... CHEPSTOW. Opening of the Great I*, ail way Bridge at Chepstow. I Wednesday last was the auspicious day, so long desired by railway shareholders, men of business, and tourists, whea an unbroken line of railway should connect South Wales with the Metropolis of the linipire. Glorious sunshine, perhaps too glowing welcomed the event; cannon roared and reverberated from rock to rock upon either ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The rumours that Louis Napoleon intended to prolong his stay at Strasburg prove to be unfounded, the President baying quitted that city for Paris on Thursday, stopping for the night at Nancy, where, as at every other place on the line, he was most en husiasticaily received. On Monday morning the Prince reached Paris, and shortly afterwards proceeded to his summer ...

... The public sales of colonial wool have been well attended during the past week, and most of the parcels offered have changed hands at full prices. The auction advertised for the 7th proximo has been withdrawn. Privately, we have no trans- actions to reports. Since our last, imports into London hate amounted toj-205 bales from the Cape, 700 from Port Philip, 932 from Port Beaufort, 1,048 from ...

... A musical gentleman, while performing, was lately arrested by two bailiffs, who requested him to join them in a trio. I should rather imagine, said the unfortunate gentleman, you wish for a catch f An American contemporary says that female costume is. per- haps, the most expensive result of the fall. No sooner had Eve bitten the apple, than she discovered that she wanted a dress; and that ...

... Monmouth Boroughs Election. On Tuesday last, Crawshay Bailey, Esq., late member for the united boroughs, was re-elected without opposition. The writ was received by the High Sheriff on Tuesday, and John Mayou, Esq., Mayor of Monmouth, fixed the day named, for the nomination, at the Borough Court, Monmouth. The hon. candidate and several of his friends left Newport on Monday evening; and a ...

... At the Gloucester Court of Quarter Sessions, at the Shire Hall, William Fox, aged 20, and William Dick, aged 22, two students of the Medical College at Birmingham, each of them respectably attired and wearing moustachios, were brought to the bar before J. C. Hayward, Esq-, charged with having stolen three gold rings of the value of X40 from Messrs. Martin and Co., jewellers, of Cheltenham. Mr. ...

... NEWPORT CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY. Ilee £ 5(1 to 5jd per lb. Lamb, per lb. Veal .A\d to 5d per lb. Bacon pigs, 6s Od to 7s per st. Mutton. 5d to 5^1 per lb. Porkers, 7s Od to 7 s 6d per st. e, a very sllort supply of fat beasts, bnt sheep were tolerably numerous. ...

... A LAND of tombi Behold the awful shade. Of the proud Pyramids 1 but where are they, The kings who planned, the fainting hosts who made These mountain structures louring on the day? Theh deeds remain, theinsetves have passed awny- Passed like the thunder cloud from Heaven's bright brow; Faded like visions, but their structures aye Witness of their magnificence, which now Men only know once was ...

... MAGISTRATES' OFFICE, HIGH STREET. SATURDAY. M.gi,trates present-Rev. Thos Pope and the Rev. Chancellor Williams, and O. Morgan, L'q., !\].p. Thomas Rees was charged, on the in forma lion of SergtPratter^ with keeping open his public-house, the Full Mooa, Machen, for the sole of beer on Sunday morning, contrary to the lenour of his license.—P.C. Her»y proved the case, and defendant was fined ...

... T PAECHEDIG D. AB RHYS STEPHEN. Yma gorwedd y gwrono-cawr Gwalia A welir tan gloion Lienor gwlad,—dyngarwr lion, A mawr wr, yn mro'r meirwon. jj- r. GOMZR AB TEGID. ...

... TREDEGAR- ROBB E RY. A young man named John Seaton, who was lately in the employ of Mr. Wm. Wilson, draper and tea dealer, of thi place, was charged on Monday, before — Fothergill, Esq., with having stolen a pack of cloth and linen, the property of his master. He was remanded for further evidence. -The prisoner decamped with the property when on one of his journeys, and found his way to ...

... AN IfusH GRACE.—Some years ago, when the Duke of Devonshire paid a visit to bis estates in Ireland, the steward o the mansion at which his Grace intended to sojenrn, called- all the domestics together to tell them how to demean them- selves, saying, among other things, that their master was- much higher than a Lord—he was a Duke; and, said be, qu,aintly, whenever he speaks to you, you must ...