... The progress of education must ever be regarded with inte- rest by the friends of social and moral improvement; and if anything can heighten the pleasure experienced by the philan- thropist^ the intellectual advancement of his species, it must be the circumstance of that improvement being effected among those whose interests and claims are, in many important re- spects, identified with his own ...

... 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 ...

... Although the weather has throughout the week been highly favourable. and rapid progress has been made with the harvest in the north—which would, under ordinary circumsta nc, most probably have produced a further depression in tiie corn trade— business has already, in some degree rallied from the temporary inactivity of last week. This must be wholly attributed to the continued spread of the ...

... SlitPPISfi INTELLIGENCE. N E W P O R T Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending Sept. 23, 181G. ARRIVED. Sea, Dodds, Merimichi, 29 pieces of timber, 5337 pieces of Sea, Dodds, Merimichi, 29 pieces of timber, 5337 pieces of deals, cords of lathwood, 2 spars.—Exile, Fordyce, Quebec, 400 pieces of timber, -863 pipe staves, 150 deals, 3t cords of latlnvood.—Jersey Lass, Dean*, Jersey, 150 bushels ...

... CONFIRMATION OF THE GAS QUESTION. COMMISSIONERS' MEETING. A special meeting was called by public announcement, to be holden in the Town Hall, on Monday, September 21, to take into consideration the propriety of rescinding a resolution passed at a meeting held on the 21st of August last, when the follow- ing gentlemen attended: W. Steele, Tiioma? Jones, and Henry Vermor, Esqrs., Messrs. Jon^s, ...

... DOMESTIC NEWS. THE COXIIIT.—Jersey.—The Queen reached this island athali past six o'clock on Wednesday evening, the 2nd instant. Thursday, the 3rd instant, her Majesty and tile Prince Consor! made a piogress through tile loyai of St. Heiiers, aod ODe ihicugh the country some few milts, to the castle of S!. Or^ueil, very ancient, and said to have betn nigioally built by Julius Caisar.—Her ...