... FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1853. To discuss so vast and complicated a measure as an India Bill, involving the government of a country containing 150 millions of people under the rule of Great Britain, can scarcely be expected of a pro- vincial journal. To obtain the most superficial acquaintance with the subject would require an amount of time and investigation which few men would be found to bestow: ...

... ABERGAVENNY- TOWN HALL. -WEDN.ESD.,Y. [Before the Hon. W. Rodney and the Rev. Geo. Gabb.] The only case that came before the Bench to-day, was that of a boy named Williams, whose mother stated his age to be five years. Ho was accused of taking some money from his sister, with which money the sister had been entrusted by a person who had sent her to buy something with it. The boy being of so ...

... DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—NEARLY TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST. News by the Asia lias been received that a vessel Lad arrived at New York, with the captain, iirst and second mates, and six of the crew of the bark William and Marv, which foundered on. the 3rd inst. at Storrey's Key, Bahamas Is!ands, with 170 passengers on board, uearly all of whom perished. The William and Mary (a Balti- more vessel) left ...

... LONDON MARKETS. CORN-MXCHANGE. MONDAY. At this morning's market there was a small show of wheat from Essex, and tbe quantity exhibited on the Kent stands was not by any meant large. Factors manife«teu no disposition to give way in their pretensions,and though the demand was not active, a fair clearance was made. at about the prices of Monday last. There was less inclination to buy foreign ...

... Riddle me this, and guess him if you can.—DnTDBK. [We hope some of fair, and other correspondents, will rid- dle us the following, if they can, by our next pub- lication.] 1. There was a man bespoke a thing, Which, when the maker home did bring, He that bespoke it did not choose it, He that made it did refuse it, He that had it did not know Whether he had that thing or no. 2.—Why is a fender ...

... mimim What Mr. Bright said of Merthyr was totally misrepre- sented in the Timis and most of the other Loudon papers. He said that, when he was there six years ago, there was only one church and twenty chapels (he forgot Dowlais); but that now he had been informed that two new churches had been built and another wasin progress. LETTER FKOM H. A. BRUCE, ESQ., M.P. — We have just ieceived the ...

... [Before W. Williams, Esq., Mayor, and G. Phillips, Esq.] BILLETTDiG THE MILITIA. It having been arranged that the decision of the magis- trates should be given this day as to whether the keepers of public and beer-houoes, in the old town, should continue to provide accommodation for the militia men who had been transferred from the locality about the Docks to them, seve- ral of the interested ...

... SAINT MARY'S CHURCH. — This sptcious anil com- rtrodiou* fditit-e was well til led on Sunday last—several companies of the 41 Royal Glamorgan being present nil itiflux of visitors, in addition to the congre- gation that usually rr^eis here for Divine Worship. The j^e,v organ wag heard to great advantage ami, we be- lieve, tvnu universally admired for its richness of lone and c°inpa#3, 11 is ...

... THE CAMP AT CHOBHAU. — WOOLWICH, June 15. Twenty-two waggons, each drawn by lout horses, left the Royal Arsenal at 8 o'clock a.m. to-day, loaded with ammunition, and accompanied by an escort of loit Artillery, for Chobham-common, for the service of the troops encamped there. Seven women were Stowed to pioceed with each of the butteries of Royal Aitiilery when tbey matched from Woolwicii for ...

... I He who will reign at Constantinople, will be the real Sovereign of the World. Therefore, we must stir up inces- sant wars in Persia and Turkey—establish dockyards in the Black Sea, and gradually take possession of it-hasten the fall of Persia—penetrate to the Persian Gulph—re-establish, if possible, by the way of Syria, the commerce of the Le- vant—and advance as far as India, which is the ...

... MERTHYR- MAGISTRATES' OFFICE .—WEDNESDAY. (Before J. C. Fowler and W. Thomas, Esqrs.) Thomas Jones and David F. Jones were, on the applica- tion of the relieving officer, ordered to pay 2s. and Is. 6d. per week respectively, toward the support of their aged father, who was left chargeable to Merthyr parish. David Rees v. John Jones, collier, and Bridget Madding f. John Francis. In each of ...

... NANTYGLO- ODD FELLOWS.—On Monday last, a tea party took place at the large room, Greyhound Inn, Nantyglo, got up and ably supported by the brothers of the Nantyglo district. The proceeds were to be devoted to that excellent institu- tion—the Widow and Orphan's Fund. Nearly 1,000 tickets had been sold. The brothers and the company generally, appeared to be highly pleased with the kind and ...