... '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. ...

... The Hungarians in Paris are openly promising the throne of Iiangary to the Prince Napoleon. The Hungarian committee ah Pcsth are in communication withVSt. Petersburg, and have offered the crawri-of St. Staphen to Prince Constantine. freedom of the city of London and a swovd were, last week, presented to Lord Clyde and Sir James Qirtrair. A St. Petersburg letter of the 12th says-.— The Russian ...

... ON the 6tli the magnificent fleet under the com- mand of Vice-Admiral Martin was anchored off Corfu. It is composed of the following ships :-The flag ship Marlborough, 131 guns, 800-horse power. Admiral Martin; the Orion, 91 guns, GOO-horse power, Captain Frcre; the Exmouth, 90 guns, 400-horse power, Captain Paynter; the Neptune, 90 guns, 500-horse power, Cap- tain Campbell; the Mars, 89 guns, ...

... THE EXPLOSION AT RISCA. THIRD EDITION. RISCA, SATURDAY FORENOON. It was announced in a second edifion that the task of recovering the missing bodies from the ill-fated Black Vein Pit was being vigorously prosecuted but the names of those extricated up to Friday night were not then to hand. The bodies of the undermentioned, twenty-two men and boys (five of whose namps were given in a previous ...