... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the next GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS of the Peace for the said County, will be holden at the Town Hall, in the Town of SWANSEA, in the said County, On Monday, the 19 ...

... EPIDEMIC & CONTAGIOUS DISEASES PRE- VENTION ACT; 9 & 10 VICT., C. 90. The principal sources of disease-of Epidemic ami Contagious Disorders—are now universally admitted to !>e the habitual breathing of a vitiated atmosphere, an impoverished diet, and impaired nutrition. It is a fact, which cannot be controverted, that these evils are at present in extensive operation—fearfdiy active ia many of ...

... [From the John Bull.] Among the reforms which we think the present age will loudly call for, and that before long, is the system of voting by proxy in the House of Lords. On various occasions, but especially during the last session, when the monstrous con- sequences of this system were exciting general disgust, we have endeavoured to show its inherent absurdity. The task was an easy one, we ...

... Entciltgencc. FRANCE.—The remonstrance against the Montpen- siet alliance, presented by the Marquis of Nurmanby to M .Guizot, amounts, according to some accounts, to a very fornal protest. The interview between M. Guizot and the British ambassador is said to have been of a very ani- ma'ed kind, and Lord Normanby is understood to have expressed in energetic terms, the hostility of Great Bri- ...

... foresight. He always wished to see a good-tempered fife, a sober and industrious husband, and clean healthy looking children. These remarks, of course, elicited cheering and laughter,—making those who heard him pleased with themselves as well as with the speaker; who proceeded then to advert to the respective positions occu. pied by masters and men-their mutual obligations. He laill he had ...

... MOMOUTHSHIRE. ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—A man engaged in shaft No. 3 of the tunnel now forming near Newport, was seriously injured on Tuesday last, by a large stone falling on his head. He was speedily removed, and surgical assistance haviag been obtained, it is hoped he will soon recover from the effects of the injury he received. ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday last, a sailor on board a ...

... J.R., Penydarran.We are always most anxious to gratify the wishes of our friends in your neighbourhood but yon must perceive that the insertion this week of the account referred to by you would have the effect of shutting out other matter, which, from its being newer must prove, generally, more acceptable. In future let your communications be sent earlier in the week. to the of :t:i(i its ...

... At a special general meeting of the governors of the Mon- mouth D spensary. held on the 14th inst., the Rev. Dr. Jones in the chair, the treasurer having presented to the meeting a paper containing the resignation of Dr. Humble, it, was .loved and seconded that the same be accepted and entered on the minute book as under :— The meeting have to regret the resignation ofDr.Humble as their ...

... SHOCKING DISASTER AT SEA,-We understand that two men are now in Cork who were taken off the mast of a vessel named the Rose, and were wrecked in tha late cale. They were taken off the spar. by the crew of one of Scott's boats, of Cove. They state the horrible fact, that a third man, one of their compa- nions, who was with them on the spar, was eaten by them, they being driven to that frightful ...

... DOMESTIC NEWS. The Scottish custom of selling fruit by weight has now become general in the metropolis. Tbe edior of The Circular of Bankers, a most careful ob- server, says of the potatoe disease :— The spread of the disease has been signally arrested, and a much larger proportion of the crop of potatoes in Great Britain, and we suspect also in Ire- land, will, we trust, be preserved, than ...

... A CORRESPONDENT of a metropolitan contem- ( porary has called attention to the important subject of the accounts of Executors. A large amount of [ property belonging to widows and orphans, and f others, is annually wasted through the incom- petency of persons who have the management of tt1 r as in sorts oaseg; the dishonesty of execfitors. The miietlial mcastire proposed, is, that exbhutors ...

... We extract the following remarks frum that talented daily- paper, the Sun, on the extraordinary commission of Lunacy on Mrs. Cummins, known at Newport, which has occa- sioned much comment throughout thecountry :— Never has the necessity lor the repeal ot the law which empowers any two medical practitioners, of theit own mere will and plea- sure, to authorise the incarceration of any alleged ...