... ABERCARNE.- On Friday, the 28th ult., a severe accident, which was nearly attended with loss of life, occurred on the tram-road leading from the works in that place. Mr. Edmund Davis, master haullier, was proceeding with several trams, laden with coal, there being a great declivity in the road, and the precaution of spragging the wheels not being; taken in time, they ran with fearful velocity, ...

... THE FORGERY AT COUTTS'S. At a late hour on Saturday, Captain Richardson, the chair- man of the Worcester, Tenbury and Ludlow Railway Com- pany, was brought to the Mansion-house, in the custody of City Policeman Russell, 34, of the detective force, before Alderman Musgrove, charged with having altered a cheque upon Coutts's Bank tor the sum of £10. to the sum of £5,000. The case, as may well be ...

... Another elopement in high life was the general theme of conversation on Monday at the west end of the metropolis. The parties are Lady Anna Elizabeth Mary Grenville, only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, and Mr. Gore Langton, grandson of Colonel William Gore Lan^toD, M.P. for East Somersetshire. Tne following are some particulars of this affair, as they havd been communicated to ...

... OUR OMNIBUS. Themistocles said of his infant son, that he ruled all Greece because he ruled his mother, who ruled her husband, who ruled Athens, which ruled all Greece. What amount of riches will satisfy a man? Why, a little more than he has. Douglas Jerrold says, that if an earthquake were to gulph En- land to-moriow, the public-dinner men would manage to meet somewhere among the rubbish, ...

... THURSDAY, JUNE 25. The adjourned debate on the second reading of the Protection of Life (Ireland) Bill was resumed, and after a long debate the house divided, when there appeared- For the second 219 Against it. 292 Majority against the Government. -73 MONDAY, JUNE 29. The Sugar Bill was read a third time, and passed. RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. The private business having been gone through, some ...

... DOMESTIC SEWS. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal family, have been enjoying a delightful sojourn at Osborne House in the 1-tle 01 Wight, from which place the court have now leturned to Wind- sor. As soon as her Majesty's health will permit, after her ap. proaching accouchement, Prince Albert will accompany her Majesty on another royal visit to Louis Philippe, the King of the French, at ...

... THE SECRET. Ip every man's internal care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share, Who raise our envy now The fatal secret when revealed Of every aching breast, Would show that only when concealed, Their lot appears the best. ...

... The necessary out-door work, preparatory to commencing spring sowing, has been steadily proceeded with, notwithstand- ing the somewhat showeiy weather; and from present appear. ances there is every probability of the Lenten crops being well got in. The occupations in the field have left little leisure for ihrashing, and only moderate svppliesof grain have been brought forward at most of the ...

... FRIDAY, JULY 10. There was no business beyond the advancing private bills a stage, when their lordships adjourned. MONDAY, JULY 13. Petitions were presented by the Bishop of Durham again. the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. Lord Brougham presented a petition from the provost and town council of the burgh of Ayr, for the abolition of capital punish- ment and several petitions against ...

... To the Editor of the. Monmouthshire Merlin SIR,—I have often read notices in your columns respecting the bad state of the pavements and roads in &ome parts of New- port, and I have been pleased to observe that such notices re- sulted frequently in the repairs of the parts complained of. In a paper some weeks ago, I also observed reference made to a certain grating in Corn-street under the ...

... The following Sonnet, by W. Wordsworth, may, perhaps, not prove uninteresting to our readers HIGH is our calling, friend! Creative art (Whether the instrument of words she use, Or pencil fragrant with ethereal hues,) Demands the service of a mind and heart, Though sensitive, yet in their weakest part Heroically fashioned to infuse Faith in the whispers of the lonely muse, While the whole ...

... PREVENTION OF POTATOE PUTREFACTION. Mr. J, Prideaux, a Devonshire agriculturist, in a letter which he has addtessed to the Editor of the Exeter Flying Post* recommends the use of soot as a remedy for the tendency o potatoes to putrefaction. The writer observes that the history of the potatoe disease, trom its appearance, a hundred years ago, is that of an increasing tendency to putrefaction ...