... Now Christmas is come, Let us beat up the drum, And cali all our neighbours together And when they appear, Let us make 'em such cheer As will keep out the wind and the weather. Much good may it do the heart of the writer of tho above for, as it has been happily said, Or all the old festivals, that of Christmas awakens the strongest and most heartfelt associations. There is a tone of solemn ...

... AA JE RICA. The I-Ialifas royal mail stearrer Caotlcaoia Cap t | Lot, nrrivcd at Liverpool on Mionday nigh:, brinzg- ing dates from New York of the 1 ;th, and Boston the 10th November. The Calcdonia brings £;idHOO in gold, nnd the promise of immense re itia ces of the precious metals. Some of the accounts plomise us no less thall fifteen millions of dollalrs, or between three and aib millions ...

... Newport Shipping Intelligence. Arrivals and Sailings for th3 week ending December 8. ARRIVKD. Hart racket, Bedbrook, Jersey. potatoes. Swift, Worth, Guernsey, beatroot and parsnips. Tberese, Dejoie, Brest, baHast.—Rover, Thrower Favourite, •Thomas, Barrow, iron ore.—Robertfand Ann, Watts, Gloucester, furniture Mary, Stephens, (jloucpsler, hay. Friendship, Gazzard, Gloucester, fh>t»r.— Bristol ...

... To th>. Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR, AS Newpoit is much frequented by VESSELS arriving from foreign ports, where Cholera exis', and as this place is awfully deficient in sanitary regulat ons, would it not be ad- visable that the auihonties should immediately set about the establishment of a Board of Health, whose duty it would be to inquire rigidly into nuisances of all kinds ...

... STU,—At a meeting of the iron masters, coal proprietors, and other freighters, held at the King's Head Inn, Newport, Nov. 22nd, 18-17, Mr. Martin Morrison made a statement which I consider calls for a remark from me, especially as I was con- nected with Mr. Marsh during the setting out of the lower portion of the Newport and Pontypool Railway, and being still connected with that railway, and ...

... 3 SEVEN LIVES LOS T. jj [BY EXL'IiES^.J j We I explosion of fire-damp which occurred on Monday at the Coal Works of .Messrs. Bailey, TNantyglo, whereby seven unfyrhmate i:>dividuals I Were killed. The circumstances attending (his melancholy occurrence, will be found detailed in the S1 following evidence, taken at the inquest on the J bodies of the ill-fated men. The inquest was held at the ...

... I SOC IEIV\ D)l nt i7 l, .C1r , 'iF | ICUI I13 AND1) ,.3 .iZNSUl TUl *l-e t'irili I7a O iI to ti i v ol i i I:i 3 I Cr p ll I ' l- o I Ii' w z'! ihf c- ii. At I r . thi.u ihe aoisti.. tul;!;DIit ' r: C tr'1. iie' l tnhe iu( tllircs, aic' tD be :1;tlil''f t 1 . at1 t l , ; ti! t.et tIo of d;;u pl O( ihttii(t CC i''d'iTI , h'tl t thlatiftt of !> ilic 1 mxi.'ia iof0 to vi h ch-,aJect niwllet ...

... TIHE WLEST INDTA ANTD NELlXICAi AIAILS. -SoeUrtlxslrr'ox, Tu~ l'Sn\Y Nto-i-n, The Forth, llovel M:lil C(on)ulny's stu anl-shila Captairt Chinon itn, arrived this aftvrll'oon, soon after three o'cloekC wvith the Uslial folt iiiglitly \A'cst Indlia mail; as also niails fromn _'Ixico, &c. Shc has bcen looked for during the l:st thrce days, but the strong headl %vind,, bc vy seas, and exceedingIv ...

... TUE USE OF WIT.—Sheridan pacified a quarrelsome fellow oue evening by obselVillg_ 1 should IJlot like to go up in a balloon with )OU, for fear of ouc falliug uut. Cuius 01' A BAD BREAST llY HOLLOWAV'S OINTMENT AND FILLS. — Mrs. Adams. No.3, Upper Spencer-street, St. George's-in-the-East, had a bad breast fur a consi- derable time, with several large lumps in it, besides this the nipple was ...

... NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That at the next GENERAL QUARTER SESSIONS of the Peace, to be holden at Cardiff, in and for the said County, on Tuesday, the 4th day of January next, the Justices then and there assembled will, under the provisions of the several Statutes for amending the Laws relating to the provision and regulation of Lunatic Asylums for Counties and Boroughs, and for the maintenance ...

... 'DI F'I N I T I O N S . 'Child. Soil's pl-bl~nl, XNvitiing Man's solutior. Mtliser. An ;IIwiiteur p,;eolee. A \i oystcr tile Ia peaIrl ill its sah I.--A Ioe wir Who is co lenited with a bireld. A rin wos malkcs blicks thlt his heirs nOle b.,,!d hoimoes. IgWoIeUIoe. Tihe 1eailen ewe rd witi iseliel, the mlss of aukililjl ;I ire eCiuiiiieflhe to fhiil tIc, s-cibl bai htte.--'J'the berreii iiii ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. The. Marqnis of Lansdowne moved the appointment of a select rommitlfe to inquire into the causes of the recent com- mercial distress, in the same terms as the motion made on previou4 evening hy the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons. Lord Stanley suggested the omission of the words recent comme,ci.1 and tbe substitution of those used hy her Majesty in ...