. MEETING OF STEAM-COAL DELEGATES. ADDRESS OF MR W. ABRAHAM. HOW THE SCALE CAME TO BE ADOPTED. THE ANSWER TO THE VOTE OF CENSURE. VIEWS OF THE HOUSE-COAL COLLIERS. [BY OUR SPECIAL REPORTERS.] It is a matter of common notoriety that the action of the steam-coal delegates in signing the new sliding-scale in the absence of the represen- tatives of the house-coal men has ...

... CARDIFF. CATHEDRAL.—Third Sunday after Trinity. Eight o'clock, Holy Communion 11, bervice, ciiiuits. Prcitcher, Rev. E. Hawkins- M.A., canon in residence. 3.30, Service, Cooke m C Anthem, Lead, kindly light (Stainer). Preacner, Very Rev. the Dean. There will be offertories at the services for the Xilandaff Diocesan Church Extension Society.—E. A. Succentor. GARIBALDI.—An advertisement in ...

... ALLEGED BURGLARY BT A RAILWAY PORTER.— At the borough police-court on Saturday—before the Mayor (Mr G. P. Tippins) and Messrs James and Hyam—Thomas Merry, foreman porter at Troy Railway-stration, at Monmouth, was brought up charged with having, on the night of the 8th inst., entered the Duke of York Inn, at Broadstone, in the parish of Dlxton, with intent to steal, &c. Mr D. H. Deakin appeared ...

... DEATH OF GARIBALDI. GARIBALDI IN CAPRERA. MADDALENA, Wednesday Morning. — The Washington has arrived with Signor Crispi, the chief of the Cabinet, and Signor Mario, and a company of soldiers. It has been decided that the body shall not be cremated, as Garibaldi wished, but conveyed to Rome for burial on the Janiculum. The embalming will take place to- day. To-morrow Prince Thomas and the ...

... NEWPORT. FATAL OCCURRENCE TO AN OLD MAN.—On Wed- nesday afternoon an old man, named John O'Connell, living in Fothergill-street, died from injuries received on the previous evening, whilst, it is stated, he was in drink. He was, as alleged by himself, teased by a number of boys at Pill, on returning with his donkey and cart from the Cork Wharf, and when chasing them fell head-foremost on a ...

... DYN ANWADAL. Twyllwr, ymgomiwr gwamal,—a dyn gwynf; Yw, yn gwbl ddiofal; Hynod ei ddull, ewyn diddal, Dyna nodau dyn anwadal, GLAN GWENXAIS. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The Lord Chancellor took his seat at a quarter past four o'clock. AFFAIRS IN EGYPT. The Marquis of SALISBURY inquired whether the Government had any further information to give with regard to the affairs of Egypt. Earl GRANVILLE said the affairs of Egypt were, as their lordships were aware, of a serious character, and notwithstanding the resolution and courage shown ...

... NOTES ON THE CARDIFF TOWN COUNCIL. The Cardiff Town Council on Monday had an interesting and exhaustive discussion on the labour clauses of the Bute Dock Bill-a discussion which proved two points most pre-eminently first, that like sensible and business men, the members of the local senate were not ashamed to confess that their previous action had been marked by a want of consideration, and a ...

... TREDEGAR. NEGLECTING WORK.—On Tuesday—before the Rev. Wm. Hughes, Dr Coates, and Dr Brown— Eighteen ironworkers under the Ebbw Vale Com- pany, named Samuel Dowden, John Dowden, George Peck, Henry Peck, Henry Dibble, Henry Blanchard, F. Lloyd, T. Reed, John Lane, E. E. Jones, J. Jones, W. James, J. James, John Horner, James Weaver, and Thomas Hopkins, were summoned for neglecting work, causing ...

... MEETING OF WORKMEN'S REPRE- SENTATIVES. A meeting of the workmen's representatives on the sliding-scale committee was held at the Black Lion Hotel, Cardiff, on Wednesday, under the presidency of Mr W. Abraham. A discussion took place with reference to the best means of bringing the provisions of tho new sliding-scale under the notice of the workmen, and it was re- I solved to issue the ...

... BIRMINGHAM AND MR JOHN BRIGHT. On Wednesday,a special meeting of the Executive of the Birmingham Liberal Association was held, to consider what anangements should be made to celebrate the twenty-fifth year of Mr Bright'* Parliamentary connection with the town. Air George Dixon presided, aud a resolution was adopted deciding that the celebration should con- sist of a public demonstration of the ...