... '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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... OUR COUNTRYMEN IN ITALY.—Besides the Legion, England has been represented by others of her sons, of whom she may well be proud. There is Dunne, who is made colonel, and afterwards brigadier-general, by Garibaldi; and Captain Dowling, made successively major and colonel by Garibaldi, as also inspector of artillery. There is Wyndham, too, made colonel by Garibaldi—he commands the Zouaves-and ...

... ELOPEMENT IN HICH A romantic story, of which the following is an outline, Is cur- rent in the East Riding of Yorkshire :—. During last week, apartments were ordered at a lodg- ing-house in Scarborough—the famous and fashionable watering-place—for a lady and gentleman and a female servant, who were to arrive by rail the day following that on which the landlady received her instructions. ...

... HER Most, Gracious Majesty has, we are informed, contrilmted 109 guineas to the fund in aid of the distressed riband wearers of Coventry and its neighbourhood. Sabscflnfioris 7,rill be received by Jones, Loyd, and Co.; f- i»i*h, Pa- ne„ and Co. Glyn,. Mills, and Co.; and by xvles-ra Di niiinond. THE Prince Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt, who is to be united if marriage with her Royal Highness the ...

... From Punch's Almanack for 2310. NEPTUNE. This planet is a remarkable one. It is simply a lake of water, of the most crystalline character, and any at- tempt to sound it is futile, as the lead drops right through and falls into the Zodiac. The lake is inhabited by mermaids of a very fascinating kind, but there has been no successful attempt made to capture them, though the handsomest officers ...

... Among thf Congress candidates, The welt-dressed and the seedy, Young barristers, old reprobates, And poiiiici ins needy, Wis one the press could not impeach, ^Although for votes he traded—■ Tie made a very clever speech, And pushed himself—as they did. Around the polls from morn till night, Prepared for any tussle, To prove their candidate was right, Were paity-hacks of muscle. The patriotic ...