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GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. CONSCIENCE MONEY. —The amount of conicience money received by the Chancellor of the *c q during the year 1862-3 was £ 10,422. f„linded JBWS SCHOOL.— The Jews of Tunis hare j a school in that city for the yonth of 'heir °*|r J. sion, in commemoration of the visit of the re Constantinople. In addition to the Hebrew language, Arabian, French, and Italian will be taug »itino STBAM VESSELS.—A return has been jus 8 ? the number, name», and other details o reg vessels in the United Kingdom on the 1st of January last. The number of vessel* was 2192. and the ton; nage respectively were :-Register tonnage o3o,596, and the close of the year 1862 the capital in the Post-office Savings-banks, the principal and interest due to depositors, w" 7. In/he S* ings-banks, under trustees, £ 40,o93,124, this last sum, being £953,1.)1 less than the amount in 1861. The French Minister of Marine has offered a reward of 50,000 francs to any one who shall invent any means of preventing, or discover any proctss of repairing, the damage done by the action of the sea, or of some insect contained in it, to the metal pliting of men-of-war. It aeems that the metal-covered ships suffer just as wooden vessels do in some parts of the Mediterranean. SIR G. C. LEWIS ON AMERICAN AFFAIRS.—The Edin- burgh Review, in an interesting article on the late Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, introduces an extract on American po, lilies from a private letter of that lamented statesman, written so long back as 1856. The parage strikingly shows how truly political insight involves political fore. sight, and how completely a discerning judgment of the present may amount to a prophetic anticipation of the future. THE POWER OF TRUTH.—Mr. Joseph Barker, origi- nally an eloquent Dissenting preacher, but who abjured Christianity, and has been for many years, both in most of the United States and in England, one of the leading advocates of atheism, has openly renounced his infidelity. With his return to orthodoxy, he writes in admiration of the Southern Confederacy, and challenges Mr. Thompson (formerly M.P. for the Tower Hamlets) to a public dis- cussion on North and South. UNDERGROUND LONDON. —A new company has been registered under the title of the London Main Trunk Un- derground Railway Company." It is proposed to construct a main trunk underground line of railway, to commence at Stratford, to be carried down the Bow, Milt-and, and Whitechapel roadf, through the City, down Holborn, Oxford-Jtreet, and Bayswater-road, and to terminate at Shepherd's-bush. In connection with the construction of this line of railway, it is also suggested that four lines of rails at the least should be made, and that chambers should be constructed for depositing gas and water pipe*, telegraph wires, &e. PPOFOSED AUSTRALIAN PRESENT FOR THE PRINCESS OF WAL HS.—We are glad to hear that the subscriptions towards the Casket Fund for the wedding present to the Princess of Wales is going on well. Lady Young is de. sirous of raising the sum of ,£500 amongst the ladies of the colony for this purpose. The enthusiasm already shown in private circles is sufficient to prove that when the object is understood, the amount required will be easily subscribed.—Sydney Herald. THE NEW VOLUNTEERS' ACT.—On Friday the new act to Consolidate and Amend the Law retatingtothe Volun- teer Force in Great Britain, which received the Royal as- sent on Tuesday, was printed. It contains 53 sections and a schedule of forms to be used, and also showing the enactments now repealed. The act is divided into seven parts. Her Majesty is empowered to accept the service of volunteer corps through the lieutenants of counties, and to form a permanent staff. The acceptance of a com- mission in a volunteer corps by a member of the House of Commons, is not to render his seat vacant. A volun- teer may quit his corps when not in actual military service, on complying wilh certain conditions set forth. The general command may be placed under a field or general officer, and an annual inspection is to take place. The Secretary of State may make regulations for the go. vernment of the force, and in case of invasion the Crown may call on the volunteers for active military service, and grant them an allowance. There are other provisions in the statute respecting discipline and the power to acquire land for drill and practice. The Chief Commissioner of Works may allot a portion of the Itoyal parks for shoot- ing practice. The law in regard to volunteers is now consolidated and amended. THE CLOSB OF THE SESSION.—The Ministerial white. bait dinner, the customary prelude to the close of the Parliamentary Session, took place on Saturday evening at the Trafalgar at Greenwich. The noble Premier, the Duke of Argyll, and the majority of the company, pro- ceeded by water from Westminster-bridge in one of the Citizen steamboats, which was carpeted and gaily deco- rated, to the landing, just past the Royal Hospital. Covers were laid for 30, and among those present were Viscount Palmeiston, the Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, the Right Hon. E. Card- well, the Right HOD. C. P. Yilliers, the Right Hon. R. Lowe, the Right Hon. W. Hutt, the Right Hon. F. Peel, the Right Hon. W. F Cowper, Hon. H. B. W. Brand, the Marquis of Hartington, Mr. Chichester Fortesque, Mr. A. H. Layard, Mr. T. G. Baring, the Attorney- General, the Solicitor-General, Sir W. Dunbar, Colonel White, Mr. Gilpin, Mr. E. H. K. Hugessen, Ac. The Right Hon. Sir G. Grey was unable to attend, public business calling him to Osborne; and the Duke of New. castle and the Earl de Grey were also unable to be pre sent owing to other engagements. THE SYDNBY MORNING HERALD" ON EMIGRATION TO THE AUSTRALIA COLONIES.—There are many causes which are inducing the peopleof England to look to these eotoniesasa home for the emigrating classes. It is natural that the thousands who are enveloped directly or indi- rectly in the great Lancashire cotton calamity, should listen with interest to the accounts of lands where so many of their countrymen have often sought a refuge from the periodical difficulties of English life. When- ever immigration proceeds at an accelerated pace, and large numbers are thrown without provision and without notification on the shores of a colony, there succeeds a season of difficulty aod distress, and the first letters they selnd of their ill fortune tend to damp the enterprise of others who would follow. Time, however, rolls away, and if a census were made of those who arrived at a given time, it would be found that only a few have seen reason, after a lapse of years, to regret their enterprise, and their advice would probably be very different from that they gave when, in the first gush of disappointment, they found that the streets were not paved with gold, and that there were no acclamations of welcome to hail their advent. There is scarcely anything that can be said too glowing when describing the capabilities of these countries. Their rapid growth, and the enormous exports and im- ports compared with the population, indicate the natural wealth to which there is no parallel save in America. Time was when good Tea was readily obtainable- pure wholesome tea—and people generally seek such now. John Chinaman has not been slow in finding out that be can pass off his brown waste leaves by colouring all qualities alike, thus greatly increasing bis own and the merchant's profits, at the consumer's expense. It is highly requisite that good Tea be again readily obtainable; HORNIMAN and Co., London, therefore import it pure, without any mineral powder on its surface, being the strong, delicious, and invigorating spring borts the green, a dull olive-oot bluish; and the black not made intensely dark being thus undisguised, it is reliable in quality. Supplied only in Packets, through HORNIMAN'S own agents.
