... This market to-day is of a lioiulay character. Wheat extremely sJow-English and foieign—and where sales are made, last Monday's quotations are barely supported. Flour dull, aud without change of value, Barley equal to this day week. Oats not. brisk by any means, and no cliauge in prices. Beans and peas rather clieaoer. Seeds- Linseed and rapeseed steady; other seeds dull. In floating cargoes, ...

... ■■i.xUxmi (fMrncts, ASTLEY AND HIS HORSE. A notice of Astley would be incomplete without a refer- ence to the famous white charger presented to him by General Eliott. The life of this animal far exceeds the usual limit allotted to its race. For forty-two years it Was at Astley's, more than thirty of which it passed in the service and amusement of the public; and when old age rendered it ...

... LATEST NEWS. GREECE. ATHENS. Dec. —A great popular manifesta- tion took place to-day, tiie crowd shouting for Prince Alfred as King of the Greeks. The Hon, Mr. Elliot has repeated the refusal of the throne upon the part of the Prince, at the same time promising the Greeks the sympathy and good will of England. FRANCE. PARIS, Dec. 31.—La France of this venhig says :—It is asserted that the ...

... DEATH OF A LOCAL NEWSPAPEH MAN. We have received a copy of the Pontupool Free Press, giving us the melancholy intelligence that Mr. John Morgan, who was for many years an able re- porter on the Star of Gioent, Monmouthshire Merlin, and other local papers, has died recently in South Africa. We knew him well, and fully endorse the following by our Pontypool contemporary:— Intelligence was ...

... TOCORRESPONDIINTST Those-of our friends who wish to favour us with their sentiments must bear in mind these indispensible con- ditions :—What they write must be to the point, and expressed in as brief terms as possible must be x f written on one side of the sheet only, and legible; the name of the writer must accompany each communica- tion, not necessarily for publication, but for our own ...

... loiters ta tip (gDhor. THE ROATH SLAUGHTER-HOUSES. StR,—You did good service to the ratepayers of Roath by your strictures in a late number on the proceedings of the Roath Board of Heaith. There is., however, one point that escaped you—the power of the board to creel sbughter-hhuses. Before the market could be made, they had to hold a public meeting of the ratepayers to sanction the same, and ...

... FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1863. HOW THE NEW GAS COMPANY FARED LAST FRIDAY. WHEN we penned words of caution, last week, it was not in the expectation that the neces- sity for such words would be so soon apparent. By a side-wind, which Mr. Grover must have the credit of raising, the opponents of the Gas Consumers' Company turned the tide of affairs against the company, and as a Board of Health undid ...

... The footrace on Monday, of five miles, at Hack&ef Wick, between Mills and Marsh, was won by tk latter. Mills giving up in the third mile. The contest was for ±'50, Mills alioiving his opponent a starts 35 yards. The Greeks of Manchester have shown themsefcae as well disposed to Prince Alfred as have the geae- rality of their countrymen. Oat of 92 votes, Priaoc Alfred received 90 in that city: ...

... MERTHYR LOCAL INTELLIGENCE FATAL ACCIDENT OX THE MEP-TSYH AXB BLBCOX P.ATT,TVAY.—On the 25th uit., a tearful accident oc- curred on the Merthyrand Brecon Railway, by which one life was lost, and several persons seriously in- jured, som3 of wkom are not expected to recover, it appears that some workmen hurriedly got into some-empty trucks at the commen j^uient of a steep incline, without ...

... A very important and largely-attended meeting was held on Saturday last, R. O. Jones, Esq., in the chair. The workhouse master reported that during the week there had been 30 persons admitted, and 54 discharged, leaving 455 in the house, OJ, of whom were in the refuge, and 01 in Halket-street,being an increase of 95. COMMITTEE'S EEPOBT ON THE MEDICAL AND RELIEVING OFFICERS' DISTRICTS. This ...

... .Intelligence, AMERICA. THE GREAT BATTLE AT FREDERICKSBURG. The following is extracted from the letter of the correspondent of the New York Times, dated Fredericksburg, midnight, December 13. The battle of Fredericksburg, which has been raging since ten o'clock this morning without a moment's pause, was closed by darkness to-night. In its duration, its intensity, if not also in the losses it ...

... WTe are not of those who worship relics and im- ages, who esteem particular days, and observe fasts and feasts: nor of those who, with stoical hearts level all distinctions, and make every day alike. We always welcome one of the festivals appointed by the Roman Church, and that one is intended to celebrate the nativity of Him who was the brightness of the Father's glory, and the express image ...