... Wednesday, 1,-Soiree in Piercefield park. Party on Usk Railway Bridge Thursday, 2,-Monmouth Assizes, business to commence at nine. Excursion train from Newport to London returning on the 9th. ...

... EXTRAORDINARY MEETING OF THE BC4.RD OF HEALTH. An extraordinary meeting of the Board of Health was held at the Town Hall, on Tuesday last, to take into consideration the best means to be adopted to enforce the 53rd section of the Act, with reference to the buildings now erecting on Hirwain common. Present—J.. L. Roberts, Esq., in the chair; Messrs. T. Wayne, T. Joseph, R. H. Rhys, Philip John ...

... MATHERNE.—On Thursday, the 19th inst., two cot- tages belonging to C. J. Lewis, Esq., of St. Pierre, acci- dentally caught fire, and the insides of the houses were completely gutted before the fire could be got under. Upwards of twenty pounds worth of cottage furniture was destroyed. ACCIDENT AT MATHERNE.—On Wednesday, the 18th inst., a man of the name of James Jones, fell from a rick of hay, ...

... The voluminous letter on drinks, food, and physic, in London, merits a separate publication, and would inter- est readers as a pamphlet. A hearer, criticises a sermon preached in another part of the county, and finds fault with a rev. gentleman, in language, tone, and temper-if not un-christian- like, at least ungentlemauly on every occasion we de- cline the insertion of controversy as quite ...

... THE BRITISH FOREIGN LEGION. As far as the Foreign Legion has progressed hitherto, everything seems to have been admirahly managed. At Dover there are about 900 men. The battalion is called the British Swiss Legion although some of them confessed they are Frenchmen, but who had enlisted as Swiss, for the purpose of obtaining employment in the English service. The whole regiment appears to be ...

... LATEST NEWS. BY E?TI,firEDTPTI?F 5?f,T) 4T)H THE PARIS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON. The Moniteur contains the following despatch from the Crimea, dated July 2.5, 3 a.m. :— After a brisk cannonade, the Russians made a sortie about midnight, on the left of the Little Redan. As we are now quite close to them, it did not take the enemy one minute to reach our gabionades. They were vigorously received by the ...

... SPEAKING of the news furnished by Russian deserters, who very frequently come forward and voluntarily surrender themselves up to the British sentinels, an officer in the 34th Regiment ob- serves :— We had a strange affair with a deserter the other day. One of our outlaying pickets came into camp and informed me that he had discovered either a deserter or a spy in one of our store tents, which ...

... AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.—In few walks of im- provement tending to the alyancemci.t of the common- weal, has mechanical scienca been mere successful in our times, than in its application to agricultural imple- ments, and amongst the most indefatigable of those who have devotid their time and talents to the accomplishment of the means and appliances of more effectively and pros- perously ...

... WESTMINSTER POLICE COURT. Sir James Buller East, and solicitors, representing the Duke of Marlborough, Admiral Sir George Seymour, the Dowager Lady Somers, Sir William Myddleton, and others, who had their windows broken last Sunday, in the neighbourhood of Hyde-park, attended to take pro- ceedings against the hundred,to recover compensation for the damage they had sustained. Evidence was given ...

... MURDER OF A SOLDIER AT SHEFFIELD. A man named Thomas Jackson has been committed for trial, charged with the murder of George Lewis, a private of the 7th Hussars, now stationed at Sheffield. appeared from the evidence at the inquest held before fhl i £ er, at the Town-hall, Sheffield,on Monday, that.Iast Thursday morning the deceased and another soldier, named Spence, were invited to go and ...

... FEMALE DEGRADATION AND VICE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN.] pleased to find> that in a leading /laHon'and iri™ you took up the subject of female degra- ™ on which Mr. Newman, in his m r ;nfnrT1? ,• July, supplied so vast and startling To Iisten to the painful details thfi enumeratijons^v't i! °f ^ecture, and to follow '« ™iU »« mil,™ nte some | ( i a remedy. I am not aware whether anythzng is ...

... LATEST NEWS. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FRIDAY'S LONDON MARKETS. CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY. English wheat was held rather above Monday's rates, but little done. Foreign firm, but demand limited, at Wednesday's rates. Fine oats wanted, and fully as dear; but ordinary, slow sale, and mcre plentiful. Barley wanted, at full rates. In beans and peas, but little done. Flour, firm. Arrivals.—Wheat, British, 1,690 ...