... ONE of the happiest scenes in life is a marriage festival. Hark to the merry pealing of the village bells! there are grand doings at the Hall to-day. Carriages are rolling along the road, and all the villagers, in their best attire, are gathering about the church. The fair young bride is the only scion of an ancient house, and no wonder that the people love her well, for she has grown up among ...

... A CHAPTER OX DIRT. Grateful poets and religious philosophers have told us that this world of ours is a very beautiful world that its hills are breezy and fresh, its valleys fertile and green, its seas majestic, its rivers pure in their laving, and musical in their murmuring— Sweet is the breath of morn her rising sweet With charms of earliest birds pleasant the sun When first in this ...

... PHILAXTHUOPIC IXSTITVTIOX.—The second anniversary of the Bee Hive Lodge, of Abercarn, was held on the 20th of the Bee Hive Lodge, of Abercarn, was held on the 20th instant, at the Bell Inn. At twelve o'clock, the members marched in procession to the Baptist Chapel, Bula, where an excellent and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. James Rowe the brethren then went to the seat of E. ...

... ABERGAVENNY The harvest meeting of teachers, which is now drawing to a close, has, for the last three weeks, proved a source of great interest and attraction to the inhabitants of this town and neighbourhood many of whom have daily visited the -National-school in which the meeting is held, and appeared delighted with the proceedings. The teachers assem- bled, upwards of GO in number, present a ...

... THE IRON TRADE, &c. The extraordinary demand, which it was easy to forsee would result from a long holding back on the part of purchasers after being for a while retarded by the un- satisfactory prospect of foreign politics, has at length fully set in. Orders for all descriptions of iron are abundant, and the inferior makers, whoarenotencumbered with arrears of old engagements, are now ...

... MONMOUTH. PETTY SESSIONS.—SATURDAY. (Before Geo. Cave, Thos. Oakley, and J us. Davies, Esqrs.) A CASE OF AFFILIATION. A female, whose name was not, throughout the proceed- ings, asked or once mentioned, and, consequently, could not be ascertained by our correspondent, appeared before the Bench, and, having been' sworn, stated that she was a single woman, living in the parish of Rockfield. On ...

... THE DOCK.—On Tuesday next, the water will be let into the Newport Dock (the repairs having been completed), and the business will be resumed. ERRATUM. The word important, in the second line, last week, of our remarks on the Bridgwater will case, should have been independent. BOROUGH REGISTRATION.—There are no less than 427 cases for the Revising ^rrister to adjudicate on, this year, for ...

... ROSS. DREADFUL ACCIDENT FROM THE STEAM THRESHING MACHINE.—A man of the name of James Harris, who attends at Mr. Picher's steam threshing machine, met with a dreadful accident on Monday last, while, employed in threshing corn, at Mr. Yinev Bonner's farm, Mcrrivalo, near this town. It appears that he was about to take the place of a man, who was feeding the machine with corn, when unfortunately ...

... THE POTATO DISEASE. [TO THE EDITOR.] Sm -During the course of the last few months, that dreadful scourge, the potato-blight, has again made its ap- pearance amongst us, and has already committed great de- vastation '11 this and the sistei island. Aly avocations havo lately afforded me a few weeks' leisure, and I determined to devote it to the re-investigation of the subject, in the hope of ...

... THE IRON TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. From the Boston American llailwei/ Times.—The iron trade of this country is we believe, yet to become one of the most considerable, if not the greatest business interest in the country. It has met with checks and disasters it is true, but disaster and partial failures are more often the groundwork of the highest success than otherwise. The history of every ...

... CAERLICKEN, NEAR NEWPORT, MON. Important and Truly Valuable Freehold Estates For Sale, BY PUBLIC AUCTION, By Messrs. CORNELIUS EVAXS AND SON, On WEDXESDAY, the 14th day of SEPTEMBER, 1853, at the WESTGATE HOTEL, NEWPORT, Monmouthshire, at FOUR o'Clock in the afternoon precisely. THIS Truly Eligible Estate contains One Hundred and Fifty-eight Acres Twenty-three Perches of highly productive ...

... SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. The seventh half-yearly ordinary meeting of this Com- pany was held at the Great Western Railway Station, Paddington, on Friday last; C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., M.P., in the chair. The Committee presented the following REPORT: 1. The Directors are. enabled, with much satisfaction, to report a steady and material increase in the traffic during the half-year ending the SOtli of ...