... ANOTHER IMPORTANT TRUCK INVESTIGA- TION AT LLANTRISSENT. LLANTRISSENT, 27th OCT., 1846.-Before Lieut.-C Smith and Wm. Meyrick, Esq.—Michael Sullivan (art o informer) against Thomas Powell, Esq.: being an i' o formation against Mr. Powell, under the Truck Act, for tI having paid one David Grimth, a collier, wages in goods- IMr. Owen, solicitor, of Pontypool, supported the infor' matibn and Mr ...

... FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1846. COUNTY REGISTRATION.—The Revision at Swansea passed without much opposition, Mr. Coke, on the part of the Conservatives, having withdrawn all his objections except one; and in that, as being a claim both frivolous and vexatious, as well as groundless, E. Lloyd Hall, Esq. (the Revising Barrister) gave costs to the Objector to the full amount he was able to do. In the ...

... Quarter computed from the Inspectors' Retllrlli. GENERAL AVERAGE. s. d. s. d. Wheat 48 2 Rve 31 0 Barley 30 9 Beans 40 4 Oats 23 4 Peas 37 11 DUTY ON FOREIGN COHN. Wheat* 9 0 Uye 2 6 Barley 2 6 Beans 2 6 Oats 1 6 Peas 2 6 Oats 1 6 Peas 2 6 ...

... Snrnttftc anU Useful, HINTS ABoUT FOOD.—Uoast meat contains nearly double the nourishment of boiled, but boiled meat is better adapted to weak digestion. Frying is one of the very worst methods of as broiling is one of the best. Baked meat has a strong flavour, is deprived of some of its nutritious qualities, and is difficult of digestion. Spices, sauces, and melted butter should never be used ...

... WHEN God removed papa to heaven, And ma was left to strive for seven, With scarce enough for burial fees (So lillgering was poor pa's disease), Though full of grief, we'd no despair, Relations spoke so kintl and fair! Our grandpa said that he, for one, Would think and see what could be done. Our uncle William and our aunt Hoped we would never come to want; But mother's brothers talked the best ...

... On the morning of Saturday last the inhabitants ofWesr- bromwich were thrown into a state of great excitement, by the report that an explosion of sulphur bad-taken place in one of the coal-pits of the late Mr. Horton, at Lyttleton Hall. Great crowds of persons immediately proceeded to the mouth of the pit, which is situated about half a mile fromWestbromwich, on the Oldbury road. On arriving ...

... THE STANDING ORDERS. THE great increase of railway and other bills, of commercial and general importance, renders the character of the standing orders of both Houses of Parliament, a subject of much more general interest than when but a small amount of public business was effected by them. It is now high time that these orders were revised, so that nothing un- necessary may be required, while ...

... Asthma, Shortness of Breath, Coughs and Colds.- A trniy surprising case.-The Rev. David Williams, the* resident Wesleyan minister it Beaumaris, in the inland of Anglesea, states, a letter dated the 14th of January, 18'15, that he recommende(1 • Holloway's Pills' to a poor man of the name of Davies, who at thc same time was almost unable to walk for want of breath, that he had only taken them ...

... THE DISPUTED CORN DUTlEs.-The Globe says the claims of those parties who paid duty on foreign grain, under protest, in the interval that occurred between the lapse of the old corn bill and the operation of the new, in 1844, are at length about to be adjusted. Govern- ment, it appears, have offered a compromise, which has been accepted. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 30, 1846.-The de- mand in our ...

... DUFFRYN LLYNVI AND PORTII CAWL RAILWAY COMPANY. [BY OUR OWN REPORTER.] A Special General Meeting of Proprietors in this Company was held at the Wyndham Arms Inn, Bridgend, on Friday last, the 9th instant, for the purposes of taking in to consideration the Acts, Proceedings, and Transactions of the Committee since the Annual General Meeting held in June 1845, and especially for confirming an ...

... Intelligent as most certainly the community now are,com- paratively with the state of society in former times, still there appears to have been one essential matter overlooked in the search for intelligence and happiness. How often do Medical men recommend exercise to their patients for Indigestion, Liver Complaints, Costiveness, Sick Head- aches, &c. Females leading an inactive life, and thou ...

... TIIE GKEAT BRITAIN.—A letter hasjust been addressed by Captain Hosken, to the directors of the Great Wes- tern steam-ship Company, in which he gives his own account of the disaster. He attributes the cause of the accident to a chart, which was new, and ditted 1846, not marking a certain light on St. John's Point. The chart appears to have beeu altogether false, for Captain Hosken says, I also ...