... 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 ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. Lord Campbell presented a petition from the Oude Princes now in this country, praying that their relative the ex.King of Oude might be informed of the nature of the charges brought against him by the Indian Government. 00 the suggestion of Lord Redesdale, the petition wis re- jected, because the word ''humble'' had been omitted in commencing it. The Marquis of ...

... The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was held at the White Lion, Broad-street, Bristol, on Tuesday, James Poole, un., Esq., in the chair. The Secretary read the notice con- vening the meeting, and also the report, which appeared in the on Saturday last. The capital account showed that the receipts up to June, 1867, had been £ 1,045.778 6s. 2d., and the expenditure, i 1^073,218 10s. 7d,, ...

... VIENNA, SATURDAY, 8 A.M. The representatives of France, Russia, Prussia, and Sardinia have announced in a note, couched in identical terms, the cessation of their diplomatic relations with the Porte, and their approaching departure from Constantinople. The Russian flag was struck on the 6th instant. The Vienna Gazette states that according to the last accounts direct from Constantinople, Lord ...

... Letters from Genoa of the 8th mention the execution of two convicts, and state that agitation continued in the hulks. A plot had been discovered, the object of which was to liberate the convicts and murder the gaolers. An attempt had been made to assassinate two officers. The Neapolitan refugees say that in publishing the manuscripts left, by Pisacano they mean to omit the political parts. ...

... Scientific, NEW INVENTION IN LOOMS.—The other day (says the Blaclcbum Standard), we saw at the house of Mr. Benjamin Croasdale, of Pigeon Hall, Whitton, the application of a new motive power for the pro- pulsion of looms for weaving hair-cord checks, satin spot3 laces fancy ves tings, regattas, and many descriptions of fancy work. The inventors are Benjamin Croasdale and Richard Talbot. The ...

... SOURCE OF ALL THE EVIL. The greatest evil is the army doiug the civil work, while an immense civil army is plundering the land it ruins the regular army, and so places everything in danger our army is deteriorating while the natives are improving! A few years ago there was not a firearm in India that had not a matchlock; the other day in the Kohat defile we did not take one! All were ...

... THE RAILWAY STATION.—The Usk Station was removed yesterday, from the Pontypool road, to the site selected for the permanent station, on the Abergavenny road. COLEFORD, MONMOUTH, USK, AND PONTYPOOL RAILWAY.— The Government Inspector of Railways (Colonel Wynne) went ever that portion of the line between Usk and Monmouth, on Friday, the 21st inst. and expressed himself perfectly satisfied with ...

... Eeisqde in THE HOUSE of LoRDs.-As proxies were being a en in one of the divisions on the Divorce Bill, which eventu- ally gave the government a majority of ten, a curious sctne oc-, curred. Seeking, perhaps, only a cool seat on this, one of the hottest nights in this the hottest qf summers, the Earl of Suffolk had betaken himself to one of the back rows of the episcopal bench, now rendered ...

... General Tom Thumb is holding levees at the Royal Old Wells Cheltenham. A Vienna letter states that the tax which the Austrian govern- ment is about to impose on newspapers will be half a kreutzer (rather more than two centimes)each.Ui ...

... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. F\T»L ACCIDENT. — A tertible accident occurred at the Rhynmry I rot) Work*, at ri«h t o'rlock on Thursday tnorninx fast, «h*n severnl persons wete killed, nod others aeiiously if jurd. TOM THUMB. — A small subject is best suited for a small paragraph. The hero of the wi»»k is General Tom Thumb. who made bis appearance on Wednesday, and has held daily leve-es at the ...