... ISSUING A FORGKD CHEQUE FOR JE700 EXTRAORDINARY CASE. Edward Agar, a respectable middle-aged man, was brought up in custody by Daniel Forrester, on Thurs- day last, charged with uttering a forged cheque for £700, on Messrs. Stevens, Salt, and Bankers, 20, Lombard- street. Mr. Mullins, solicitor to the Bankers' Association, ap- peared for the prosecutor and Mr. Wontner for the prisoner. William ...

... EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COUNTY CLERK.—On Wednes- day information was given to the police that George Harrison Bennett, late in the employment of John Eden, Esq., assistant county clerk at Cambridge, has absconded with a very considerable sum of money, belonging to his employer. A large reward is offered for his apprehen- sion. NORWICH,—Mr. Edmund Wodehouse, late M.P. for East Norfolk, died on ...

... ABERTILLERY. ODDFELLOWS' ANNIVERSARY.—On Monday last, the Prince Howel Lodge of Oddfellows (M. U.,) celebrated their anniversary at the Oddfellows' Arms, Abertillery. Between 30 and 40 sat down to an excellent dinner, pro- vided in host Cardy's best style. After dinner, P.G. Benjamin Samuel was unanimously voted to the chair; P.G. Anthony Jones acting as vice-chairman. The Queen, Prince Albert ...

... SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday last. W. H. Brewer, Esq., deputy coroner, held an inquest at the Tredegar Arms, on view of the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Matthews, landlady cE the Red Lion Inn, Tredegar, who had been. found depjd in her bed, on the morning of Saturday last. Deceased. was fifty-eight years of age. The jury re- turned a. verdict of Died by the visitation of God. COUNTY COURT—TUESDAY. ...

... Although neither success nor advantage would pro' lably attend any attempt to apport; in the responsibility attaching to the late cheek of the allied arms before Se- bastopol, we think it of great importance that the course and circumstances of those operations should be ap- preciated with all the accuracy possible, and that all the instruction derivable from such a lesson should be turned to ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Reader. We believe there are no published sta- tistics on the subject, There are letters for W. at our office. A correspondent, in praising a song at the recent per- formance of Judas Maccabceus, at our Town Hall prettily quotes that it was— Music of Paradise which still is heard, When the heart listens. ...

... AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 18, 10.45 P.M. The Africa has arrived with advices from Boston to the 7th, and New York, via Halifax, to the 8th, and 875,057 dollars on freight. The United States District Court bad sentenced Joseph Wagner, convicted of enlisting men for the British Foreign Legion, to two months' imprisonment, and a fine of 100 dollars. Respecting tho difference with England, the ...

... NEWPORT WATCH COMMITTEE AND BOARD OF HEALTH MEETINGS. COUNCIL CHAMBER, TUESDAY. Present-Samuel Homfray, Esq., mayor, in the chair, and Messrs. Edwards, Sheppard, Lewis, Burton, Morrison, Enapp, Tovnsend, Turner, Rennie, Mullock, Lyne, and Williams. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER. Mr. Huxtable, the superintendent, read the police re- cords; and the Mayor read a letter from Mr. Price, soli ...

... THURSDAY. [CONTINUED FROM OUR THIRD PÀGE.] James Jones, convicted on Wednesday, of stealing sun- dry articles, the property of Mr. Firbank, and whose sen- tence was then defeued, was this morning sentenced to four days' imprisonment. LLANMARTIN—STEALING DUCKS. Joseph Hopkins, Thomas Lewis, and John Williams were indicted for stealing three ducks, the property of James Jones, at Llantarnam, on ...

... BOROUGH OF NEWPORT. TO CONTRACTORS. PARTIES desirous of Contracting for the Construction of 123 yards of 3 ft. X 2 feet eggshaped BRICK SEWER, for the Local Board of Health, may see Drawings and Specifications, on application at the Office of the Surveyor to the Board. Sealed Tenders to be sent to my Office, on or before MONDAY, 23rd WOOLI,ETT, Town-Clerk. Council-House, 10th July, 1855. ...

... •r>f T -i -^ETTY SESSIONS—TUESDAY Before John Jenkins, ESQ AN^l tW -o i and C A W he Wm P°well The Overseers of the Poor of th^S • i. Vach were summoned by the rMn»- r Pansh Lanthewy anion, for not paying their call of £ 32* 8s Poat.vP°o1 stated that a parish meeting had been r.,11,1 ? overseers nuered the demand was exorbitant AH TK a C01? ivas not in accordance with their neichboif^0^and ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. The second edition of the Globe, of last evening (Thurs day), corroborates the report of the morning, that the Pleni- potentiaries of the high contracting Powers, have deemed it expedient to consult their respective Cabinets, in reference to the third point of the bases of a pacific solution. Scotch pig iron, 59s. 6d.. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. The Newport Corporation Bill, ...