... ? ^at the1^aS migbt expect Mr. Austin here shortly, parts of tVif» + ^°r S°V^ ca^ bis particular attention to those that he shrvni,?Wn .w required immediate drainage, and ■the drainao-a ^J1DU °U^ ^ow was proposed to carry out plan, aD i, en see if they could agree upon a general jThen lot ;+ w°ulddo for the entire drainage of the towjj. ;Sent to tKo vj3 ascei; a.led if the Board would give ...

... Eirths, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. On the lith instant, at Newport, the wife'of the ftev. J. Rogers, Baptist minister, of a daughter. c On the 18th instant, at Palmyra Place, Newport, the lady of Win. Henry Brewer, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Thomas-street, Newport, the wife of Mr. Edmunds, grocer, of a. son. MARRIAGES. On the 15th instant, Mr. Augustus Bertram Cliam^ ...

... EXTRAORDINARY FREAK. At the Westminster Police-office, a quiet looking woman solicited the Magistrate's assistance under the following circumstances. Applicant complained -that her daughter, a girl of 17, had gone through the ceremony of marriage without being blessed with a husband. It was, of course, at the time of the nuptials, supposed that she was being united to one of the other sex, and ...

... SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—Through several reports having reached the authorities, to the effect that many passengers are constantly riding in second class carriages, with third class tickets, and, in fact, boasting of their ability to do so, at all stations, when the tickets are collected at the gate, the trains have been stopped within some few hundred yards of the stations, and the tickets ...

... Nos Fawrth, Aivst 17eg, 1852. l st! Ust! fy hoff gyfaill, a welaist ti oleu ? Fe ddaeth o'r cymylau yn ddysglaer ei wawr; Ah, dacw fe eto yn gryfach, 'rwy'n coelio, Na dim sy'n goleuo ar wyncb y IIawr Ow, dacw un arall yn eanlyn yn ddiball- Mae llawer 'rwy'n deall o honyrit yn dod, B'le mae y trysorau He mae rhai'n yn chwareu Cyn dangos eu goleu i ni is y rhod ? Mae'n well bod yn ddystaw, ...

... ■SPORTING.—On Saturday, the 22nd ult., the Monmouth- shire Hounds met at Llanarth, and, through the incle- mency of the weather, and the state of the ground, met WIth two misfortunes:—the first, having no run; and the ?econd, the huntsman, Mr. Morris, receiving a very severe injury from the fall of his horse-breaking his collar bone and two of his ribs-On Monday, the 24th ult.: the same Pack ...

... PONTYPOOL. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—On Sunday week sermons were preached in Trevethin Church, in the morn- ing, and St. Luke's, Pontnewynydd, in the evening, by the Rev. S. Hodgson, of Pillgwenlly, Newport and in the Town School-room, by the Rev. Thomas Davies, A.M., in aid of the funds of the above society. On Monday evening, the annual meeting of the Pontypool branch of this society took ...

... OPENING OF THE NEW COAL PITS ON CANNOCK CHASE. In the recent reports and proceedings of the ham Canal and South -Staffordshire Railway ,°m,iol icrv considerable importance has been attached to tne can. operations belonging to the Marquis of Anglesey nock Chase a waste of many thousand acres, • g from near Walsal to Rugely and Stafford- 1 »e iwm- merwich Colliery has been in working seve y has ...

... There is now to be found one King in Europe, who is a good practical botanist, and who must look back upon the hours spent in the arrangement of his fine herbarium, with far more pleasure than upon those waisted in a vain and retrograde course of politics. The monarch in ques- tion is his Majesty of Saxony, who, in his scientific career, at least, has gained honour and respect. Many is the ...

... ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE FRENCH. At the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, before. Baron Platt, Edward Raynaud, 36, described as a tai* was indicted for unlawfully attempting to conspire thceFrfenc& murder Louis.Napoleon the Emper ...

... remedied. MAGOR FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. On Tuesday last, a man named Stephens was pushing along a ballast waggon on the South Wales railway, in this neighbourhood, unaware of the fact that another man was doing a like thing behind him, who, also, did not know that Stephens was similarly engaged. Presently the second waggon struck Stephens a violent blow against the buffer of the waggon he was ...

... GARDEN OPERATIONS, &c. (From the Gardener's Chronicle.) PLANT DEPARTMENT. In arranging plants in their winter quarters, on no account allow them to be placed too closely together. It should be borne in mind, that but very few plants have as yet perfectly lipened their wood and, consequently, as that process is still going on, such will require the air to pJIIY fleely around them. Plants, too, ...