... Secretary Welles has sent to Captain Winslow of the Kearsage a recognition of his services in the de- struction of the Alabama. In this dispatch he re- quests Captain Winslow to express to the officers and crew of the Kearsage the satisfaction of the Government at the victory over a vessel superior in tonnage, superior in number of guns, and superior in the number of her crew. He then says:— ...

... THE TOWN SCHOOL.—Sermons in aid of the funds of this school were preached on Sunday last at Trevethin Church, St. James's Church, and the Town School, by the Revrls. John Griffiths, (Neath,) Dr. James, (Panteg,) and W. D. Horwood, respectivelyt The congregations were, upon the whole, numerous, and the collections were in advance of those of last year. THE FA.IR.-Our first spring fair was held ...

... Re-directed Letters, &c— On the 5th of May and thenceforward, all letters, book packets and packets of patterns, re-directed from one place to another in the United Kingdom, excepting such as such as are re-directed by an officer of the Post-oSce to an address which is within the same free delivery as the original address, are to be charged with re-directed postage. Under this rule, not only ...

... Described in a letter from lVlaster Johnny Russell, of St. Stephen's Academy, to Master Thomas Brown. DEAR TOM,—I hope you are quite well. I am quite well. I hope your sister is quite well. Give my love to her. There has been a jolly fight between Ben Dizzy and Bill Gladstone, and Ben has got well licked, and I am jolly glad of it, for Ben has been an awful nuisance all this half, and saying ...

... Strange Proceedings Among the applications to Mr. Dayman, at the Wandsworth Police-court on Friday, was one by a respectable-looking woman, who stated that she lived in the New-road, Battersea, and that her lodgers had lost a child, which the parish had refused to bury. The- child had been dead eight days, and the body was in a shocking condition. Applicant had a family of six. children, and ...

... Gardening Operations for the Week. Bedding plants struck in the open ground must be potted forthwith; in all cases a poor sandy soil and plenty of drainage must be used, especially if the plants are to be kept in pits or other places where they will be exposed to a low temperature during hard weather. Take up all choice plants now that it is intended to keep through the winter, and pot them if ...

... 4 SINGULAR SCENE IN A MUNICIPAL COURT. At the ciiarterlv meeting of the Belfast Corpora- tion the Mayer (John Lytle Esq.) in the chair, the recent exciting « scenes in the ^nojs committee-rooms m the matter of the Belfast In- demnity Bill were rehearsed m presence of a full meeting, and a pretty large concourse assembletl out- the bar. The circumstances are briefly as followsThe report of ...

... SPORTS AND PASTIMES. MR. J. JACKSON, of Fairfield, has purchased the celebrated racing crack, Blair Athol, for the sum of 7,500 guineas, by far the largest sum given in modern times for a racehorse. A LEISURE half-hour enabled us, says the Sporting Gazette, to pay a visit to Mr. Hall's studio during our visit to Newmarket this week, and one of the most striking works was a large picture of ...

... Nothing: Impossible —The greatest and most useful invention or the day, AGUA ^^Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and Co., Three King-court, Lombard-street, perfumers to Her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluii. which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue-no matter at what. age. The Agua Amarella has none of the. properties oUres; it, on the contrary, is ...

... RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-Accidents to goods trains on the line of railway in this locality have become so common that they are not now looked upon with any great degree of alarm, and it is somewhat remarkable that so many mis- haps should have occurred without involving the sacrifice of human life. Another most providential escape occurred on the night of Sunday last. It appears that as an up goods ...

... With the view of concluding the trial on Saturday, the Lord Chief Baron, upon the rising of the Court on Friday evening, suggested that the proceedings should be resumed an hour earlier the next morning—namely, nine, instead of ten o'clock. Pursuant, then, to this arrangement, the prisoner was placed in the-dock punctually at nine, and a few minutes afterwards the Lord Chief Baron and Mr. ...

... An inquiry was held by Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, at the Earl Vincent Tavern, Philpot-street, Commercial-road, on Wednesday, respecting the death, uader very painful circumstances, of Miss Lucretia Jeffreys, aged twenty-four years, the daughter of a well-known paper manufacturer. The jury proceeded to No. 5, Stcnor-street, Philpot- street, to view the body of the deceased. The family ...