... MERTHYK. The crops of all kinds, near Merthyr, are fast arriving to maturity and as yet, there are no symptoms of blight upo the potatoe crop. We never saw the haulm looking more luxuriant and healthy- THE LADY CHARLOTTE LODGE GF ODDFELLOWS.—The members of the above lodge met on Tuesday last, at the Globe Inn, and enjoyed a supper of the most elegant kind. The greater part of the members were ...

... EXPLOSION- OF FIREWORKS IN LOIBETII.- On Saturday afternoon, shortly alter one o'clock, an explosion of a fearful character, attended with great destruction ot pioperty, occurred upon the premises belonging to M r. Darby, tire work in an u fact u re r, Regent-street, Lan.beih-walk. Foe premises extended from the front dwelling house, nearly 100 feet back, and were adjoined on either side by ...

... CARDIFF POLICE, AUGUST Present-James Lewis, Eilq., Mayor, and R. Reece, Esq F.S. A A WATERFORDIAX. One Proudlove, or Proudfoot, or Proud something or other appeared to answer a summons obtained against him by the Police, for pursuing the once aristocratic amusement of tbe True Waterford School, by knocking loudly at several doors. in Crockherb Town, at two o'clock on Thursday morning last, ...

... F.itenucd Ji om our second edition, puidts ed Suturdnii evaimg, Monmouth this Jay presented a scene of extra- ordinary animation and excitement. From an early hour carriages and horsemen were arriving from every quarter of the county, and before the opening of the Crown Court, at 10 o'clock, an immense number of persons pressed eagerly forward to secure admission. The arrangements made by the ...

... SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL. To KEEP AWAY THE MOTH.-Before folding up and ting yonr winter blankets, fur, and other articles, sprinkle them, or smear them over with a few drops of oil of turpentine either alone or mixed with an equal bulk of spirits of wine. No stain will be left, and if spirits of wine be used, the odour is not disagreeable,—Sharpe's Magazine. THE CHEAPEST BREAD YET.—We have been ...

... MEUTIIYR.—On Wednesday, the 18th inst., Henry Austin Bruce, Esq., our Police Magistrate, was sworn in as a Magistrate of the county of Brecon, before the Kight Honorable Sir Thomas Wilde, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening, a young lad, twelve years of age, named Daniel Evans, was injured by one of the heavy red mine trams belonging to the Dowlais Company ...

... BANKRUPTS.—(Front the London Gazette). FRIDAY.—A. Carroll, jun., Strand, newspaper proprietor, S. Ta\lor, Tonbridge Wells, pluuher. T. Urooks, Iloxtou Old Town, baker. A Hartlett, Mdlbrook, Southampton, fly proprietor. T. Marks, Westbury-upon-Tryia, Bristol, carpeu- ter. 1. W. Home, 1 elham-ierrace, liromptoa, hotel keeper. W. Jolley, Chariug-cioss, poulterer, W, 1'earse, St. Tuyde, Cornwall, ...

... I I~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our great week, in which all the annual clerical and charitable meetings are held, closed with the sermon preached on Sunday se'nnight by the Rev. G. L. Cotton, late Fellokw of 'irinity College, Cambridge, and now one of the Masters of Rugby School. These meetings commenced on Tuesday se'nnight, and succeeded each other in the following order:- After ...

... On Sunday morning last, about nine o'clock, the townships o! Heaton, Halliwell, and the surrounding neighbourhood, were alarmed by a report that alndn named Iiobert Pilkington, about 56 years of age, had murdered his wife by splitting her skul! with a poker. I he iacts, so far as we have been able to ascei- tain them, are as follow '• — Some years ago, the prisoner, who is a man of violent ...

... I whirl no more in the mazy dance— I bow no longer to Beauty's throne No longer heeding the bright eye's glance, I muse on the lost, alone alone! In the tangled wild wood's deep recess, On the margin of some hidden stream, I conjure back each fond caress- And dream again youth's deathless dream. I look far back—I behold again A bright-eyed maiden, with looks of love, Vainly to clasp her again ...

... Files of papers from California, to the Gth of March, give most painful accounts of the sufferings of the settlers who left Missouri, in May, 1846. Twenty-three waggons, with sixty or eighty persons, lost their way in October, and were overtaken by impassable snows they sent forward two men for assist- ance, who obtained some flour and beef, This (says the Star) was about the middle of ...

... f CALENDAR AMD LIST OF FAIRS, NOTICES, ETC., IN THH COUNT! GLAMORGAN, MONMOUTH, AND BRECON, FOR THB SUING WEEK. AUG. 29. THIRTEENTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY. Morning, 1st lesson, 19 chap. 2 Kings; 2nd ditto, 27 chap. Acts. Evening, 1st lesson, 23 chap. 2 Kings; 2nd ditto, 2 and 3 chap. Johu. 30. Paley born, 1743. 31. John Bunyan died, 1688. SSPT. 1. Partridge shooting begins. Last Quarter of the ...