... While in Edinburgh lecturing on Italy, under the auspices of the Garibaldi Italian Unity Committee, Signora Mario received the following address from the Ladies' Emancipation Society:- Madam,- Will you allow us to tender to you our heartfelt acknowledgments for the services you have rendered to the cause of the poor slave in America ? We have been associated for more than thirty years as an ...

... OVERSEERS.-A t the Petty Sessions, on Friday, the 4th April, the following Overseers were appointed for the several parishes in the Usk Division :—Usk— John Richardson and James Davies. Gwehelog John-Jones and Walter Blower. G lascoed-J ob Lewis and Thomas Edwards. Gwernesney—Thos. HaHen and James Jenkins. Kemeys Commander- Philip Phillips and Wm. Griffiths. Llanbaddock- Wm. Williams and James ...

... Raglan and Monmouth Intelligence crowded out. T,, o or three Advertisements and some other matters arrived too late. WANTS.—Advertisements for persons wanting Servants or Servants wanting Situations, are inserted at ONE SUJL- LING each, if they do not exceed THIRTY WORDS, if the. are PREPAID. If above that number, they are charge 1 scale price. ...

... FARMING AND GARDENING. MANY of our readers must. have noticed lately in the papers an appeal, printed as a placard, and circulated in the form of a round robin, signed on behalf of four or five smaller varieties of the feathered race-a plea that, as destroyers of insects and vermin, it is very unwise and cruel to permit their exterminat on by thoughtless young persons. No doubt, many birds ...

... Progress of Bins. The Whipping Bill and the Pier and Harbour Act Amendment Bill were read a third time and passed.. The Crown Suits (Isle of Man) Bill, the College of Physicians (Ireland) Bill, and the Netley Hospital Estate Bill were read a second time, and The House adjourned. ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HO 17 EE OF LOItD S. THURSDAY, MARCH 27. Progress of Bills. The Charitable Uses Act Amendment Bill was read a second 'The India Stocks Transfer Bill passed through committee The report of amendments of the Lunacy Regulation Bill was ^TrJohn Soane's Museum Bill passed through committee. The Indian Licence Tax. The Earl of AIELIE askeil whether it was true that the Indian ...

... To the Editor of the Pontypool Free Press, Sir,—As I could not attend the meeting of the rate- payers on the 25th ult., I must beg of you to allow me a small space in your paper for a few observations which I trust will not be considered misplaced. First, with regard to the double salary. I am in- formed by some friends who were present that there was but one opinion at the meeting as to its ...

... Towards the close of the last century, Northumber- land and the border were terribly infested by those- to the bucolic mind—particular obnoxious specimens of the genus thief known as rievers or lifters of cattle. Almost all the rascals who followed this not un- lucrative profession trusted chiefly tc mere brute force to carry out successfully their nefarious schemes. There was, however, one ...

... Our fears regarding the Merrimac are not yet allayed (writes a New York correspondent). But a few days ago the simple rumour that she was again out of the dry deck, and lying in the stream off Nor- folk, put Wall-street in a very uncomfortable state. The positive statements made by Government that measures had been taken which could hardly fail to be effectual in disposing of her, should she ...

... We may expect shortly to receive tidings of the ut- most importance from New Orleans, for we learn that the Federalists have organised, for an attack on this city, an expedition which is described, with pardonable extravagance, as the mightiest that ever floated on the ocean, and that the people of New Orleans, in pro- viding for their defence, have displayed an ingenuity and devotion which ...

... Holloway s Ointment and Pills.—PJieuinatie and nervous pains.—The chilly mornings and evenings will provoke these tortures in constitutions susceptible of such maladies. Nothing affords so much relief as Holloway's Ointment, well rubbed upon the skin, after repeated warm fomentations.. Thousands of testimo- nials Dear witness to the wonderful comfort obtained trom tais safe and simple ...

... DRESSING UP TO THEIR STATION! A Paris correspondent writes as follows:- On Tuesday night another dramatic representation took place at the Hotel de Nerville. One very 1 remarkable feature in some of these entertainments— particularly those given by the hauteet ancienne noblesse-is the attempt made by the gentlemen having pretensions to handsome or distingue appearance to eschew the fashion ...