... DREADFUL MASSACRE OF A BRITISH CREW ON THE AFRICAN COAST. The Tweed, one of Messrs. King's vessels, engaged in the African trade, has brought home intelligence of the massacre of the crew of the Heroine, at Tabou, and the recovery of the vessel. The following is the account of Castletownsend agent of the Shipping Gazette. The Schooner Heroine, Capt. Stafford, of London, has arrived at this ...

... DEATH OF A COMEDIAN FROM DELIRIUM TREMENS/ An inquest has been held by Mr. Herford, coroner of the city of Manchester, at the Royal Infirmary. touching the death of Joshua Ridyard, 49, Major street, comedian, as?ed4i years, leavinga wife and seven children, ^.nzatietii Ridyard, wife of the deceased, stated that on rriaay her husband was very unsettled. He had been drinking a good deal for the ...

... A shocking accident occurred in Spencer on Friday. The powder mill of Lewis Bemis, known as the Corning Mil', and situated about one mrIe, from village, was blown up about half-past nine o'clock in the forenoon, killing five men. The names of the killed are Henry Avis, foreman, Englishman, 22 years old, no family- Richard Avis, his brother, 33 years old, had wife and one child; Robert Perkins, ...

... NEWPORT TOWN COUNCIL. ELECTION OF MAYOR, ALDERMEN, &c. On Wednesday last, a meeting of the Council was held for the election of mayor, aldermen, &c., for this borough. The following members were present:—The Mayor, and •Messrs. Evans, Hughes, Homfray, Dowling, Latch, Brown, Webb, Burton, Lewis, Mullock, Retime, Kuapp, Williams, Townsend, Turner, Batchelor, Jenkins, Lle- weUin, James Davies, ...

... FROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT. PARIS, TUESDAY, Siu,—The death of the late Queen of Portugal, resulting from Her Majesty's accouchement, on the. loth inst., is viewed here as an event of great politi- cal importance. My previous letters have prepared your readers for the movements of the Orleans family in the direction of the Spanish peninsula; and the sudden and unexpected demise of this royal ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. By electric telegraph, dated Vienna, 22nd, we learn that the Turks have erected a camp near Utzitza (probably Wrbitz), on the Servian frontier. They have commenced throwing a bridge across the Drina (probably Zrua), and have sent out pickets. The Servians, greatly excited, have risen as one man to defend the frontier. Cannon have been sent there ...

... ■SPORTING.—On Saturday, the 22nd ult., the Monmouth- shire Hounds met at Llanarth, and, through the incle- mency of the weather, and the state of the ground, met WIth two misfortunes:—the first, having no run; and the ?econd, the huntsman, Mr. Morris, receiving a very severe injury from the fall of his horse-breaking his collar bone and two of his ribs-On Monday, the 24th ult.: the same Pack ...

... PONTYPOOL. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—On Sunday week sermons were preached in Trevethin Church, in the morn- ing, and St. Luke's, Pontnewynydd, in the evening, by the Rev. S. Hodgson, of Pillgwenlly, Newport and in the Town School-room, by the Rev. Thomas Davies, A.M., in aid of the funds of the above society. On Monday evening, the annual meeting of the Pontypool branch of this society took ...

... We are glad to find that the authorities of this place are making considerable improvements in some of the lower and more filthy parts of the neighbourhood, by cutting and making culverts and drains, leading into the river, which will add greatly to the cleanliness and comfort of the in- habitants. T -r, OriiMXG OF THE BKYNMAWB. JUNCTION IvAILVrAY. The above railway, from the Beaufort W orks ...

... THE TOWN HALL.—The design selected for execution is now decided to be that furnished by an architect of Wolver- hampton, the estimate for which is £1,800; Mr. Leigh li- berally providing the additional £300 beyond the sum ori- ginally proposed. This gentleman's design is in the Italian style of architecture, simply carried out; and its chief cha- racteristic is a tower at one flank, which ...

... THE BETTER PROMOTION OF EDUCA- TION IN THE MINING DISTRICTS. MR. SFC-YIIOIMTREMENHEERE, the commissioner appointed to inquire into the working of the Act 5 and 6, Victoria, c. 90, and into the state of the mining districts, has presented a report for the present year, in which he recommends the exten- sion to these districts of the educational provisions of the Printworks Act, and various ...

... ABERGAVENNY, STRAYING CHILDREN.—Considerable excitement was oc- casioned here on Saturday evening last, on its being known that two girls—one aged eleven years, and the other seven- had been lost since eleven o'clock that morning. It was af- terwards discovered that the young truants had gone out of the town on the Pontypool road, and had nearly reached Newport, where the father of the eldest ...