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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDINKSDAY. The (lnly discussion (If ilJlprPRI was Ihe motion bv llr. Brotherton intended si^aiiis! debates after midnight. Lord J ¡hll RIJS-ICI! complained of the 1I'¡mber of small m:llters which private members brought up, to the deliyof public bu-iness. A committee 0:1 the usages "f the H'luse will be »j pointed. The motion \\M« lost II) to; I to 54. TIHJHSDAY. Lord I'landfor I brought in » hill for the better manage- ment of episcopal and capitular incomes. The Chancellor of the Excln quer introduced a bill on Ills' sutij-ct of the public revenue. Its character is else- where described. He also brought in a bill extending the time for the suirender of existing compositions for assessed h xes. FRIDAY. Lord Palmerston stated that he intended to bring in a bill for reforming the abuses of buiia 1 societies. An attempt to obtain anew hearing for a petition against the return for Peterborough was defeated. The President of the Board of Trade introduced two bills, one to admit foreign ships to the coasting trade, and the other to consolidate the laws on merchant shipping. MONDAY. Lord J. Russell, in moving that the H use do resolve itself int" a committee to consider the omh* of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, and the oath taken by Roman Catholics, observed that bis object was to induce the House to consider generally these o,tln, with a view to substi- tuting one oath, wh<cb should be ai simple and intelligible o» possible, and should bind the taker ot the oath only to wh.it he could engage to perform, instead of his being made guilty almost of profanation, by committing himself to object* eOHle of which were no longer applicable to the present time. The o.th of allegiance was an intelligible obligation, and he did not think that any objection could be taken to it; but, with regard to the other oaths, of supre- macy, and abjuration, they had been framed to meet certain dangers then existing, but they contained matters totally unnecessary to be affirmed at the present day, and what lid propo-cd was to get r d of the superfluities,—to act as in common life, and, when the danger had ceased, not to con- tinue precautions which had become a mere mockery. He read the form of the xingteoath which he h*d framed for this purpose, and then considered, first, whether this oath should be applied to Koman Catholic; secondly, whether the words." On the true faith of a Christian," should be retained. With respect to the first point, he thought the declarations required specifically from Roman Catholic meinbrrs-»li<>uld no longer be insisted upon and, as to the words On the true faith of a Christian, he repeated what he had often urged, that these word- were introduced into the oath, not for the purpose of excluding persons of the Jewish religion, but lo bind Roman Catholics, and especially Ji^uits, to the lIubsllillce of the oath-namely, to bear due aliegiance to the authority of tue Crown, and he itisiMed upon the inju-tice of disabling any cl tss of subjects by the e",ua¡ operallnl) ui law. Whatever view* I'ailiament miyoit take of the policy of admitting J* h* ha J no doubt that 3 Oil o t n ot to maintain the >t. !j l in their present s t e, for t'lev kept up & Sor:u W:J:C;: had become a moikerv and a profanation. Sir t. lh'siger, after a short examination of the forms ot the oath?, observed that it was a startling thin¡.t. to bring forw/lrd at the present moment a proposi- lion tu make olle and the aame oath 3pplicCtble to Pro- testants and Roman Catholic*, by removing what was in- tended to be a safeguard of the Protestant religion. But further, the proposed oath, he contended, involved an attack upon the Established Church, since it omitted a recognition of the spiritual and ecclesiastical supremacy of the Crown, which was the keyslouc of the church. He should not oppose the going into committee, but, upon the second reading of the bill, he should offer every opposi- tion to it in his power. The fluu"t,> then went into committee, when Lord J. Russell moved, that the chtirman be directed to atk for leave to bring in a bill to substitute oue oath for the oaths of alliance, supremacy, and abjuration, and for the oath now taken by Homan Catholics. The motion was agreed to, and leave was given to bring In the bill. The Assessed Taxes Act Amendment Bill was read a Second time. Mr. J. Butt moved for a select committee to inquire into the allegations contained in a petition of AJr. J. P. Sotners, relative to the election for the borough of Sligo. "Ir Sadlier seconded Ihe motion, which was opoosed by Mr. Goulburn and Mr. T. Greene,and uliimatelyagieed to. The House adjourned at half-past 6 o'clock, TUESDAY. Mr. J. Butt brought before the House the charges of corruption made at the iate Tuam banquei, by Dr. Gray- ed Mr. Kelly, against certain Irish members, and moved lor a committee to inquire into the the truth of the same. Lord Palmerston staled that the Government hoped to introduce a measure on Church-rates during the present session. -u_

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The reluctance to fight being mutual, and the last glimmering hope of peace not )et quite extinguished, 'be preliminary formalities are transacted with ceremo- nious slowness, and it will hardly be safe to pronounce them completed till blood is actually flowing. But, one by one, the steps (which, when an advantage is to be gained, ambition will overleap at a bound) from a state of peace to a state of war, have all been made. The two ambassadors have obtained their passports, and are gone. Letters of recal have been sent to Sir G. H. Seymour and General Castelbajac. The final proposi- lIOn from Vienna has been rejected at St. Petersburg; a final aud most inudmissible VrupDsition frocn St. Pders- burg has becn put aside at Vienna. Nothing remains but to strike, and even this will not be dune in a hurry. With Uf. doubtless, Russia will leave Ihe responsibility of the first blow. We need not hesitate to accept it, assured that the guilt really rests, I;ot on the hand that draws the ewonJ, but on him who has made it just and neces- sary to unshealh it. The failure of Orloff's misston-the definitive refusal of the two German Powers to pledge themselves to a collusive neutrality-would probably have stopped the Czar if he had not gone too far to recede—may possibly, though not probably, stop him still. It is perfectly na- tural that these two Courts should be more sloiv to en- gage in the quarrel than the great Western Powers. They are bound to the Emperor by old ties, political and personal; one of them feels the weight of strong and peculiar obligations still uncancelled, whilst the other has but a very remote inteiest in the independence of the Foote. They are the nearest neighbours of Russia; they '1,jve disaffected frontier provinces; they would probably gteat sufferers by a war, their territories having been all ages the common battle field of Europe. But they are between two tires, and in this uncomfortable situation have been plied from all quarters at once with caresses ai*d reproaches, arguments and threats. Thepurportof ^ount Orloff's message may be eaf-itydivined; on our s'de they have beea plainly told that it would he the Work of a moment to unchain against Austria the rest- less^demon of insurrection, and against Prussia the eager cupidity of France. We may regret, but under the cir- cupidity of France. We may regret, but uuder the cir- cumstances cannot violently condemn, their anxiety to eland as long as possible aloof from a war which their joint weight, added to that of Great Britain and France, Might even now be sufficient to crush. Much is gained meanwhile by their honourable refusal to abandon an at- Iltude which, whilst it is mallltallled, will rendn-it im- possible for Russia to concentrate her whole strength on the Danube, or to operate with any freedom uuder a frontier lined by an Austrian army. The work of preparation is hurried and incessant. Half the toast-guard have been drafted into the navy. The veteran Thackwell has been summoned from Ire- land. Admiral Napier has been chosen to command the Baltic squadron. Sir John Burgoyne, with a French engineer officer, has started for Constantinople, and they will be followed without delay by troops, whose destina- tion may be partly conjectured since the Retribution," in her dashing visit to Sebastopnl, ascertained that the place is only accessible on the land side. The fleets have returned to the Bosphorus without seeing a Russian sail, the admirals, declining a longei cruise on that stormy sea, and opposing their professional experience to the reo monstrances of the two ambassadors. But rumour pre. dicts a speedy and active resumption of the campaign on the Danube, where Otner Pacha is forestallitw t'he threatened attack on Kalufut and Widdiu, by operating a second time on his old point, Oltenitza. We receive from Quebec most satisfactory accounts of the late Synod, or Convention of that diocese. The riuour of the season thinned its numbers, and the lay delegates far outnumbered the clergy but the whole as- semblage went heartily together, and the parishes not actually represented, have since been ascertained to be equally uuauimous ill their desire for regular synod!!1 actiun. which was the chief, though not the only, subject considered. Need we say that in thus expressing tf, eir desire, they have more than half realized it 1 he shortest way to obtain synods is to meet sytiodicallv and, till the need for further powers is practically felt, to do with- out them.—London Guardian. 'Ihe following is the foreign intelligence received by telegraph Wednesday Paris, Feb. 7.—M. de KISSH- lell'quitted Paris yesterday evening for Brussels by the express train. He expects to meet Baron Brunow, ill that city. All that has been rumoured of the ill success ofthemis-iionof Count Orloff is now confirmed. It is not likt-ly that he will prolong his stay, but will, it is said, take his departure diiect lor St. Petersburg. Fore- seeing the same rebuff at Berlin, he will refrain from visiting that capital. —It is sald,that the Servian Govern- ment. yielding to the suggestion of M. r.'e Popoff, the seoetary of the Russian consulate at Belgrade, will refuse to accept the two finnans of the Sulian unless Russia gives her consent. Petersburg, Jan. 29 —It is Mid that the Emperor, who is fully aware of the position in which he is placed, will endeavour to avoid a general conflagration, if he can only preserve his honour and his right*. The influence of (j0,inl Nesselrode is agaiu ui WH,^n<)ant- It i8 also said that the Czar is about to which he 'Iograph letter to the Queen of England, m the aggressor. e,j/,e*v«ur to prove that he has not been jng to arms of j,i| IVimperial ukase confirms the summon- I furlough." e reserves, as well as the soldiers on The Times corresPon I lowing intelligence, Vienna, sends the fol- ion by Russia of u)e Monday evening J he unproved bv the four rOWep,e °f the Porte, which was i.- fn iiie members of Um \r 8 not been officially The limrs of u, ■ conditio" o»J.h,u, Co„,u<J,|o|1. "'J- express the pienipotentUrl 'OUr in number;—That » 1 ur r the armv « J lou,<1 Pro- ceed to the ^uart^liaiion8 with'RUsiaSt'hPfeters- l>urc, to open direct Wp c .u r p with liberty to refer to the t«»m jlu,gia and the Por"^ th,al the former treaties between en(er *°u'd be renewed that Turkey refugees; « £ ] rnent not to g,ve an asylum to P lnratiolli the Un> the Poite should recognise 7 which was the origin protectorate oi the Greek Lliristia1 t of thequanel.. in Paris have got notice The Kubsian families resident tn t deU>« that they will have to quit France «'ith° Princess of Letters from Madrid state that 1^°^H}^ Asturias, the only surviving child ol the isdaugeroustyit). Her death wouidonLe er^ The Ihe succession to the Duchess of Jlo»lPe rid of Spanish ministers seem satisfied with having B ajg some of the most troublesome of the Opposition g and to have abandoned the idea of a coup d'etat"

