... DEPPATPHEP FCOMk :IR ge L YONS. I - ADMIRALTY, Dio.M t. :Despatehes,,of which! the' follovwilnge are 'copies have beeu reelved fom AclmfrAm ,ir Edmuan Lyons, Bar., 9.Q.B. Comninder in ,COhief of 'eit M$aesty'i sips and' veseels in the 6'editerraneai mid' Black Sea: Royal Albestjissatch Bay1 Dee 1. .Sir,-I request that yon will* lav before the Lor~',s Commissioners of the Admiralty th ...

... 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 ...

... THE MORNING CHlRONICLE. L ON DO N: i FRIDA Y, DEC(E.IMBER 21, 1S55. The frustration of Mr. DISRAELI'S schemes as a taetitian is being accomplished with much more rapidity, than his worst enemies could have hoped D for or expected. When, as observers of public affairs, we some days since commented on the speech in which Mr. KLNDALL threatened to throw off his allegiance to his chief, we could ...

... DR. LUSHINGTO.Y v. CHURCH ORNAMENTS. To TUN EDITOR oF THE MORNING CaRONICL. sln-it rnay be remembered that when we parted from Dr. Lushington on our voyage of discovery in quest of certain ornaments of the Church, whiob, in his opinion, are DOW lost and forgotten, we left him In a very uneomfortable (uot to say, unseemly) position, and spasmodically strug- gliug to escape from the ...

... The Cape papers, in noticing the arrival of a vessel from the Island, which left there on the 6th September, give the following extract from the: St. Helena Herald, by which it appears that the Portuguese Government have taken forcible possession of a portion of the African coast, their right to which is not admitted by the British (o- vernaient The Sasan Jane was only eight days from St. ...

... |~AY OF THE WAR. I I ,nALov n time of festivity in &m5as 1 5151uy a un v . at is it Easter that holy Russia makes Sa'0g; Irry, Muscovites kissingr their images, 1°,,One eanother. and getting drunk with 3 net, who, by a cemmunity of drunken- N ve holy warranty of the vice. Never- fb69,the Czar will have ?? bit of comfort; 565d gntage gained wherewith to rejoice him. a his people at the ...

... I DEVONS1IRKE-D.-AH OF A SURGEON IN GAOL. -A fev mouths agO ZLr. T. Elliott. a surgeon in the royal navy, was committed to the Devon county gaol, ot Exeter, for two years, for cruelty and neglect iii the Crimes, while serving with the naval brigade. A few days ago he was attacled by fever, and, inflammation of the'brain succeedji ,io died on Tuesday last. GLOUCESTERSUliP.-THB MISSING CnLrse7. ...

... 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 ...

... AMERA{'A. (FROtx OURt oWN Culthli5PODE-T.J LitvpuOul. SundaY. The connrequence of the nin-eldction of a opesakr ii tbit ?? Presidn 'a anuu.. msessage tiad not teni a~lverei to atber boues, asd that we are deprived of this MoSL i.0pOT' ani documeuL for another wtek, it not louger. LIaneia Stsw Yurk paper uwtvs, ?? ?? then etvoo, It w.uld noA io teurtiriebig if the mnbss,e ?? kept ?? till (iosJo ...

... 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. ...