... MUSICAL FETE.—On Monday last, a great number of persons of all grades attended at Pontypool Park, which had been thrown open, by the kind permission of the Lord Lieutenant for the celebration of a meeting for the benefit of the Band of the Second Monmouthshire Volunteer Rifle Corps. The gathering commenced at two o'clock, and crowds kept pouring in during the afternoon, until from 5,000 to 6 ...

... THE CHANGE.—SATURDAY IN PONTYPoOL.-Tha de. sired change which took place in the weather on Saturday last had the effect of dispelling the gloom which appeared to have settled as a sort of fixture on the countenances of our friends, occasioned by the recent incessant rain. On the day adverted to kindly feelings and kindred expres- sions seemed to have succeeded those of an opposite char- acter, ...

... In the Cambridge Insolvent Court, on Thursday, before Mr. John Collyer, judge, Lord William Godolphin Osborne, described as a son of the Duke of Leeds, and of several addresses in England and Belgium, but last of Whittles- ford, Cambridgeshire, of no profession or business, came up for his first examination. The insolvent's schedule extended between December, 1852 and May, 1860. His total ...

... GALLANT CONDUCT OF AN OFFICER OF THE ROYAL —On Tuesday last a private of the militia regiment now training at Monmouth absented himself from drill, choosing the joys of beer, and the fumes of tobacco, in preference to his duty. A piquet was sent in search of private Fish the name of the absentee who on being discovered, bethought himself at once, as a place of security from the guard house, ...

... REMARKABLE CAREER OF A CONVICT digger Last week a. stupid-looking old man, named James Cole, about 60 years of age, was brought before the Wolverhampton magistrates, charged with being drunk and disorderly. From the evidence of the police, it seemed that about 1 o'clock in the morning, the defendant was found in the company of two low prostitutes. He was drunk, and the girls said he was their ...

... r> r„ THE SENTENCE. On luesday, Mary Eugenia Plummer was called unon 51™?'»5,10 ™ «*» c^todv, SdPS at bar. VKII'L™ °ot y «> ...

... The following letter has been received by the Presi- dent of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce from Mr. Cobden Cannes, France, 18th Feb., I860. —My dear Sir, I beg most gratefully to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, conveying the thanks of the directors of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce for my services in negotiating the recent treaty of commerce with .France. If I have been ...

... TRIESTE, FRIDAY. The Austrian war steamers in the Neapolitan waters have been ordered to return to Trieste, as the Austrian Government, on account of the offer made by the King of Naples to Garibaldi to join him with an auxiliary corps against Venetia, can no longer offer hospitality to his Majesty. ...

... Sir Charles Wetherell was one of the oldest and truest Tories that ever lived. He would have died rather than voted for reform. To the men of Man- chester, and Sheffield, and Birmingham, and Leeds, Jie would have denied the suffrage, while old Sarum and Giatton he worshipped with religious awe. On one occasion, while travelling through Sussex, Wilberforce stopped to change horses at an old ...

... AID FOR GARIBALDI.—The Cork Examiner has the following statement.:—On Wednesday, the 21st ult., an American barque, C. B. Troit, Captain Scull, 316 tons, and ostensibly consigned to C. L. Den- nett, in London, for Colt, the celebrated small arms manufacturer, arrived in Queenstown, carrying, a some- what remarkable cargo, being no less than 2o,aOU mus- kets, with furnishings, contributed by ...

... On Wednesday afternoon the remains of the late Earl of Dundonald were interred in Westminster Abbey. In the procession from hia lordship's late residence, Queen's- road, Kensington, were mourning coaches containing the Hon. Thomas Barnes Cochrane, now the Earl of Duli- donnld, lion. Horace Barnard William Cochrane, Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland Cochrane, R.N., C.B., Lieu- ienant the Hon. ...

... THE NEW G.C.B. AND K.C.B. Major-General Sir James Hope Grant, K.C.B., whose elevation to the highest rank of the Order of the Bath appeared in the Gazette on Saturday, is the fifth son of the late Francis Grant, Esq., of Kilgraston and Pit- caithly, North Britain, the head of one of the best of the old county families of Perthshire; his mother was Anne, eldest daughter of Robert Oliphant, Esq ...