LATEST INTELLIGENCE. We (Times of Thursday) have received from our cor- respondent in Paiis the following telegraphic despatches, received inthatcapitattast night: — BREST, Feb. 8. —In consequence of orders receive^ yesterday for the immediate departure of the Atlantic Squadron, it is expected that Admiral Bruat will make signal (or sailing immediately. The squadron, it is slIid, will sail for the coast of Algeria. ""VARNA, Jan. 20.—Omer Pasha is entirely restored to health. A Wallachiau General, two or three American officers, and several French and Swedish officers, have arrived at head-quarters to take service in Uae Ottoman army. Considerable reinforcements are on fliarch from Sophia fur Kalalat, where there is already "ssembted an army of 25,000 men, provided with a uume,ol)8 and excellent train of artillery. Before the ei,tfy of the fleets into the Black Sea the Russian cruisers |vere constantly in observation upon our coast. They lave Ri"ce entirely disappeared, and the Turks have complete possession of the Euxine. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 25.—The fleets having taken it' 'resit pro\isioua> will re-enter the Black Sell on the 28th, la the meantime three French tind three English ,team frigates have sailed to-day for Varna. On the 28th another Turkish convoy, intended to carry men and ammunition to Hatoum, will sail under the escort of a part of the Turkish tieet and the French and English frigates. "Military operations in A«i:» are suspended. "General Btrai/uay d'ili'lie:s sets out to-morrow on his tour of military inspection. Vienna, Wednesday, 4 P.Jr. "Count Orloff left at nine o'clock this morning, taking with him the positive assurance that Austria and Prussia would remain neutral. "AWhough the Russian Envoy olfaed to give up the pretension to treat with Turkey aloue, his new proposi- tions werp rejected. "The English Ambassador was very positive, in con- sequence of express instructions from home on the subject. "According to General Sclu'Iders* report to the Russian Embassy, the army of occupation is iu a pitiable condition, the original corps beio*; 35,000 men weaker than when it crossed the Prutli in July last. "All the foregoing is authentic. The Seraskier and Kapudan Pasha have left the Cabinet. Rizi and Achmed Pasha have succeeded them." ANOTHER BATTLE ON THE I)ANUBE.- Accounts re- ceived in Paris OIJ Thurlldaystate that a sanguinary action had taken place near Giurgevo, with great ioss on both sides. Three thousand Turks crossed the Danube, drove in the Russian advanced posts, attacked the town, and i then retired. THE ENROLLED NAVAL PKNSIONERS.—PORTSMOUTH, Wednesday Evening.— An order has been promulgated at this port this afternoon, of which the following is a copy All Greenwich pensioners under 60 years of age, no matter how employed or enyayed, are directed to attend at the Pension-olfice between this day and Saturday next, for Ihe purpose of receiving a printed form to at. tend on Tuesday, the 14th instant, for inspection by officers from the Admiralty to ascertain their fitness for service. If this notice is not attended to they will be subject to loss of pension, Feb. 8, 18,54.11

THE ELY VALE HOUNDS Will meet Feb. 13 Peterstone Friday Feb. 17 St. Fagans X Roads At 10.45 A.M. TAFF VALE RAILWAY. Traf$? Acco-int for the Week ending Feb. 4, 1854: — Totu! £ 2583 4 8 Co;m;iond!cg week ii,c -'ear. £ 2598 1G 7 SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. TRAFFIC RETUETN. Week ending Feb. 5, 1854 £ 3882 19 5 Corresponding Week, 1853 £2433 0 1

