... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the next HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of this Company will be held. pursuant to the Act of Parliament, at the PADDINUTON STATION, LONDON, on WEDNESDAY, the 26th day of AUGUST instant, at 12 o'clock, for the general purposes of business. The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely. C. RUSSELL, Chairman. The Transfer Books will be closed on the ...

... NEWPORT. Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending August 19, 1846. ARRIVED. Preciosa, Minde, Memel, 102 pieces timber, 4430 deals and battens, 2400 staves, 3 cord latliwood. Economist, Smith, Quebec, 374 pieces timber, 1310 deals, 40 pipe staves, 6 cords of lathwood, 148 barrels flour.-Balticum, Direksen, Bremen. ballast.—John Royal, Jones, Whitehaven, iron ore.—Elizabeth, Driscoll, Kinsale, ...

... ARAB PnovERBs.- When you are the anvil, have patience; when you are the hammer, strike straight and well. He who cannot take a hint will not comprehend a long explanation. The mother of the murdered man may sleep but the mother of the murderer cannot. 1 like the head of a dog better than the tail of a lion. Take counsel of one greater, and of one less than yourself; and afterwards form your ...

... ODDFELLOWS HIP.——On Monday last, the Glamorganshire Bee, and one or two other lodges of Oddfellows, took the accus- tomed exercise, and after attending divine service, at Ynysgan, returned to their respective lodges, preceded by the Rev. T. B. Evans, and closed the evening, as they had began the day, in joy and good fellowship. The following verses were written by one .f the gentlemen visitors ...

... BRISTOL ASSIZES. Williams and Sawtell, Bankrupts. (From the Bristol Gazette.) TUESDAY, AUGUST 18. A-lort-is and Ky nasi on, assignees, v. Tombs,—Mr. Roxburgh opened the pleadings. Mr. Cockburn: This is an action brought by the plaintiffs as assignees of William Williams and Joseph Sawtell, to re- cover a quantity of soap, as the property of those bankrupts. I shall have no difficulty in ...

... WEDDING SONG, THE maid with the little hand To-day is made a bride; A wreath of snowy roses Around her brow is tied. There are roses in her path, And on her cheeks are more, And her tiny feet are pressing Heú leaves that strew the shore. Our lvark is full of flowers, But we have Idt a place For the maiden and the bridegroom— They take but litttle space. Her boddice is all decked With gold and ...

... TyjOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Act authorising the construction of this Railway having received the Royal Assent, all persons holding Scrip Certiticates for Shares in this Company, are requested to transmit the same to the Secretary for Registration, at the Offices of the Company, No. 449, West Strand, London, on or before Thursday, the 10th of September next, with their Names, Professions ...

... DEATH BY DROWNING.—PORT TALBOT.—Ea:ly on ruesùav m0rllilJ: last a VOUHL: man nanleo John itmes, belonging to the Shannon Packet, of Fishguard, feil o\er loard in attempting to go into the boat, & was drowne ...

... INDIA AND CHINA. We (the Times) have received by extraordinary express from Marseilles the dispatches in anticipation of the over- land mail from India, brought to Suez by the Hindustan. The intelligence is from Bombay, via Madras, up to the 2d of July, only one day later than that received by the last mail. Ibrahim Pacha reached Alexandria on board the Avenger, on the 8th inst. He was in ...

... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. WILSON'S CONCERT.—The lovers of music anticipate another rich treat on the evening of the 31st instant. when this gentleman will again appear and give his Songs of Scotland at the assembly-room, Bush Hotel. Owing to the unpropitious state of the weather, it is feared that quantitiesof hay and coru are greatly damaged in the hilly parts of this county. The TafF was ...

... Another arrival of West India Pices has taken place at the port of Liverpool, consisting of 16,200 plants. There is not a single prisoner in any place of confinement in Lynn. Thirty-six yearr ago there was a like vacuity of gaols in that borough. A curious freak of nature was discovered a few davs since whilst digging potatoes in a garden at Ryeford, near Stroud. One potatoe had grown in the ...

... CRICKET MATCH AT NEWPORT, A match of this manly and interesting sport came oft on the cricket ground of this town, on Tuesday last, be- t%veen the Easton club, and the gentlemen of Newport. The Queues* of the weather, and the fame of the players attracted a considerable number of spectators, amongst whom were several ladies. As will be seen below, laurels, as usual, cfowned the Newport club, ...