... SENTENCE ON DR. SMETHWICK: Charles Henry Smethwick was on Monday placed before W. E. Johnston, Esq., at the Sessions House, Ne win gten-causeway, to take his trial on the charge of obtaining certain valnablegoorls from the shop of Mr. Harvey, Westminster-road, under false pretences. The career of the prisoner, which has been already published, was one of the most heartless nature. He had ...

... OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS. Speech of the Emperor. ^MESSIEURS SENATORS; MESSIEURS DEPUTIES,— At the time of our last meeting together, I hoped to see the difficulties which threatened the repose of Europe removed by a Congress. It has been other- wise. I regret it; for the sword of ten severs questions without solving them; and the only basis of a durable peace is the satisfaction given by ...

... Life in Portugal. —An officer and a eritic writing home from Lisbon, says:— Time has passed so pleasantly that it seems hardly a week since we entered the Tagus, though five have elapsed. Opera nearly every eveniig-aticl, speaking of opera, they have the sweetest little prima donna here, Volpini by name. As we used to say at school, She's as sweet as a peach.' The mess have all gorie erazy ...

... THE COURT. THE Court wag hold during the past week at Windsor. BEFORE the Queen leaves for Scotland her Majesty J^ill take up her residence at Buckingham Palace for three weeks. THE Prince and Princess of Wales are at present staying at Marlborough-house. A. SUITE of five rooms will shortly be added to Frog- J?ore-lodge, the accommodation at present being too umited for the Household of his ...

... ABERSYCHAN. LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD.—This Board held its monthly meeting on Wednesday, the 15th instant, at the Abersychan School-room, C. J. Parkes, Esq., chairman; there being also present—Messrs. E. E. Tucker, W. B. Partridge, John Hair; George Foihergill, John Jones, P. Hambleton, W. Pratt, and J. Daniel, and the Rev. S. Price. The minutes of the last meeting were read by the Secretary, and ...

... THE SAFFRON-RILL MURDER. } The extraordinary ciroumstaneesconnooted with the I crime for which the Italian, Serafini Polizzioni, now i lies under sentence of death still continue to attract a. great great deal of public attention, and Mr. Lewis, the solicitor who conducted his defence, has been ac- ] tively engaged in preparing facts and evidence to be laid before Sir George Grey, with a view ...

... CORRESPONDENCE. [Under this head our columns are open to all who do not violate the rules of propriety, and 'Who send ItS their names, nut necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. It must be dis- tinctly understood that we do not hold ourselves responsible for opinions expressed by correspondents under this head.—Ed. U. ...

... It does not often happen (says the North Wales vhromcle) that cases of gross imposture occur in Wales, but an instance has just taken place at Aber- dovey, of which Mr. Edward Jones, draper, and his mother were the victims. We will give the facts as stated before the Aberdovey magistrates, Messrs. C. F. T. Thruston and John Pughe. The prisoner, whose real name was not known, was charged with ...

... 41 Daring Enterprise.—Upwards of six months have elapsed since the little brig Vision left New York for Liverpool. Her passengers consisted of Captain Spencer and a shipmate. There was also a dog among fehja company, but it is feared that all of them have foundered and gone to the bottom of the sea. Nothing, afc all events, has been heard of the vessel, and the sad probability is, that the ...

... THE speech in which the Emperor Napoleon III. has opened the present session of the French Legislature is of peculiar importance, seeing that it is not merely a resume of the political past, but the herald and pro- inise of international and internal reform. While the affiirs of Denmark, America, Japan, Mexico, and Africa have occupied the attention of the French Government, the best interests ...

... THE ARTS, LITERATURE, &c. Tl THE first monthly part of a new series of Cassell's SWrated Family Paper has been laid before us. his periodical has long been a popular favourite, and We have no doubt that, in its present new and im- proved form, it will commend itself even more highly 'ban. heretofore to the approvalof the reading public, O ^TR. GASKIN'S forthcoming work, The Viceregal Seeches ...

... Glasgow has been the scene of disgraceful distur- bances, caused by students of the University. During the forenoon of Thursday (says a local contemporary) groups of students assembled from time to time at the entrance to the University, pelting pedestrians with snowballs, and one little girl received such a blow with a snowball that she was fellea to the ground as if she had been struck by a ...