On Tuesday, the 28th instant, Mr. Commissioner Law held a Court at the Town Hall, Cardiff, for the purpose of hearing the matters of the petitions of eight insolvents, and adjudicated as follows, viz. :- Thomas AUSTIN, Thomas MIDDLETON, Charles MILSOM, Edward WILLIAMS, David DAVIES, John PRICE, and Thomas EVANS, discharged; John RICHARDS is to be discharged upon production of his account books, which were, he alleged, destroyed. The sentence of transportation for life passed on John JONES, for horse-stealing, at our last assizes, has been commuted by the Secretary of State, to two years' confinement, his previous good character having been taken into consideration. Lyn Nunn Brisbane Australia