... MAGISTRATES' OFFICE, HIGH-ST. NEWPORT. SATURDAY. Before the Rev. Thomas Pope, Rev. Chancellor Williams, and Thomas Gratrex, Esq. GREAT TURN-OUT OF COLLIERS, AT RISCA. „il^H^Padfield, Wm, Hurn, Thomas Britton, Joseph Wallace, jun., John Sees, Mark Emery, Robert Hurn, Isaac Chivers, and Giles Britton, colliers, at the Risca Colliery works, were summoned for that, being under a contract with John ...

... Newport Athenaeum and Mechanics' Institute. THE Committee have the pleasure to announce ± TWO LECTURES OX BUSLESftUE, BY C. CHARLES, ESQ., OF LONDON, On Wednesday and Thursday Evenings, March 15 th and 16th, 1854. FIRST LECTURE, On WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15th, 1854. Programme The Sublime, the Burlesque, and the Ridiculous rela- tively considered—Shakespere's Quibbles defended—His Burlesque ...

... THAT wife over whom your love broods is fading. Not beauty fading; that, now that your heart is wrapped up in her being, would be nothing. She sees with quick eye your dawning apprehension, and she tries hard to make that step of her's elastic. Your trials and your loves to- gether have centered her affections. They are not now as when you were a lone man, wide-spread and superficial. They ...

... DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF AT WESTMINSTER. On Monday morning the workmen engaged in ^ft Messrs Kay's manufactory, observed a party %VA F tokens of insecurity, and before they had tl effect th- ir escape, a stack of chimneys fell meudous crash, burying the men beneath. Weston was crushed to death. A body of men 5 to work, and after almost superhuman EXERTION3' PIT#1' James Comb, who was ...

... THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. The Marquis of Londonderry is dead. It was not destined that a man who had seen so much active service during the last war should see the commencement of the hostilities in which England is at present involved. Lord Londonderry was among the now not very numerous survivors of our last great contest with continental Europe. He entered the army as an ensign in the ...

... LORD Chesterfield said, at the close of his life, I have recently read Solomon with a kind of sympathetic feeling. I have been as wicked and as vain, though not as wise as he' but now I am old enough to feel the trufh of his reflection—4 All in the world is vanity and vexation of spirit.' Goethe, the distinguished Gorman philosopher and poet, declared at the ago of 84, as the lights of time ...

... TREDEGAR. THE LATE ALDERMAN THOMPSON, M.P., &c., &c. [TO THE EDITOR.] Sm,-As-stated in the MERLIN, the remains of this gen- tleman werereruoved on Friday, the 17th, from Bedwellty House, Tredegar, to Underley Hall—their halting place previously to interment in the parish church of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. The funeral took place on Tuesday, the .21st of March. On Sunday last, the 26th ...

... LODoN, THURSDAY. THE reminiscences of 1812 have been met by pointing to those of 1805, 1807, and even to the ever-memorable one of 1812 itself. If the Russian soldior responded to the call of his Emperor in 1812, did not the French warrior of Auster- litz, Friedland, and the Moskoa, show, by the defeat and humiliation of the Czar of those days, how nobly he did his duty to France and its ...

... NEWPORT COUNTY (Before-J. M. HRUBEF.T, Esq., Judge.) There were 14.4 plaints entered for this month but, as usual, a great many were paid, or in some other way set- tled, before coming into court; so that by the time the hst had been once gone through, and all the undefended cases disposed of, there remained but few in which the parties were unable to come to a right understanding, without the ...

... SAYS Nick to John, I have something to say, Just in a confidential way, Of an unfortunate friend of ours, On whom dark destiny dimly lowers, He's breaking up as fast as he can— In short, he's a very unfortunate man. Ruin surrounds him above and below With no one to help him, and Fortune his foe, So, with you, I should like his case to scan, Quite an ami, and en gentleman. Poor fellow He's very ...

... MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN SH.OPSHIRE. On Saturday last, John Lloyd, a faiu labourer, was committed for trial at tho Shropshire assies, on the very serious charge of having murdered John Qtins, a vIllage blacksmith, who resided at Nescliff, eigt miles froØ Shrewsbury, on the Holyhead-road. On Tuesday morning, the 28th of February Gittins arose about five o'clock, and, preceded by his youth fro19 16 ...

... SWEET gentle blossoms, have ye come again, To smile on us fi om sylvan nook and glen ? In the earth's bosom ye had nestling crept, But the glad Spring hath waked ye where ye slept. Fair things, we love ye for your absence more, And ye do seem more beauteous than of yore Oh how we saddened when ye went away, And we were left with the cold wintry day. But oft we thought upon ye lovely flowers, ...