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In perfect uespair took to Du BARRY'S Revalenta Arabics, and li»ed on this delicious Food for- three months. The good bod be praised; it has com- pletely revived me, I am myself again and able to make, and receive visits, and resume my socta position. Accept- or. the assurances of my deepest gratttude, and of my high- est consideration—-MARCHIONESS DE BREHA t^ure No. :1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, of many years dyspepsia.— No, 49,832. "Fifty years indescribable agony trom dys- pepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, contipatio«, flatu- lency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly- Cure No. 53,816. Field-Marshal the Duke of Pluskow, of dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness, and liver complaints. —Cuie No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs of extreme ner- vousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure, No. 54,816. The Rev. James T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, ''of indigestion and torpidity of the liver which had resisted all medical treatment—In tins, JIb. 2s. 9d.; 2Ib., 4s. 6d.; 51b., ] Is. j 121b, 22s.; 24lb. 40s. —BARRY Du BARRY and Co., No. 77. Regent-street, Lon- don; J. D. TREHARN, JAMES & WILLIAMS, Cardiff; and all grocers and chemists in every town in the Unitpd Kingdom i THE HOUSB OF COMMONS.—Several changes have taken plaee in the House of Commons during the Session which it now drawing to a close, A day or two after the as. sembly of Parliament the Hon. Colonel Bernard, member for Bandon, died, and was succeeded by Mr. Bernard, his son on the 7th of February Captain Gladstone, R.N., the member for Devizes, died, and was succeeded by the Hon. W. W. Addington. In consequence of Sir Michael Seyroout's retiremen, Mr. Ferrand was early in February returned for the borough of Devonport. By the elevation of the Hon. Mr. Monsonto the peerage, a vacancy oc- curred in the representation of the borough of Reigate, and Mr. Leveson Gower was elected. Mr. Andrew Steuart resigned the representation of the borough of Cambridge, and Mr. F. S. Powell was elected. Shortly after the meeting of Parliament Mr. Moody retired from the representation of West Somerset, and Mr. Gore Langton was elected his successor. For Lisburn Mr. Barbour was elected in the room of Mr. Richardson, but, being unseated, M r. Verner was elected. In February Mr. H. W. Freeland retired from the representation of the borough of Chichester, and was succeeded by Mr- • Abel Smith. On the 26th of May the representation ol Thetford became vacant by the elevation of the tar o Euston to the dukedom of Grafton Lord F. • was elected in his place. The Hon. General Up,°°» succeeding to the Irish peerage as Viscount Temp e rendered vacant the representation of Antrim, a O'Neill was elected. By the death of Sir G. C. Lewis on the 14th of April, the representation of the Ra o- shire boroughs became vacant; Mr. R. eifln*a elected. Mr. Hamilton in April resigned the' tion of the county of Dublin, and was succeeded by his son Mr. Ion Hamilton. Early in Mij Mr. O Hipn, l« Attorney-General for Ireland, was elected for Tralee in the room of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. By the death of Mr. Western Wood, on the 17th of May, a vacancy took place in the representation of the city London, and Mr. G. J. Goschen was elected. Late in May, Mr. Tot. tenham resigned the representation of New Rosi,,T" was succeeded by Colonel Tottenham. Early in June Sir John Arnott retired from the representation of Kinsale, and was succeeded by Sir George Colthurs'. In the same month the representation of Berwick-upon- Tweed became vacant by the death of Captain Gordon Mr. W. W. Cargill was elected. The representation of the county of Clare is at present vacant by the death of Mr. F. M. Calcutt.
I CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS.
CARDIFF BOARD OF GUARDIANS. The u3ual weekly meeting of the above Board was held on Saturday last. R. O. Jones, Esq., in the chair. MASTER'S JOURNAL. There had been during the week 64 admissions, 39 dis- charged, leaving 423 remaining in the house; of whom 57 were in the Refuge 63 in Halket-street, being an in- crease of 15 on the corresponding week of last year. THE PONTYPRIDD PAUPERS. The Clerk then read a letter from the Clerk of the Pont- ypridd Union, objecting to the charge made by the Guardians of the Cardiff Union of 5s. per week for the maintenance of the paupers of the Pontypridd Union, now inmates of the Cardiff Union, and offering 4s. per week as a reasonable charge. The Rev. H. Thomas said, if the Pontypridd Guar- dians were not willing to pay the sum of 5s. per week, the paupers had better be removed from the Union. The Clerk said that in fixing the rate which they would pay, the Guardians of the Pontypiidd Union had not taken into consideration the salaries uf the various officers of the Cardiff Union. He had made a calculation of the actual expense of maintenance, inclusive of the salaries of the officers, and had found the cost to be 4¡. 4d. The Chairman thought 5s. per week to be a proper sum. If the Guardians at Pontypridd were not inclined to pay that sum, they must remove them. THE ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE. The Assessment Committee recommended that a pro- fessional gentleman be appointed to value the Penarth Harbour Railway, etc., and they fuither recommend the Board to appoint Mr. Thomas Watkins, and that £60 be paid him for his services.—Adopted, Mr. E. Evans proposed that Mr. Thos. Watkins be ap- pointed as a valuer for the Melingriffith Works, situated in the parish of Whitchurch, and that 12 guineas be paid him for his services.—Adopted. LUNATIC PAUPER. Mr. D. Jones called the attention of the Board to a female lunatic pauper in the Wetts Asylum, chargeable to the Union, whose husband he considered was in a fit state to maintain her. The Clerk was requested to direct the attention of Mr. Wride to the circumstance, and bring the case before the magistrates.
THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT…
THE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT CWMBRAN. VERDICT OF THE JURY. The adjourned inquest touching the death of Robert McGee, engine-driver of the West Midland mid-day down express train, by an accident to that train at Cwmbran, was resumed on Friday before the coroner for the county W. H. Brewer, Esq. Amongst those present were Colonel Yolland, Sir Charles Fox, Messrs. Geo. Harrison, — Wilson, W. Lane, A. Basselt, J. Murphy, R. Laybourne, R. B. Sayer, &r. The first two witnesses examined were Mr. George Harrison, manager of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company, and Mr. Robert Sayer, chief engineer of that Company. Their evidence went to show that the road was in good condition, but was never intended to bear the pressure of such high speed as that at which the engine was driven on the day in question. Sir C. Fox, who had carefully examined the line, stated that in one place he found a rail with a piece cut out in one corner, and not in its original position. On making further examination and inquiry he found that the ends of the rail had been turned, so that what had been inside before was now outside. The rail, he learnt, had been previously much bent. Found that at several points the gauge had been widened, and came to the conclusion that the effect had been produced by the engine running at a high speed. Believed that the engine had struck a rail with such forte sideways as to bend ii, and to press the leading end of such rail so far into the fir key of the joint chain as to leave the rail from which the piece bad been sheared with its inner edge projecting a full half of an inch, and that upon this projection the leading wheels of the engine had endeavoured to mount that the rail being unequal to bear the blow struck by so heavy an engine at so high a speed, was sheared off iu a wedge shape or form, thereby putting the rail out of its proper line, and breaking the joint chain of the three following intermediate chains. Believed that the fourth inter. mediate chain so leaving the rail without support, and, of course, unable to bear the weight of the engine, caused the latter to go off the line. In his opinion the accident would not have taken place had not the engine been travelling at such a high speed. The road was not calculated for such a speed. Colonel Yolland What do you mean by high speed." Sir Chailes Fox I should think that the engine was running at 50 miles an hour. Colonel Yolland, Inspector of the Board of Trade, was sworn and said Setting aside the discrepancies that exist between the time-tables of the two companies, and taking for my guide the tables of the West Midland Company, in whose service deceased was, and the distance named in such tables, I find it to be seven miles and three-quarters between Pontypoot-road and Mill-street Station at Newport, with fifteen minutes for the journey, and making the usual deduction of, say five minutes, for stoppages, that would give an average speed over the whole length of nearly forty-six and a half miles the hour. I think it is quite possible from the evidence I have heard, and from the bulging out of the line, that the accident was caused from lateral oscillation of the engine. I think it is quite possible that the driver was exceeding the speed named at the time the accident occurred. I think that the engine was travelling at a much greater speed than the state of the line warrants. I walked some distance up and down the line, and noticed many tree- nails out altogether. I am bound to say that the line has not been maintained by the Monmouthshire Company in that state which would justify such rapid speed on the part of the West Midland Company. By the Foreman I would recommend the line to be renewed. I don't think there is any fault whatever to be found with the materials employed in the formation of the line, nor in the constru tion, but think that the fact of the line not being calculated to bear heavier engines and higher speed, has not been sufficiently attended to. The Coroner having briefly charged the jury, they reo turned the following verdict:—" That Robert McGee met with his death by the West Midland express train ac- cidentally running off the rails of the Monmouthshire Company's line on the 3rd July, 1863, at Cwmbran, and we attribute the accident to the high speed on a line not originally intended for fast running, and we urge the com- panies to allow more time for express trains from Ponty- pool-road to Newport till the road is renewed." Before separati g. the representatives of the Monmouth- shire and West Midland Railways each presented the jurymen with the sum of five pounds, in compensation for the loss of time they had sustained. ANOTHER RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT CWMBRAN. On Mondvy, 27th inst., another railway accident hap- pened near Cwmbran Station, within one hundred yards of the place where the express ran off the line a short time a^jjo. As one of the Monmouthshire mineral trains was crossing the points from Cwmbran siding to go on the main hoe, it was caught by a West Midland passenger nffVh r engine of the luggage train was pushed .k e-ilne.' ai were a'80 the tenders of both engines, and e rais orn up. The engines do not S9em further *bending of the connecting rods, so as to unfi em or use. The tender of the luggage train is greatly damaged, being bent and broken in many: places. There was no one injured, although the case might have been a serious one. It is not yet settled on whom the fault of this accident is to be laid.
ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.
ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. A mural monument, by the sculptor Theed, to the memory of the late Dr. Williams, has just been placed in Winchester Cathedral, where he was for twenty-seven years Canon. The subscriptions to the fund set on foot for the purpose of extending the parochial system throught the diocese of London has already reached nearly £70,000. Such munificence is unparalelled. The Bishop of Oxford has lately consecrated the chapel of Wellington Collegp, the foundation-stone of which was laid by the late Prince Consort on July 12, 1861. The corner-stone of a new church, to be dedicated to St. Stephen, has been laid at Copley, near Halifax. The church will be in the Gothic style; and, including site, will cost fa.OOO. The contributors to the fund are Colonel Akroyd and other gentlemen in the district. The new church of St. Margaret, at Bramley, Leeds, has been consecrated. The architects were Messrs. Perkin and Backbouse. The style is Decorated; the accommodation for 1,000 persons and the present cost Jt:4,500, gifts included; though £1,500 more will be reo quired to fully complete the work. A curious MS., on vellum, has recently been discovered at Vienna, containing fifty treatises in Latin by Wycliff, one of which, De Officio Pastorale," has just been published by Professor Lechner. The Dean of St. Paul's, in his History of Latin Christianity," says: Two hundred of his treatises are said to have bten burned in Bohemia." The Incorporated Church Building Society has held its last meeting for the present session at the society's house. Whitehall, when grants of money, amounting to JE4,875, were made. The spire which has been in course of erection upon the tower of St. Andrew's church for some time is now completed. The spire is 80 feet in height from the tower, which is 65 feet, making the total elevation 145 feet, or a few feet lower than the spire on Manningham church. The designs were prepared by Messrs. Mallinson & Healey, the architects of