... NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—On Monday last, the 22nd instant, the Nantyglo National Schools had their annual examination. Every arrangement having been completed that might afford comfort to the visitors, and facilitate the examiners' pleasing task, by Mr. Wood and Miss Roberts, the respective conduc- tors of the schools—at eleven o'clock, prayers were read by the Rev. John Griffiths, and the ...

... FRANCE. On Friday last, a most exciting scene occurred in the Cham- ber of Peers. The President, the Duke de Pasquier, had cited the military degredation of Marshal N ey, as a precedent for de- priving Lecompte, the regicide, of the decoration of the Legion of Honour. The Prince de Moskwa, son of the Marshal, and a Peer of France, eloquently and indignantly reprobated the comparison, and on ...

... We learn from Rome that the Pontifical Government has just entered into a contract tor lighting that city with gas. A letter from Vienna states that the celebrated place of pilgrimage, Miria Petrowitsch, in Stiria, has been des- troyed by fire. The beautiful Church, founded in 850 by Luipram, Archbishop of Salzbhrgh, was saved by the exertions of the inhabitants of the neighbouring townsr ...

... itiUrUtgeitrc- UNITED ST AT ES ~ANTT~ MEXIC OT— AKUIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN-Liverpool, June 22 -It is gratifying to announce a most successful passage of the Great Britain, in charge of her indomitable commander, Cap ain Hoskeu, R.N. She arrived this morning, anJ passed up the Mersey with her screw propeller in full operation, having run the distance from New York to Li- verpool in 131 days. ...

... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. We were visited on Vlonday night with a thunder storm, accompanied with heavy rain, which has greatly benefitted vegetation of all kinds. Three persons were very properly fined at Aberdare Petty Sessions on Thursday in the sum of £5 each for a violent assault. OTTER HUNTING.—-Mr. WM. Thomas, jun., of the Court House, succeeded on Monday in catching a fine otter in ...

... Shipping ^utrlUgencf, BUTE DOCKS.—Arrived, the Alexander. Nicholls, Water- ford..J^ne, Goodwin, London..Johannes, Hollander, Dublin ..Speed, Saborawsky. hideford, ballast. Providencp, Phillips, Bristol, light.. Globe. Hodgson. Exetrr.. Peterel, Dusting, Penzance, baHast.Alice. Hampson, Whitehaven ..Capel la, Carh.c, VV hitehaven, iion ore.. Daniel Dyer, Oyer, Oloster. Claudia, rlavard. I.ondon ...

... THE ARMIY. 3d Dragoon Guards-Head-quarterS and one troop with the 1laud and staff, &c., under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur, marched from Dundalk for Belfast on June 8th, to em- bark, per steamer, for Glasgow June 13th. A troop from Ban- dlon marched from Dandalk for Belfast June 9th, to embark for- Glasgow June 15th. Three troops are stationed at Hamilton under Capts. J. D. Dvson ...

... On Tuesday evening Sir Robert and Lady Peel gave a magniftcent entertainment at their mansion in WVhitehall Gardens, inl Celebration of the Qaeen's birth-day. The grand assembly was precedqd by a sumptuous banquet. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cana- bridge were to have dined with the Premier and her ladv- ship, but owing to the royal duke's indisposition, arising from gout, ...

... NL~cbonial- 4litcrfurp. E EDINBURGH. THUIISDAY, JUNE 18, 1843. The anmendmnent moved by the Duke of Buekiugham in committee oln the corn bill was, on Monday evening, re- jected by a majority of 136 to 103. This second decision of the Upper House ought to content the Protection party. It is now clear, that a majority of the House of Lords have resolved that the measure of the Government shall ...

... LATEST NEWSo crro,? ?? Spedatl Correspondcnt,) LoNDoS, TunSOAY EvFNIXG. Far-fetched as the statement I sent svon th is morning would, seem to be of a conspiracy anong the Protectionists to pro- duce a panic, by an unnatural fall in prices. on the passing of the bill for the repeal of tihe corn law!s, it obtains credit in many well-informed quarters, n-here an opinion prevails that thle ...

... H. the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cam. •wJ Princc George, visited her Majesty the Queen Saturday. Majesty the Queen Dowager, H. R. H. the Duchess M, and H. R. the Duchess of Cambridge, honoured w their presence on Saturday evening. It ————— that on a change of Ministry. Lord n.. b® s tnt Viceroy to Ireland. 'rtiPT •n Ex agek.—ller Majesty the Queen ijjunl. *' e »bark to-morrow the Black ...

... the immediate orders of the Governor-General, but has since appointed to the command the isioii ltierj the room of thcDu'ked'Aumalc, who is recalled to France According to the new distribution, the military division o Tittery comprises the sub-divisions ol Mcdcah and Miliaaah. We have received the Akhbar of Algiers of the 26t1. ult. It coufirms the favourable accounts already give.' the ...