... 'Tis sweet at dewy eve to rove When softly sighs the western breeze, And wandering 'mid the star-lit grove To take a pinch of snuff and sneeze. 'Tis sweet to see in daisied field The flocks and herds their pleasure take; But sweeter are the joys they yield In tender chop and juicy steak. 'Tis sweet to hear the murmurous sound That from the vocal woods doth rise, To mark the pigeons wheeling ...

... (TO THE EDITOR OF THE CARDIFF TIMES.) SIR,—Permit me to correct an erroneous impres- sion which I find existing in the public mind at Cardiff, with regard to my esteemed friend the late Mr. Benjamin Bowen, which could not be more for. cibly expressed than in the words of a labourer on the wharf, to another of his class, when I was mak- ing preparations for finding the body, namely, Had he ...

... of WEDNESDAY, the 26th of DECEMBER inst. George Inn, IJsfc, T) BREESE begs to inform his Friends and the iA. Public in general, that his ANNUAL BALL and SUPPER will take place on Wednesday the 26th instant. Supper and Music, 2s. Dancing to commence at Eight o'clock. fPERFUMERY, POMATUMS, and SOAPS of the most approved kinds, on Sale at J. H. CLARK'S, Bridge-street, Usk. ...

... BREACH OF PROMISE GASS. DAMAGES, £ 100, the Fresiau Sh«vl8'rt Court, oa Friday (before Sift P, SJeftcori, under-sbeyUl), damages wo CWMSS.UI In mi actiua for breach of jrfomise of marriage brought by Eliza JaM Fori iigainst Samuel Brooks, The plaintiff, a respectable-looking female, about 2,) years of age, resides at Stockport. The defendant was formerly a clerk in a solicitor's office; ...

... TIrE BOLD VOLUXTEER.—A knight of the plane, who. had his heart been placed at a greater distance from bis mouth might, one day have done his country some service as a member of oar redoubtable Volunteer Rifle Corns, resolved on Thursday week to resign. For this purpose he proceeded on the day in question, at'ired in his uni- form and accoutrements. to the residence of his very worthy captain, ...

... ATTEMPTED ROBBERY.—On Monday evening last, while one of our miners was coming from Sirhowy to Beaufort, he was attacked by two men when near one of the Ebbw Vale ponds. The fellows stopped the man by holding a pistol, and threatening to blow his brains out if lie did not deliver up his property. He replied that he had nothing to give them, and at this moment the sound of approaching footsteps ...

... MR. BRUCR AND HIS CONSTITUENTS.—Mr. Bruce is 10 deliver his annual address to his constituents on Tuesday next, December 11th. BURIAL BOARD.—The monthly meeting of the Burial Board took place at the Vestry-room on Wednesday morning last. Present, Rev. J. Griffith, Mr. Roach, Mr. JenktnF. Mr. Roach reported that the alterations in the lodge had been made, and the bill of [3 18s. was ordered to ...

... I CURE IS AT HANDI HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT. SCORBUTIC ERUPTIONS, AS SORE HEADS AND SCROFULOUS SWELLINGS. IF this powerful Ointment be well rubbed into the part affected, all skin disease will be speedily overcome. It acts not by repression, but repulsion. It enters the system al. salt enters meat, and operates not locally only, but con- stitutionally purifying the whole system, neutralizing all de ...

... FRIDAY.—Before Mr. Alderman David (Mayor), Mr. Alder- man Alexander, and R. O. Jones, Esq. STEALING A JACKET.-Peter McCann was sentenced to two months' hard labour on a charge of stealing a jacket. AGGRAVATED AeSAULT.-Daniel Crowley was sentenced to two months' hard labour for having assaulted his wife. DISCHARGED.—Susan Morgan, for keeping an unregistered lodging-house; James Phillips, for ...

... H \T by an Indenture, dated the Third dav of December, I860, TH MAS MORGAN, of Aberdare, in the county of Glamorgan, and of Trecastle, in the county of Brecon, Grocer, Draper, and Iionmonger, Assigned all his Estate and Effects unto JOHN H^^JUKEEONAKD, ofjjfo. 30, Bridge-street, in th^^ity ot Bristol, Wholesale Ironmonger, an*Ul^fLT.A m Powjs^l, of Cwmpadest, SennyJ)M*Fge, mear Bj^f?on, in the ...

... The Overland China Mail tells us:—The news which we have to convey by this mail is of very great importance. Hostilities have been resumed in the north. Mr. Harry Parkes; Mr. Bowlby, the Times correspondent; Mr. Loch, Lord Elgin's private secretary; Mr. de Norman, attache to Mr. Bruce; Captain Bra- bazon, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General, and Captain Anderson, of Fane's Horse, have been ...

... Mr. William Charles F. Helmuth T. de Norman, the First Attache to the Hon. Frederick Bruce's mission to China, who has been taken prisoner by the Chinese, is the only son of Baroness de Norman, and cousin of the Marquis of Northampton, Lady Marianne Alford, and Lord William Compton. Mr. de Norman was for a short period attached to the British Legation at Washington, and was afterwards ...