the church; and the contract was undertaken by Messrs. M. Frith & Co., at a cost of JE460. On Sunday week the Bishop of London confirmed 179 persons at tbe Church of St. Paul, Lorrimore-square, Walworth, 141 of that number being members of the congregation of St. Paul's. The chancel and sanctuary were adorned for the occasion, four vases of flowers being ranged on the super-altar, and the alter itself vested in a white silken frontal. The Lord Mayor of London, co-operating with the Dean and Chapter, and a committee of gentlemen formed for the special purpose, have opened at the Mansion House what is intended to be a national subscription towards the completion of the embellishment of St. Paul's Cathe. dral, as originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren; and headed the list himself with a donation. The ninth annual meeting of the friends and supporters of the London Diocesan Church Building Society has been lately held at Willis's Rooms. The Right Rev. the Bishop of London presided. The accounts showed that the balance in hand at the last audit had been £ 13,568, and, after the receipts of the year were added, the gross income was raised to £18,935. After meeting the ex- penditure a balance ol f 9,558 remained. The incumbent of Knockholt makes an appeal to his parishioners to erect some suitable monument in Knock- holt church to Miss Thrale, in acknowledgment of her liberality to the poor of the parish for fifty years before her decease, and also in recognition of her bequests, amounting to £150 a year. He proposes two windows, one to be purchased by the poor exclusively, and called theirs; the c. Poor Man's Memorial Window" to be over the pew long occupied by the deceased, and the other on the same side, or opposite to it. The incumbent further suggests a number of improvements to the church. The new church of St. Martin-on.the.Hitl, Scar- borough, has been consecrated by the Archbishop of York. The church is built on a site given by the South Cliff Company, and was elected mainly through the great liberality of Miss Mary Craven, whose donations to the church, amounting to several thousand pounds, were given by her in memory of her father, the late Mr. Martin Craven, of Hull. The tower stands at the north-west corner over the north aisle, and is 20 feet square and 100 feet high. It is finished by a gabled roof. The church is built of Whitby stone. It is lighted by a clerestory of two-light windows, by three-light windows, one in each bay of the aisles, and by four rose windows in the chancel, besides the east and west windows. The architectural style is that of the earlier part of the fourteenth century. The effect of the interior is improved by the stained glass with which some of the windows are filled. These are —the east window, two of the west windows, the east window of the north aisle, and two at the side of the same oiele. The general scheme for the subjects of the glass is as follows :—The two west wings have figures of Adam and Eve, commencing the seiies. The north side windows have figures of the Old Testament worthies. One is a memorial window to the Prince Consort, with figures of the three good kings, Hezekiah, David and Josiah. This is the gift of Miss M. Craven and the other is a me. morial window to the late Major Monins, given by his widow, having St. Michael in the centre, and the warriors Joshua and Gideon in either side light. Those which it is hoped may be added will contain figures of Noah, Abraham, Jacob, and others. The subject of the east window of this aisle is St. John the Baptist preaching. This is a memorial window to the late Mr. Joseph Hesp, of Scarborough, inserted by his widow. The east window, which is of three lights, contains the subjects illustrating the parable of the Heir. In the centre light is the Crucifixion. Tbe south aisle windows, as they can be placed from time to time, will contain figures of Christian saints, beginning with the evangelists, apostles, &c.; and il is proposed to 611 the great rose window at the west end with the subject of the Last Judgment: in the clerestory it is designed to have figures of angels. The seats throughout the nave and aisles, as well as the seats and desks in the chancel, are of oak. The organ stands in the south chancel aisle. It is an instrument built a few years ago, but has been rebuilt and greatly enlarged and improved by Willis, of London, the builders of the great Liverpool organ. All the seats in this church, except the north chancel aisle, are free.
ODDS AND ENDS.
ODDS AND ENDS. A Bohemian transition of Shakspeare's drama is in course of progress. Among the translators are the names of Fr. Doucha, J. Czejka, and J. B. Maly. THE MONUMENT TO COUNT CAVoVR AT TURIN—The designs sent in to the commission for the monument to Count Cavour, at Turin, are about 130 in number, sent from every part of Italy as well as from other countries. They are shortly to be exhibited to the public. PROFESSIONAL ENTHUSIASM. —The Gazette de Etrangirs states that Madame Saqui has again applied for her authorisation to resume her public exercises as a rope dancer, but that it has been refused in consequence of her age—86. FIELD-MARSHAL LORD CLYDE.—We are rejoiced to say that the last accounts of Field-Marshal Lord Clyde reptesent him as much better, and, under Providence, there is reason to hope that the fatal result into the ex- pectatien of which the public were needlessly alarmed in the early part of the week, may long be avoided.—Army and Navy Gazette. A gentleman, under the initials of A. B. residing in Cheltenham, has presented JE300 to the National Life- boat Institution to enable it to establish a life.boat on the coast, in memory of his deceased wife, after whom the boat is to be named. Tbe late William C'urrie, Esq., banker, of Cornbill, has left the National Life.boat In. stitution a legacy of £250. On and after the 1st of August next the rates of post. age upon letters addressed to Cuba and xMexico, intended to be forwarded by the French mail-packets leaving St. Nazaire on the 16th, of each month, will be assimilated to those upon letters for Cuba and Mexico when sent by British packet, viz.:—Not exceeding oz., Is.; above £ oz. and not exceeding 1 oz., 2s.; above 1 oz. and not exceeding Ii oz., 3s.; above Ill. oz. and not exceeding 2 oz., 4s.; for each additional £ oz. Is. The postage must in all cases be paid in advance. A FACT FOR INSURANCE OFFICE?.—A lady has just died at Agen, at the advanced age of 106. Her maiden name was Marie de Galaup she was twice married, and enjoyed the full exercise of her mental faculties until a few months before her death. In 1814, at the age of 57, she bought an annuity of 2,400fr. per annum for a sum of 24,000rr. As that capital, at 5 per cent. simple in- terest, would have amounted at the end of 49 years to 82,800fr., while the annuity during the same period amounted to 117,600fr., the company which had agreed to pay the money lost 34,800fr. by the bargain. MORB ROMAN DISCOVERIES IN CHESTER.—A Roman hypocaust was lately discovered on the site where stood the Feathers Hotel and several other buildings, which have been taken down for town improvements by the Marquis of Westminster. Further discoveries have since been made. On excavating to the north of the hypocaust the workmen came upon the base of a Roman pillar which is 27 inches across the top and 4 feet 4 inches in height. The base rests on a square block of red sand- stone which stands on the maiden rock: it is 4 feet 8 inches in length and 22 inches in height. At a distance of 5 feet 9 inches the base of a second Roman pillar has been discovered, of similar moulding and proportion to the first; and a third and similar base has also been found. Lord Westminster has ordered the removal of the stones of the hypocaust to the publio grounds ad- joining the Water Tower. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—The temporary bridge continues all object of great attraction to large numbers of visitors from all parts of the kingdom. During the past week the workmen have been engaged in raising the heavy masses of iron of which the saddleplates, girders, &c., are constructed, and painting and preparing the links for the permanent bridge. Some of the anchorage plates have arrived from the works of the contractors, Messrs. Ojch- rane, of Dudley. They weigh nearly three tons each, and there will be three of them to each set of chains. These plates will be firmly imbedded in the rock at the bottom of the anchorage shafts. All this portion of the work, on which the men are now engaged, results in scarcely any perceptible progress, the greater part of it being carried on underground. h_-
