... A BRUTE. Thomas Morgan, collier, residing at Pontystorehouse, was charged by Ann, his wife, with ill-usage. It appeared that the defendant .had been paying his devotions at the sbrine of Bacchus till midnight, ind that under the influence of the jolty god he imbibed the notion that he was one ot the lords of creation, and that women and children were nothing better than brute beasts. ...

... Dr. Johnson said, I never take up a news- paper without finding something I should have deemed it a loss not to have seen never without deriving from it instruction, and amusement. ...

... the priests;byVhom they:wished to be instructed, and these priests were accordingly sent abroad to be educated. Mr. Pitt thought that it would be far more desirable that they should have a college at home, where they might not imbibe those principles which were calculated to alienate them from the English form of government. The vote was an annual one, till about 10 or 12 years ago, when the ...

... TO THE ELBCTOBS OF MERTHYR TYDVIL. ABERDARE, AND VAYNOR. GENTLEMEN,— THE House of Commons, which cheerfully and resolutely supported Her Majesty's Government in a just and honourable War with Russia., has shrunk from prosecuting an unjust and discreditable War with China. A majority of its;members, composed of man of every party and every shade of political opinion, have proclaimed by their ...

... Communications received, without the writers' names being for- warded, cannot be inserted. Attention to this rule on the part of writers may save them trouble and expense. ...

... NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. Several paragraphs arc unavoidably omitted this week; among- them St. Patrick's day, Concert by blinrl performers,' &c. Also editjriul article on election for Board of il^ilih. Communications received, without the writers' names being for- warded, cannot be inserted. Attention to this rule on the part of writers may save them trouble and expense. ...

... MEETING OF H. A. BRTTCB, ESQ.—Mr. Bruce met the electors at the Bush Hotel, on Wednesday evening, when he addressed the meeting for about two hours, principally in justification of his vote in reference to the Chinese war. T. W. Goodfellow, high ponstable, was unani- mously called upon to take the chair, and asked their member a patient and- impartial hearing. Mr, Bruce, then came forward, and ...

... of all these enormities, without bestowing on him a single word of rebuke ? while he ought to have removed him as unfit, on account of his haughty bearing and petty jealousies, to repre- sent the British nation in any part of the world. (Great cheering.) Who but Lord Palmerston 1 Still, said some, when we throw in our moral weight, and he is pressed, he gives us liberal measures. There was no ...

... BIRTH. Lately, at Troedyrhiw, the lady of W. R. Smith, Esq., of a son and heir. MARRIAGE. Feb. 22, by license, at lliirh-stveot Chapel, Mcsthyr, by the Rev. T. Roberts, Dowlais, Mr. David Oliver, grocer, Dowlais, to Miss Elizabeth Davies, of Gellivaclog, second daughter ot the late Rev. W. R. Davies, Caersalem. DEvrns. On Monday week, ag-oo 86, Mis. Heuery, relict of the late Edward Heuery, ...

... If anything is calculated to teach the electors of this country that it is their duty ever to remain on their watch tower, it is the circumstances connected with the present election. But a few weeks since we weie told that Lord Palmerston was safe for the session—that notwithstanding a squall might now and then arise, his little b. rk would outride each succeeding storm. An adverse motion ...

... VVRECKOF A VESSEL.—THE CREW STARVED TO D-KATH.—A letter, dated Bergen, March 9, says The wreck of a vessel was fallen in with at sea this day week, about 80 miles north of this place, and boarded by a pilot, who found the bodies of six menjon board, but no provisions, nor sails or ropes whatever. She Jtad been a three- masted vessel; was laden with planks and deals, and full of water, and in ...

... -r—MERTltYR-TYDFIL BUBIAIj I^TOTICE is Weby Given, that the above -i i'-ir ar~ P^IP^red to receive Tenders for the building of G*IA PSLS; LODGE, DEADHOUSE, and other necessary BuiMings for the purposes of a. CEMETERY, together with BOUNDARY WALLS for enclosing toe-^ndJ- Plans an d.Speciw;a«on| m^he seen with, and further informatM obtained M>m, the Clerk, at his Offices, in /ifctoria-S»eet, ...