... BLAENAVOK. FAIR. —As announced in the MERLIN, Blaenavon witnes- sed a large gathering frem different parts of the county. Numerous Sealers in cattle and other commodities, were expected, and that expectation was fully realized. A con- siderable amount of business was transacteo, which re- moved all doubt as to the future stability of Biacnavon Fair. The sale of cattle, sheep, and pigs, was ...

... MERTHYR. POLICE COURT.—MONDAY. Before J. C. Fowler and W. Thomas, Esqrs. CHARGE OF FELONY. Charles Page was charged by John Williams with having stolen a pair of donkey baskets, value os. Mr. Goodere appeared for the complainant; the defendant being represented by Mr. Smith.—After several witnesses had been examined, the magistrates thought the evidence was not strong enough to warrant them in ...

... MR. BROOKE, THE TRAGEDIAN.—At the Victoria Theatre, the talented performer, Mr. G. Y. Brooke, has been fulfilling an engagement. He made his first appearance on Thursday, May 10, as Othello. His engagement in Sydney will shortly cease, previous to the time originally contemplated, his success, notwith- standing his undoubted talents, having fallen far short of what might reasonably have been ...

... LOUD roarrd the dreadful thunder, The rain came down like mad; To be out was a blunder- To be in near as bad. Oh! how Old Boreas row'd, And kick'd about each cloud, As I lay, All dismay, In my lonely three-pair back. Then louder still, and louder The Storm-king kept it up, As if to spare no powder His mind he had made up, The world itself, I think (My tiny woes to sink) W ith the force, In its ...

... IiLAJiWONNO. CHURCH PASTOIIAX AID SOCIFTV TI,Q I BPr- mons on i • uuinr.—ihe annual ser prtached in thiQ n^^xcellent society, havejust been collected pamb, when the following .sums were At the Pariah church n — R if* { 3 0 Total £ 8 14 o-t. 1:1 i i*ii Such a liberal sum is high y creditable to the congrega- tion, especially when it will be remembered that they have so lately contributed ...

... PENILLION 0 ANNERCHIAD AT MR. W. H. ROSSER, TY ISAF, ISCA. AT WILLIAM HENRY ROSSER, Fy nghyfaill ffyddlawn cu, Cyminwysaf rhai llinellau, 0 annerchiad mad i ti Wrth feddwl am yr amser, A thi yn ieuangc iawn, I Dduw rhwyt yn ddyledus, Am ei anrhaethol ddawn. Er iddo rhoi ceryddon, Ofn ami nid ar gam, Meddyliwyf mae y trymaf, Oedd i ti golli'th fam, Rhagluniwr fu'11 drugarog, Er angau 'wneud ei ...

... M. VICTOR HUGO is about to publish a new volume of poems, Les Contemplations. ...

... THE ^jiiisimuiiljstiire HMinlin. NEWPORT SATURDAY, SEPT. 8, 1855. COLLATERAL ASPECTS OF THE WAR. THERE are questions which, from the first, must have engaged the attention of thoughtful men, when contemplating the present war but the discussion of which, even such men have been disposed to defer as long as possible, on account of the difficulties with which they are surrounded. Turkey itself, ...

... VENTILATION IN DWELLINGS. Dr. Arnott, in his new work on Ventilation, says that in a family living in a good bouse, near Russell- square, one of the children aged four years, was observed to have a gland of the neck beginning to swell, and the mother was much pained by hearing that seme person had called the affection scrofulous. She was not yet aware that the foul air of a crowded dwelling ...

... HOPS. BOROUGH, Sept. 3.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report that there is a good demand for fine yearlings, at £ 8 and upwards. About 40 pockets of new have arrived, and are selling at the same price as yearlings. Duty £ 300,000. ...

... A MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT occurred at Henwain Pit. on Thursday, the 23rd ult., by which three per- sons lost their lives, named respectively, flowel Lewis, John James and Thomas Jones, they were engaged in the bottom of the pit, and were being brought to the top. on the above day, to take their dinner. When they had ascended about 70 yards the wire rope broke and the three men were precipitated to ...

... THE RETREAT OF THE RUSSIANS. (From the Times.) The latest intelligence of the movements of the Russian forces in the Crimea, which has been for- warded to us by our correspondent at Vienna, is of the highest importance, and entirely consistent with the opinion we have already expressed of the condi- tion to which the enemy must now be reduced in that j peninsula. It is stated that the Russian ...