... COLONEL GREATHED'S SERVICES.-It will gratify our readers to learn that the services of the gallant Colonel Greathed have been recognized by the Commander-in- Chief, and that on the arrival of Sir Colin at Alumbagh (.November 9) he immediately gave Colonel Greathed the command of the Infantry Brigade, consisting of the 8tb, 75th, and two regiments of Punjab Infantry. At the same time Sir Colin ...

... LOWER MAUDLIN-STREET. Founded A.D. 1810. Admission -Days-Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, from Half-past Eleven to One. [Number of Patients attending this Week 220 I Fresh Cases I Surgeon—Mr, BABTI ...

... GARDEN OPERATIONS. FLOWER-GARDEN AND SHRUBBERIES. Valuable plants, as variegated Hollies, Rhododendrons, &c., if not growing as freely as it is desirable that they should do, would be benefited by a liberal allowance of rotten manure or well-decayed le .f soil applied as a top dressing, covering it with a little fine soil and working it into the ground around the ball towards the extremities ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF BREAD TO THE POOR.—On St. Thomas's day, the Corporation distributed upwards of seven pounds' worth of bread, according to the bequest regarding an old charity left for their management. A comMittee had been formed t inquire in each ward as to who were most worthy to be recipients of the donations, and the bread was distributed in quantities proportionate to the number and ...

... FROM PUNCH'S ALMANACK FOR 1859. AN UNACKNOWLEDGED PHILANTHROPIST. — A Stock Exchange humourist has observed, that every miser is, after all, a lover of his specie. How TO FIND THE DIAMETER OF A CIRCLE.— Measure from the centre parting of your wife's hair to the extreme edge of the circumference of her dress. Double that and you will have your diameter to a nicfty. CURRICULUM FCR THE LADIES' ...

... pIr. Dovey has either not read or not understood the critique of which he complains. No reference whatever was made to the words of the song-it isspoken of simply ns a piece of music. The words, by Mr. W. D. Evans, are spirited and vigorous, and there is no pas- sage in the criticism which can be construed to apply to them. Again, we did not state that Herr Pfeiffer had written accompaniments ...

... A meeting of the Newport Town Council and Board of Health took place at the Town-hall, on Tuesday morning. The following members were present:—The Mayor (W. Williams, Esq.), in the chair, Mr. S. Hom- fray, Mr. Latch, Mr. J. Davies, Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Townsend, Mr. Harrhv, Mr. Burton, Mr. J. Lewis, Mr. W. Graham, Mr. Hyndman, Mr. Morgan, and Mr. Brown. The Town Clerk was also in attendance. The ...

... [Before R F. Woollett, Esq., and Wm. Evans, Esq.] BURGLA.Ry.-Daniel Price and Joseph Turner were charged by Henry Austin Williams with having stolen certain articles of jewellery. The prosecutor stated that in the Tredegar Cattle Show week, he established a bazaar in Commercial-street. The prisoner Turner, who was his weekly servant, was with him in Newport at the time, absconded on Thursday, ...

... ORIGINAL POETRY. CLYDAGH, sweet Clydach, the place of my birth, Dark is thy features but grate is thy worth, Under thy surface treasures do lie, Along thy sweet surface trains thoy shall flie. The grate guns do rattle a railway wee'll have, From Abergavenny to join with the taff, Through Clydach is vally up to brjnmawi, On then to beufort and tredegar is town. Their course is selected, and ...

... The business of the Quarter Sessions of Cardiff com- menced at the Town Hall, on Tuesday morning last. The magistrates present in court were T.E. Thomas, Esq., chairman, H. A. Bruce, Esq., M.P., vice-chairman, C. C. Williams, Esq., mayorof Cardiff,M.Moggridgc,Esq., T. Falconer, Esq., Howel Gwyn, Esq., M.P., G. Fother- gill, Esq., G. M. Traherne, Esq., H. Lewis, Esq., Walter Coffin, Esq., R. ...

... TERRIBLE BOILER EXPLOSION.—An accident, attended with fatal results, occurred on Tuesday, at the Ebbw Yale Company's Works, Aberaychan A large and massive boiler, situated at the top of an incline, near the Peter's Old pit, and belonging to the winding engine, exploded with terrific force at half-past twelve o'clock. Not long before, the engineer who had it in charge in- spected it. and turned ...

... gistrirt WALES AND ITS EISTFDDFODS.-The glory of a nation does not consist in paying honour to any man in the past, in preserving any system or institution of the past, but in imnroving the present, and in seeking after truth and adopting it, even if it leads to the putting away every national prejudice, every institution and custom of the past. The deep and silent causes that have been at ...