... Monday, 17th—Usk Fair, Tuesday 18th-Tredegar Cattle Show. Wednesday 19th—Usk Turnpike Tolls to be Jet by Auction. Friday 21st-Petty Sessions-Police Committee Meeting at Town Hall, Usk. ...

... NOTICE.—As this paper is Registered at the General Post Offieo tor transmission abroad, according to the recent postag regulations, it may be sent to the United States of Ame- rica, the Canadas, India, Australia, or to any part of Hee Majesty's dominions, by simply fixing upon it a singlr postage stamp. Correspondents should send their favours as early in the week as possible, in order to ...

... DIED.-Dec. 11, at Spelhibury, Mr. John Pratt, farmer. Ralph Ellis, John Ellis, and George Slatter, all of Great llollright, labotirers, wuro a pprehended and brought before the Rev. T. Harris, at Swefrtord Rectory, on the 8th inst., ?? and Piilice-constableYates, charged 'with having, on tile uight of the thl !ist., at Over-Nortoa, matliciously thrown down a certain ivall, the property of ...

... TH! BRITISE EXPEDITION. I (F~orem ti' im &e Cre~pornd t,e CAUF aitoltxo SUBASTOPOL, Nov. 24-The tteeie which you copied from an evening paper respectiog e strength of the British army next year we ?? * rov a eatiesaction, not altogether free from apprehension Ldi Witb writer may be mistaken. On one point he certain i miscalculated. and that is the strength of the reg ir,' U here. He has ...

... THE FALL OF ZJ90-,,13, (1Frons tile ies. frumhflud IHerdly a gioritus one, for tis Aeias Til brave sues wh [ose nomris woro latterly soenthoned t Iwith pride through these kingdloms are now prisoners of I war. The heroic defence, lyhich might be' numbered with Ml- miot Nrnscl- in Listory, has ended in anl inovit-r abaile and ?? snrv~fidc. Famine did the woik in wrhich Russian bayonuets f~iled. ...

... Ve regret state that authentic intelligence has been received, which leaves no doubt as ts tho fate7 of Kars. Isrnail Pasha (General Kinety), with another oQileer, who lurceeded in eluding the vigilance of the Russian outposts, have effected their escape. When they quitted Kars, General 'Williams had been compelled by famine to send a fleg of truce to the R1usstan camp, ffbring ea- pitulation. ...

... From Friday's London Yvette. ?? - FOREIuiN Orncz, Dxc. 1. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint William Miller, Esq., now her Msjesty's Consul-Gene- zal in the Sandwich Islands and other islands in the Pacific Ocean, to be her Majesty's Commissioner and Consul-General in tho Sandwich Islands and their de- pendencies. DtScn Fssa 14. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. J. E. ...

... PARLIAMENT.-THE PREMIER'S PO- SITION. At the Privy Council held on Friday, it was re- n, solved to prorogue Parliament from Tuesday last to C the 31st of next month, d then to mieet for the de- cc spatoh of business:` and the delay in assembling the Legislature-(which, it was announced a few, e weeks back, would meet between the 18th and, 22nd: ea of January)-is variously accounted fer. We, ...

... INFLUENCE OF DIFFEREN V OCCUPATIONS UPON HEALr H. I The importance of vital statistics can scarcely be overrated I -without these the system of life insurance, which has saved . hundreds of thousands from want and penury, could not have existed Without the aid and light they have afforded sani- tary science would have been unknown, or at the best been but mere conjocture. But since they have ...

... The late vote of confidence in favour -f Marshal O'Donnell was an answer to a motion for a vote of censure upon the Marshl1:- | M. OnsNss, the leader of the Demooratical party, gave notice of it in the following. terms :-It is customary in all constitutional countries for Parliament to take cogni- *ance of every important event that occurs in the oountry, and therefore it ia that I purpose to ...

... To the Editor of the Usk Observer. SIR,—Observing in the course of the above trial that both Mr. Edwards the chemist, as well as his assistant, seem very anxious to impress on the public mind, that Bigg's Sheep Dipping Composition is supplied to the flock masters without directions for use. I think it necessary, in justice to myself, to say, that I am in the invariable habit of sending ...

... We give an outline of the remainder of the disco- veries referred to in our yesterday's issue by the Abbe de Bourbourg. Ile says, in a letter dated Vera Paz, Aug-vst 7, 1855, Nicaragua and San Salvador offered but little to my curiosity concerning antiquities, and except a few scanty traditions, the words belonging to two of their lan- guages, and four or five airs of their old bayles, I can ...