... In the hidipendento of Naples, M. Alexandre Dumas has just published, under the title of u Memoires de Monsieur de Paris, the following curious and characteristic narrative:— I had read. says the writer, ill many narrati-rcs of 'he death of Louis XVI. that ho refused to ascend the scaffold, that it was found necessary to use force, and that a struggle took place between him and the ...

... Two persons were fined the other day by the Stalybridge magistrates, for quitting a railway car- riage whilst the train was in motion. Accidents have frequently happened at Stalybridge from this cause, and these persons were only saved by the. activity-of the railway servants. A characteristic letter from Mr. Buskin has appeared, in which that eminent critic excuses himself from attending an ...

... One cannot but regret, says the London and China Telegraph, when such valuable lives as those of Captains Josling and Wilmot, with eleven British seamen have been sacrinced also 180,000 harmless people burned out of house and. home in Kagosima, that the cause should have originated in the arrogance and disregard for national customs of a party of our countrymen, who we may say deliberately ...

... THE DISTRESS IN BLACKBURN. In consequence of some dissatisfaction the out-of- door labourers employed by the Blackburn Relief Committee in making some improvements, which can be accomplished by the employment of unskilled labour in the Corporation-park, ceased working on Wednes- day morning, and a slight disturbance ensued. The origin of this dissatisfaction appears to be in the dis- charge of ...

... UAo UALTlES. SHIPWRECK IN THE THAMES—A fine barque, called the Benlida, which has recently discharged a cargo from China in St. Katherine's Dock, was wrecked on Thursday while being towed down the river from those docks. On getting abreast of the Wappmg entrance of the London Docks, a sudden and heavy squall of wind from the southward and west- ward caught the ship, and being light, having not ...

... THE MAYOR.—George Willis, Esq., M.D., has been re- elected to occupy the civic chair for the ensuing year. DROWNED.—A few days since, a woman named Neate, the wife of a forgeman in the employ of Mr. Whitehouse, fell into the river Monnow, a little above the mill-pond, on her way home, and was drowned ...

... CHURCH CONSECRATION.—On Wednesday last, the Pontlottyn new church, in the parish of Gellygaer, situ- ated about a mile from this place, was consecrated and opened for Divine worship. Sermons were preached upon the occasion as fullows:In the morning, at eleven, by the Right Rev. Lord bishop of Llandaff, (in English); in the afternoon, at 3,15, by the Rev. James Newman, B.A., curate of Maindee, ...

... AUTBJO'BMED COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. We are Happy, says Guardian, to see that the objections brought against certain portions of the Bible are- about to be met by leading theologians of the Church osrifngland in a very practical way. If a false and unfair system of interpretation has been applied to the testr of scripture the best way of confuting it is to apply a true and legitimate one. The ...

... DISTRICT INTELLIGENCE. MONMOrTHSHIRE ENGLISH BAPTIST ASSOCIATION. The half-yearly meeting of the above-named Association was held in the Baptist Chapel, Caerleon, on Tuesday and Wednesday, the 3rd and 4th of November. Notwith- standing the unfavorable state of the weather, there was a good attendance of ministers and messengers. The services commenced on Tuesday evening, when sermons were ...

... STORY OF LEGACY. The U!v¿vc1siiy Magazine contains an amusing Di- gressive Essay on Wills, in which are related nume- rous examples of carious wills. The following is a specimen :-=-- In the year 179S the following s*.range circumstance occurred in connection with a wiE. Two gentlemen, who.hud been left executors to a friend, on examining the property, fotmd a scrap of paper on which was ...

... ACCIDENT.—On Friday last an accident happened to a miner named David Eva.s, aged about 20, by which he unfortunately lost his left hand. In charging a hole, the wire by some means ignited the powder, and the ramming was forcibly ejected, shattering the poor fellow's tiand so severely, that it required amputation above the wrist. LECTURE.—A lecture on Colliers and Miners was given at the ...

... CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETy.-Sermons, morning and evening, on behalf of this society were preached at St. Mary's church, and we understand that the collections were liberally responded to. A public meeting on behalf f of the same object was held on the following day, at the Grammar School, when several instructive addresses were delivered. POLICE COURT, MONDAY, before W. W. MANNING,, Esquire. ...