... The anniversary festival of the Ross Royal Victoria British School was held at Birch House, the seat of Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq. M.P., on Wednesday, the 27ih instant, where a large number of the children educated in these excellent schools were regale!1 by the worthy member with the good old English fare of roast beef and plum pudding. The youthful party with tlwr teachers, Bnd accompanied hy ...

... ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MR. E* DRUMMOND, PRIVATE SECRETARY TO SIR H. PEEL. On Friday, at half-past lour o'clock, the western districts of the metropolis were thrown into the highest state of consterna- tion and alarm, by the rfeport of a rhoat determined and extra- ordinary attempt to assassinate Mr. E. Drummond, the private secretary to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Baronet. It appears ...

... FRAGMENT ON THE BURIAL OF MAGINN. .• I. THE dead bells were toiling, The thunders were rolling; • The big clouds were clashing, t The fierce lightning flashing In mirth, But yet Rem the heaven • The aun not driven. Its beatt>s glitter'd o'er him, Assent we bore him To earth. h, II. ,The sunlight so splendid, With thunder thus blended, The red eyes of lightning The atmosphere bright'ning. i ...

... M I S C E L L A NY. You are a great goose, sir, said a young lady lo a patient and witiy lover. You're a little duck, was the reply. 0 ma I do you know I'm top but two in my class ot school V Dear girl 1 your papa will be so delighted Do you hear, my dear R 1 Bell is at the top but two orher claas Indeed, my love, I'm very plad to hear of it: play, Sell, how many are there in the class 1 ...

... To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise aud labour tends, and ol which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is indeed at home 'hat every man must he known by thone who would make a JURI estimate of his virtue or felicity for smiles or em. broidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed foi show in painted honour and ...

... FOURTH LECTURE ON THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CONTINUATION OF THE REIGN OF RICHARD I. BY SIR SAMUEL RUSH MEYRICK, K.H., LL.D., F.A.S., he., &c. (Contilltled from our last.) This exhausted the English treasury of its bullion, which prevented any important measure during the remainder of his reign. It was, however, employed in wars with his hrotliei John and the King of France. During these, in the ...

... A Co. denotes a Company, As ev^'ry one must allow, But a A un doth shun all company, Because of her convent vow. A Drum doih call a company, At its sound they quickly come; V> bile the W hole will puzzle a company. W ith a Cn.—/mi, — drum. ...

... Arrivals and Sailings for the Week ending the llth ARRIVED 00f True Bess, Jones. Whitehaven; Elizabeth, Leade^beP' Nanteos, Griffiths, ditto Elizabeth, Adaroson, ditto Kelly, ditto; Elizabeth, Quinton, ditto; Emeraia^toifr Barrow, iron ore.—Eleanor, Thomas, Penarth; Sw1 > pjua Bristol; Friends, Beer, ditto; Rhondda, Fryer, Pearson, ditto; Lady Selina, Carter, ditto; SwiK. ditto; Dinas, Pearson ...

... A MASTER OF FICTION.—Jrenanu £ notice ° teller, and, as such, is very well wotJeaiers in Bf° A tienily, or any other of the recogui uout ^Iderrna i(,e told a very pretty tale, the other passed be'^[nOl fit of .Manchester, touching an i,t',v' cotfee. nt about the reduction of the duty ««»here ia n that Alderman Brook* declares truthiin it. ...

... On Wednesday last, the Rev. John Evans and John Rus- sell, Esq., magistrates, attended by Mr T J Phillips, clerk for tlie division, met at the Newbridge Inn, for the purpose of hearing the information laid by direction of Thomas Powell, Esq., proprietor of the Bryn and Gellygaer collieties, against six colliers, named William Thomas, Job Thomas, Uriah Price, Moses Reet, Thomas Samuel, and Evan ...

... NEWPORT COMMERCIAL ROOMS.—A numerous and influential meeting was held at the great room of the New Towo hrfll.on Wednesday last, Richard Mullock, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair, in order to adopt arrangements for the establish- ment of a News room and Exchange, at the Town-hall. JVJr. T. Batclielor announced that he had obtained neulyeighly signatures of leading persons in the town, favourable to ...

... CLYDACH rRON WORKS LLANFLLY, BRECON'W* On Monday, the 2nd instant, in accordance «Hh pte-arran|f • ments, the church and congregation of Siloam, Independent Chapel, met their old friend and pastor, te present him, a New Year's Gift, with a very splendly-bound copy ot Bagster'* Bihlia Polyglotta. This valuable woik was bound in richly-embossed pnrpU Morocco, with massive silver corners and ...