... .ctor Hugo has been arrested bv the Belgian police at Brussels, where he concea'edhimsetf under the fatsc Ganvtn(Jacqups). Conduc-edbef.retheProcureurduRot (or having assumed a !a)se name, M. Victor Hugo declared ?atfe had befnobhged to fty with a fa)se passport from i.ar)s, as a member of the c.)mtte de rMtstoCf)? appointed the meeting of the Mountain on Dec. 2. We n.ad in 'he G!l':ætte de ...

... WHATEVER may have been the indiscretions of that eccentric veteran, Admiral Sir Charles Napier, in any other respects, the public generally will re- gard him as having done a righteous and philan- thropic work in exposing the gross mismanagement of the Admiralty department. The gallant admiral's strictures, and the remarks of some of the papers, have sufficiently shown that a vast amount of ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE. CARDIFF. TAFF VALE RAILWAY TRAFFIC Fnr Wfifik endincr Jan. 3rcl 1ft;1 Total receipts. f2,230 10 6 SnIP FIRE.—On Saturday night last, a fire broke out on board the brig Dove, of Newcastle, lying for repairs in Mr. Tredwen's Dry Dock. The town fire engine was promptly on the spot, and with the assistance cf hnnd-buckets, &c., the fire was confined to the cabin, which was ...

... THE BIG MEETING AS DID COME—AND THE MANNERS AS DIDN'T. To my Cozien William, in Swansea, Glamorganshire. My DEAR BOY,—As i do owe you a letter, and as i must not be long in your debt of sich a thing, because as how i be now a man in the prime of life, I sends this few linds to you at once, without no more bother about than for me to rite 'em, the post to carry 'em, and you to read 'em. 1 be ...

... DEATHS. BIlllTiS. On the 26th ultimo, at RiaCft, the wife of Mr. Thomas Hier, surgeon, of a son. Lately, at Pontypool, the wife of Mr. John Powell, grocer, High-street, of a son. \L AM L; 1 AGFS. On the 4th, at Trevetnin c hurch, oy the Rev T. Davies, Miss Maria Moiiis, only Ortogluer ot Mr. Robert Morris, of Aberdare, to Mr. Samuii Kii.s^y, of Newport. On the 1st, at Ennis church, County ...

... DESTRUCTION OF THE STEAM-SHIP AMAZON BY FIRE. LOSS OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FOUR LIVES. PLYMOUTH, JAX. 6.—It becomes our painful duty to report the particutars of a most'appalling accident. The new Roynl Mail steam-ship Amazon. Captain Symons, which left Sou.hampton on Friday, for the West Indies and the Gulf of Mexico, has been totally consumed by fire, and out of 153 persons who were on ...

... Sir Rodeiick Matchisoo reports that he has had a communi- cation from Baron Brunnow, stating that the Emperor of Russia, after inquiry, could not permit a British officer to risk his life in a Siberian rearch for Sir John Franklin, the difficulties of which are ssid to be insurmountable. We suspect the true state of the matter i that such a visitor to remote Siberia, might have seen things ...

... Lefore H. J. Davis. Esq, Mayor- JENNY LIND STOLEN. Lock and Citherine Donovan, two voung women, weie tkl,, stealing a Jenny Lind, not the veritable nightin- garbling her sweet notes on the other side of the ^lej. c' a Victorine fur, the property of Mr. Fromberg, fur- HSo Mr. Cathcart was solicitor for the prosecution. The Vtti °r'3 ^ere observed last Tuesday evening, looking at the furs ...

... WonDs FOR SHIP-BUILDING.— Ihs Lords Commissioners oi her M*je; ty's Treasury have authorised the admission, duty free, of stringy bark wood, and red and blue gum wood, imported for ihepurpose of ship-building in this country. ...

... I RAMBLED away, on a festival day, From vanity, rzla:4e, and noise, To calm my soul, where the wavelets roll, In solitude's holy joys, By the lonely ciiifs, whence the white gull starts, Where the clustering sea-pinks blow, And the Irish rose, on the purple quartz, Bends over the waves below Where the ramaline clings, and the samphire swings, And the long lajniuaria trails, And the sea, bird ...

... I(,l|! SUNDAY.—A murder, attended with circums ances ...

... PONTYPOOL. POLICE COURT.—SATURDAY. JA-i. 3. ^°hn s Before E. H. Pnillios, Esq 'Qg t(, was charged by J.>hu Gibbi, wi h unlawful Iy pas- (| °uRh the Albion Terrace luinpike-Eate, w\ h a waggon eQ cl66 f!orse,> ail(^ re!us,n- t0 Pay the loll —The case having t!e»eQ e,a, y' Pfoved, defendant was convicted in sixpence and ail ...