... CAERLEON. CAERLEOX PETTY SESSIONS.—TUESDAY. Magistrates present:—The Rev. W. Powell and the Rev Thomas Pope. John Harris was charged with keeping his house open before one o'clock on Sunday, the 30th January.—Fined zC2, including costs. Henry Jones was summoned for performing theatrical en- tertainments'in an unlicensed house. Defendant not appearing, a warrant was ordered for his apprehension ...

... THE MINISTERIAL PROGRAMME. THOUGH our second edition of last week contained an outline of the measures announced by the ministers in the House of Commons, there could then, of course, be no comment upon them. Upon the first announcement, relating to the estimates, we are glad to find that there is to be no further increase of men for the army, navy, or ordnance, than that voted before ...

... THE PILOTAGE LAWS. WE are very glad to see that these laws, the operation of which has excited so much attention in our own district, as well as elsewhere, are about to be brought under the consider- ation of the legislature, in the shape of a government bill for their amendment. This, we trust, will obviate the necessity of any local measure. At the tidic, we must caution those interested in ...

... LICENSES TRANSFERRED. MERTIIYR. Royal Jane Jones to John Lewis GwaeJod-y-Garth Richard Davis to Wm. Harris Cross Fras. Jones to Thomas Rees Bee AVm. Griffith to Wm. Hughes Bird-in-Hand Mary Lewis to David Jones New Inn John Davies to John Pendry Black Horse Joseph Martin to Jas. Edwards Talbot Wm. Williams to Jos. Martin TROEDYRHIW. Glan Taff Inn L. Lewis to Barbara Morgan We have the ...

... Flutes of a most exquisite tone and finisb, are be ...

... NEWPORT POLICE BUSINESS CHARGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 17. Charges. I How disposed of. Felony 10 Committed for trial 3 Misdemeanours 8 Summarily convicted 5 Drunkenness 2 0 Vagrancy 4 Discharged 15 Obstruction 0 Assaults setld. out of court 1 Tetal 24 Total 24 ...

... ABERGAVENNY- CORN AND PROVISION MARKET.—MONDAY. Wheat. 5s 9d to 6s 3d üccse 7d per lb. Barley 3s 8d to 4s Od Butter Is 2d Potatoes (per qr.) 6d to 7d Beef, mutton, Fowls 3s Od to 3s 9d and veal 7d to 8d 3s 9d to 5s Od RACES AND STEEPLE CHASE.-From what we have heard concerning the prospects of the next meeting, there is every probability of the sport equalling, if not excelling, any that has ...

... WRECK OF THE VICTORIA STEAMER, AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE KINGSTOWN TUESDAY MORNING.—A frightful catastrophe occurred this morning off the liish coast. The City of Dublin Sfeam Ship Company's vessel, which left Liverpool on Monday at noon, with 120 souls on board, ran on tlie rocks of fthe Howt h Lighthouse, in a dense fog, at a few minutes before two o'clock this morning, and instantaneously went ...

... COUNTY COURT AND MAGISTRATES' CLERK'S. [TO THE EDITOR.) SIR,-I observe a letter in your last signed J.K., in which the writer, in endeavouring, I suppose, to inform the public, and to strengthen the truism that one fact is worth a dozen opinions, has favored us with statements that have no founda- tion in truth, and kindly given us his own opinions upon them. J.K. does not state a fact, when ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The Paris Constitutionnel of Friday, contained a remarkable article, evidently dictated from an official, probably the highest tource. It is in effe:t a review of the Lettres Franques of M. Billot, the Legitimist advoca'e, who has been so framically urging the Emperor to a war with England. It was at first thought that the letters of M. Billot had a deeper meaning ...

... THE IRON TRADE. The rapid attainment of high figures, established at the last preliminary meeting of this trade, after so lengthened a period of severe depression, appeared to leave little room for anticipating any further advance. It was therefore quite na- tural that some anxiety should be felt for their continuance, and that the prevalent determination should be to realize at the ruling ...

... IT was near the close of a raw and gloomy day in the latter end of October, which I had passed in searching for the beau- tiful red partridge, which lie scattered in large coveys among the heath-clad sides of the Pay de Dome, that, weary and ex- hausted with hunger and thirst, I halted in the vicinity of a email antique chapel, to which the mountaineers annually re- sort, on a kind of ...