A LECTURE ON THE PRESENT CONDITION…
A LECTURE ON THE PRESENT CONDITION OF SEAMEN AND HOW IT MAY BE IMPROVED. Addressed chiefly to the Commanders and Officers of Ships. BY CAPTAIN HENRY ToTNBBE, F.R.A.S. Delivered in the Town Hall, Calcutta, November 8,1862. (Continued from the cc Guardian" 17 tn July.) My last head was—how the religious culture of seamen is neglected. This, Gentlemen, is the most important branch of the subject would that I could handle it ably, for I am fully convinced that Jesus Christ is the only physician who can restore the human soul to health. Circumstances, such as the rules of society, the influence of friends, &c., Ac., may bolster up a young man who remains on shore, and by these good influences he may hold the good opinion of the world, so that no help from above may be considered requisite by casual observers, who (though quite mistaken) merely judge by the outward appearance. When the moral standard of a nation is high, as in England, I fear that a very large number are deceiving themselves in this way, not seeing that their rule of life is the custom of their country, not the will of God. To be changed from what we find we are, to what our reason, exercised on the Bible, tells us God wills we should be, we must go to Christ, let our bringing up and circum- stance be what they may. If any other power could work the change, Christ need not have died. Now, we read that publicans and harlots received Christ when the self-righteous Pharisees rejected Him. Like theirs, the ordinary vices of sailors are so manifest that they have not the opportunity of putting on the deceitful garb in which, I fear, many thousands are entering eternity. If this be true, then, no vital change can be worked in the eternal destiny of any sailor without the aid which Christ, through the Bible, is offering. Do not be sur. prised if I insist on this point. I am so entirely con- vinced, and so heartily believe that no plans for the benefit of our fellow-men can be of any avail unless they fully recognize that Christianity is the one thing needful, that I could not speak at all in the cause of sailors if it were not to be considered as the spring of all our actions. Now, owing to the peculiar circumstances in which we find ourselves when starting on a voyage, we have the spiritual as well as bodily health of our men depending very much upon us. The Commander of a ship, then, has a double reason for giving careful attention to religion. It behoves him, when going forth on a voyage, to pray for wisdom to fulfil properly the responsible p sition he holds, for he suddenly finds himself at the head of a little community, cut off for some time from the rest of the world, so that no appeal can be made to other judgment than his own, until the ship arrives in port. Now, the hopes of Commanders, when starting on a voyage, will no doubt be very various, still I suppose they will be something in this fashion :—" May I have wisdom to do my duty to my God and my fellow.creatures, and in so doing, may this voyage be a successful one to all concerned or a man may say, I hope this voyage will end with pecuniary success, I am determined to strain every nerve for that result and with this wish on his mind he may go through his voyage without the slightest reference to religion, which must have a sad influence upon himself and all around him. A third class may strive to combine the two feelings driven by the high standard of morals in England to pay a certain amount of respect to religion. They may have Divine Service on Sundays, and yet act in other ways in- consistently. For instance, after prayers they may give their men much unnecessary work, and sailors are capital judges as to whether men are practising what they preach. In looking round I see many officers before me, from those who have just come to sea up to Commanders, and would wish to impress upon them that their real happiness, and that of many of their men, depends upon which of these hopes rules in their minds. If those around them see that the religion of Sunday is dropped on Monday, and that straightforward truth and honesty are made to yield to certain quibbles when money is to be made by it, what wonder if they give way to the temptation of believing that there is nothing in religion alter all. To you, young Gentlemen, just rising into life, I feel anxious to say that if you heartily wish to do right, many of the difficultiea you anticipate may never come, and that all will yield if you honestly pray to Jesus. If you are too proud or ashamed to do that, there is no hope for you. Only think what immense good any one of you might do, if this night he would go forth resolved, by Christ's help, to be a Christian sailor. Sailors are sometimes treated 88 mere machines or beasts of burthen, without souls or minds no attempt is made to give them their Sundays in quiet, or to lead them in the right path this, like all other wrong-doing, recoils on the perpetrators, who have to complain of hardened and troublesome crews. Much would be gained, Gentlemen, if we, their Com- manders and Officers, appreciated the Christian religion thoroughly. Is it true that we and they are immortal beings travelling very fast towards eternity 1 Are we really going to spend that eternity in happiness or woe, depending entirely upon the way in which we go through this world 1 Is it really true, that as the tree falls so it lies ? If so, how important it is that each one should fall pointing heavenwards. Nothing is to be gained by our shirking the subject, or blinding our eyes to the real state of things. Here we are surrounded with difficulties and tempta- tions, filled with an evil heart and a nature fearfully in. alined to yield to those temptations and what is more (mysterious as it may sound, it is irue), we are open to tbe attacks of a spiritual enemy who is too strong for us. Any man who will give the subject » thought, must feel that he has not the power, even if he had the inclination, to become a good man. I believe most of us who give the subject any attention, must come to this conviction it is at this stage that human beings divide. A large number say, Our feel- ings and inclinations are so contrary to the teaching of the Bible, that we will not be so hypocritical as to pre. tend to be religious; we find no power within us to love God with all our hearts, and our neighbour as ourselves; but, on the contrary, we find ourselves like the mass of the world, thinking but very little of God, Christ, or eternity, and seeing our earthly good almost entirely, in spite of the warnings we are constantly getting, that our stay in this world cannot be long, and