... MONMOUTHSHIRE. TUE STRING ASSIZES for the county of Monmouth are to take place on the 2ith of March, at Monmouth, befure Mr. Justice Patteson and Baron Platt. PIlOYlOENTlAL ESCATE FROM FIRE. —On Monday night last, about eight o'clock, it was discovered that the resi- dence of the Rev. James Coles, uf M ichaelstone, was on lire, and the house full of smoke. The cause of alarm was discovered tl) ...

... LITERARY VARIETIES. FOREIGN advices received from California arp, to grt there as soon as possible. H It is a curious fact, says the Times, that the most carnivorous quadrupeds are Inore averse to devouring women than men, women are deseribed as the tender sex. Mr. Timm, said a wa £ how do you keep your hook by double entry. entry, how's that I 0, easy pnou:;h-I make one entry, aad ...

... NEWPORT, JANUARY 22nd, 1850. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the HALF- YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of this Com- pany will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 13th of FEBRUARY next, atthe KING'S HEAD INN, in the Town of NEWPORT, at One o'clock in the Afternoon precisely, to receive from the Directors an announcement of the Dividend for the half-year ending the 31st of December last, and on other special affairs. ...

... TH K CARDIFF Ml) MFJITilYIfc F it IDA Y. FEBRUARY I 1850. SIR BENJAMIN HALL AND THE COPLESTON TESTI- MONIAL.—We think it right to state that the copy of Sir B. Hall's letter, which appeared in our columns last week, was not an exact transcript of that which had pre- viously been published in the Hereford Times the passages referred to in Archdeacon Williams' letter, with reference to Gelligaer ...

... CALH N D R AND LIST OF FAIRS, NOHCL-S, ETC., IN TIIE COL'N IIES O* OLTMOKGAX, MUSJLUL' RIL, AND LSUECJN, t-S SUING WEEK. FEU. 10. QCINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY. Morning, 1ST les- son, Y c. Gen.; tiud do., 10 c. Ma:k. Lvening, L»t 11. 12. Shrove Tuesday. New Moon, (V>. 29:n. IN. 13. Ash ednesday. I' list day oi Lent. 14. alentitie Day. 10. I' AI ICS. — Glamorganshire: Llantrissen, Feb. New bridge, I'eb ...

... An experimental message balloon, as suggested by G. Shepherd, C.E., for communicating inlurmation with Sir J ohn Franklin in the Arctic regions, will be despatched from London in the course of a few days. The messages will be printed on coloured paper, many thousands of which will be circulated, and any person who may pick up any one of the slips is respectfully requested to forward it ...

... WAITING FOR THE COUNTESS. Lines on see in? Lawheer's fine thawing of a heaj-'tiful m:d favorite Hound, belonging to the Countess of Blessimjton.) Tis sweet to watch the morning break OVr mountains bleak alltl bare. To view the cloud?, lik vessels, take The azure sea of air To watch morn's magic pencil touch Each golden stream anti grove;—■ And sweet it is—when loving much, To wait for her we ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. The following new members were sworn —Hon. A. Pel- ham, for Boston Mr. Stanford, for Reading Mr. Best, for Kidderminster; Mr. Evelyn, for West Surrey; Col. Chat- terton, for Cork Lord A. Lennox, for Shorcham. THE ADDRESS Mr. Villiers, iu moving the address, in- dulged in a free-trade speech of great length, in the course of which he very courageously a-serted that ...

... THE NEW SHERIFFS. GLAMORGANSHIRE. — Rowland Fothergill, Esq., of Hensol Castle. HHFCONSHIRE.—Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Mor- gan. of Therrw (and Tredegar Park, Monmouthshire). MONMOUTHSHIRE. —Crawshay Bailey, Esq., of Llan- thewy Court. CARDIFF LIBRARY.-CROCKHERBTOWN. The annual meeting of the subscribers to this institution held in thelibtary-toom on Thursday last (yesterday) when there were ...

... THE EXPELLED WESLEYAN MINISTERS. A very crowded meeting took place in the Town- hall, Cardiff, on Wednesday evening, under the pre- sidency of the Mayor, CHARLES VACHELL, ESQ., for the purpose of hearing from the mouths of the Expelled Wesleyan Ministers a statement of their grievances and their version of the extraordinary oc- currences during the sitting of the Wesleyan Parlia- ment—the ...

... The Parliamentary campaign opened on Thursday week nuspitiOllsll for the Whigs, whose tenure of office is tolerably secure so long as the Opposition benches continue to be tenanted by a purely protectionist minor- ity. Considered as a trial of strength, the preliminary skirmish justifies the complacency with which it is regard- ed by the friends of the present Government. The tactics of the ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. THE WELSH CURATE r. JESUS COLLEGE. To the Editor of the Cardiff mâ Merthyr Guardian. The crraturc's at his dirty work again. SIP.-T am sorry yon should have bef'1I subjected to an insolent LÜ..Y the Vt e (/uate V«J seem, however, not to have borne in minn IlIat, be. ides bein £ a correspondent of tiie TIMES (of which he has twice reininoen you), he knows '1:[ bollt the ...