... EBBW VALE. SPORT.-A very fine dog fox was tracked and secured, a few days since, by the gamekeeper of Thomas Brown, Esq. THE MONSTER PIG SLAUGHTERED. On Friday morning last, numbers of persons came from Tredegar, Newport, and other places, to see the slaughtering of the giant pig, fed by Mr. John Wishlade, of the Rising Sun Inn. The animal walked out to his doom like a hero, and met the knife ...

... MERTHYR. SUDDEN DEATH.—The people of Merthyr have been thrown into a general feeling of sorrow, owing to the very sudden demise of Mr. John Davies, druggist. The unfortunate gen- tleman left town for his house in the Vaynor, for the purpose of enjoying a day's sporting, on Wednesday evening se'nnight. He was then in his usual health and spirits, but being longer than usual before coming down ...

... NEWPORT TOWN HALL—SATURDAY. Magistrate present William Evans, Esquire. ROBBERY AND ASSAULT IN FRIARS' FIELDS. Ellen Roberts was charged with stealing LIS frora John Price, of Brecon; and Thomas Davies and Gwenilian Hughes were charged with assaulting Price, after the robbery. By the evidence of Sergeant Harlow and others, the charge was brought home to Roberts sufficiently to warrant her ...

... THE MONMOUTHSHIRE ME RLIN. NEWPOKT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1853. THE PEACE CONFERENCE. WHILE the greater part of Europe is resounding with the din of military preparations—with an incessant pa- rade of physical force which seems scarcely within the bounds of that armed neutrality of which we hear so much—there is something very gratifying in the spec- tacle of a numerous gathering of able and ...

... THE post had just come in. A commonplace every-day occurrence; connected in the general mind with pasted stamps and Christmas-boxes. No longer the romantic event it used to be, when, with piquant irregularity, unexpected messengers alighted from their reek- ing steeds at the gates of fair castles, and presented on bended knee, some solitary missive confided to their charge. A mere matter of ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. FRANCE. (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) Paris, Wednesday Evening. The Senate sat yesterday, under the presidency of M. Troplong, who addressed to it an eloquent speech, in which he enumerated the great and numerous benefits re» sulting from the establishment of the Empire. The Senate is again assembled to-day, for the purpose of organising its committee, and appointing ...

... CHARGES FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 29. Misdemeanours 3 Committed 3 Drunkenness 1 Summarily convicted 16 Obstruction 1 Discharged 1 Assault 8 Settled out of Court. 2 Bastardy 2 Public Houses 7 22 22 ...

... PONTYPOOL. WESLEYAN SocrETY.-The treasurer's statement of the funds of this society, in aid of the missionary cause, is, at the close of the present year, highly satisfactory, and the amount collected exceeds that of last year by nearly £ 7, thus exhibit- ing a gradual, but steady, progressive movement. The friends of Methodism, in this locality, are bestirring themselves in right good earnest ...

... RISCA. MOLAWD I T. HEIR, YSW., MEDDYG. Mi glywais am feddygon, Yn Nghymru, amryw droion, Ond ni wclwyd dan y ser Tin fal ein HEIR tirion. Mae'n llawn o ragoriacthau, Yn gwella pob clefydau, Nid oes ci ail mown tref na gwlad, Mor rhad ei ofyniadau. Ar ol i'r llcncyn gwcisci Yn addas iawn briodi, Ymddyried wna ei gangen ber -.t I Heir mewn caledi. Cyduna'r mamau tirion I wacddi o un galon, Mai ...

... Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. On the 16th instant, the wife of Mr. James Horner, boot and shoe maker, Newport, of a daughter. On the 1st instant, at Llanarth-street, Newport, the wife of Mr. John Sheppard, of a daughter still born. On the 11th instant, at Ebbw Vale, the wife of Mr. H. Richards, superintendent of police, of a son—still born. On the 15th instant, at the Bute docks, ...

... THE CHASE. THE TREDEGAR HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Monday, February 21st, at Tredegar House; Wednesday ,> 23rd, at Llanrumney Lodge; Friday >, 25th, at Marshfield: Each day at half-past eleven o'clock. THE MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Monday, February 21st, at Ragland; Thursday. 24th, 7th milestone from Aberga- venny, Grosmont Road. At half-past ten o'clock. THE HEREFORDSHIRE (LD. GIFFORD'S) ...

... THE ROMANS AND THEIR WIVES.-The affection of Aurelius Marcus, a Roman soldier, for his wife, is evinced by a stone in the Norman keep at Newcastle, which comme- morates his most holy wife, who lived 33 years withont a stain. Another sorrowing warrior perpetuates the name of his incomparable wife, with whom he lived 27 years without having a single squabble! Paley, on hearing at Auckland ...