... 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 ...

... IMPORTANT DECISION BY H. G. ALLEN, ESQ OF THE SOUTH 'WALES CIRCUIT, IN THE REGISTRATION COURT, BRIDGEND. An esteemed correspondent, from Bridgend, has favoured us with H- following report of two able and important decisions given by Mr. H. G. Allen at Bridgend matter of the votes of Thomas Morgan and Thomas Williams, in the parish of Nealh Higher, and of John Moigan, in the hamlet of Dylais ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE.—Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, of Park- wern, near Swansea, Esq.; Richard Bassett, of Bonvilstone House. Esq.; William Llewellyn, of Court-colman, Esq. MONMOUTHSHIRE.—Thomas Browne, of Ebbw-vale,E«q.« John Russell, of Risca, Esq.; William Cave, of Peniiow, Esq. BRECONSHIRE.—John Powell, of Watton Mouut, Esq.; John Vauchan, of Velinnewydd, Esq.; Thomas Davies, of Llangattock, Esq. ...

... This ia supposed to allude to two decoctions called port and sherry, and imagined by one earthly nation to partake of a vinous nature. + When our successful rival is ugly, the blow is doubly severe, crushing—we fall by bludgeon we who thought the keenest rapier might perchance thrust in vain. ...

... On Wednesday, Mr. Holland, deputed by the Govern- ment to visit Newport, among other towns, to aseertai11 the state of the existing burial grounds, attended at the Council Chamber, at eleven o'clock, and received reports from the various ministers of the town, as to the burial places attached to their several chapels. The Burial Board was represented on the occasion, by Messrs. Robert Gething ...

... ,S!ve^m?XE,OUT1ON OF MOBBS. h l '°Ua.'n °^. t'ie wretched man, Nathaniel Mobbs, li. y in! ?t,i'ty °f murdering his wife, took place ,:n0t Irer)/1111.1* at Newgate. Early on Sunday eve- i/thsHv,?? Persons assembled in front of the jail, ki'j 4 ere +i 1UK the state of the weather, they re- li't n'le whole of the night. By seven o'clock, ieai>rS?ns 'la(^ asseln^^e ...

... brynmawr- LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.^ We are gra- tified to find that this institution is progressing favourably, and has had, comparatively speaking, a prosperous year. With the Duke of Beaufort, the High feherinot Monmouth- shire (Henry Bailey, Esq.), Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., M.P., and J. F. Rowlands, Esq., its patrons, the institution could scarcely do other than prosper; ...

... [FROM THE GERMAN.] THE Angel of the flowers one day, Beneath a rose-tree sleeping lay; That spirit to whose charge is given To bathe young buds with dew from Heaven. Awakening from his light repose, The angel whispered to the rose, Oh! fondest object of my care, Still fairest found, where all is fair, For the sweet shade thou'st given to me, Ask what thou wilt, 'tis granted thee. Then said the ...