may be very short." This is really a truthful and honest confession it is at this point that the doctrines of Christianity come in to the assistance of those who are prayerfully looking round them for a power to release them from this slavery. The Christian confesses to all this helplessness, but he has read of a GREAT PHYSICIAN who is willing, and able, and anxious to cure him Christ is to him what the brazen serpent was to the children of Israel. Sin has poisoned him so that he really is totally unfit to fulfil his duties in this wortd he looks to Jesus, and is made whole. How earnestly does he look to Jesus for the ful- filment of that grand promise, The truth shall set you free free from slavery to the ten thousand deceitful powers which are dragging the natural man down lower and lower each day and free, too, from that fear of death which holds so many in a slavish and cowardly bondage. Here, then, is the great truth. Each sailor must look to Jesus for strength to enable him to do his duty when at sea, and to enable him to meet the numberless tempta- tions which beset him when he steps on shore and, in the absence of all other means of instruction, his Com- mander and Officers might be his instructors. Gentlemen, if we feel this to be a truth aod act upon it, we shall do all in our power to encourage the study of our noble religion, by keeping Sunday as quietly as possible having our men clean for Divine Service, if possible, reading to them a simple and instructive sermon, avoiding all unnecessary trimming or making sail during their day of rest, for instance, except where the safely of the ship is concerned, studding sails need not be set on Sunday. The voyage need not be commenced on a Sunday. We may lend them useful books, and show them that we are willing to make any right sacrifice for their benefit and comfort, advising them to make use of the opportunities we give them for improving themselves, and, above all, set them a good example. It is not this kind of familiarity which breeds con- tempt far otherwise, men appreciate the endeavour to improve them, of which the good conduct of my present crew is a satisfactory proof. After the evening school in port, it has been my practice to read a very short lecture, generally a page or two of one by the late Archbishop of Canterbury on some part of the New Testament, telling my pupils that although the school is intended for the culture of their intellects, we must not forget that man's soul (the ruling principle of every thought, word, action, and affection) must also be preparing for the next world, and that no man can do his duty properly here, who does not know and lay hold of the benefits offered to us by Christ. Gentlemen, our nation has done much for sailors in the admirable provision of life-boats along our danger- ous coasts no doubt many of you subscribe to their sup- port, for we know that they save many hundreds of lives each year but these life-boats only save the body. Now, is it not true (however much less forcibly this truth strikes the mind) that thousands of sailors are each year eternally Wrecked on the moral rocks and quicksands which I have alluded to in this Lecture. If we all felt the importance of this subject, and were imbued with the spirit purchased for us, and held out to us by Jesus Christ, we should, as it were, be each converted into a moral life-boat, using' our every endeavour to save our shipmates from the in juries so many of them receive by striking on these dangers at the termination of each voyage. If we have not that spirit we ourselves shall most certainly be morally wrecked the dangers on which we strike may not be so perceptible as the drunkenness and manifest viees of our men they may be compared to rocks under water, the more dangerous because the less visible. In the great struggle of life it seems to me that every human employment has its ains sanctioned by custom, which are quite sufficient to overcome any man who depends on self alone. May we not all call to mind instances where eelf-inter8it, or the apparent good of our ships, has tempted us to do wrong. The man who, seeing these difficulties and his own weakness, flies to Christ for help, has learnt the two great (I am inclined to say first) lessons that the Chribtian needs-humility and faith he will rise above his difficul- ties, firmly asking himself, not "What is customary!" but Ie What is right If this combat with the world be carried on, looking to Jesus, all earth and hell shall not prevail against us the struggle may be long and painful, but we must prevail. All other aids can only skin over the wound none but Christ can heal it. With this conviction may we part this evening, deter- mining through Christ, to do all in our power for the eternal and temporal welfare of sailors, their wives and families. If we do, we have the promise, on the strength of the Bible, that we shall be happier and happier each day of our lives, and that our last will be our happiest day, because it will be the door to an eternity of bliss. P.S,-Since the above was delivered, I have been look- ing through the report of tbe "Merchant Seaman's Orphan Asylum," and find from it thst it is not the orphans of working seamen alone who are often left destitute, for by far the greater number of cases are alike in these melancholy facts, "Father a Captain children left entirely dependant on their mother for support."— Does not this prove more than any amount of words can, that commanding officers as well as seamen ought to subscribe to a Benefit Fund 1—H. T.
THE TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF…
THE TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SANITARY CONDITION OF CARDIFF. (Continued. I have this year amended this table by making it in accordance with the Registrar General. I had previously grouped deaths from croup among diseases of the respira- tory organs this year the deaths from this cause are inserted with the zymotic diseases. From this table it will be perceived that in every jear during which the mortality was excessive, the excess de- pended on deaths from zymotic diseases; that the deaths from sporadic diseases vary but little, exhibiting only an increase concurrent with an increase of population. In the first subdivision of deaths from sporadic dis. eases, there will be found little calling for special observa- tion, the most fatal disease in this class being convulsions. The deaths registered from this disease were 66, being at the rate of 1-8 per thousand of population. The average death rate of the whole kingdom from convulsions on a septennial period was 1*3 per thousand. Durinjr the same period, in the Merthyr Union district it was 3*8, in the Swansea 2'4, and in the Abergavenny 2-5. The re- maining deaths among diseases of brain and nervous system observe the ordinary average. Among diseases of the respiratory organs, phthisis was fatal in 97 cases, and was thus under oue.seventh of total deaths. The deaths from this disease this year may be considered about the ordinary average in Cardiff. The death rate of phthisis is generally reckoned one fifth of total deaths throughout the kingdom. The mortality from phthisis in Cardiff is less than this average. The cold winds and raiu of early spring told unfavourably on the inflammatory diseases of the respiratory organs. Bronchitis and pneumonia were very fatal during these months. Diseases of abdominal cavity maintained only the ordinary rate. Sporadic diseases of uncertain seat were somewhat in excess of former years, owing to the large number of deaths registered from atrophy, debility, and mesenteric diseases. These diseases were fatal in 90 