... GENERAL NEWS. Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, was attacked with paralysis at the Manchester Athenaum last week- Sir James is recovering. We are requested to state that there is no truth in the report that the Government intend to create three new Indian Bishoprics.— Times. It is stated in the Dublin Evening Post thst Lord Naas, the Chief Secretary, is to succeed Lord Elphinstone in the ...

... DAYI-S, BUOTHEKS, MERTHYil TYDIL. „ W\ Iron Bedstead Sole Agents — full 10 per cent be- lOr ■ v ■•■■■: -r „ low any person in Eares Floor Cloth. r v the Trade, SELLI.2 ...

... etc (ETourt, ART AND THE PRINCESS ROYAL,-It will interest many of our readers to learn that the Princess Frederick William of Prussia sedulously cultivates her talents as an artist in bar new home; and, more, that the Princess still seeks the assistance aod remembers the attention of those who were her early instructors. Mr. Edward Corbould, from whom the Princess received her first lessons in ...

... HORTICULTURE. From Bell's Weekly Messenger. The weather has again bpen very favourable for all kinds of out-door work, and planting operations especially ought to be diligently pushed forward. In forming new orchards, or in prepaiing borders for the reception of wall trees, the first point to be considered is a dry bottom, for unless tbe land is well drained it, is vain to endeavour to improve ...

... Plarftets. LONDON, MOKDAT, Nov. 1. During the past week the value' of the Precious Metals im. ported was X414,250 and exports were £ 499.880. A decrease in the Home trade export demand for Colonial Produce, stocks are large, and rates generally have adownward tendency, although consumption is favourable. Russian Produce is more readily dealt in, and not easily to be bongbt at last weeks' terms ...

... M1NCINQ -LANE, MOUDAY NOV SUGAR.—Numerous public sales are announced for the week and the small parcels disposed of to-day were rath ?, ? Fridays' rates. The currency is for Havanah nt un,der 36s to 40,; yellow 40s (jd to 47s; FloretS tATD ?,U*lity clayed 37s to 38s, nnclayed 33s to 34s. Date Ben rai wi J*18, and white Benares 48s to 53s (id. en&al oO, to 45s, For REFINED SUGAR a quiet market- ...

... POETRY. AUTUMN. Why do ye droop to see the wither'd leaf ? Why do ye mouru to mark the fading flower ? Why ilotli 110ft melancholy o'er thee creep In quiet autumn hour? Is it that beanty has so short a reign ? And perfumes sweet thou canst 110 more inhale; It is within thy sinking heart thou feels't That loveliness is frail'! Well be it so—for truth is in the thought, All things are passing, ...

... RETURN OF THE DARK AGES. OUR mercurial friend, the Rev. Horatio James Thomas, vicar of Pentyrch, and one of the guar- dians for Lantwit Vardre, has again distinguished himself at the Board of Guardians, and performed another act by which he is preparing himself for a niche in the Temple of Fame. There are but few men of whom it can be said that they have done the state some service, in that ...

... CARDIFF.—At the Publishing Office, 17, St. Mary-street the Railway Stations, and of all Stationers and News Agents. NEWPORT—At the Cardiff Times Publishing Officet f Mr. CORNER, Publishing Agent, Commercial-stre | and of all News-Agents throughout Monmouthshire. Printed by the Proprietors, DAVID DUNCAN and WIL- LIAM WARD, of Edward-street, Crockherbtown, in the Parish of St. John, in the ...

... Probituiai, THE Rmv. MR. SMITH, THE CONVICT.—The Sussex Advertiser has authority for contradicting a report which has appeared in the Bristol papers of the death, in Lewes prison, of the Rev. S. Smith. The rev. convict has not been in the Lewes prison at all, and if he be dead his decease must have been sudden, for be was seen a few days ago in another convict establishment by an officer from ...

... LITERATURE. MOMOS'8 NEW FARMER'S ALMANACK.—This Almanaek for 1859, hils just appeared, and the adoption of its contents to Ule wants of the class for whose 8pecial use it is got np, exceeds, if possible, the former editions of the work. Of the NEW FAKUKR'B ALMANAC for 1859—36 pages are occupied by ai Agricultural History of 1858—20 by a Calendar of Operations for the Farm and for the ...

... (Before T. E. HEATH, Esq.) Two disorderlies and three cases that were remanded were before the bench to-day. ...