... Forwards and backvvards—'tween pillar and post, Was a saying of which we could formerly boast; But now that old saying is gone to the ground, Since pillar and post both in one can be found. Merthyr, Dec., 1858. SCALLOP. ...

... FRIDAY. Before R. 0. Jones, D. Lewis, and J. H. Insole, Esqrs. BRUTAL TREATMENT OF A WiFE.— Thomas strange was charged with heating his wife, on Thursday night. She was in bed, when the defendant came home, sober, and pulled her out of bed and kicked and beat her over the eye and on various parts of her body. He was sentenced to three months hard labour. ATTEMPTED BURGLARY AT MR. EDMONDS'S. ...

... The year hath passed away Swift as the gliding stream, And all its scenes appear Like relics of a dream! Spent are its griefs, its joys are flown, And memory holds their trace alone. Frail fleeting life! how soon May thy probation close; And they who prize the inost- In the still grave repose! Thy joys are brief-they cannot last, And change comes o'er thy season fast. Then pause, my soul, and ...

... ^hc sixth annual «>nfereoce of the A»«ociated Body of Jjourch S:hoolma«tern in England ami Wales was held in °ri»tol on Wedoerdsjr and Thursday. In the morning the ^••nbers and friends of the «s»ociation attended Divine a'r.ice at the Cathedral, when the Rev. Canon Moiety, tb.plaia in ordinary to the Queen, preached a sermon i,1'>r°P'Ute for the occasion from one of the pro»erb»:- rraih up a ...

... POETRY. METRICAL EPITOME OF THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS, AS BBCODBD IN THE FIRST CHAFTBB OF GENESIS. Be CBBATIOJT'S DAYS rehears'd. I. Hark, the call, on Day the First! LIGHT !—from the Darkness LIGHT liath-burst. If. Day the Second saw th' EXPANSB Spread before th' ALMIGHTX'S glance. in. HRBBS and TBBBB with Day the Third, On this Earth a chann conferred. IV. With the Fourth Day, see the SUN, Moow ...

... CARDIFF TOWN COUNCIL. A meeting of the Town Council was held on Tuesday morn- ing last, at the Town Hall, for the purpose of completing the mortgage of the Market Tolls, &c. There were present-the Mayor o(C. C. Williams, Esq.), Alderman David Lewis, and Councillors C. E. Bernard, J. Thomas, James Pride, R. Wil. liams, Langley, W. Alexander, J. Bird, W. Nell, and R Cory. It was resolved, on the ...

... The situation of the Iron Trade remains favourable, and since our last the arrival of several fresh orders has given in- creased confidence to the ironmasters. Slackness is now felt only in particular neighbourhoods, and even in these but par- tially, while briskness, generally speaking, characterises the principal works. From America the demand is becoming much more animated, but it is from ...

... Mr. Scholefield, M.P., has just returned from America. Baron Pennefather has resigned his seat in the Dublin Exchequer, from ill-health. The death of the Hon. Mrs. Anson, last week, wae oc. casioned by taking laudanum in mistake for a draught. The officers of the India House have presented Mr. John Stuart Mill with a pretty silver testimonial. Mr. Couch, of the Norfolk Circuit, is to succeed ...

... BIRTHS. MARRIAGES. ANDDEATIFS. BIRTHS. BATCHELOR—Jan. 22, at Newport, the wife of Tom. Batchelor, Esq., of twins, daughters. COE.-J an. 22, at 54, Loudon-square, Cardiff, the wife of Mr. J. B. Coe, of a son. JONES.—Jan. 25, the wife of Mr. Jones, grocer, Cowbridge of twins; a son and daughter. STRICK.—Jan 20, at Brunswick-place, Swansea, Mrs. Ndiir. Strick, of a daughter. HABERSHON.-Jan. 19. ...

... LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL. Swansea General District Rate was settled at their Board of Health meeting last week at Is. 2d. in the pound. The same rate at Cardiff is Is. 6d. The Judges for the Oxford Circuit of Spring Assizes aro Mr. Justice Crompton and Mr. Baron Channell. For the Western, Mr. Justice Crowder and Mr. Baron Watson. BUILTH.- W e learn with much pleasure that Godfrey C. Morgan, Esq., ...

... A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NHW YcAR. Mr. Editor, at this genial season of the year, so inspiriting and gladdening to the whole family of man the great an- niversary of the birth of Him who came to seek and to save them that wpre lost, and to bring Peace on Earth and good-will to Man; when angels visited the earth to announce the astounding intelligence: in anticipation of the important ...

... CORN-ICXCH ANGE, MONDAY. The morning's supply from Kent and Essex wa! moderate; the market opened, more money was demanded, which only in .ome instances was paid, but last Monday's rates were folly supported on the tales made. Some description* of foreign realised an improvement of fully Is per qr., higher terms being generally required. Of countrv flour there were 19,559 sack-, and of foreign ...