THE CARDIFF ASI> NSILTHYR 6UAR81A! FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10,1851. We have heard that Major BRUCE, of the 74th High- landers, has volunteered his services for the war on the Danube. FRANCIS EDMUND STACEY, Esq., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, was, on the 28th ult., admitted to the degree of B.A., in that Uuiversity. TUB LORD EISUOP OF LLANDAFF presented on the 2nd instant, to the House of Lords, two petitions for the establishment of reformatory institutions for juvenile criminals,—one from the magistrates of the County of Glamorgan, and the other from the Mayor and Inhabitants of Cardiff. COLONEL LLOYD WATKINS has been elected member for Brecon, vice C. R. Morgan, Esq., deceased. CRUELTY To ANIMALS.— A boatman was taken into custody yesterday evening for working his horse while it was in a dreadfully diseased condition. The body of the Portuguese, seaman, who sprang from the police into the Bute Docks last week, on his way to his vessel, has been picked up so that now no doubt remains as to the hapless fate of the poor fellow. GOOD NEWS FOR. THE litON Notwilli- standing the withdiawal of the Russian Ambassador, it is generally believed that the admission of rails from England will still be permitted in Russia. These may help more speedily to convey the Czar's troops to the ditrerent seats of wur. We understand that the liev. D. Noel's lecture, in con- nexion with the Cardiff Younir Men's Christian Asso- ciation," will be delivered oil Wednesday, the 15th inst., in the New Town-hall. The Rev. W. Leigh Morgan willt.-kethecltairataquarter-pasteight. BY the retirement of Colonel Eden, commanding the 56th llegiment, and the consequent promotion, Lieut. W. W. Basselt (of Bonvils.'oney, becomes the Senior Lieutenant, and the next for promotion to a Company. The Rev. H, L. BLOSSE is Chaplain to the High- Sheriff, WILLIAM LLEWELLYN, of Couit Colman, Esq. and Air. RANDALL, of the tirm of Messrs. Llewellyn and Randall, is the Deputy Sheriff. The commission will be opened at Swansea on Monday, the thh of March but the business of the assizes will not commence till twelve on Tuesday, the 7th,—after the Judge shall have attended Divine service in St. Mary's Church. It is almost certain that there wiij be, in Cardiff gaol, from fifty to sixty prisoners for trial at the Adjourned Quarter Sessions, notwithstanding that a clearance was effected in January. This number is exclusive of the Swansea prisoners. AN Address from the Contractors of Cardiff to the Local Board of Health appears in our advertising co- lumns. A large and influential meeting of parties inter- ested was held in the Nlisot)s' Ariti, Inn, on Tuesday evening; and many excellent remarks were made. There can be no doubt that the Board wiii j;i\e the memorial due consideration. RECRUITING for the Eait India Company's Artillery is carried on in Cardiff with much success. Anott-com- missioned officer ot tiie Royal Marines reached the town on 1 hursday upon the tame errand. olunteers lor the navv are not at ail backward. A tract has just been printed in London which ctcatiy proves by facts and figures" that Her Majesty's uaval service, under the new regulations, has many advantages over ihe merchant service. CAUTION TO PARENTS.—T.'ic child of a workman, name,1 D. James, residing at lllaekweir, fell into a pan of hot lard on Wednesday and was badly scalded. The child's mother had goue for water to the feeder, leaving her mother-ia-law in charge of the house; and in the mea nti.re the accident occurred. Dr. Edwards was sent for, and did all he could to assuige the little suf- ferer's pain. It is supposed that latal consequences will not follow. LLANDAIT FAIR, on Thursday, the 9th instant, was rather thinly attended. There were several Ellglish dealers present. Cattle went off slowly. Horses met with a ready sale at high prices. Sheep were ea^erlv purchased at most remunerative rates to the sellers — prime totsatSd.apouud! We hear that we shall have high prices in Cardiff market lor some time. His GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY preached a most impressive sermon on Sunday last, 5ih instant, to a crowded congregation, at the Parish Church of St. Mar)1, N"wington, in aid of the Cancer Hospital, (;t\ullol1-r{)\ Parliament-street, and West Bromptoti. Hi ■i Grace took his text from Hebrews, 13th chap. lOih çerse: But to do jjood ;0 communicate forget not f r with such sacrifices God is well pleased." In nppli- ¡a'ion whereof His Grace referred to the great sufferings from that awful disease for which the Institution had been specially established to alleviate, and the good effect which was likely to result Iro n the greater exten- sion of its sphere of usefulness, concluding by a powertul and pathetic appeal for an increase of funds. AMONGST the forest of tall, tapering masts on the waters' of the Bute Docks, there were recently those of Russian anll Turkish each having several guns of considerable calibre, although engaged in trade. As soon as it was known here that there could be no longer o any mistake as to the aggiessive spirit displayed by the Northern Autocrat, the Turkish captain expressed a determination to have u slap at the Russian," us soon as they were outside the harbour, and the latter evinced an equal amount of pluck," and said he should be read). Of course, in the harbour and roadstead they must preserve the peace; but there is no doubt that if they come near esch other in the Channel they will have a "set to" Last week, at Gloucester, a newly-built Russian vessel, carrying 230 tons, was 801(1 for to a Liverpool firm, as the Hussiaii captain feared capture on his homeward voyage. In other ports, we hear, similar sales have been effected. Theatre CROCKIIEKB'OWN.—Monday night, next is the last of the season. The performance, will be of the most attractive nature, arid as they aie intended lor the benefit of Mr. Artaud, we trust the house will be over- crowded. Various circumstances have rendered the season less remunerative th in was anticipated and the I expenses he incurred in fiuing-up and re-decorating en- title him to the most favourable consideration. Mr. Henderson's benefit, which was to have taken place lust night (Thursday), was unavoidably postponed till Saturday, in consequence of the indisposition of Miss Sedgwick, upon which night the tickets will be available. Mr. H. is an experienced and respectable member of the company, and merits universal support. The pieces are Eugene Aram and Young England, with a variety of other amusemements. To-night (Friday) the perform- ai)ceswill be for the benefit of Messrs. Pearce and Smith. LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—When the great brewers of Trent struck against their customers, and gave an extra- ordinary rise to pale ale, the licensed victuallers of Cardiff assembled to protest against this attempt to im- pose terms equally injurious to them and their customers. The unprotected condition of the trade then b came painfully evident and. like men, detnmmed, to give a practical exemplification of the tnotto —" Aide toi, el Dieu t'aidera;' they laill the foundation of a 16 Friendly and Protection Societ)' which has at length assumed the form of a goodly fabric. Mr. William Cooper Mount Stuart Hotel, is the president, and Mr. William Turner, Shin and Dolphin, Church-street, secretary. Ihe objects of the society are, iu the words laid down in the printed rules-" For the protection and defence ol its members against frivolous, vexatious, or malicious prosecutions, &c, &c." How this protection and this defence are to be enforced, each licensed victualler may readily learn for himself, by reference to the rules. But that which most concerns the public, not the publicans, in is asso- ciation, is the praiseworthy example held out to from the trade all repioach, for we are told that JNo member shall receive any assistance from the funds, should be incur the penalty of the law, either for harbouring dissolute persons in his bouse, or for allowing prohibited games lo be played therein and further-" 1 hat any member at any time found guilty of any criminal, or other disgraceful conduct, whereby the association may brought into disrepute, or shall otherwise render njmself inimical to its objects," &c., the members shall lave power iu expel bim, and he shall forfeit his interest in the association. Ws beg to Cltll the attention of our readers to an ad- vertisement in another part of our paper, respecting the art angements of M r. Eleazer Jones ihe well-known Emi- gration Agent of Liverpool, and we have had the plea- sure 01 a personal interview with Mr. Jones, who is now on a tour through South Wales, and have examined documents from respectable individuals in that town, re- commending him as a trustworthy agent, and have no hesitation to state that, in our opinion, Welsh emigrants going to Liverpool cannot do better than to call upon Mr. Jones, if they wish to be s-mt out in a first class ship; and his IIlland airangeinents for passengers cannot be too highly recommended, as it js 0f n,e greatest im- riortance f°r their protection from imposition oil the other side of ihe Atlantic. C0WBRIDge'—e bave much pleasure in noticing the imnrovemetit in 'be growth ot Swedish turnips. Among in the Vale of Glamorgan is a field of 15 acres, 11618 rtv of l>l'cti>0' Latitwit-Major, which the propt J' t liintr of the soit in South Wales; it has is equal to < oxe(1 si|)ce the 10(h of kept above l-elieved to be sufficient for the keep "l"" "ol II 20,1, of Fen. ».ry Tl,« „ J. of tilt Win J.i-m"reinult. The field were purchased o M Hose. was manuted with common U with 1 cwt. of guano per acre. oJU ot the sruep wiu average in weight lOOIbs. each. A vast qusuilit) ol tne lurniys average "?01bsi each in weight,

