... Colonel N ey was to leave Rome 00 the 31st for Paris. The rope, it was rumoured, would place himself under the Aus- trian flag. The following is a copy of the letter addressed by President I'Ouis Napoleon to Colonel Ney — Elysee National, August 18, 1849. My dear Ney,—The French Republic has not sent an army to Rome to strangle Italian liberty) but, on the contrary, to regulate and preserve ...

... SEEDS. MONDAY.—We have to report a further considerable fall in the value of canary seed. That article was offering, to-day, at from 60s. to 70s. per quarter. In all other seeds scarcely any business was transacted, and the quotations had a downward tendency. Cakes almost nominal. f, s. 8. S. 3*urnip, White, per hushcl. 10 to 12 to 31 10 12 16 25 Mustard, Brown 8 11 Ilempseed, per quarter 32 ...

... WOOL. MOND AY.—The imports of wool into London last week amounted to only 175 bales from Hamburgh, 4-5 ditto from the Cape, 20 ditto from Amsterdam, and 5 ditto from Ostend. Although the private contract market is now freely supplied with most kinds of wool, the general demand is steady, at fully the late improvement iu the quotations. Several parcels of fine colonial fleeces have changed ...

... THE LITERATURE OF TIIE KYMRY. By THOMAS STEPHENS. FROM a brief but very excellent and judicious preface, we find that this wor'.i is the essay considerably enlarged to which the prize of his ltoyal Highness the Prince of Wales was awarded at the last Abergavenny Eisteddfod. Mr. Stephens, in tie following quotation from the preface, thus expresses his views and his reasons for writing the essay ...

... VENICE. The following proclamation was published at Venice on the 28th ult. TO THE INHABITANTS OF VENICE AND CHtOGGIA, AND OF THE PLACES COMPRISED IN THE ESTUARY. The faction, which by deceit, corruption, and terror, has ruined Venice and the surrounding places, lately so flourishing in con- sequence of the benefits showered upon them by the munificence of the Sovereign, being at last ...

... TOWN LETTERS.-No. 19. WITHOUT emigrating to California, there is, after all, chance of some of us at least becoming rich. The returns of the Board of Trade for the month ending August 5, and for the first seven months of this year, are as cheering a docu- ment as we could wish to see. They indicate not merely that we have made our lost ground, but they exhibit a con- siderable increase as well ...

... THE TEA TRADE. THE Roman poets, to whom we are indebted for a parti- cularly interesting account of the manners and customs of the Golden Age, in no single instance lead us to suppose that the custom of tea-drinking, dear to all of the present times, especially to single ladies of an uncertain age, prevailed then as it does now. From their silence on the subject, we are inclined to think that ...

... CUltliKNT PIUCES OF )[ETALS. ENGLISH tltos. a £ S. A.' ENOUSll CUH-KK. (I £ s. 'J. Bar,bolt, &sq. Lou. per ton. 6 0 u' Ordinary shifts perlh.l o o 9 Nail rods „ 7 0 ...

... HAVERFORDWEST. ON Friday last, William Jones was brought before Jas. Owen and William Walters, Esqs., for further examination on the charge of uttering a forged 1:5 Hank of England note, knowing the same to I)e. forged. Since the previous examination of the else, the note had been forwarded to the Bank of England for i'jsp-ction, and was returned marked forged. Further evi- dence was given ...

... On the very day Haynau entered Pesth, namely, the 30th ultimo, there was a military execution-Georg Fulop, notary of Danavese, being shot for participating in the insurrection. Shortly afterwards Kossuth's notes to the amount of 142,071 florins were burned by the public hangman. The whole nomi- nal value of these papers already destroyed at Pesth is stated to be 1,473,043 florins. As a bitter ...

... WANTED, AN ASSISTANT in the DRAPERY business, who understands the Welsh language, in a shop not twenty miles from Bridgend. He must understand buying and selling well, and be partly ac- quainted with the Grocery business. None need apply, but those who have a character for being strictly sober, honest, and obliging. N.B.-No objection to a married man, having the above qualities. Inquire of Mr. ...

... STANZAS TFT,L Me- Pot in rnournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. e Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal: Bust thou art, to dust rettiriiest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us further than to-day. Trust ...