cases, and are essentially diseases of infancy. I have, therefore, to direct your attention to the subjoined table of deaths at age Age. Males. Femalet,. Total. Under 1 year 108 94 202 landunder2 37* 47 84 2 „ 3 16 18 34 3 „ 4 12 18 30 4 „ 5 9 5 14 -364 5 „ 10 14 12 26 10 „ 15 12 6 18 15 „ 25 35 17 52 25 „ 35 37 36 73 35 „ 45 30 23 53 45 55 27 16 43 55 „ 65 20 18 38 65 „ 75 17 15 32 75 „ 85 10 8 18 85 „ 95 5 5 10 95and upwards 1 0 1 390 338 728 The Infantile mortality of Cardiff is high, as of 728 the total number of deaths, 364 were under five years of age. Infant mortality varies considerably in differeut districts, and in the same districts during different years. It is much influenced by the absence or prevalence of in- fantile epidemics, as scarlatena, measles, or small pox but a reference to the previous reports which I have sub- mitted to your board exhibits yeaily an excess in deaths in early life, even when the epidemics just alluded to are little fatal. From an analysis of infant mortality in six town districts I find the average death rate of children under five years of age to be 46 per cent. of total deaths the highest was 65, the lowest 41; in three semi-rural districts it was 38, in two purely rural it was 33. In a population constituted like that of Cardiff, having an unusual proportion of labourers and a large number of Irish mendicants, the infant mortality must be expected to be high, and it reaches 50 per cent. of total deaths. The inability of the parents in too many instances to provide for the proper care of their children at a time when the tenacity of life is most feeble, and the over. crowded, ill-ventilated dwelling rooms occupied by night and day, generate a vitiated atmosphere, destructive to the infant constitution, and produce death by diseases of the brain or nervous system, as convulsions, or of the nutritive system, as by tabes scrofula, or infantile diarrhoea. I have now to call your attention to the zymotic diseases—which are of a contagious or infectious nature, and dependent, as I have before mentioned, on remove- able and preventable causes. The first disease in this class requiring your consideration is fever, and it is satis. factory to find that for some time a very seusible decrease in the deaths registered from this cause has taken place in Cardiff Streets where formerly fever was never absent, now obtain exemption. In 1846 and 1847, 98 cases of fever occurred in Stanley-street, 72 in Landore. court, 36 in Mary Ann-street, and 30 in Whitmore-lane for some years, no deaths from fever hive been registered in these streetf, except one in Mary Ann-street. In 1862, 22 deaths from fever were registered in Cardff, being at the rate of 0-6 per 1000 of total population, or little in excess of half the rate of fever mortality throughout the kingdom. Of these 22, three were seamen removed from on board ship, having arrived in port suffering from fever. I find one died at a house in George-street, on the 19th January, and another in the same house in July. The inhabitants in the immediate neighbourhood complained to me that the house in question was used as a receiving bouse for tick seamen a similar complaint was made to me respect- ing a house in Loudon-square. It is exceedingly un- desirable that houses ill-adapted for such a purpose should be so used in a crowded locality, as it necessarily exposes the inhabitants of the immediate neighbourhood to the danger of contagion, especially as the form of fever usually met with on board ship is of a typhus character, a form of all others the most contagious. Still it is equally undesirable that the patient should remain on board a vessel, where the limited accommodation of a sailor's hammock affords but little assistance in the treat- ment of fever. I would therefore strongly urge the desirability of obtaining accommodation in the shape of a seamen's receiving house near the Docks, sufficiently removed from all other houses to prevent the chance of spreading a contagious disease among the inhabitants of the town. This might be effected by the aid of the brokers or agents in obtaining a pro rata contribution from every vessel entering the port, a subscription which would be economical as well as convenient to the shipping interests it would enable captains of vessels to have their sick sailers removed when their treatment renders it desirable it would prevent the danger of an outbreak in the town, as occurred when small pox was introduced by a seaman from a vessel in 1857, when 161 deaths resulted. I have had officially on some few occasions lately to keep vessels at quarantine for a period which might be obviated bJ the adoption of this suggestion. The rapidity of transit now renders it a matter for your serious consider- ation, as fever from foreign ports may be here, and has in some ports been introduced with serious results. Small pox has been introduced into the town at intervals. The first occasion was in February. An in- habitant of Stuart-street, Bute-docks, visited bis friends in Somersetshire among these small pox was prevailing. Immediately on his return home he exhibited the pre. monitory symptoms of that disease, and passed through the confluent form of it. I could not ascertain that he had been previously vaccinated. An attendant on this case carried the infection home to her own child, who had not been vaccinated this child died. The disease extended into 3 or 4 more houses, and 1 learned that 6 more cases occurred. These had been vaccinated, and passed through the disease in a very modified form. I made several visits to the locality, and found the disease confined to these cases. One death was registered in May, and one in June. These occurred in Frederick-street. They had not been previously vaccinated. I made strict enquiries into the state of vaccination in the district, and found this had been done in a very satis- factory manner. Small pox was on board two vessels entering the port during the year these were kept in a modified state of quarantine. The disease has been intioduced into the Union at intervals, on twe occasions by seamen, at other times it was observed among the inmates of the Refuge but no satisfactory evidence could be obtained of itt origin. No death from this disease, however, occurred in the house, nor did it extend among the children be) ond a very slight degree, the children being protected by vaccination. Whooping cough was fatal in 25 cases, and croup in 38. The large mortality from these two diseases was doubtlessly attiibutable to the cold and wet weathei during the spring and enrly part of the summer. The deaths from diarrhoea were few, being only 9, and were chiefly confined to infants. Diphtheria contributed 18 deaths to the mortuary table these occurred in localities requiring sanitary im- provementp. Henry-street and Adelaide-street, Bute Docks, have in the back yards privies in a very offensive state, and thus calculated to produce disease of a diarrha: 11 or diphtheritous character. Of the 18 deaths from diptheria, 6 occurred within a limited area of these streets. Wood-street, Temperance Town, had putrescent mud and stagnant water in its roadway. The inhabitants of this district called my attention in October to its unhealthy state I then made an inspection of it. There were several cases of typhoid fever, scarlatina maligna a death from diphtheria had been registered, as elio a death from erysipelas in an adult case, and I visited two others at this time ill with the latter disease. On this occsion I reported to your board the condition of the locality. Some of your members accompanied me through it, and an improvement has been made in several of the streets. Others, however, still continue unremedied, as in the early part of this report I have alluded to. [A list of streets, with the number of deaths in each, distinguishing the zymotic deaths from other deaths is here appended :J — I conclude this report by illustrating the money value of a reduced death rate, as shown in the following note, extracted from Dr. Gairdner's work on public health it is in the shape of a hypothetical balance sheet, drawn out by Mr. M'Gowan of Liverpool, and before alluded to. Dr. Gairdner says, in reference to it, "The estimate of the value of a productive human life to the community is partly founded on an elaborate inquiry by Dr. Farr into 'The Money Value of a Man.' and is decidedly moderate. The estimate of the cost of sanitary works, supposed to last for upwards of 25 years, is founded en actual data derived from experience. SANITARY ECONOMY IN LIVEIIFOOL. I.