... THE CRops.-I have. in the early part of this week, taken a ride through the extensive parish of Bedwelty, and minutely noticed the progress of vegetation on the best as well as the poorest land. Never, perhaps, has fine weather done so much in so short a time every description of crop shows health and luxuriance, particularly wheat, where there has been any thing like good farming; the ridges ...

... BLAENAYON. WHIT MONDAY, MAY 24.—On Monday, the 24th instant, the officers and brethren of the Prince Howell the good Lodge, No. 541 of the Manchester Unity of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, celebrated their Sixteenth Anniversary at the Old Crown Inn, Blaenavon Woiks. The weather being very pro- pitious, a great number of the brethren assembled, who, together with visiting brothers from ...

... JUtrfceU Bing. Vaulting ambition doth o'erleap itself. IN the olden times there liyed a wicked, proud-hearted king, who thought of nothing else but conquering .11 the hods io the world, and making his name a terror to every one. He hurried about with tire and sword his soldiers trampled down the corn io the fields, and burned the houses of the peasants, so that the red flame seemed to lick ...

... Before the Rev. W. Powell and J. Jenkins, Esq. James Williams and four others were each fined the usual 5s. a nd costs, for fighting and drunkenness in Caerleon. Mr Evan Roberts, Llantarnam, was summoned by Jeremiah D onovan, for refusing to pay the sum of £2. 6s., for labour.— Referred to Mr. Williams, Halfway House, Llantarnam. .Mr. Morgan, Church Farm, Malpas, was charged with an ass ault; ...

... SPEAK, B. 6, and teH me true, How dost thou pass the night, Clad in that coat of coarsest blue, And cape of oilskin bright? What dost thou think of in thy walk Along the gloomy street? list the midnight stragglers' talk That come across thy beat ? Or dost thou curse the pelting storm, And shiver in the wind And think it must be nice and warm Within yon lit-up blind ? Dost listen to the ...

... ROTHERHAM, FRIDAY.—The quiet town of Rotherham has to-day been thrown into a state of great excitement by the perpetration of an atrocious murder, which has been committed this forenoon, between ten and eleven o clock, on the turnpike-road leading from Rotherham to Rawmarsn, a village about two miles off, on a woman who was passing on the road.. From inquiries made on the spot, it appears ...

... The neighbourhood of the Hotwell-roaf\ was greatly alarmed on fuesday evening by a report that a woman living in Limekiln- lane had been murdered by her hu-lIand. On enquiry it was found that there was too much ground for the report, the facts being we believe as follow. On Wednesday afternoon an Inquest was held on the body at the White lIart. near to the house, by J. H. Grindon, Esq., and a ...

... ST. PETERSBURG, MAY 18.—The minister of the interior has q addressed the following circular to the Government chiefs: — By an ordnance addressed to me by the secretary of state, his Majesty the Emperor has been pleased to command, that to provide against the exhaustion of the reserve corn magazines by the speculations which will in all probability take place this summer in corn, his Majesty ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, MAY 28. The Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway (construction of docks), and the Llynvi Valley Railway Extension Bills, were read a third time. The report of the Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway and Aust Ferry Bill was brought up and agreed to. After some questions had been put to and been answered by her Majesty's government relative to our interference in the ...

... The officers of the D division of London police were on Wed- nesdav morning called into activity by a murder committed under, it is presumed, the most cool and deliberate circumstances, It appears that Marv Ann Hunt, a female about thirty years of age. out of a situation, about eight week* since engaged the share of an apartment with an aged woman named Mary Stowell, occupying the front ...

... A vessel has arrived at Plymouth from Norfolk, Virginia, with orly ihouiaad bushels of Indian corn and two (housaod bunels of flour. There has been grain enough used in one large porter brewery in London this year to keep alive every individal who has died of etaivation during the time in Ireland. A letter from St. Peiersburuh states that M. Rimsinor, a great Russian proprietor, has presented ...

... At the Offices of Messrs. J. Birch and H. J.Davis, Newport. Magistrates present—The Revds. T. Pope and Hugh Williams. OBSTRUCTION AT THE BRIDGE TURNPIKE GATE. Kent, a horse jockey, was summoned at the instance of Mr. Hodges, lessee of the tolls, for obstructing Geo. Vick, •collect'or, in his duty at the Newport Bridge gate, and refusing to ps.y the toll.—Mr. Birch appeared for the complainant ...