... CARDIFF. WEST BUTE DOCK.—ARRIVALS Ship Master Whence Tons September 23. Tally Ho Peel Whitehaven 113 Cuudor Davies Barrow 114 Englishman Ivens Bristol 146 Milton Horner Bridgwater 597 Colombe Bernier Nantes 143 Dorker Zelampeck Bristol 2S3 GordnA.Thompson Stephens Truro 121 Battus Humphrey Aberystwith 197 September 24. Kirton Greenaway Shoreham 164 Secret Margnaud Guernsey 188 Martha Luwen ...

... BOARD OF TRADE NAVIGATION AND TRADE RETURNS. The navigation and trade return of the Board of Trade m >y be regarded as the commercial pulse of the country. By them we are enabled, month by month, to watch the progress of the exports and imports of the United Kingdom, and through them can we test the soundness or rottenness of our commercial relations. They also lead us indirectly to ...

... THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. THE FIRST SOIREE was held on Friday night at the Town-hall, which is admirably adapted for the purpose, and was made the most of on this occasion. In the great hall there were tables extending nearly its whole length, on which were displayed varieties of objects to interest and amuse; in the adjoining rooms the Photographic Society of ...

... THE inquest on the poor fellow who was killed at Penarth on Monday ought to teach two classes of persons a lesson. The first class is the labouring, who appear to act in what the Coroner aptly designated a lawless manner, by scrambling upon laden waggons when ill motion, to the peril of their lives. Here is a clear proof that great danger attends the scramble, and the men ought to forego the ...

... [The following contribution to our columns is opportune at the present moment.] IT is with astonishment that we sometimes review the history'of past and dark ages, when men were distinguished under two heads—the powerful ruler and the miserably ruled; the defiant barons and the crouching, abject, dependents; the latter, having the name of men—miserable, mean, servile, with no en- nobling ...

... THE LAST MAN.-When all the tickets for the Leeds Music Hall had been disposed of-when the great powers, love and money, had given up in despair all attempts to secure any further admissions-Brother Jonathan presented himself as a candidate for a place. He had come to Leeds, at the last moment, curious to see how the Quean could make a belted knight; and, whenever he made application for a ...

... ABERDARE, Mit. GF.OSSMITH'S LECTURES.—On Thursday Friday evenings, Mr. Grossmith delivered two of !■ Js lectures on Wit and Humour and Characteristics, in the Temperance Hall. Owiii'v to the weather being so very wet, but few attendedv the first lecture and on Friday night the audience was anything but such a one as the lecture' de»6i ve^rf FATAL ACCIDEXT.-On Friday, a miner Jenkin Hosser, ...

... Scientific, ME. FOX TALBOT'S NEW DISCOVERT, PHOTO- GLYPHIC ENGRAVING.—The subject of engraving steel or copper plates by means of photography, is one which has deservedly attracted the attention of the leading m en of science both in this country and on the Continent. We have recently been favoured with the inspection of some new photographic-or, to speak more correctly, ...

... WE have much pleasure in stating that an order of knighthood is likely to be made to Mr. J. T. Smith, mayor of Melbourne, who has arrived in this country for the purpose of bearing the congratulations of the antipo- deans to the Queen on the marriage of her eldest daughter. The patriotic mayor is to be especially honoured for having raised the sum of XI,000 for the Soldiers' Widows' Fund ...

... PENARTH. PIELIGIOITS SERVICES FOR THE WORKMEN. — NEAR Cogan Pill a school-room has been built by Messrs. Rennie and Co. for the instruction of children belong- ing to the workmen at the Penartli harbour works. Hitherto no religious instruction for the workmen themselves has been provided either by the ■ • atrae- tors or the company; but we are gill i to announce that through the exertions of ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT OX THE EAILWAV. On Monday afternoon last a young man came to his death by the wheels of a ballast waggon passing over both his legs. His name was William Brian, b'ji he was unknown on the railway works, and it turned out upon inquiry that he had been employed umlsr Messrs. James and Price, in the construction of the ne w road at Penartli. It appears that when the navvies leave ...

... SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 27. CATTLE.-Beasts, 5,764; Sheep and Lambs, 24,500; Calves 190; Pigs, 54.0.-Beef, 3s 10d to 4s lOd; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 2d Veal 4s to 5s; Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 4d. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET, TUESDAY, SEPT. 28. A good supply. Trade hoavy. Prime meadow hay, 65s to 75s; superior do., 80s to 84s; inferior do., 60s to 70s; rowen, 60s to 70s; clover, old, 90s to 100.3; second ...