... CONTEMPORARY PRESS. (From the Times.) A most pitiable person, who signs himself A late Assistant Commissioner of the frisli Poor Inquirv, has sadly put his foot into it by writing a letter with the same view as the Swiss had. The gist of this sin- gular specimen of stupidity is, that the Dublin Found- ling Hospital is closed, that parish assessments (for the support of foundlings) are ...

... MERTHYR TYDVIL, SA TURD a Y, Pcb, 13, 1836 The situation of the great European Govern- ments gradually becomes more critical. With the most evident general desire to avoid hostili- ties, they all seem approaching like ressels in a calm, to a collision by the mere force gravity, and the more complete the calm, the harder to avoid t he coil is ion. Russia, IV i th the strongest pro- fessions, ...

... DREADFUL FIRE AT SOUTH HETTON COLLIERY. On Saturday last, about seven o'clock in the evening, the No. 1, Engine House, of South Hetton Colliery, the property of Col. Braddyll, was d'9 covered to be on fire. It appears to have originate in a closet containing hemp for the use ot t e engines, and was first discovered by the brakeman. At that time there' were two men down the shatt of the pit, ...

... Til /•' CIRCUITS. SOUTH Before the Honorable Mr Justice C-ilerid^r. Swansea, Tuesday, March 1; Haverfordwest, Tuesday, 8; Cardigan, Saturday, 1*^? Carmarthen, \Vedne:day 16; Brecon, Wednesday 23; Prosreign, Saturday 26. NORTH WALKS. Before the Honori^'h* )I r Baron Gllrney. Welshpool, Tuesday. March 8; Bala, Saturday, Carnarvon, Wednesday Beaumar is, Saturday, 19; Ruthin, Wednesday, 23; Mo.d, ...

... FROM THB LONDON GAZETTES. London, Friday, July]. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Heycock, Henry Heycock, and Edwin Heycock, Beeston Royds, Yorkshire, cloth-manufacturers. BANKRUPTS. William Marns, Arbour Place, Fair Field, Stepney, rope manufacturer. John Harman, Bristol, jeweller. Richard Aspinell, Hamsbottora, Lancashire, cotton spinner. Tuesday, July 5. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. 1. Archer, ...

... ittomnouthSfure. The contemplated marriage between C. W. Codring- ton, Esq., M.P and Lady Georgiana Somerset, second daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, will be solemnised on Tuesday next, at Badminton. Mr. Codrington arrived in Park-lane, on Monday, from Doddington- park, and left for Gloucestershire again on Wednesday last. At the Bristol Agricultural Society, on the 15th inst., the Committee ...

... MERTHYR TYDVIL, SATURDAY, Oct. 1, 1836. Onr new Contemporary has at last made its appearance. To this we have no possible ob- jection Truth will ever prevail in the end, and the more that error labours in its own defence,, the more it aids its own destruction. With our new Contemporary we shall always deal as we have done with our old. We shall expose its principles, refute its statements and ...

... SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS — No. 129. i 14 .-C.Atid God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of Of all the ads- of the divine hand, next to the summoning of the universe into existence, this was the most stupendous. Imagination totally s nks before the attempt to conceive the terrific sublimity of this display, even within the boundaries of the solar system seen in its true velocities and ...

... Joftconsilvtff. BRECONSHIRE MICHAELMAS QUARTER SESSIONS. These Sessions were held at Brecon, on Tuesday, the 18th inst., before HUGH BOLD, Esquire, Chairman, And a very numerous Bench of Magistrates. Besides the Chairman, and Penry Williams, Esq., the Lord Lieutenant of the County, we observed the following Magistrates: JOhn Lloyll, Esq. Walter Mayhcry, Esq. Major Gwyune Hulford. The Rev. ...

... GLEANINGS. CLUBS.—Clubs as far as niv observation Ooe, are favourable to economy of time. There is a fixed place to g-o to, every tiling is served with compara- tive expedition, and it is not customary to remain long at table. Tiiey are favourable to temperance. It seems that when people can freely please them- selves, and when they have an opportunity of living simply, excess is seldom ...

... QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY -111 honor of her Ma- jesty's Birthday all the vessels in the Glamorganshire Canal, and Cardiff Roadstead, had their colours hoisted, and at one o'clock a Royal Salute, of 21 guns, was fired at the Sea Lock, and answered by tlle vessels in the Roads. NEWBRIDGE CHTIRCH -W,- understand that land, on both sides the Taff, has been offered, in the handsomest manner, for the ...

... PARfSH OF SWANSEA. A meeting of the rate payers, for the ejecting of officers, took place on Thursday, according to annual custom. The Rev. Doctor HEWSON in the Chair. Reference having been made to the parish accounts, rendered by the Guardian, and as to t ie expenditure of the last year, a little discussion took place between Messrs. R uttl-r, Walters, and Walker, as to the management ...