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ALJOURNED EPIPHANY QUARTER SESSIONS. The Adjourned Sessions for the trial of prisoners was opened yesterday morning, at the Town Hall, Cardiff, before Mr. R. 0. Jones, chairman, Mr. J. C. Fowler, Mr. G. Phillips, the Rev. H. H. Rickard, and Mr. J. S. Batchelor. The number of persons for trial was thirty-five, whom twenty-six were Cardiff prisoners, nine being on bail; and nine Swansea prisoners, seven being on bail. Of these, eight were described as able neither to read nor write, six as of imperfect education, one as able to read, and three as well educated. Five of the prisoners had been previously convicted. The calendar gave the state of the gaol at Cardiff as follows :—For trial at sessions, 13; at assizes, 6 convicted at sessions, 12 at assizes, 13; summarily convicted, 99-67 male, and 32 female; remands, 5; debtors, 6 total in custody, 154-male 118, female 86. The court opened at ten o'clock, and the following gentlemen were sworn upon :— THE GRAND JURY. Mr. Robert Duncan, I Trede -arville, Foreman. „ John Biggs, Trinity-street, Cardiff. Henry Buckingham, West Bute-street. William Davies, Church-street, Merthyr. „ Roger Edwards, High-street, Merthyr. H. C. Emery, East-terrace, Cardiff. „ John Hauley Evans, Tredegarville. nv "Evan Thomas, Cardiff-road, Llandaff. „ Henry Hansard, Georgetown, Merthyr. George Hardess. High-street, Cardiff. James Hasell, Wood-street, Cardiff. William Holder, St. Mary-street, Cardiff. „ Edward Jenkins, Hayes, Cardiff. John 0. Jones, Bute-street, Cardiff. „ Daniel Loughor, Canton Mills. „ William Mitchelmore, Charles-street, Cardiff. „ Wm. Phillips, jun., Millicent-street, Cardiff. Daniel Smart, Tredgarville. 0 THE CHARGE. The learned Chairman, in addressing the Grand Jury, said he was sorry to see that the number of per- sons committed for stabbing and wounding was again large in proportion to the total number which they had to deal with, there being no less than eight cases involving this kind of assault, with weapons of various descriptions. The large number of those cases showed at all events that there was no very great diminution in that very dangerous practice so commonly prevailing in this county, owing, probably, to some extent to the mixed character of the population in the seaport towns, and no doubt also to the habit of a good many people drinking more than was good for them. The stabbing cases, generally speaking, were of much the same kind as the grand jury had had before them on former occasions. One case of wounding was singular in its circumstances. It was that of a captain charged with throwing a piece of timber upon a seaman of another ship. The grand jury would have to satisfy themselves that the facts were correctly stated, and if they found that they were, it would be their duty to send the accused person for trial. There was another case which, if the facts were really as stated in the depositions, was a very bad one. A person, named Roberts, was as- saulted and kicked by a person named Puckett, and his leg was broken by the violence he received. There would possibly be some explanation offered when the case was heard but as the facts appeared, if the grand jury believed the witnesses, they would have to send the accused for trial. Two or three cases of burglariously breaking into a house and stealing therefrom would also come before them—one, the bur- glary at the house of the Rev. F. W. Edmonds, while the family were out of the house; and another, the case of a man who impudently thrust his hand through the window of a shop and took out some watches. Two rail- way cases wouia come oeiore tnem, wnicn would give some trouble from the number of witnesses to be examined- these were cases in which property was plundered from the premises of the railway company. This was a descrip- tion of crime which it was very desirable to put a stop to. The railway companies had naturally large proper- ties entrusted to their care, and it was important that it should be safely kept and protected. The persons named in the calendar were persons employed by the company, or by some contractors under them, and they were charged with abstracting certain property which was in the charge of the company. Having explained the nature of their duties to the Grand Jury, and im- pressed upon them, as he bad impressed upon their predecessors at the last sessions, that it was not their business to throw out a bill because the theft alleged was of small amount, the learned chairman concluded his charge, and the jury proceeded to their duties, and shortly after returned a true bill into court.

TRIALS OF PRISONERS.\

A GENERAL HOLLIDAY.

A WELSH REVISION OF THE BIBLE.

STRIKE AT GLASGOW.

THE MURDERED VICEROY.

RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE AT OSWESTRY.

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