... WAYS AND MEANS FOR RUSSIA. The fact that on Saturday the remaining portion of the £ 800.00; obtained by the Russian Government through the disposal of its Exchequer Bills, was shipped off, excites much interest, because it paves the way, as is thought, for a new loan. If already, and in the commencement of the war, a scarcity of money is experienced at St Petersburgh, I may be readily ...

... PETTY SESSIONS—WEDNESDAY. Before Thomas Brown and George Homfray, Esqrs,, and the Rev. Edwin Leigh, Clerk. Cecilia Williams was charged with having given false evidence on the 4th November, at the Blaina Petty Sessions, before John Conway, Esq., on a charge of vagrancy against one David Williams. Mr. Rice, articled clerk to Mr. Owen, of Monmouth, represented the complainant, and called Mr. ...

... THE sun has set, Day lingers yet, The red moss-rose is weeping And lone and still, O'er the distant hill, The yellow moon is peeping. 'Tis calm ai death, Save the balmy breath Of the breeze o'er night-flowers stealing; While the star of love Is seen above Through fleecy white clouds sailing. List! Marian, dear, Thy lover's near, 'Tis his guitar that's sounding To mark thine eye, To hear thee ...

... THE EXILE'S RETURN. WHEN absent, my country, from thee and thy sorrows, My proudest, my happpiest dreams were of thee; As the lovely from distance a warmer light borrows, And the sun gleams more splendid athwart the wide sea. My day-dreams of childhood, of manhood, took wing In the light that once played round thy free-trodden shore: Mere creatures of moonlight, they died with the spring, And ...

... LIBERALITY.—We have heard with pleasure that the EarlofPowis, at his last-rent audit, generously returned £10 per cent. to his tenants. He likewise ordered that the wages of the labourers on his several estates should forthwith be advanced, to meet the present high prices of provisions. —Cymro. SLANG.—Charles Dickens says- It is no excuse for this word sinning of ours, to say that we have ...

... Awen, the term applied to the poetical inspiration of the bards. f Bwa Bach (Little Hunchback) was a nickname which the bard gave him in all his works; and it soon became so generally known over the country, as to answer the pur- pose of the modern custom of procuring the sanction of regal authority, and the original name of Cynfrig Cynin was nearly lost. t There were numbers of the Welsh in ...

... CHEPSTOW BAPTIST SUNDAY SCHOOL.—The anniversary of the above institution was held last Sabbath. The Rev. T. Thomas, President of the Baptist College, Fontypool, preached both in the morning and evening and the children were publicly examined in the prophecies relating to the Messiah, and their fulfilment. The hymns sung by the children on the occasion were much admired, and the ser- vices were ...

... A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DAFYDD AB GWILYM: [A WELSH BARD OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.] One of the most remarkable consequences of the con- quest of Wales by Edward I. was the depression of that lofty poetical spirit which had previously distinguished the Welsh nation. Before that event the Cambro-British bards appear to have devoted their genius to the grand theme of national independeuce. ...

... mtffro! ntartt Birjj&tr! AEDENAWC. PRAITH I. SWLL I .—Minerva, y Farehnatty; ger Y farclmatty tu Myron, a thyarall. Gyferbyn a thy Miron, ty Polidor. Y CYMERIADAU. PENAETH MINERVA. POLIDOR, Maelcrydd, MYRON Ar- fogwr, NEOCLES, AMYNIAS, ELPHENOR, LYCON, Pysgodwr. ACTE, Gwraig Myron, CORINA, ei Merch, THEANO Ct/m- ydog, GWRAIG I BYSGODWR. AEDENAWC, Ariueinydd Byddin o Frythoniaid Barbaraidd ...

... The mortal remains of this deeply-lamented nobleman were, on Thursday, deposited in the vault containing the ashes of the fathers of his house, at Badminton. The last sad offices of the dead were only completed on Wednesday night. The hall was unadorned with funeral paraphernalia, except that the floor was covered with black cloth, and at the north end an escutcheon of the ceased's arms was ...

... Early in last week, or at the close of the former looking person, with plausible address, applied toIe1ft »8 large room of the town-hall, for two days, for the he stated, of opening a bazaar of rich and first-rate curios1 such as probably had never previously regaled the efe the good people of Newport. He wished to obgtHTe .th\IØt had no wheel-of-fortune, or anything so low or on the score of ...

... Sir Robert Peel has consented to deliver a five of six towns of the Midland district, in aid being raised to employ a lecturer in eonnexi011 Midland Union of Mechanics' Institutes. f ...