... LITERATURE. OUR SECOND SWEETHEART. Do not think, gentle reader, that we intend to indite a book of revelations, touching all the wooers we have had in our train: certainly not! We shall betray no serious feeling, and trespass upon no delicate ground. No breach of faith shall be made in any way; but as the harmless truth of the portraiture of poor Ben Hewitt, our first Sweetheart, appeared to ...

... LLANOVER.-Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall arrived at Llanover Court from London, on Tuesday last. HARVEST GATHERING.—The harvest gathering ot teachers for the Diocese of Llandaff, commenced on Tues' day, the 16th inst., when nearly forty assembled. We un- derstand a much larger number is expected. Shortly aftef ten o'clock, the Rev. Thomas Williams, of Trinity chapelj ccmmenced the proceedings by ...

... lastn^°iRNE' ■^UGt 12.—Her Majesty returned to Osborne tevio'r?!1 a fluarter past eight o'clock, after the naval temkW s ^°yal Highness the Crown Prince of Wur- (3jj attended by Baron de Berlichingen and Lord d arles FÜzroY,joined her Majesty yesterday from Lon- r.fi ?n board the Victoria ana Albert, and returned to evening. Her Imperial Highness the and 1U ~?chessCatherine, attended by her ...

... A BATH. 0 SUMMER! Summer, with the golden crown; Thou comest o'er the world with fiery feet: The white-skinned Naiads languidly lie down Amid the sultry heat. 0! now to bathe in some sweet marble fount, In those fair gardens Epicurus founded; Where in bright streamlets icy waters mount, By myrtle trees surrounded; Or in a bath, which old Boccaccio Made murmur to the air with gentle cadence, ...

... BEAUFORT. ANNIVERSARY. — The annivor^^ Methodist Chapel was held on S„„,i y, the Primitive W. Nation, of Bristol, preached in w'len the Rev. 10, and the Rev. M. Harvev la+« Inor,ning at half-past at six o'clock and in the Stroud, in the evening, The congregations were numeroi^n' i lfpast two °'clock- the close of each service collecting Very attentive. At trust fund. A schSo.m ?n Were m £ ...

... A CLERGYMAN GAROTTED AT WORCESTER. A daring outrage of this kind was perpetrated at Wor- cester on Thursday night, and has caused no small conster- nation in that city. The circumstances are these • TI»^ Rev. George St. John, who resides in Brittania-smiaro Worcester, was returning home from a party shortlv W eleven o'clock on Thursday evening, and Z'J JZl7 within a short distance of his house ...

... CARDIFF. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 3.—The iron steam collier Rajah, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, sailed this morning for Cardiff, to take a full cargo of coals, and proceed thence, via the Cape of Good Hope, to Signapore, where, after her arrival, she is to be employed in running to Labuan, in Borneo, to convey coals from the mines of the Eastern Archipelago Company ...

... PROVOKING Engines up so early, With squeaks and squalls and hurly-burly. You wake md from my nice repose, When I 'm enjoying such a dose Noisiest of noisy things you are, I wish you were gone from me far; You steam and puff, with such a zest, You will not let a body rest. At four o'clock you all begin, Plague take you, and your horrid din For when one wants to have a snooze, You take delight ...

... FEROCIOUS ATTACK BY A RAT On the night of Friday, the 12th inst Mr 1 c High-street Bristol; fishmonger, and his'wife wf °j by hearing cries of distress from a room over which three of their children slept. Mrs peirs' fn without waiting to get a candle, ran up stairs in dress, and found her children in a state of great agitation lliey informed her that there was a rat in bed with them and the ...

... HENRY WILLIAMS, Treasurer, 10, Victoria Place, Newport. Monthly Report, to June 30 Monthly Report, to July 31 Under cave May 31 109 Under care June 30 126 Admitted since 128 Admitted since 116 237 242 92 Cured 129 12 12 Died 7 Died 9 Under care at present 126 Under care at present 92 237 i 242 ROBERT F. WOOLLETT, burgeon. The Mount, August 3rd, 1853. ...

... DEPOSIT AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE A COMPANY. eCo Tn°T!ef,t tho many gratifying proofs of the advance of of H°tn'C Principles and prudent habits in the social masses saf present day, the very general adoption of the family e8«ard, afforded by the principle of life insurance, holds a °nunfiEl, p:ace_ Fathcrs 0f familics uow, in unprecedentedly a„^erou8 instances, make laudable endeavours to ...

... THE FORSAKEN HARP. TO MISS M. C. J. AH cofiaf don olaf y delyn Sy'n ddystaw a mud ger fy mron; A r hwyr, pan ar finion y cribyn, Y seiniwyd ton olaf ar hon Mewn hun yr adgofiaf di'n chwarau, Fel angel, a'i edyn yn gain, ^^cyffwrdd yn dyner Wi thannau, A i anadl yn pereiddio'i sain. Ah c°fiaf y llais fu yn pletlm A i thannau go-fwynion bm hyn A chofiaf hardd freichiau o'i deutu, A thegweli ...