... EVANGELICAL ALHANCE.—The fourth general meeting of the friends of the evangelipal alliance was held on Monday evening in Exeter Hall. The hall, gallm-ies,6 and platform were com- pletely filled. Resolutions were adopted recommending that the first Lord's day in each year should be observed by the members and friends of the alliance, throughout the the world, as a season for concert in prayer ...

... LIZZY is like a budding flower, Fairest in some vernal bower, Which gentle zephyrs fondly seek, To sport upon its damask cheek. She grows in beauty—glads the sight; A gem in Nature's purple light: I saw her joyous, guileless, fair, As playful as the wanton air, And smiling like the beams of morn, When its rich, golden hues adorn The spotless lily of the grove, Blooming fortli in virgin love Or ...

... POLICE NTELtutfxeE. NEWPORT TOWN-HALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. Magistrates present—J. Latch, Esq., mayor, E. Dowling and Thomas Hawkins, Esqrs. THE COLLISFON AT THE SCREW PACKET STATION. John Pearce Lowther, master of the Severn screw steamer, was summoned for payment of JE8. Is. 10^d., for damage done to the Delta smack, of Gloucester, Joseph Robinson master.— Mr. T. Llewellin was solicitor for ...

... A rRET'ri' eoitt oi; tftsMritt. 1 *1811163 franklin was charged with having allowed prosiitutea 'jis beerhouse.— F.C. Bath proved the case.—Deiendant said uad not vet got his license, though he had paid for it; upon 'ch Ail-, Kessick, the clerk, informed him tnut he was liable heavy penalty for selling without a license. Defendant id > ...

... CHEPSTOW. On Wednesday week, at the Baptist Meeting lipase, Chep- stow, Mr._T. Isic'.ioUson. Lydney, delivered a lecture on Chris- tian Missions, in his usually neat, comprehensive, and pointed style. The lecture was illustrated by forty dissolving views of the most important subjects connected with the missionaries, stations, and efiortf, of the various sections of Christians in the four ...

... 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 ...

... OUR LETTER BOX. ANALYSIS OF THE NEW SMALL DEBTS ACT. To tile Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,- -For the information of your numerous readers, and to give them a bird's-eye view of the various provisions of this truly beneficial Act, T have subjoined hereto a brief analysis thereof; and pIHlilIlarly call the attention of the various proprietors of household property in Newport to the ...

... The opinion we, and some few other journals, have expressed, as to the undesirableness, in various aspects, of the aggressive and encroaching system pursued by those who rule our East Indian possessions, and encouraged by the Government at home,—have received a sad and solemn con. firmation in the late intelligence from Seinde. Even some of those who advocated the expedition against the Seikhs ...

... A BiT OF DEVOxsmRE.—Mr. Justice Platt brough out a Devonshire boy in good style last week at Exeter, and evidently enjoyed the fun. In a case of arson, one of the witnesses against the prisoner was John Brown, twelve years of age, whose busi- ness, he said, was to ''go about 'long wi' mother,' selling vish. He stated that he was on an arch over the tunne!, about vower o'clock in the ...

... AND ELFOANT CosMETic.—Ttke half a pound of soft soap. melt over a slow fire with a gill of sweet oil, add two or three table-spoonsful of fine sand, and stir the mixtuie together until cool. The shelly sea sand, sifted from the shells, has been found better than that which has no shells. lhis simple cosme- tic has, for several years past, been used by many ladies who are remarkable for the ...

... C From a Correspondent.) When Sir Robert Peel first propounded his free trade mea- sures wc were at once pleased and surprised. On seeing what had taken place, we felt the same might occur again. Yet scarcely had one season rolled on, before we are unfortunately doomed to wilness the still wone failure--Ihe utter annihilation of the food of millions-the potatoe crop, not only in Great Bri- ...