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OFFICER OF HEALTH TO THE CARDIFF LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. Cardiff, Jan. 26, 185L GEKTLEMEN,—In presenting to you my Annual Re- port. I have endeavoured to furnish you with such data as may enable you 'o form an opinion of the probable amount of Mckness and mortality during the past year; to detail in general terms the intorm Ilioll relative to the sanitary condition of Cardiff that I may have obtained in the discharge of my duties, as your Officer of Health to enumerate the various possible excitants of disease; the several localities ill which they may exist aud, as far as I can, suggest for your consideration such means as may prevent or mitigate the effects of epidemics. The population of Cardiff, according to the last census, amounted to 1H,351, shewing an increase of 8 per cent. per annum on the previous ten years. Assuming the same rate of increase to have continued, the population may now be estimated at 21,0UO; but it is important to bear in mind that an unusually large proportion of this number is composed of mechanics, labourers, and another very numerous class exercising considerable influence on the sanitary condition of this town-I mean the mendi- cant Irish,-a class which may be computed to exceed 3000 in number. The gross mortality in Cardiff, during the year 1853, was 644, or 30.66 per thousand it therefore consider- ably exceeds the average mortality of all England, which, according to the returns of the Registrar General, is stated to be 20.383. Having been permitted access to the Register Book of Deaths, I have made an analysis, and have compiled the three following tables, to which I shall have frequent occasion to refer. The fiist represents the number of deaths at particular seasons of the year, —the division of the seasons being in accordance with the plan adopted by the Registrar General.. In this table I distinguish the deaths resulting from disease, and those occasioned by accidents or other causes, and on which a coroner's investigation has taken place. TABLE No. 1. Deaths from Deaths from Disease. Accidents, &c. 1 January 51 3 February 05 3 March 66 6 -182 -12 tAprit. 5S 8 Spring < May 54 5 o (June 48 5 —160 —18 ( J u I y 39 8 Summer August 4i 4 (September 3'5 6 -118 -18 (October 2<> C Autmnu.. •: Nov:rnu^r SO >i [ De-ember 3 -124 -12 584 6J This table shews that the greatest rate of mortality occurs in the cold quarter of winter and the variable tem- perature of spring, that it is less in the summer, aud in- creases again towards the autumn; the seasons do not appear to operate more unfavourably in this than in other localities; it is, therefore, to other causes, we have to attribute the high rate of mortality in Cardiff. Table No. 2 represents the mortality according to age and Table No. 3 the immediate cause of death. IABLE I\O. 3. TABLE NO. 2. s g Convulsions 67 £ a Hydrocephalus.. 11 _o? 1 Inflam, of Brain 8 MORTALITY. J § I PSPIF .I! 4 2^ ^Epilepsy 3 3 a f),j Under One Year 223 r rl)tll.,is & Di- „ Two Years 33 I eased Lungs j „ Three Years 15 i" Bronchitis 24 |, Four Years 17 = ■{ Inflatn. of Lungs 32 Five Years 8 | > Pleurisy 1 Five to Ten Years 23 | 2 Croup 2 Ten to Twenty 45 "L I Asthma 2 Twenty to Thirty 60 -176 Thirty"to Forty 1;9 Disease of Heart 2 Forty to Fifty 37 Kidney I Fifty to Sixty 32 .——— Womb. 3 Sixty to Seventy 2s Stomach 3 Seventy to Eighty 35 q Liver 8 Eighty aud upwards 19 ? luflam. of Bowels 4 .5 -? Stricture of ) 644 I (Esophagus ) —16 f Fever, Contd. "V and Typhus) g | Puerperal 6 S I « Scarlet 1 g I Measles I 0 *i Small Pox 42 P Eiysipelas 4 t -3 I Hooping Cough. 20 o. Diarrhoea and 1 Dysentery J i Cholera. 5 T ■" 1 39 p Scrofula 1 ( .1 Syphilis 4 2 2 I Gangrene 2 2 J < Ha; norrhage 1 |g Dropsy 9 Atrophy & Me- { I. sentery disease J —70 Accidents and ) Su lden Death J Hydrophobia 1 Teething 10 Unknown 23 Cancer 3 General Decay.. 34 Other Diseases.. 11 j Total 614 The first subject to which I hive to call your attention is the extraordinary high rate of infant murtality, under one year of ai.'e,—this being 223 and compared with the gross mortality, is as one in three; while in London it is one in five, and in rural districts, one in eiirht. It is to the lodging-bouse system I refer this high rate of infant mortality,—a sy&tam 18"al1 h ivo occasion to allude to again. The bulk of this mortality occurs in the localities inhabited by the Irish poor, and is attributable to their mode of living the sexes live and occupy the same rooms indiscriminately, hence early marriage and illegitimate births. Accustomed from a tender age to all kinds of privations, with no regard to comfort fina such people are little restrained by a sense of providence. A marriage of improvidence is with them the rufe-a mar- riage of providence the exception. Their own constitu- tions, sapped by constant exposure to the vitiated atmosphere of their own crowded hovels, the weakly offspring, exposed to everv influence such an atmosphere can engender, with little parental care, has feeble tenacity ol lite the germs of scrofula develope their existence in the forms of atrophy, mesenteric disease, hydrocephalus, and convulsions; or, if it pass on for a short time beyond this period the stunted, ricketty form of the Irish men- dicaut testifies the hard battle it had to fight ere con- sumption closes its miserable existence I have next, to direct your attention'to (lipases which are materially aggravated, and at times created, bv re- .novable causes, and are, therefore, more particularly the subject for-tiattit;tr)- comment. These are — Convulsions and Hydrocephalus 78 Consumption and Diseased Lun"s HI The Epidemic diseases 13!) fl he Sporadic diseases 7() 398 1 he two tirst, dependent as they often are on scrofu- lous taints, are excited in a large proportion by remova- ble causes: the epidemic and sporadic are almost entirely influenced by them. These causes are,—Indifferent drainage, filth, and impure accumulations, such as decay- iog animal and vegetable matter near dwellinbs. putri I mud and stagnant water, open drains, and overflowing privies and cesspols, and the overcrowded and ullwhole. some condition of Ihe dwellings of the poor. ihe absence ot euioient drainage has for a considerable time occupied your attention, and I should not have alluded to it, inasmuch as means are now being adopted to remedy this evil, but that it is necessary to take it into consideration in explaining the amount of disease iu this, as compared with other towns. Certain districts, and unfortunately those which previous experience has shown to be the localities in which epidemic disease is to be apprehended, are lower than the level of the sea at high water; there is, therefore, no natural course for the escape of the surface water; new streets are here bein^ daily formed, house after house erected, and no provision in this respect made; the roadway unpre- pared or uumettalled the soft natural material torn up L by the carts in hauling; the streets, in front of the houses have lakes of stagnant water, putrid mud ;nixed with the refuse animal and vegetable matter, anil waste water- thrown by the occupants of every room, for each room contains II hmily; hence the large quantity contributed by every house: the space behind, allotted for a garden, is tilled with overflowing cesspool soakings, and has usually a fou) open draill or gutter; the atmosphere of the district become:) loaded with malarious exhalations, requiring but certain conditions to mark its character so as to produce either epidemic fevers or cholera, or diar- rhcE i and dysentery. That this malarious influence is constantly present is evinced by the manner iu which it attacks those who are exposed to it. The usual perma- nent inhabitants of the locality appear to be little affected by it, having become as it were acclimatised, but imme- diately the tone of health is interrupted as by cold or over fatigue, that, which under other and ordinary cir- cumstances would be but a temporary and trifling ail- ment, merges into fever: its effect is more convincingly shown in those who, coming fro n a pure and healthy district, are suddenly exposed to it: then, as I have re- peatedly witnessed, every member of a family, within a short time, is seized with a form of gastric lever, con- fined merely to these individuals it differs not in kind, but in extent, from lhat melancholy endemic that has recently told so distressingly and extensively in a neigh- bouring town, To remedy this evil as far as practicable has been one of the greatest objects 1 have sought, to at- tain in those reports, which I have fit intervals made to your Board, and I have the satisfaction of being enabled to-day to state that considerable improvement has been effected, and is still being made; the whole of the streets in the Newtown district, and the backlets of the houses in the Bute-town district, have been put in better order and within the last few weeks the streets in the latter locality are being metalled with some degree of activity. Of course this improvement can only be temporary,—no real or permanent benefit can be obtained until these epidemic districts are properly drained; and these dis- tricts are fortunately on the Eastern and Soutli-easteru sides of the Town, near to the contemplated exit of your proposed system of drainage, and, therefore, admitting its earliest application. Connected with these, the exterior influences of dis- ease, I have to direct your attention to the constant injurious accumulation of animal aud vegetable matter, and ashes in backlets behind the houses,—the difficulty experienced in carts passing through the streets has pre- vented to a considerable extent any possibility of preven- ting this. This condition of the strett-i is now being over- come and I have to propose for your consideration the following plan, in order to economise time and labour in removing or preventing these accumulations:—It has been estimated that each house furnishes one cwt. of this material weekly, allowing from 30 to 40 houses to be in each street,-I propose that, on a certain day and at a stated hour, the dust cart shall be at the end of a fixed street, every occupier of a bouse shall deposit or cause to be deposited his collection of ashes for the week at au appointed spot to euable the occupier to do this at little cost and to facilitate the plan, there shall be men em- ployed under your direction, but not paid by you, who shall receive one penny from every house for removing the ashes; having removed the ashes to the spot named, they shall assist in filling the carts. I calculate each man, having a wheelbarrow, might lemove the ashes of from 35 to 40 houses daily he would, therefore, earn, say oil all average, three shillings per d iy. The occu. pier of the house could, however, if h3 chose, deposit them himself; but 1 consider it would be more econo- mical for him to pay the penny than to interrupt his ordinary labuur. [ To be conc'wkd in our neitj,

SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE JUDGES. SOUTH WALKS ANt) CH I'STEltJCI RCLTf. Mr. Justice Crompton, the judge appointed to pro- fee.) on liiis circuit, and nipi't Mr. Justice Williams at Chester, for the purpose ol holding the assize for that county and city, ou ^'edneslay ueek linally fi\ed the days, and signed the precepts, for the holding of the general assize in the several counties comprised within this division of the principalirv, viz.,— filamorgatishire — Monday, March at Swansea. Pembrokeshire—Monday, March 13, at Haverfordwest. Town ol H averfordwest — The same day at the same place. Cardiganshire, Thursday, March lo, at Cardigan. Carmarthenshire—Tuesday, March 21, at Carmarthen. Borough of Carmarthen—The same day at the same place. Brecknockshire-Sarurday, March 25, at Brecon. Radnorshire—Thursday, March 30, at Presteign. Chester & City-Saturday, April 1, at the city of Chester.

CARDIFF POLICE. — THURSDAY. C Continued from our fourth paye. ) [Before John Batchelor, Esq., Mayor, and Cnarles Crofts Williams, Egq' I Thomas Wilson, the pauper who appeared on Monday, charged with insubordination at the Union-house (see our fourth page), was again brought up on a similar charge. Serjeant Miller said that on Monday evening the de- fendant again refused to work, and made use of violent language. In reply to the magistrates, witness described the diet given to mendicants and to paupers regularly established. Mr. James Lewis, surgeon to the Union, having heard of the case, voluntarily attended to give every explana- tion in his power; and his evidence was most satisfactory. The defendant had made no complaint whatever to him, neither had he (Mr. Lewis) heard of any complaint. He had no doubt but that defendant was able to do the work required of him, even when kept on mendicant diet. Mr. Thomas Watkins, clerk to the Union, said that three different sorts of diet tables were sent down by the Poor-law Board some years ago, and the most liberal of the three was adopted by the Guardians of this Union. There were comparatively but a few of the Unions in the country that had such an indulgent scale of diet. The defendant, when confronted with Mr. Lewis and Mr. Watkins, reiterated none of the charges which he had so recklessly thrown about on Monday; and as it now evidently appeared that he was an idle, unscrupulous brawler, he was sentenced to one month to hard labour for insubordination in the Union-house. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. — A young man, named Haimes, appeared to answer the charge of having driven a cait over au old woman. From various statements which were made, it appealed that early on Monday afternoon ',be defendant was in charge of a horse and cart at the upper eiiJ of the Bute Docks, —that he was at the horse's heaJ, and proceeding at a walking pace, when the old woman got in the way—was knocked down, and the whee! of the cart (a loaded one) passed across her thigh, fracturing the bone dreadfully. She is above eighty- years of age; and, according to the concurrent testimony of Mr. Lewis and Mr. Paine, surgeons, it is most im- probable that she can long survive ihe accident. David Lewis, labourer, was examined upon oath, and he clearly exonerated Haimes from all blame; as be and the old woman were proceeding in opposite directions, and by the projection of an alJgle of a lodge on the wharf were prevented seeing each other till too late. The aged suf- ferer was instantly taken to the House of Refuge, where Haimes was also taken on Thursday afternoon to hear any statement she might choose to make. He was after- wards liberated on bail. STEALING TOOLS.—Last Monday fortnight some car- penter's tools were stolen from a house, in course of completion, near the Union; and portions were traced to the pawn-shop of Mr. Simeon Barnett, who was or- dered to restore them. He was also censured for the loose manner in which he transacted business. The re- maining portions of the tools were pawned at Merthyr. Some beer-house keepers were fiued for keeping open at late hours. ASSAULT.—John Noyse was charged with assaulting JohnStibbs; but as the latter had grossly aggravated the former the case was dismissed on payment of costs. Several other cases of an unimportant nature were dis. posed of.

