... ST. FAGANS. THE BELL RINGERs.-On New Year's Eve, the ringers partook of supper at the Plymouth Arms (Mr. Llewellin's), after which they rung a merry peal prior to the departure of the old and the birth of the new year. The bells are new, and are well- toned, and the trial has proved that they are all that can be desired. The belis were well struck and brought down, ringing; the changes in an ...

... The cutter Badger was ran down at Kingstown on Saturday evening, by the London steamer Leader. The cutter's crew had a narrow escape. THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.—A day or two after the death of his Royal Highness, Mr. Theed, the sculptor, attended at Windsor Castle, bv the Queen's command. It was her Majesty's wish that a cast of the Prince s hand should be taken, and this was ac- cordingly done, ...

... A few personal traits may be actded to our brief sketch of the prince who was on Monday laid in his splendid tomb. Professor Goldst-ucker, a fellow-student with him at Bonn, remembers lirin as the only prince who was a real reader there. I believe, says the professor, in a letter which we are allowed to quote, he never missed a single lecture. It was not the way with princes at Bonn. During ...

... The force of the convictions expressed in a numerous correspondence addressed to this jour- nal, and the extent of the impressions prevailing in the public mind, compel us to recur to the subject of the illness of the lamented Prince Consort. It is generally strongly felt that an official account of that illness is due to the nation which so deeply mourns his sudden and unexpected loss. It is ...

... ME. PAINE'S LETTER TO THE LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH. The following letter is referred to in our report of the Board of Health meeting, held on Friday last, and which we reported at length in our Second Edition :— Cardiff, Dec. 27, 1861. Gentlemen,—At the last meeting of your Board, a notice of a motion for rescinding the appointment of the Officer of Health was given. An observation then made, as ...

... The extreme earnestness—we had almost said vehemence—with which the Times, for two or three consecutive days after the death of the Prince Consort, appealed to the Prince of to decide instantly and finally in favour ot a life of honour and usefulness in preierence to a lire of frivolity and folly, has induced many persons to suppose that his royal highness was hesitating as to the choice he ...

... MERTHYR LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. THE SoUP KITCHEN AGAIN.-The success which attended the soup kitchen last winter has stimulated, a few gentlemen of the town to open another this season, and thus soften the bitterness of winter by the warmth of their philanthropy. It will depend upon the town whether or no the kitchen succeeds, for it is from them that the sinews of war is to come, if at all. We ...

... DECENT MOURNING. The brilliant French writer, M. Edinond About, is at present contributor to the fsuilleton of the Constitationml. The following passsge is from an article of that journal of Tuesday week, which bears his signature :— Have you remarked that phrase in the official publication of the English Government after til* death of Prince Albert—' It is expected that all persons will ...

... RETROSPECT. WE write the word more by way of invitation to our readers, that they may indulge their own reflections and jog their own memories, rather than that we should inflict upon them any lengthened remarks of our own. Thought- ful Englishmen have always plenty of subjects of interest and importance on which to dwell at the close of an old and the beginning of a new year. The past year is ...

... THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY. DURING the whole of this week the country has been in great excitement for the arrival of news from America. The detention of the Africa for two days beyond her time of depar- ture was supposed to give a probable oppor- tunity for receiving definine intelligence. It now appears that we must wait some days ere we have that kind of knowledge which shall satisfy us of the ...

... WHITCHURCH. DARING BURGLARY WITH VIOLENCE HY IHUTR IJURGXARS—About two o'clock on Saturday morning last a most daring burglary was committed at the house of a respectable elderly couple, named Rich- ards, who live in o house near Whitcourch. The man and his wife were suddenly a woke, by two men entering their bedroom, and one presented a pistol, and the other a dagger, at the-helpless and ...

... A letter of the 23rd ult., from Malta, gives a painful account of a military e :— The event of the week in this garrison has been the execution of the gunner Joiin Edwards, of the 3rd Brigade Royal Artillery, for having fired his carbine at Captain Keate. his trial by general court-martial he made no defeuca, gave no reason for the act. and expressed no regret at having committed it. He was ...