... 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 ...

... THE OPPOSITION TO THE BUDGET. THE campaign against the Chancellor of the Exchequer's scheme was opened on Monday night, by that brilliant novelist, but indifferent politician, Sir E. B. Lytton. The income-tax was, of course, the main question, and the points of assault were well-selected; that most unpopu- lar of imposts being rendered more open to attack by the error of ministers in not ...

... THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUSfc IN DEFENCE OF HIS BUDGET. (From the Birmingham Journal.) The following important correspondence has been placed iil our hands for publication, and we give it without a word of comment, as the plain and feasible arguments of the Chaff' s cellor, and the spirit of considerate kindness which dictated his reply to the remonstrance of the clerk, need no exposition* ...

... BLAENAVON. THE BLAENAVON IRON AND COAL COMPANY. At the annual meeting of shareholders, held on Friday, at the company's offices (R. W. Kennard, Esq., in the chair), the financial statement showed the make of pig. and metal to have been 25,439 tons finished bars, 8137 tons unfinished bars 1024 tons. The sales during the year haTe been, pigs, metal finished bars, 18,647 tons; unfinished bars, ...

... A novel arrangement for lighting the House of Commons has been made during the recess. The collection of chandeliers has been swept away, and all the lights have been removed from the interior of the chamber. The whole of the flat portion of the roof is now glazed with ground glass, slightly ornamented, and with a circle of colour in the centre of each of the sixty four squares, and the light ...

... AGRICULTURE. WADEBRIDGE-TENANT RIGHT. At a late meeting of this club, Mr. Stephens said, on this subject there was a time when the tenant had a right co ex- clusive with that of hislandlord: it was well he took the estate. Then it was that those two parties were entering into a bar- gain that was to bind them for the rest of their covenant; but, beyond that time he did not understand what was ...

... :p ÐA.IUNG BURGLARY AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF bur T8'- Wat.chb8, AND JBWELLEBY.—One of those daring p which appear to bid defiance to the exertions of the Poli(!e to discover the: thieves, was effected on Saturday on the inn!? 8 ^r Catmore, manufacturing silversmiih, watch- whe No 6, St Ann's-lane, St iMartin-le grand, c Property to the amount of several hundred pounds was bur-'l premise! of ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. FIRST REGIMENT OF FOOT.-J ohn Martin Brown, gentleman to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Murphy, who retires.—Anril the 22nd. SUDDEN DEATH.—OnWednesday, last week, Isaac Edmonds, aged 73, who had been an inmate of the Newport Union House between nine and ten years, attended prayers in the house, and was afterwards walking across the men's ward, to take his breakfast, when he ...

... • v ONE tottering step, and one helpless cry— One crash into the wave- And the gentle child is quivering still Within the watery grave. Ah! weakly and wildly writhes his form Amid the swift stream's foam- As he hurries away through the strangling spray, By the door-steps of his home. Lank, long, and wet, are the curly locks, As white as the Spring-bud's breast, That rested, like light, in ...

... LLANELLY- PHILANTHROPIC INSTITUTION.—The quarterly meeting of the Philanthropic Institution of the Tredegar district, was held at the Howard Clydach Lodge-room, Beaufort Arms, on the 9th instant. At the above meeting it was unanimously resolved, that a new lodge be opened during the quarter, at Pontymeistr, in the neighbourhood of Risca. There was a public meeting held at the above lodge-room ...

... MONMOUTH. THE SUICIDE OF MR. DUBBERLEY. Last week we gave a brief account of the melancholy sui- cide committed here by Mr. T. Dubberley. The following is a report of the inquest, which was held at the Beaufort Arms on Thursday last, before J. Hughes, Esq., coroner, who, in an address to the jury, in which his feelings, were quite over- powered, observed that, in the present instance, the case ...

... MERTHYR. MAGISTRATES' OFFIC E.—FRIDAY. [Before J. C. Fowler, Esq., and Dr. Thomas.] Timothy Hallahan was charged with assaulting P.C. Mat- thews. Fined j61, and costs, or 14 days' hard labour. Lewis Rees, charged with committing an assault on Wm. Roberts, was fined in the full penalty of JES, or two months' imprisonment. Maria Berry, charged with stealing a coat from Ephraim Harris, was ...