MONMOUTH AND GLAMORGAN BANK. We extract for present warning and future caution some sensible observations from the City Article of the Times, of the 3d instant, ou the winding-up of the Monmouth and Glamorgan Bank. We can add noth'ng to facts so alarm- ing— o advice so judic ous—to sympathy for losses so de- plorable. Tnat many of the sufferers should be ladies aggravates the mischief, and enforces the necessity of an attention of the law un the subject of the unlimited repporiability of shareholders:— According to a report, just issued, on the winding-up of the Mo imouth and Glamorgan Bank, which lailed in 1851 with lilbilities for Jt'S;'0,000, the unsecured creditors will receive 15s. ilt the pound as a compromise ol their claims, the means for the payment of which were ra'sed by a cull of £ 6 ) per share upon the proprietors, who hail already lost the whole of their ori^inil investment. Another is thus adddl to the many similar illustrations of the dangers into which the public are led by the existing law of unlimi- ted liability. The management of such concerns is thrown into the handsof the most reckless adventurers, since the law operates as a warning toevery experienced, wealthy, and pru- dent man to avoid them and the shareholders, whose unli- mited liability is paraded as the great security for the com- munity, consist, as a matter of course, of their friends, or of persons too poor or too ignorant of business to care for the position in which they are placing themselves. At the same time, the public are rendered equally carele.s, because they are deluded into the belief that they need exercise no discretion in trusting establishments for the debts of which the combined property of the >hareholders is answerable ro the last farthing; and in this way a law professing for its object a p.iterual guidance of commercial men such as is unknown, and would not be tolerated in any other country, operates exclusively as a stimulus to the most unrestricted j impi ovideuce on the part of all who come within its range. In the present case creditors to the amount of £:329,000 have been obliged to accept three ioufths of what was due to them, and to wait three years even for that settlement; while, thj shareholder*, or such of them as had anything left, have been compelled to sub-cribe Jt.60 per share in ad- dition t. the clll. originally paid and sunk Losses to the extent of more than half a million have thus been inflicted, a large proportion of the sufferers being women and pro- fessional persons. If the bank had been directed by those among the rich and careful who would accept such duties in the absence of a law to deter them, if the shareholders had been of the shrewd and influential class who watch the progress of anything in which th-v are interested, not from the vi,,ue speculative dread of finding themselves suddenly ruined, but from the natural influences of busi- ues- aptitude and commercial pride, outt it the public had been conscious of a necej-s ty to exercise the same discretion in their transactions with the same concern as they would use in dealing with any fellow-inerchant whose means were known not to warrant more than a certain degree of confidence, it would have been impossible that such a disaster could have occurred.

CELTle MUSrc. (rrom the February No.of the ATorrA British Review.) Alter npiMking of the Irish and Scotch branches of Celtic music, the wriier proceeds 1"e and last pure branch of Celtic mmic is the f, f A't|,ough of a kindred, if not the same origin, as u ris- and Scotch, its conuexiou with them must have b*;en early severed, for it has assumed a distinct character. vV e lear l from Hantner's Chronicle ( o. 197), that in tiie la Mi J end of the eleventh century, Griffith apCona" Prince of Wale-, who lud resided a lon.r time in Ireland, biought over with him ,„to W;l.e3 d[Ve^ CU!)ni musicians, who devised in manner ah the instrumental m .sic upon the harp and crowth that is there used, and made laws ot min- strelsy to retain the musicians in due order.' Notwith- standing thn importation, the diversity between the Welsh and tile other branches of the Celtic music remained. It is true many Welsh tunes possess tj a certan degree the two characteristic marks of the pure Celtic music, the emphatic pox li major and the trochee, in their rlnthmus, but these p.i.t.cuan.ies do not form the distinctive feature. Another peculiarity, essentially Ceoic, is also retained, and much more p,o.n.nent!ythaniutt,elrish and Scotch music, although they preserve it to a certain degree, namely, the frequent and successive repetition of the same no'e, and this j nncipally at the fall uf the rhythmus. This is a characteristic which Welsh music has iu common with many French air*. Without enuring into dispute-1 abo; t the origin of old Britons, and their connexion with tile Gauls, we may point out this singular fact, as indicating national music to be one of the keys which w II help to open those long hidden, but not lost, records of by-gone races, that he buried as secretly, ,f not a, deep|y ag tho<e fossil remains 'rOID which the gcnius of Cuvier and owet) have reconstructed all extinct world of animal life. 1" Welsh music we peic;ive the character of that hard struggle wnich the old Britons sustained for centuries, first against the Romans, and then against the An-'lo-Saxou race; 11.001 we hdve only to listen to One of their many spirited warlike tunes to understand the ¡!tILey or some may call it cruelty, of Ld w.rd 1., after the conquest of Wales, when he ragc-d more against the W*Uh bar,|s than against the Welsh ch eftaius. He very well knew that those inspired martial sounds were more calculated to stir up the energy ot patriotic people than all the pro-a c commands of a chief- tain. Tins militaiy spirit has embueJ Welsh mu-ic with its energetic character, and speaks louder than a thousand tongues, of those brave deeds and tb it burning patriotism which awed even Caeiar's iuvinc ble legious, and which only fell after a lilern <Jeath-strU"-Tle before tie expansive force of a more powerful race. '• As Welsh nationality yielded to the superior spirit of the conquering rac. 80, too. did Welsh mu-ic;and al- though, as we have obser ved, the prominent Celtic character is distinctly visible, many of their tunes now exhibit strong touches of a foreign land and mind this iLfl ieuce is chiefly observable in the occurrence of the seventh at the con- cluding cadence, —one of the prominent features of Teutonic mus c, and which is never fouai in pufe lrith or Scotch airs." T

CAMBRIDGE BACHELORS' BALL. (From the Cambridge Chronicle.) Once more the perils of 'he Senate House are over, atri once more we are called upon to give ao account of the fete by which the new-made Bachelors annually celebrate that happy release. Far and wide is the Cambridge Bachelor* Ball 'netebratf") there is not a corner of our land, nay, there is not a cniuer of the globe, hardly a squatter s hut, where something about it has not been heard. It would seem, inde ed. that its fame and attractions are becoming greater than ever, if one mayjnJge ^n>"1 111, C'owued pub- lic places, the strange aud very pretty faces, anil the irre- proachable millinery which were observed iieie iu the early part of the week. 00 Tuesday evening the Ball took place, in our miser- able aod inconvenient lown Hall. Ihe arrangements were ooder the superintendence of some 70 or 80 of the new Bachelors ol Arts, who officiated as stewards, and in whose names the invitations were issued. The large room and the Aldermen's Parlour leading therefrom were devoted to the Terpsicliorean f'art of the eotertainment, and the supper was laid out in the Council Chamber. The Ball rooms were profusely decorated with mirrors; and from the wails was suspended perhaps the handsomest collection of flags in the kingdom, VIZ., those of the various 11 boat clubs, III addition, there was a profusion of fes- toons of flowers. The supper room, too, was very imposing in its appearance. The company numbered near 450. Dancing com- menced about half-past nine, aud continued to the strains ot Weippert'a band till about one o'clock, when supper was announced. Up to this time Valse, Quadrille, and Galop had succeeded each other, but there had beea only one Polka; and indeed this once-favourite dance would appear to be falling into desuetude, inasmuch as there were only two throughout the evening. Alter supper dancing was resumed, and continued till the peeping of the grey dawn bade alike Musicians and dancers, take some truce With these your pleasing labours for much use As much weariness as pettection brings;" a warning well understood by the musicians; while the dis.shevelled ringlets of the remaining fair ones hinted that, though time had flown so quickly, it had done its work upon them. These then retired; but it was between 0 aud 7 a.m. before the Town Hall closed its doors upon the last male celebrant of the Bachelors'Ball of 1854. The loi- lowing comprised the committee Lord Fred. Geo. Sutherland Leveson Gower, Trinity College, President. Lord Cavendish, Trinity College, Treasurer. John Walsharu, Esq., Trinity College, Secretary. W. Knatchbull, ElIq" Magdalen Col ege. J, C. Davis, Esq., irinity College. G. J. B:oiiiifeiti, Esq Ciiri.%L'ti (,'tj;lege. F. ii. Sucey, Esq., King's College. John Wood, sen., Esq., St. John's Cu'.l»gc. ,cl, Br,kiuwtll, Esq., 'I tilil,y PROJECTED REMOVAL OF THE "REFUGE." On Saturday last, the subjoined memorial to the Car. diff Board of Guardians was presented at the weekk meeting of the Board. Canton, npar Cardiff, 2nd fpb" fiJi. To the Chairman and B.rd ir(iiai-,s oi the i'oori'ur the Carùilf Gnion, Gentlemen,—We, the undersigned, landowners and resident* in the village of Canton, in the parish of LlandatI', hive jus: had our attention directed to a resolution passed at a recent meeting of the Guardians of the Pour of the Cardiff Union, in which it is stnted that it was determined t,) remove the present House of Refuse, and to erect it upon a piece of land situated at the back of, and contiguous to, the Union ft'orkhouse, within the limits of the field at the back of King's Castle orchard. We earnestly and in the most emphatic manner request the Board of Guardians to reconsider the resolution in question. And we, the inhabitants of the district, respectfully protest against the erection of so pestilential an edifk-e in the localitv above described, for the following reasons First,—That there has, within the last few months, suddenlv sprung up, within half a mile of the proposed site for the Refuge, an entirely new population, numbering nearly two thousand persons, having among its number some hundreds of children of both sexes; and that there is no doubt but that the number will be largely augmented during the eusuiug summer. Secondly,—That the House of Refuge having been described by an intelligent and influential member of your Board as the "receiver of all the wanderers and tramps who seek temporary relief in the parish, and as persons of the most worthless and profligate character," and "that as cases of typhus fever and other contagious diseases were received into the Refuge, it would be very important to place it as far from the Workhouse as possible." We, the undersigned, therefore, fully concurring in the pro- priety of these opinions, desire to record our strung conviction that it would be most unwise, most impolitic, and, in a sani- tary point of view, most dangerous, to bring such a pest-house -as such an edifice must become in the event of cholera, typhus fever, or any other contagious epidemic prevailing-into a densely populated neighbourhood, closely contiguous to the aged poor and young children, inmates of the Union Workhouse, or to erect it upon a spot notoriously celebrated for being the most thoroughly destitute of ail drainage accommodation of any locality that could be fixed upon. We are, Gentlemen, your most obedient Servants, Wm. Thomas Thos. Recs M. Dubarly Ricbarcl Taylor David Cuningham Browning, William Thomas Curate of Canton Wm. Hookaway Frederick Walker Ed. Morgan Mathew Gedrych W. P. James John G. Bird William J. Jones Samuel Widdowsoa Jno. Withers Thomas Morgan Joseph Itees Daniel Thomas Jos. James Stephen Watts William Harris Francis John A. C. lie!! Joseph Richards Geo. Murr-y Richard Moody C :e"JJ"lJt WaldroT William Andrews Thomas Morgan William Davies Rees Williams Heurv Bird William Roberts, butcher Thomas Recs.jun. John Edy James Williams \V. T. EJwards J. W. Johns, on behalf of the Juln Hibbert, Overseer, St. :ational Freehold Laod So- Mary's parish ciety. Wm Ily. Thomas John Batchelor James T. Barry Jai-es Bird William Pook I)i, id James James Coleman Benjamin James J. B. Hopkins Betsy James,

CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY (UPPER HOUSE).—FED. 1, 1854. The Archbishop of Canterbury presided, and there were also presen! the Bishops of London, Winchester, Peterborough, Exeter, Saint David's, Worcester, Saint Asaph, Lincoln, Llandaff, Oxford, Hereford, Salisbury, and Chichester. The Bishop of LLANDAFF rose to move, "To appoint a committee of this house, and to direct the Lower House to name seven of its members to consult with it, when same moved, to consider and report to this house whether the great increase and present condition of the population does not make some, and what adaptation of the Church's rule needful, to meet the Chuich's needs." The exigencies of his own diocese had strongly forced on his own mind the conviction—and he might add that that conviction was in opposition to his own previous opin- ions t hat some adaptation was necessary of the nature alluried to in his resol-Hion, The Church in the diocese of Llandaff was gieatly prospering. They were build- ing additional churches, and sending additional ministers, and meeting~with liberal assistance from the ministry. Still the difficulties with which they had to contend were almost insuperable. Those difficulties were threefold. First, the almost overwhelming increase of population secondly, an impoverished Church; and thirdly, two languages, not confined to different parishes where the Welsh was spoken in one and the English in another, but mixed up together in all conceivable proportions, so that it was impossible to bring the ministrations of the Church to the people unless there were two distinct ministeis. The population of the diocese of Llandaff had increased in a greater ratio than that of any other part of the kingdom. At the commencement of this century the number was 117,000 and at the last census it had increased to 317,000. The staff of the clergy re- mained pretty nearly the same, while the population had more than trebled. If they took the particular case of the town of Cardiff, they would find that what was a few years ago peopled by a few hundred persons onlv, had, in the year 1851, increased its population to t8,000 and in two years since had increased it 5,000 more, and was still progressing in the same ratio. To meet the wants of this population there were only two churches. and a small iron church er.cted by the Marchioness of Bute, for the purpose of giving instruction to the sailors who frequented the poit. He had lately been entrusted with petitions on the subject of the reformatory discipline of youth but he did not see how any improvement could be expected, unless they had the means of bring- ing instruction and religion to bear upon the masses, both old and young, liis own residences was only two iniles from Cardiff, and, about half-way, there was a Urge town springing up, almost as rapidly as in the backwoods of America. Iu this place there weie literally no means ut religious instruction and no church, but he had fortunately been able to appoint a clergyman, who laboured there for the love of doing sood. The bill- sides were covered with the cottages of the miners but it was impossible to bring these persons into contact with the ministratious of the Church with their present means, for if they built a church, the population might migrate to some other place, and the church might be left, like ft the shore, it was hWi con- viction that they wanted something—a missionary agency -to go among these people, and to revert to ilie same principle which guided the original establishment of bishoprics, when the bishop was placed at the head of a missionary clergy, and sent them into different parts of his diocese. He really believed that if it had not been for the Dissenters instructing the people, the diucese of Llaudafi" must have leeu left in a great degree in a state of practical heathenism. The right rev. prelate con- cluded by moving his resolution. The Bishops of Loudon and Chichester supported this, and the Bishops of Exeter and W iuchester briefly op- posed it. It was. however, carried, and the Bishops of London, Lichfield, Oxford, St. David's, Chichester, Lincoln, and Llandaff, were named as the committee.

COURT OF ADMIRALTY—JAN. 26. (Before Joseph Stock, E (]-. Q C-> L L.D., and Sir James Dombrain H.N.. and C.iPtaiu Daniel, II X. as Assessors.) COLLISION—TIIE JERSEY TAR. Tlii* was a fuit i!i."iiiu ed by the owners of the schooner Tom Bauk^, of Liverpool, 99 tous register, Tuomas Jones master, to recover compensation from the owners of the brigantiue the Jersy fir, of Yougiiii 132 to a burthen, John iU'Carihy, master, for damages sustained by them in consequence of a collision which took place be- tween tiie-e two vessels on the nigtit of the 21st De- cember, 1853. The ship was alleged to be worth £ 1,000, and the csr-n, &c., £ 21)0. Tne o.vuers of a portion of the cargo of the promovent vessel, and the mate and ere*, intervened in order to obtain remuneration tor Ios.es which they sustained by the sinking of the schooner, which went down with all their ciothe?, occ., oa boaiM. The case of the promovents as appeared by the statement of c,lunsel. and also by tile evidence of several witnesses, ™ •u»-b.nee as folio ivs: —Upon Sanday morning, the t l ol December iast, the proinovent schooner, which was lac.en vsith about 150 tons ot iron ore, and 4 tons of tallow, sailed from Barrow for Newport, in Monmouthshire, and was pro?ecutiug her voyage when the collision complained of took place. Having proceeded a short distance on her voyage, and the weather having become unfavourable, her captain thought it prudent to put iuto Holyhead harbour, where he remained until the evening of Tue-day, the liOth. By this time the wind had changed and was fair fur the schooner to resume her voyage, and accordingly she pro- ceeded to sea, and saifed for her port uf discharge, and was on her way thither when the unfortunate accideut oc- curred which causfdhfrtota) destruction. She parsed Milford Havjii on Wednesday, the 2lst, about two o'clock p.m.; and oil the evening of the sane day, at nine p rn., the accident occurred. The allegition of the protnjveui's on this, the most important part of the case was this, that the schooner was beating up the British Channel, and was about nine miles distant from the Caldey light, the wind being E.N.E., nn i ou her port tack, when the unpugnarit brigantiue came down upon them aud struck them two viOie.it blows, from the effects of which she almost imme- diately sank, witti all her cirgo on board. It was also re- lied 011 by the master arid crew of the Tom Banks, that when she was siruck the Jersey Tar made off to avoid identification, expecting that the crew of the schooner would have been all lost, and there would have been uobody left alive to tell the story, and charge them with negligence. Oa the part of the Jersey Tar, which was laden with about 2!X> tons of coal, and which was bound from Carditr to Toughal, it was denied that she had the slightest idea that the schooner had gone down, or was likely to ílink, or that they bad heard her master and crew calling to them for assistance and contended that according to the position of the two vessels the course they pur-ued, in a nautical point of view, was the correct one, aud that consequently they were not liable for the consequence, of the collision but should, in stri-tnesa, be paid a sum ofJMO for the da- maue which they had sustained. The eutire question in the case was, in fact « hether the impuguint briganiine or the promovent schoouer should have j;i»en way, and cleared the course for the other. Dr. Stock then delivered the judgment of the Court, can- demning the Jersey Tar with costs and her freight. He agreed with his assessors as to the excellent conduct of Capt. Jones, and he was happy to find the charge of in- humanity was not, according to the opinion of CIS asses- sors, sustained. {. Capt. Jones is a native of Port Talbot.

THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. We can have no hesitation, says the writer of an article in the North British Review, in assigning the invention of the Electric Telegraph to a humble Scotsman, who has left us only the shadow of his name. Just one hundred years ago a contributor to the Scotch Magazine, dating from Renfrew, published to the world the unell- tion of the Electric Telegraph in terms so distinct that they must take away from every claimant any other merit than that of simplifying it, and employing the known principles of electricity and magnetism discovered since the days of its inventor. The letter is too long for extract-it is signed C. '1., and may be found in the Scot's Magazine, vol. 15, p. 73-74, and is dated February, 1753. It gives minute directions for placing and fixing the wires—the plan somewhat complex but adapted to the state of the known laws of electricity at the time. The letter thus con- cludes Some may, perhaps, think that although this electric fire has not been observed to diminish sensibly on its progress through any length of wire that has been tried hitherto, yet as that lias never exceeded some thirty or forty yards, it may be reasonably supposed that in a fa. greater length it would be remarkably diminished, and, probably, would be entirely drained off in a few miles by the surrounding air. To prevent the objection and some longer arguments, lay over the wires from one end to the other with a thin coat of jeweller's cement. This may be done for a tritie of additional expeuce, and as it is an electric per se. will effectually secure aii) part of the fire from mixing with the atmosphere."

SOUTHEY'S criticism on a flattering epitaph to a re- matkably cross old maid: -"This inscription was on a marble shield supported by two cupids, who beut their Heads over the edge, with marble tears larger than grey peas, aud something of the same colour, upolltheir cheeks. these were the only tears which her death occasioned, itn.t the only cupids wi ll whom she had eiui any con- ceiu," —Ficin tiuttl/ti'y's Drives

ABERDARE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. ABERDARE.—The Board of Health should be intro- duced into this place without further delav, as it is scarcely possible for any one to conceive the state in which the roads are at present, and especially the road leading to the Taff Vale Railway Station, in length about eighty yards. It is kept in an abominable and filthy- state, and scavengers have cleansed it but very few times, or done anything else to it since its formation". Its con- dition is disgraceful both to the compinv and the inha- bitants of Aberdare. THE "VOLUNTARY SYSTEM.— Ihe dissenters of this place, after many trials and efforts, have found it quite impossible to keep their school open without State aup- port. When they held their last consultation, it was agreed, That they mu;t receive the Government grant towards supporting the British and Foreign School in Mill-street." Their consistency is giving way to dire necessity. A!as: they now see their false position, and consider it better, late in the day, to be convinced of their fody, than never. At Hirwain, also, the opponents of Government aid are in diiffculties with respect to that school, so they, too, are not ashamed to apply for assist- ance from the STME. — Correspondent. |

NEWPORT AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. THURSDAY MORNING, Feb. 9.—This day the mortal remains of Charles Rodney Morgan, Esq., lale M.P. for Brecon, were brought by the mail-train, via Liverpool, to Gloucester, thence to Newport, and onward to Tredegar Park, the seat of his ancestors. They were afterwards consigned to the family vault at Bassaleg. The tradesmen of I^ewj.9:l partially closed their shops from sincere respect for the Tredegar family. COMMISSION signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Monmouth. — Ro;ial Monmouthshire Militia, Henry Somers Morgan Clifford, gentleman, to be ensign, i Several children have lateN died at Newport of croup. Sir Henry Bishop's Concert came of fou Wednesday, i at the Town-hali, and was well attended. The usual County Courts were held at Newport on Tuesday aiul Wednesday last. There were no cases of moment. Mr. Christophers, a farmer living near Newport, was held to bail on Saturday last, for bis appearance at the assiz-s to answer a charge of uttering a forged Dill of Exchange. Notices were posted on the church and chapel doors on Sunday last, informing the public, that after the 1st of May, no more burials are to take place iu the Parish Church of St. Woollos, and in two of the Dissenting Meeting-house yards. T.W.RA.MMEn.,Esq., one of (he inspecting surveyors under the Board of Health, has been hearing evidence, on Tuesday and Thursday, respecting the state of the parish of Christchurch, adjoining Newport. In that neighbourhood a Freehold Land Society purchased a quantity of land, and several houses are now built and being built thereon, and there are difficulties to obtain outlets for drainage. The farmers in the pal ish mustered strong to oppose the matter, and contend that they should not contribute for improving that property. We hear that it is probable a district will be formed, composed of that locality but it is not known what the surveyor will recommend. MR. DAVID LLOYD ISAAC, for many years Baptist minster at Pontypool, and Editor of the Baptist periodi- cal called the Seren Comer, has left that connexion, and is now about entering Lampeter College for the purpose of preparing himself for the ministry of the Church of England. Some of his hue congregation, and we may say, the Baptists in general, are indignant with their old champion, because he had the audacity to leave the camp of the Philistines; but hehasreptied to them in a very excellent letter, published ui tue Haul for this month,—A Correspondent. A grocer and tea-dealer at Leeds lately engaged a Chinese, by way of a "trade attraction," to serve in his shop, dressed in his native dress. Soon afterwards, Alleine Kimevang was discovered to have taken advan- tage of his position to appropriate upwards of £ 100 from the profits he brought to his master, the greater part of which was found in his possession. He has beeu com- mitted for trial at Leeds.

CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. 17, Pall Mall, Feb. 7, 1854. SI R,- The Ijondon Guardian newspaper of last week, in its account of the meeting of Convocation, represented me as stating that the inability of my Clergy to discharge their functions, in consequence of thei.* want of acquaintance with the language spoken by the people, made me desirous of having a Mis- sionary Agency independent of the fixed Clergy. And the Standard represented me as saying that my diocese was in a state of absolute heathenism. The papers are not before me, but I think I give their statements correctly. Nothing could possibly be more at variance with what I really said. It is quite true that I expressed my opinion, as I did in my charge in 1851, that an additional Mis- sionary Agency was requisite in consequence of the condition of the country, mentioning among other reasons the difficulty thrown in our way by the fact of our having two languages in many parishes, and, therefore, requiring two Clergymen, where we are often scarcely able to support one. Had I made the statement of the Guardian, my Clergy might well have charged me with being a false accuser, and I should have exposed myself to the condemnation of not availing myself of the powers committed to me by law for remedying the evil. What I said of heathenism was, that the means at the disposal of the Church, compared with the popu- lation of the diocese were so inadequate that, had it not been for the exertions of the Dissenters, a con- siderable part of the population must have been in a state of heathenism. I shall be obliged if you will insert this in your next paper, and remam, Sir, Your obedient servant, A. LLANDAFF. To the Editor of the Cardiff 8f Merthyr Guardian. SIR, — I find by the "List of Nobility and Gentry living in or connected with Glamorganshire in 1673 in your paper of SalurJay last, that while there is not one of these jirst-dass passengers recorded in Merthyr, there were two residiug in Aberdare in that year, viz.: Edward Mathew, of Aberaman, Esq. (erroneously- called Aberauou ill your list), and James Jones, of Duffryn, gent. The grandsoft of the former removed from Aberaman to Llanlfoist, near Abergavenny, in 1775, and never returned the grandson of the latter (whose father was High-Sheriff lor Glamorgonshire in 17 16) soi t the Duffryn Estate, in 1747, to William Bruce, Esq., of Llanbletbian. 1 find also one recorded in Llanwonno, "Evan Morgan, of Monachty, gent. and one iu Ystrady foil wg, George Morgan, of Abergorky, gent." It was a say ing in Aberdare that there were only three Glisten, residing in the parish, viz. Mr. Mathews, of Aberaman; JUr. Jones, of Duffiyu; and the Curate! What a change, Air. Editor, in a parish where there are now 10U 'Squires, and at least 500 GENTS! Your obedient servant, AN ABERDARE COLLIER, Who can trace his Family m that p irish from the time of lieury the 7 th.

