... ELY VALLEY RAILWAY. (NEW LINES OF RAILWAY; RUNNING POWERS AND OTHER FACILITIES OVER OTHER RAIL. WAYS; WORKING AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS- WITH OTHER COMPANIES; ADDITIONAL CAPI- TAL; AMENDMENT OF ACTS.) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT Application is intended to be made to Parliament, in the ensuing Session, for an Act to authorize the Ely Valley Railway Company (hereinafter called the Company) to make ...

... The following is a comparison between the size of the Great Eautern and Noah's Ark:—Noab's Ark faccord- ing to Newton) s Length between perpendicular, 612 feet; extreme breadth, 85 feet; height, 51 feet; tonnage, 18.231. Great Eattern: Length between perpendicular, 680 feet; extreme breadth, 85 fset; height, 60 feet; ton. nage, 23,002. THB COLLECTION of LAND, ASSESSED, AND INCOME T.iXBtI.- W. ...

... A Naw RtttRDT ton DiMAm.—It was long imagined by many of the physicians in the dark ages, who depended upon the mysterious agency of electricity as a remedial agent in the cure of diseases, that if by any means an apparatus could be devised so as to. supply a painless, continuous, and gentle current of the electric fluid to the surface of the human body, it would be found in the sequel to be ...

... Latt week's supplies were generally moderate, though plentiful of barley. The exports were 233 qrs. oats and 583 qrs. rye. Of English wheat there were 7,331 qrs., of foreign 7,008 qrs. The supplies from Essex and Kent this morning were scanty; nevertheless, busillc.e was only calm at the rates of last Monday. The foreign trade was steady, all good quali- ties being firmly held, but not so much ...

... The marriage of Prince George of Saxony with the Princess Maria Anne of Portugal, will be celebrated in the early part of May next. Upwards of 100 persons have given notice of their intention to apply, in ttie forthcoming Hilary Term, to be admitted attorneys in the Common Law Courts. The solemn demand of the hand of the Princess Mary for the Prince Royal of Naples took place on the 22nd ult. ...

... ONE HUNDRED POUND3 REWARD ON CONVICTION -The fearful dangers to invalids from spurious imitations of DU BARRY'S invaluable Health-restoring REVALENTA ARABICA FOOD led to an investigation, and, upon applica- tiou iu 1854 for protection, the High Court of Chancery granted an injunction restraining Alfred Hooper Nevill, and his agents, under a penalty of £5000, from selling any article resembling ...

... INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, CAERLEON. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on SATUBDAY, the 17th instant, the Guardians will proceed to the ELECTION of a FEMALE NURSE, for the Industrial Schools at Caerleon. The person to be appointed will be re- quired to take the charge of the children under five years of age, and to assist in such other duties in the establishment aa may be required. Salary, £ 15 per annum ...

... BRIDGEND. CAUTION TO WRECKERS.—David Lodwick was fined E2 13t. 6d, and Thomas Evans and Lewis Morgan £ 113s. 6,1. each, at the Petty Sessions, for removing a chronometer case from a wreck near Morfa Colliery, where they were employed at work. R. P. LEMON & Co.—A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. R. P. Lemon and Co., ironfounders, Maesteg, near Bridgend, was held on Thursday, at the offices ...

... CASSELL'S POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY. Part II. is now ready, price 6d., free by post 7d. The unparalleled success which the First Part of this new and ongmal work has achieved, is a most gratifying proof that the efforts of the publishers to introduce a Natural History written in an at. tractive and popular manner, yet embracing the results of modern investigation, illustrated, too, with suitable ...

... LOCAL AND PROVINCIAL. DEATH OP THE REV. CANON CITESSHYRE.—One of the stalls in Canterbury Cathedral, and the joint livings of St. Paul and St. Martin, Canterbury, have become vacant by the death of the Rev. Canon Chessliyre, which took place early on Tuesday morning, after a lengthened period of extreme suffering, borne with exemplary patience and Christian fortitude. The de- ceased, whose age ...

... BT EDWIIT F. BOBERTS. Once again the good old season of Christmas comes round to us, and while the bleak east wind is sweeping over the lonely mountains, on which the snows are piling, and sounding sono. rously and with a shrill tempestuous vigour in the valleys, where the white and ghostly visitant is drifting in piles-when men shudder at the fierce cold without, and thaw into a genial warmth ...

... A quarterly meeting of the council of this borough was held on Tuesday. Present, C. C. Williams, Esq., mayor, in the chair Aldermen Lewis and Reece; Councillors Pride, It. W. Williams, C. W. David, Alexander, Batcbelor, Owen, J. Bird, E. Mason, Nell, K and J. Thomas, and Langley. The money received by the police for attendance at quarter sessions and assizes, was ordered to be added to the ...