... same at Newport; and even at Brecon, where local prejudice is aristocratically in- timed, a clerk has been equally successful. The time is now at hand when a beginning must be made. A curse, said a German writer, is attached to standing still; be it manor mankind, an association or an Empire. If we prefer the motto of supineness, with us the penalty, the misfortune of such a resolve but do ...

... EMGLTSTC BAPTIST CHAPEL.—The re-opening of this place of worship i& announced for cLy and Monday next, when special services wiu be held, which wlÍl be conducted by the R v. T. Thomas, D.D., Pontypool, assisted by several eminent ministers of the baptist and other de- nominations, in the neighbourhood. Collection* are announced to ...

... J j order to arouse the attention of workmen :\crally, to the advantages obtained from euseof the above institution, its founders, in ...

... HIRWAUN COMMON.—Owing to the absence of other ground a large number of houses and cot- tages have been built during the last twenty years on the Common, both at Hirwaun and Aberdare. Something like £30,000 is thus in- vested; and within the last few years about one hundred and fifty huts have sprung up between Hirwaun and Aberdare, giving the traveller a picturesque idea of an infant republic. ...

... SATURDAY. — J. C. Fowler, and David Evans, Esqrs.) FAMILY QUARRELS.—Margaret Michael was charged with breaking the windows of Ann Samuel's dwelling house. The ladies were cousins and consequiently considered themselves privileged to speak their minds freely to each other. The complainant thought the defendant ought to keep more at home, and the other tliouj^it that if her fair cousin attended ...

... No notice can be taken of unauthenticated communications. A tyny case of asaltment at Tesradgunlaise, is unsuited to our columns. We would suggest that the writer turn his atten- tion to something more profitable, than writing and troubling us with such nonsense. The report of the Brynmawr Petty Sessions is unavoidably de- ferred until our next.—Several letters on Sunday Recreation are also ...

... STANDING as it were mentally on the mountain top, and surveying humanity in every phase of its existence; witnessing the apparent strides made by the people and the State—one in moral improvement, and the other in reform, there will appear to the observer, on closer ex- amination, certain features than which none are more discreditable to our civilization, or more depressing to the hopeful man ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. have received a letter from Ifr. Howell Jen- kins, Mount Pleasant Inn. Do/olais, whose object in writing is nominally that of de- fending his conduct in not prosecuting the enquiry against Warren, on the charge of perjury, but really with a view of making us of publishing his insinuations against the police generally, for whom, it is evident from his diction, he has nu great ...

... A BACHELOR'S APPEAL TO THK LADIES ■ I'm in want of a wife, Hint sweet solace of tfe, Say poets who 'mong-st us now tarry— J'or I tiad that my heart lacus its own counterpart, Then Indies who speaks first to marry ? I'm possess'dof great wealth, being endowed with good health Which is far before houses or riches If of beauty you speak, why the bloom ou my cheek, Equals that which is found on ...

... DEATHS. On Saturday last, the 21st inst., Frances Alice, the infant datightor of Thomas Wayne, Esq., ot: Glandare, Aberdare On Monday last, aged 35 years, Mr. John Plant, TYedeRar Deceased was formerly mill manager at the Iron works Ind highly respected. u On Saturday last, John Messinger, collier, aged 25 years who died from injuries sustained the day previously, at the AshTre* Pit, Tredegar. ...

... Cjie BktJujr €elegnijit). Saturday, Jan. 31, 1857. A LITTLE while ago we passed in brief review those hopeful signs and promising incidents that marked the last year as a memorable one in our history. In that year, whose requiem we have just rung—with whom we shook hands warmly as he donned his sandals grey, and journeyed on to join the dim and long proces- sion of departed years. We shall ...

... ABEEDAEE POLICE COURT. THURSDAY.—(Before J. C. Fowler, Fsq.) STEXIING COAL.—The coal and iron masters having resolved to put a stop, as far as possible, to the practice of taking coal by their workmen, have issued notices that all parties found taking in future be prosecuted, We may therefore expect, for some time to come, parties brought up almost weekly for this offence. To day there were ...