... CRICKHOWELL. THE NEW RAILWAY.—The Brecon Canal Company's Committee, at a meeting held at Crickhowcll. on the .25th ult., subscribed amonget themselves towards makingturveys, to enable them to go to Parliament next session, fbrj^owor to convert the canal into a railway, the whole distance between Brecon and fontypool. The matter will have to be confirmed by the general assembly of the company, ...

... A MORNING'S EXCURSION TO C RUM LIN. COLD, rainy, and misty, broke the morning. We wrapped our sheets mor8 closely round us, as we looked towards the chearleas east, through our half-blinded bedroom window, and took another snooze. The hot water sir; 'tis seven o'clock, quoth our Abigail, tapping at the chamber door. iiS seven o'clock, sir and the Western Valleys starts at eight, ...

... FRANCIS JEFFREY was an example of a man who had ac- quired an artificial style and language, suitable only for printed book and a small circle of friends and associates in Edinburgh. His diction and pronunciation were unintel- ligible to the bulk of his countrymen, and offensive and ridiculous in the House of Commons. His weight in his party, his great intelligence, and the affection of his ...

... THE REGISTRATION, rp ^TO^^nAr.L. NEWPORT-WEDNESUAY. T. C. Sneyd Kinnersley, Esq., Revising Barrister^ COUNTY REGISTRATION. Xae Liberals made neither claims nor objections. Of the onservaiive objections-, 7 failed but there were struck off. ...

... THE GLORIOUS NEWS OF VICTORY. LONDON. It would be difficult to exaggerate the interest created the metropolis on Monday, by the intelligence of the victory of the Alma, and the probabie capture of Sebastopol. Eage l groups collected at almost every point to discuss the and to vent their curiosity in surmises as to the details °* the great events described by the telegraph with such paiaf^ ...

... FAlilS TO BE HELD IN OCTOBER, MONMOUTHSHIRE. GLAMORGANSHIRE. Nypool 10 Swansea I £ *gor 10 Caerphilly 9 NtMellons 17 ^u^r J? >»mont 18 Morriston 2o £ to^ .-g Llantrissant 29 kepstow 29 „ BRECOXSHIRE. 10 W HEREFORDSHIRE. Trecastle 14 £ e»&bridge 10 GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 2lngton 11 Mitcheldean 10 j^ntingdon 11 Tewkesbury rj.4rdisley 18 Cheltenham n §ereford 20 Cirencester H t0Bay8rd 29 Stonehouse ...

... THE BALTIC. EXPECTED ATTACK ON CRONSTADT. A letter has just been received from Paris, in which is the following highly important information :— 1 learn that an attack upon Cronstadt is seriously con- templated almost immediately. General Niel, the general of engineers, who distinguished himself in the Baltic, by the prominent part he took in the direction of the siege of Bomarsund, reported ...

... NOTWITHSTANDING the extremely irritated state of feeling on the part of the French military, kept down, too, as it was, by force alone, there was no one in all Paris that rode about more fearlessly than the Duke of Wellington. He showed himself everywhere, and usually in a simple blue overcoat, with the red English scarf around his waist, and the usual military chapeau on his head, decorated ...

... GLORIOUS I-TEWS DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS! NAPOLEON once said that the unfortunate expe- dition to Moscow, and the disastrous retreat from that fire-doomed city, had made the Russians overleap a century, bringing them a hundred years nearer to the consummation'of the darling j object of their ambition—universal empire! England and France—arm to arm, and shoulder to shoulder—have repaired the ...

... SABBATH SCHOLARS' TREAT.—On the second day of the Newport races, the scholars of the Trinity Church schools, and the Pillgwenlly Wesleyan Sunday Schools, numbering about 500, accompanied by their respective ministers su^ perintendents, and teachers, proceeded to a field on Stow- hill (kindly lent by Mr. Johoida Brewer, for the occasion), and, after enjoying themselves with simple rural ...

... NEGLECTED THINGS. IT is a fault of our age, of our political economy, of our habits of business, to absorb us with the contemplation of our interest, instead of the obli- gations of our duty. Few of us have any time for philanthropic service. We leave the amelio- ration of society to be effected incidentally and collaterally, without direct effort or intentional purpose of our own. Providence, ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE ATTAiK TPM LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. (By Elcctric Telegraph) THURSDAY EVENING. A London Gazette Extraordinary contains a despatch from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe addressed to Lord Claren- don, dated Sept. 30, 9 30 p.m., received in London at 10 this morning.— The allied armies established their basis cooperations at Balaclava on the morning of the 28th, and were ...