... Present-Stephen Iggulden, Esq., mayor, Messrs. Joseph Latch, James Brown, Lewis Edwards, T. F. Lewis, II. J. Davis, Thomas Turner, James Rcnnio, T. B. Batchelor, William Williams, Richard Burton, Richard Mullock, Wil- liam Evans, William Jenkins, T. M. Llewellin, and Edward Thomas. Mr. Grout's application to fix a lamp over his door, was granted.—Mr. Graham's application for permission to fill ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. [Continued from our second and third pages.] NEWPORT DISPENSARY. The April meeting of Directors, appointed for Wednesday last. did not take place, the number present being insufficient to form a quorum. Collections during Marclv. {§ £ 39 9 6 The total before received being 169 15 6 Making, together £ 209 5 0 Reurved Fund.-A mount last reported £ 601 1 0 March 31. Interest ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... ADVANCE NoTM.—The custom of giving advance notes to seamen in porta, is now undergoing considerable discussion at Liverpool, chiefly among American captains, with a view to the abandonment of the system on both sides the Atlantic.— The same matter has frequently been discussed in this port, where advance notes have sometimes been found productive of anything but satisfaction to the parties ...

... FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. The cultivation of annuals for garden decoration has, in some degree, given way to the more permanent class of bed- ding out greenhouse plants, the principal varieties of which have been noticed. Yet some of the former will always nnd a place in the best arranged gardens and a pretty general selection should at the same time be grown, for filling up vacancies, in ...

... PETTY SESSION S.—FRIDAY. [Before Capts. Seymour & Parkenson.] Thomas Stevens, farmer, Llanellen, was summoned for allowing his servant to ride in his waggon, in the parish of lilanelly, without reins. Mr. Stevens said he was at the time under a week's notice to leave, and had left on the day follow- ing he had therefore no chance of getting the expenses, and thought it a hard case for him to ...

... f John Jones, Joseph. Powell, James Stanton, and Mary Yfwr ^ere indicted for burglary in the town of Builth— Bt. Gruilty. A previous conviction was proved against who was sentenced to twelve years' transportation; nes Was sentenced to ten years' transportation, and Powell seven years' ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. A shareholder should have favoured us with his name. Thomas Hari is.Ma rked for insertion. ...

... The Queen has been pleased by letters patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, bearing date the 29ihday of March instant, to ordain and declare that the borough of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, shall be a city, and shall be called and styled The city of Manchester, In the county of Lancaster. Her Majesty has been pleased to direct that the North York Regiment of Militia ...

... POUR BUSY CENTURIES. Really the world i3 not greatly to be blamed for idleness, when we consider that it is, after all, only about four hundred years since the art of printing was invented. The legend of the men of Strasburg, who will have it that their townsman, Johann Mentelin, cut the first types of wood and strung them like beads, side by side, and that Guttenberg was prompted by a ...