MADI)UX'> CHABITY, CA iiDi i F, To the Editny of the Cardiff and Merthyr Gwdim*. > Mr. Le is, of Bn i': bi, 'e'tc" .>■ }:t •vc-'k, attempts :n she v th i' lh» ti:'rn' of the «ti«i'* ,t benelaetor was .If r^/jc'.s. an i head, Irs '.art lett- wi h Maddochs's Charity, „ot as he oil before, Maddox's Chanty. How the name was originally spelt I will not attempt to settle, but his correction of me would evidently imply ilia,, ll;s 7)70"f"NN"d ? he knows much more about tne matter than lie admits; Isinv.dv fuh'me i toe orthography of the •• Blue Book of enquiry ttieautfi,)r: but, doubtless, Mr. Lewis's researches 'are mucdi m:>re profound, and possibly more correct, than the commis- sioners, or mine. Mr. Lewis acknowledges now that at the time the complaint was made he was agent of this property. I, therefore, maintain he ought not to have been ignorant of the claim that the poor of Cardiff had upon it, and can only trust that as aff-urs are now under his able-manage- ment the churchwardens will not have cause a?aiu to complain of a want of punctuality in the remittance of this money, buith it the amount will be roguish-trans- mitted to them at Coristmas to enable them, as in former years, to distribute it on New Year's day. I had in the year 1853 from 100 to 151) aged and poor persons calling daily for five weeks upon me, to know if the money had been received, and this year about the same number flocked tv my house for three weeks, in bitterly inclement weather, as everybody may remember with a like object, each applicant of course requiring some answer, and still Mr. Lewis refines so much upon the actual circumstances as to complain of the course I pursued to obtain payment within something like rea,on- able time. From the little that I have had the honour of knowing of Mr. Lewis, I think, it likely that HE mi^ht have been annoyed by a succession of applications such as I have described, and which disturbed my equanimity, ana almost made ME ansry. Mr. Lewis does not understand what I mean by stating that I wrote twice to the present Sir Digby, while I was ignorant of his address. I do not perceive the diffi- culty. My statement was exceedingly plain,—it meant neither more nor less than that I wrote two leëters to the Hon. Baronet, addressing them to Glenusk, Monmouth- shire, the seat of his late father, presuming, so addressed, they would be forwarded to him wherever he might happen to be. I am ashamed to occupy your time with matters of such little general concern. The facts of the case are fully before your readers, and I leave it to those who are interested in the correspondence to decide who is to blame for the obtrusion of this question at so great length upon tiie attention of the public, Remaining, Sir, \ours verv truly, VTM. LUKE EVANS, Seri.r Warden St. John's, Cardiff. [Mr. W. Luke Evans lias shswn us the report of the "Commissioners Enquiry into Charities, by Authority," and we find, as he has said, the Charity is there called Maddox's, not Maddocks's Charily,-Ed. C. & M. GJ. ■ .0- "MUCK TOWS" AGAIN. To the Editor of the Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian. SIR, Merthyr being notoriously the dirtiest town in the kingdom, it woulJ appear singular how strangers coming from cleaner and more salubrious districts so soon become reconciled to the place and are loath to leave it. In explanation of mis, it is asserted that the social disposition of the "Ndtites" of Merthvr, and their readi- ness to assist edcti other, and strangers partic.ilari* in any difficulty, i* th cebarm which overpowers all other objections and renaers a residence here desirable. This explanation is certainly plausible at the first blush, but in pUlting these social qualities to the ten. as regards one great evil at least, we have found them wanting. A very idluential "native" was apprised by me three weeks ag.i ihit the wives and daughters of the numerous tenantry who occupy his land, could not a; proach their dwellings without incurring the risk of getling- stuck in the mire with which this Muck Town" abounds. I ap- pealed to his gallantry and offered the only excuse that suggested itself fJr his inattention to the matter. I was informed that upon the subject of the letter being named to him he admitted its truth, and promised a temporary remedy at least, as mv letter suggested, tiie first thin^ on Monday morning. Monday morning arrived, but no remedy; the week passed away, still no remedy; on the contrary, the evil was aggravated bv the continued moisture and rainy weather. I then felt it my duty to troubie you with another letter, reportiug progress, or rather, lshould say, retrogression. In this second letter the social quali- ties" of another native" were tested by asking how he could sit comfortably and witness all this inconve ience without lending a helping haivi. Did this bring forth a manife-tation of the social? Nothing of the kind. On the contrary, both he ani the native'' next door, heaped the muck out in front of the new builuiugs to such an extent thst the road on Wednesday night last wat ab- solutely impassable to all but well-booted adventurous men, and some school-boys whom I witnessed crossiog upoo stilts, a la the Italian ^K-pherds. The inhabitants, undoubtedly, possess many good qualities, but if the conduct of the three above alluded to, in helping th. ir neig-hbouro out of the mire, may be taken a. a fair sample of the whole, the assertion of their general kindness of disposition is not sustained. Probably their eyes accustomed to look upou scenes of filth have become habitu ited to them, and thev would not feel comfortable in cleaner circumstances. The drunken Scotsman, i i davs of yore, who awaking on a dung heap, and snuffing the effluvia em tted therefrom, exclaimed- "Sweet Ediuborough I thee noo;" may nave been in anticipation of a AJertharian in a similar condition, sub- stituting:, of course. Merthvr for Edioborougb'. With all our Boards of Health ana Guardians, Police establishuie.it, &c., &c, no one is responsiole f ir this grievous nuisance, otherwise why i. it suffered to exist after so much complaint for one moment longer. Some- thing is evidently" rotten in the state of Denmark," other- wise it would have been remedied long ago, and it will be ia the power of the ratepayers to remove the evil by making a better selection of their public men at the approaching elections. What makes the matter more surprising, and, indeed, adds to it a touch of the ludicrous, is the fact that the Medical Inspector of the Board of Health, the Sunerin- tendent of Pol re, and the Inspector of Nuisances, all live iu this locality! 1 and are seen da:iy wading through the mire. I have. \lr. E litor, a long list of casualties that have oc- curred tnis week in consequence ol the state of this place, but I fear I am aireidy treipassing on your space, and will therefore, reserve them until next week, when, with your indulgence, I will return to the subject. 1 remain, yours faithfully, February 1st, 1S54. ANTI-MUCK.

MASON, SPARE THAT COT! (Respectfully dedicated to the Detached Villa," in Queen •street, Cardiff.) Mason, spare that Cot: Touch uot a single stone, In youth I shunned it not, And now its worth I'll own! 'Twas my forefalher's band That reared its "ott'ring walls, Than, mason, lit it stand, Nor heed how soon it falls'. That old familiar house, Which now adorns the town,, Is still, indeed, of use, And would'st thou pull it downf Mason, forbear awhile, ThiIJk of the scenes ur.iund: Oh, spare that aged pile, Now crumbling to the ground. PRINTER'S DEVII..

BIRTHS, MARRIAGE. AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. Feb. 5. Mrs. Miles. Charles-street, Cardiff, of a son. Feb. 5, at Powell-place, Cardiff, Aus. Edward C. Downing, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. Feb. 3, at St. Mark's Church. Cardiff, by the Rev.W. L. Morgan, Captain W m. Allen, of the barque Woodbine, of Cardiff, to Mary, second daughter of Mi. James Howells, Hastings Hotel. Feb. 7 (by license), at St. John's Church, Cardiff, by the Rev. Cyril Stacey, Mr. J. Williams, builder, Tredegar- street, Cardiff, to Margaret, second daughter of Mr. John Lewis, Cowbridge. Feb. 9, at St. Mary's Church, Cardiff (bv license), by the Rev. D. Koel, Mr. W. Roberis, of the Blue Bell, High-street, to Miss Jane Morgan, Bute street. Jan. 29, at the Parish Church, Aberdare, U) the Rev. John Moigan, Mr. Thomas D..vie- to Hannah Moigan. Jan. 31, at the same place, by the Rev. John GriiUlh, Yicar, li". William Busier fo Mary Jones. Feb. 4, Mr. Thomas Rees to Mary Thoiras. Feb. 5, at the same place by the Rev. Isaac D. Jenkins, e Mi. George Lane Reeve to Charlotte Cooper. Mr. Joseph Rees to Martha Haddock. Feb. G, Mr. Evan Evans to Ann Griffiths. Feb. 9, at the same place, by licence, by the Rev. David Griffiths, Mr. Thom,as to Miss Margaret Hughes. -1 g r Feb. G, at the Welsh Baptist Chapei. by the ltcv. David J ones, Mr. William Jenkins to Miss Jane Jones, both of Cardiff. DEATHS. Feb. 6, at Canton, near Cardiff, Mr. John Godwin Bird, aged 56, much respected by all who knew him. Feb. 7, the daughter of Mrs. Mason, china dealer, Newport. Feb. 5, at Cardiff, Mr. John Richards, a very old and respected inhabitant, aged 74 years, Jan. 27. at Cryuant, near Neath, aged years, James Herbert, mason. This man had been long known in the neighbourhood as an excellent workman, and he has borne with him to the grave a character of strict integrity. Oct. i6, of fever, on board the ship Una, on his pas- sage to Australia, Mr. James Price, iate agent to John Edmunds, Esq., of the pridd Coal and Coke Office, Cardiff. Feb. 4, in Great Frederick-street, Cardiff, Mr. Abraham Harding, aged 21 yeais. Feb. 6, Mr. H m. Catkins, cabinet-maker, Victoria- street, Merthyr, aged 34. F,b. G, at her cottage, in Plymouth-street, Merthyr, Mrs. Margaret Joiu-s,, widow, highly respected by a large cncie of friends. Sue was a faithful member of the Baptist denomination for 45 years. Feb. 5, at Cowbridge, of gastric fever, aged 21 years, Ann NN iUiatns, sister to Mr. Ll. Williams, clerk if the Church. Huw true is it written that, "In the midst of life we are in death 1" Jan. 3J, %ery suddenly, age:1 50 years Mary, relict of the late Wtn. Morgan, Esq., of Boel^'Oed, Breconshire, — a lady whose truly amiab/e and cheerful disposition had endeared her to a numerous circle of friends; and whose charitable kindness to her poorer neighbours will cause her loss to be long and seven ly felt. Jau. 30, at Ystradgy uli.is, Diana, daughter of Mr. Daniel Smith, mineral agent, aged 2 cars and S months. Feb. 3, at Abernant, ill tne Pariah of Aberdc.re, William, sou of Mr. Jonn Smith, coal agent, ng< a 1;$ months. Feu. 8, at the Cross Keys Inn, Aberdare, Jonn, son of the late Mr. Evan Hi.well, engineer, aged 24 N e:,r.. Feb. 8, at Aberdare, suddenly, Mr. Richard V, lI¡L.ur.s, cabiuet-maker, aged 46 years.

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