-Assuming there have been about 3,750 lives per annum saved to "1 Liverpool by sanitary measures, taking half as males, and four. tenths or 750 as productive, the gain to the community in respect to them, at L300 per life, will be (300 x 750) £ 225,003 2.-And the productive females at half the value. 112,500 3.—Taking the loss by incapacity to work and expenses on sickness in 70,000 families at je4, which in a town made healthful is saved (70,000 x £ 4) 280,000 Or a total annual saving of 617,500 Which at twenty-five years pur- chase would produce the sum 15,437,503 Deducting outlay for public works f853,387 Do. private drainage 200,000 ———— 1,059,387 There would remain a nttt gain to the community of £ 14,378,113 These data are of course supposed to illustrate the saving in a very large community, and are considered worthy of credence by the scientific authorities who have given much attention to the subject. To arrive at a com- putation of the saving in Cardiff, it would be necessary to consider the pro rata saving of 300 lives per annum, such being the diminished number of deaths since the town authorities commenced their sanitary reforms, and the results would show that even with the large outlay expended for the public drainage, private improvements, and other necessary expenses, in a pecuniary point of view, such expenditure has been wisely and profitably made. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, H. J. PAINE, M.D. Medical Officer of Health
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CARDIFF POLICE COURT. MONDAY. (Before R. O. Jones and C. W. David, Esq.) DRUNK, ETC. Edward Doran, an Irishman, was charged with being drunk in Bute-street on Saturday night. Fined 5j. and costs. John Daley and John Casey were each charged with a similar offence, in same place, on Sunday. Fined 5». and cost. John Cockley was also charged with the same offence. Fined also 6s. and costs. MALICIOUSLY WOUNDING A PIG. William Taylor, a cook on board the Jem," of Barn- staple, was charged with throwing an axe at a pig on board and inflicting a wound on the side. Jacob Roach, the captain, said he had a pig on board, and the defendant had on Saturday inflicted a very severe wound on its back with an axe. Defendant said the pig was allowed to be loose on the deck, and was in the habit of coming into the cook room and spoiling the articles used for food. The pig was a favourite of the captain, and was allowed to run about the deck quite loose. The pig came into the cook room on Saturday morniog, and having before done a great deal of mischief there, he took up the axe and threw it at the pig. He did not intend to wound it, but the axe ac- cidentally hit the pig and inflicted a wound. The Bench, after remarking to (he captaia that it was a nasty habit to have a pig running about the deck loose, said they did not consider that the man intended to wound the pig, and discharged the case. HARBOURING PROSTITUTES. Jane Davis, landlady of the West of England Beer- house, was charged by P.S. Glass with hnrbouiiag prostitutes. P.S. Glass said he went to the house on Friday night about ten o'clock, and saw four prostitutes in the bar drinking separate glasses of beer. He went into a back kitchen, and found two prostitutes. He visited the house again a few minutes before 11 o'clock, and found two of the same prostitutes as he had seen there at ten o'clock. Defendant said the girls had merely called in to drink a glass of beer, which she could not refuse. They had been out and returned again. There having been no previous complaint again;t the manner in which the house was conducted, the Beach cautioned the defendant and dismissed the case. ASSAULT AND BREAKING WINDOWS. Hannah Jones was charged with breaking some panes of glass in the window of a house inhabited by Sarah Bowling, at the Old Sea Lock, on Wednesday evening. Sarah Bowling was also charged with an assault on Hannah Jones. It appeared that Hannah Jones went to Sarah Bow- ling's house, wheu Bowling assaulted her, and she in revenge broke the panes of glass. The Bench considered both parties were to blame, and requested Jones to pay 4s., the val of the glass, the other charge to be withdrawn. DRUNK AND DISORDERLY. Caroline Williams was charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance in Whitmore-lane on Saturday night about 7 o'clock. P.C. Cambridge said the defendant was creating a dis- turbance in Whitmore-Hne, and running a'ter ami assaulting an old gentleman who was passing through the lane. There being 34 previous convictions against her, she was sentenced to three months' imprisonment ht the House of Correction, Swansea. GAME LICENCES. Thomas Harding, High-sreet, Edmund Ward, St. Mar;-street, and Robert Fielding, Queen-street, applied and received licences allowing them to deal in game. TUESDAY. (Before W. Alexander, G. Bird, and J. Fridp, Esqrs.) DOUBLE ASSAULT. Christian Maretan, an Austrian sailor, was chargt-d with an assault on Mary Jane Walters and also P.C. Samuels, on Monday evening, at Bute-road. Complainant said she was standing in Bute-road on Monday evening, about 7 o'clock, when the defendant came up, and without any piovocalion struck her on the head. She gave the defendant into custody. P.C. Samuels said the complainant accused the defend- ant ot striking her, when he took him into custody. De- fendant resisted and struck him twice in the breast. The Bench, after a short consideration, dismissed the charg-, with a caution to defendant to think he was in England, where he was not ailjwed to attack any one he pleased. (Continued in our Qth page) LLANDAFF HIGHWAY BOARD. The usual monthly meeting of the above Board Was held at the Board-room, Canton. W. Perkins, Esq., in the chair. There were present besides C. W. Dviti, Esq., V.C., Messrs. E. Williams, H. Garsel, W. Pricliard, Hev.'H. J. Thomas, W. Ainsley, J. S. Maddicks, Evan John, C. French, E. Evans. SURVEYOR'S REPORT. The Surveyor's report was read and passed, nd a cheque signed for E152 5s. 4J., for expenses to be di- vided proportionately among the several parishes of Le Union. PONTLEPONT BRIDGE. The Surveyor presented a plan of the Pontlepont bridge, prepared by Mr. Slay. After a short discussion, it was resolved that in the opinion of this Board, one proposition will be suffi-iiein for the purpose. The Chairman be requested to commu- nicate with Mr. Fothergill on the subject. FOREST ROAD, WHITCHURCH. Mr. C. W, David moved, and Mr. H. Garsel seconded, That the Surveyor be directed to procure tenders be submitted to the next meeting for the widening Forest road, in the palish of hiichurch. PARISH OF PENTYRCH. That proceedings be taken to enforce the payment of the call due from the parish of Pentyrch, The meeting then adjourned, j,