... lie evinced great incapacity and great inability, uttering .strong opinions, always supported by weak arguments, damaging, every cause, and doing mischief even to truth, if, by any strange accident, lie was on the side of it. t*ucli a person looking on me with suspicion is, I think, a eircurnstance rather in my favour. Harvest prospects, not only in this country, but in tlie quarters whence ...

... The Gazelle of Ang. 25, announces that foreigner s are, to f, be exempt from the forced loan.I THE LAROGEST MILL IN THE WORLD. -The largest b and most comprehensive mill in the world is the Pacific, at a Lawrence, Massachusetts. The floor surface of this immense t structure is sixteen acres-the largest mill in England is eleven f and a half acres. There are now in operation 40,000 cotton I ...

... IN our remarks on the retirement of the rd)olsfrom Sun- chov.% it is stated that the thousands of men brought to Canton as prisoners are now being de- capitated at the rate of 150 a day. That was the num- ber, we were told, executed on Satur- day last, a spectacle to which we were witness. The Can- ton place of exe- cution is situated about one hundred yards from the river, at a distance of ...

... A BARBER in Lambeth ad- vertises that his customers are shaved, without incision or la- ceration, for the microscopic sum of one halfpenny. A PERFECT CURE FOR HYDROPHOBIA.—Dr. Charles Kidd, of Kingsland, announces that chloroform is a perfect cure for hydro- phobia. The doctor says a teaspoonful of either ether or chloro- form is to be sprinkled on a handkerchief, and placed on the person's ...

... Railway Office, Raglan, Aug. 30th. 1855. To the Committee of Management of the Coleford, Monmouth, Dsk, and Pontypool Railway. Gentlemen, The No. 1 contract, 4 miles in length, being the whole distance between your Junction with the Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway, and the Pontypool turnpike road, at Usk, is now ready for opening. The different works, on No. 2 contract, l2 miles in ...

... Harvest operations are now general in this neighbourhood (Kendal), and great progress has been made during the past week, which upon the whole has been favourable for the opera- tions. The crops are very good.- Westmoreland Gazette. The weather has been highly favourable for harvest operations in Northumberland and Durham. The crops, though laid by the rains, are not materially injured. The ...

... CORPORAL STROUD.—A letter has lately been re- ceived by the parents of this non-commissioned offi- cer, who reside in Monmouth, from which the follow- ing is an extract I am sorry to inform you, that I had the misfortune to get wounded by a piece of shell, which struck me in the knee and in the hand, smashing the two fore fingers but I am now a great deal better and I ought to thank God I was ...

... Sunday-Overseers to put Jury Lists on Church Doors. Friday-Petty Sessions for granting licences—Special Ses- sions for purposes of Highways. ...

... MONDAY, Aug. 27th, 1855. No Court sat on this day. WEDNESDAY, Aug. 29th,-Before W. Thomas, Esq., Court. John Roberts, charged with absconding, and leaving his wife and children chargeable to the parish of Mer- thyr. Committed for one month's hard labour. Michael M' Artki/, Samuel Griffiths. David Lewis, and Join Manning, were each charged with being drunk and disorderly. Fined in sums of from ...

... FORTIFICATIONS AT PENARTH POINT The coast t.f South Wales having been surveyed by the Board of Ordnance for the purpose of selecting sites on which to erect batteries of heavy guns and other permanent defences, for the better protection of this portion cf the ooast, the attention of the authorities has long been drawn to this river, the shore being perfectly defenceless; for from Milford Haven ...

... TOM THUMB EXCELLED.—A dwarf has been brought to Calcutta from Lucknow, by a Frenchman named Victor. The little individual is only three feet, high and is twenty years of age. He has been taught to dance by a Parisian danseuse, and beats Tom Thumb hollow. His father, very little bigger than himself, accompanies him on his travels, and comes with him to England. THE BRITISH FOREIGN LEGIOX .-On ...

... Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. On the 22d ult., the lady of John Arthur Herbert, Esq., of Llanarth Court, of a son. Ou the 31st ult, the wife of Mr. William Pitt, book- seller and stationer, Commercial-street, of a daughter. On the 3 'th ult., at Briery-hill, Ebbw Vale, the wife of Mr. W. P. Harris, of a daughter- On the 22d ult., the wife of Mr. Charles Wakeford, stationer, &c.. Bute ...