... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. A few days ago, four Arab chiefs, whose costume had made them the object of general notice at Dieppe, were presented to the Emperor. In their speech to his Majesty, they said they had made the journey from Algiers to Paris, and from thence to Dieppe, in order to see and express to ? ini their sentiments of devotedness and respect. The Emperor replied to them in ...

... 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 ...

... PROPOSED ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM. A committee has been formed, consisting of a large- number of clergymen and influential laymen, for the pur- pose of bringing about extensive reforms in the Established Church ot They propose, inter alia, that no clergyman snail hold more than one living and that he be resident thereon; that all deaneries, canonries, and prebendal stalls b? abolished, and their ...

... 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 ...

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... 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. ...

... The new political novel Charles Delmer, a Story of the Day, describes pleasantly some of the men of the times :—The most remarkable of them was, without doubt or contestation, Richard Cobden. There are few persons of so original an aspect; pale, bright eyed, with high cheek bones, lofty forehead, lengthened chin, with one of those little figures that are overborne by a gigantic mind, and bend ...

... TAKING THE POPULATION.—Constables of the Metro' politan Police Force have been, for some days pas busily engaged in the outskirts of London, in ascertaining the number of inhabitants, the same having been required l>y Lord Palmerston. t t ...

... REBUSES. 1.—A period of time.—A town of Palestine. To watch. —A steep protuberance.—A domestic animal.—The mo- narch of birds.—A title, and a number.—The initials give the name of a town in Scotland. 2—An African strait.—The capital of the cotton ma- nufacturing district in England.—A town in Syria.—The second city in France.—A town in Monmouthshire.—One of the Western States of America, and a ...

... 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 ...

... BEAUFORT. FESnvALS —The Confidential Brothers' Friendly Society, and the Society of Ancient Druids, have been celebrated at the house of Mr. James Lewis, Finers' Arms Inn, with great spirit; Mr. William Needham, president of the former society, conducting the business of the chair with great effi- ciency on each occasion. The spreads were first-rate, and reflected much credit on the worthy ...

... 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 ...