... THE BALAKLAVA RAILWAY CORPS. The second London detachment of the men engaged by Messrs. Peto aud Betts, to construct the railway from Balaklava to the trenches before and the heights 'around Sebastopol, left Black wall on Tuesday. They go out in the fine new vessel, the Hesperus, SO) tons, built in the Tvne by Messrs. Marshall, and seemingly in every way admirably adapted for this particular ...

... NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. AMY MAYFLOWER.— We perfectly agree with our fair correspondent, in her statement that the practice of staring in Church is carried on to an extent enough to make one blush. Amy is also correct in stating that generally speaking ladies are more prone to the fault Chun gentlemen. Perhaps (we hope, however) this publicity will have the effect of putting a stop to so ...

... MR. SHEPPARD AND THE PONTYPOOL ASSESS- MENT. [TO THE EDITOR.] Your paper of the 23rd contained a letter, headed as above, from the Assistant-overseer of Pontypool, stating that there was no foundation whatever for an assertion made by me, at the meeting of rate-payers, held in New- port, that many properties in Pontypool were not rated to within fifty per cent. of their value. I certainly had ...

... NEWPORT DISPENSARY. THE Annual General Meeting of the Supporters of this Institution, will be held (by permission of the Mayor) at the TOWN HALL. on WEDNESDAY, the 17th inst., at Noon, precisely, in order to receive the Annual Report, and consider the present state of the Institution to appoint a Surgeon, Treasurer, Secretary, (the present Secretary having resigned) and Eighteen Directors, for ...

... MURDER. A sad tragedy occurred on Wednesday week, at the vil- lage of Thorpe Hesley, near Rotherham—the murder of a young woman, by a rejected suitor. The victim, Harriet Ardron, aged 21, was the eldest daughter of Wm dron, a farmer, in humble circumstances She was a young woman of considerable personal attractions, and was consi dered the belle of the village. She had had several suitors for ...

... I had taken my degree, my collection of Porson's plays and opera philologica (as the Germans love to call them) was nearly as unexceptionable as the Broadwood, over the keys of which my fingers used to ramble, with sundry pleasant recollections of Henry Smart and Thomas Wal- misley. I was in a happy position altogether, and yet not quite a contented man. Although a wrangler, in the ...

... ;ath o, -„R ABERGAVENNY. ive to announce tlfAiTT'iItWlth °reat reSret tta leighbourhood f ,P, S3 the inhabitants of the town is, and r,; i Abergavenny, as welldis the relatives, 3 lamented deT^l? r ri ^re,'er^c C. Batt, have sustained r years has cirr'^1° tllat gentleman, who for upwards t ssed the pmc ile on a very extensive practice, and He is ? ;ind esteem of the entire neiglibour- wbo has ...

... POETRY; WATEULOO AVENGED. We thank tlioe, gracious Neighbour we thank thee, glo- •VVe0praEeanthe Greatness that made haste to seize that golden chancej The chance of taking vengeance, as of old ye swore to do, And well redeem'd at Inkermann,- avenging Waterloo o this indeed is chivalry, returning good for ill, (Though we—ye know it-in tnose days did only duty This^ls the way to be revenged, ...

... A MONTH IN CAMP BEFORE SER ASTOPOL BY A NON-COMBATANT. THIS is a civilian's view of matters in the Crimea. A Barrister spends a part of the long vacation at the scat of war, in preference to lounging at watering places, or rambling with a crowd of idlers calling themselves Pilgrims of the Rhine. He revereee the adage- throws off wig and gown, The disciple of Themis doffs the toya, ant} ...

... SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. TRAFFIC RETUBSr. Weelc frti&iejg Dec. 31, 1854 f4337 7 10 Corresponding Week, £3411 2 6 TAFF YALE RAILWAY. TEAFFIC RETURN. Trafiie Account for the Week ending Dee. 30, 3 2 VALE OF NEATH RAILWAY. TRAFFIC RETURN. Week ending Dec. 31, £S05 7 1 Corresponding Week, 17 3 RAILWAY STOCK AND SHARES. Paid. Price. Taff Vile Railway Stock £ 100 £ 136 Do. Pref. 100 141 Do. CIO Shares. ...

... Monmouthshire Epiphany Sessions USK, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, j The following appeared on the business paper for trans- action at these sessions :—To administer the oaths to ma- gistrates and others qualifying for office to read the orders of last sessions, and consider matters connected therewith ( to receive any communication which may have been re ...

... LETTER FROM THE CRIMEA. The following extract frow a letter of an officer of ihe 7711) Regiment, is dated Carop before Seb istop jl 27th of November -1 1 have been quire a lion ever since the engagement, owing to my h>1viu;: been made a prisoner by two Rus- sians, and having escaped by killing one of my captors, and making the other prisoner in his turn, bringing him i into camp. It is rather ...