... THAT IS not home where day by day, I wear the busy hours away; That is not home, where lonely r.igkt Prepares me for the toils of light- 'Tis hope and joy and memory give A home in which the heJrt can live. There are, who strangely love to roam And find in wildest haunts their home; And some-in halls of lordly state, Who, yet, are homeless, desolate. There is no home in halls of pride. They ...

... Before the horror and indignation awakened by the la.st reo )rd of military tragedies have had time to sub- side, while Sergeant-Major Kennedy's life still trembles in the balance, and at a time when it was thought the example made at Corfu would have ch eked the f rocity which now appears so unhappily prevalent in the army, the 0 imp of Aldershott has again been startled by a dreadful murder, ...

... Now, therefore, let us cry unto heaven. 1 Mac. lv., 10. A BOLT hath fallen on the land Speechless, ailiast, the people stan ...

... THE AUSTRALIAN GOLD DIGGINGS.—A fine cake of amalgamated gold is now on view at the Exhibition here, affording the best of proofs that there is no falling off in the yield from the reefs. This weighs 1,015 oz., and is the produce of only three tons of atone, out of a claim on the Johnson Reef, in the Bendigo district,—a reef long famous for its large yields. The general returns from the ieefs ...

... BLAINA. PETTY SESSIONS. WEDNESDAY, DEC. 18. [Before the Rev. EDMD. LEIGH and Capt. MARSH.] The recent arrangement of the sessions, by which they were appointed to be held on Wednesdays, instead of Wednesdays and Fridays alternately, as j before, does not seem to have given satisfaction and it is certainly the most inconvenient day of the week for the press, which finds itself compelled prepare ...

... PERFECT FREEDOM FROM COUGH IN TEN MINUTES IS SECURED BY Dr. LOOOCK'S PULMONIC WAFERS.— From Mr. Meredith, Kington, Herefordshire.— Having been very ill, for nearly twelve months, with violent cough and regular wasting away, many persons gave their opinion that I should not be long in this world. I had th.e fi.rst advice to no purpose, -when seeing an advertise- ment in the Hereford Times of ...

... On Tuesday three more bodies were rescued from the ruins of the house which fell on Sunday morning, making in all 29 lives ascertained to be lost. It is quite certain that others are still beneath the rubbish. When the work of excavation was discontinued on Sunday night it was resolved to pull down the back wall and tall gables before continuing the search for those entombed. Nearly all Monday ...

... Xettcr.. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING These have been sombre, not Christmas days. Wt have made an effort to fling off the sadness and forget for a time the national bereavement, but it stares us in 1 the face in so many material signs, it is still so recently. and 80 vividly impressed on the mind, that it is beyond J ttie power even of the light-thinking to remember only | jolly, fat, comfortable ...

... PKIZE FOR DRAWING. We have pleasure an- nouncing that the successful competitor for the Royal. Academy's second prize, a silver medal, for drawing,3 from the antique, is Mr. Thomas Henry Thomas, son of the Rev. Dr. Thomas, president of Pontypool College. DEATH OF Mas. DAVIES, OFJTBEVETHIN.—It is our|| melancholy duty to record the death of this excellent^ and amiable lady, which sad event took ...

... IRRIYAL OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. QUKENSTOWN, DEC. 24.—The Now York and Philadel- phia Company's screw steam ship City of Baltimore has wrived from New York. She left on the 14th December. She brings fifty cabin and 115 steerage passengers. she landed eight cabin arid forty-four steerage, and the Irish mails. Off Sandy Hood she passed the Hanoverian ihip Electric and the British barque ...

... T T „ BRECON. Joseph Joseph Esq., p.s.A M f Brecon has appointed John Williams, Esq>f of her Maje'8ty»s justices of the peace, Deputy Mayor for the ensuing year. ...

... There was a partial panic on the Stock Exchange on Wednesday, through the news of the outrage on the Trent and the capture of Messrs. Slidell and Mason. Consols dropped half to three-quarters per cent but afterwards slightly recovered. The Bath and Bristol Boards of the Bank of Deposit have put forte a statement to the effect that they were grossly and systematically deceived by reports fur- ...