... On Tuesday, October 5th, the Court for the revision of the list of voters of the several Parishes comprising the District of Cardiff, was held at the Town Hall, Cardiff, before Hardinge Stanley Giffard, Esquire, Revising Bar- risier. The Liberals were represented by Mr. Thomas Hopkins, of Swansea the Conservatives, by Mr. Grover, solicitor, Cardiff, and Mr. Phillip Davies, of Neath. The ...

... By the Persia we receive full details of the burn- ing of the steam-ship Austria, of the Hamburgh line of packets. Sixty seven persons were rescued by the French barque Maurice. Twelve of these were trans- ferred to the barque Lotus, which arrived at Halifax on the 26th ult. Among these twelve was Mr. Char- tres Brew, the recently appointed inspector of police in British Columbia, The ...

... Scotland BIGHT OF FREE CHURCH MINISTERS TO BE ON THE IILECTOHAL RoLL —SheriSF Cook of Ross-sbire hayings decided that the free church ministers were not entitled to be on the register of electors as life-right tenants and occupiers of their manses, appeals were taken, and the point was argued before the Registration Appeal Court for the northern counties, which sat on Friday and Saturday last. ...

... THE AUSTRALIAN POSTAL CONTRACT.—The Admiralty have at length issued the conditions of the tenders to be received for a contract for the conveyance of the mails to and from Australia. The first clause in this document determines that the intercourse shall be monthly each way, via Gibraltar, Malta, and Suez, and that the steamers shall call at King George's Sound to deposit the bags for Western ...

... It is stated that out nf the fund of £20,000 which the London Missionary Society proposes to raise for sending out twenty additional missionaries to India, £13,000 ha. already been collected. ...

... Some of our Subscribers seem to be at a loss to com- prehend a very simple commercial principle. If we give a quarter's eredit we charge 2s. 2d., under- taking for that sum the delivery of the paper, in addition to its production. Those who pay in ad- vance are charged 2s. per quarter, and the paper is also delivered at their residences. There cannot be a plainer rule, yet some people affect ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY. (Before It. 0 JONES, Esq., and Dr. VACHELL.) Frank Johnson was charged with stealing a coat from John French, seaman on beard the Planet. Committed to gaol for two months' hard labour. Jane Shoreland, Jane Roberts, and John Mahoney, were charged on suspicion of stealing a watch and C2 5s from the person of Thomas John while in a:brothel in Charlotte-street. ...

... NEWPORT, OCT. 16, 1858. THE SOCIAL EVIL. STRIKE the evil at the root, is an old and wise adage, the study and practice of which by our local authorities would materially benefit the public. Local improvements other than the mere widening of old or forming new streets, scaveng- ing and draining, are required. A great social evil exists in our midst, and must be suppressed; before there can be ...

... A NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY.—The Philo- logical Society have issued a prospectus of the new English dictionary which is to be brought out under their auspices. It will be remembered that about a year ago the society resolved to form a collection of words hitherto unregistered in the dictionaries of Johnson an il Richardson, with a view to the publication of a supple- mentary volume, which might ...

... lProm Bell's Weekly Messenger.] The season maintains its extraordinary character, and, whether or not due to th* infiuenca of the magnificent comet which has been for seme time the object of uni- versal wonder and admiration, the rammer and autumn of 1858 will be held in remembrance in connection with the splendid meteor. How rare a thing to see oar pas- tures and lawns literally dried up and ...

... On Monday evening a public meeting was held at the Town-liall to hear Mr. H. H. French discuss the merits of the late bardic gathering at Llangollen. Mr. French was a competitor in two departments, and obtained the second prize for the oration named by us in our last publication- That the neglect by a people of their nationality is a certain prelude to their debasement and extinction. There ...

... BASSALLEG. SUSPECTED INFANTICIDE.—On Monday morning Godfrey C. Morgan, Esq., was sailing on the orna- mental water in Tredegar Park, when his attention was drawn to something in the water, which on closer inspection he found to be an infant. The body was got out and conveyed to the Tredegar Arms Bassalleg, when, it was in a state of practical de- composition. P.C. Trewartha wasjdespatched for ...