... AMERICA. NEW YORK, JUNE 9. The Federals have occupied Brownsville. The Con- federates had previously sold their artillery to Mexi- can Imperialists. The fort at Sabine Pass had surrendered. It was expected that Galveston would also be surrendered to the Federals on the 28th ult. General Kirby Smith has gene to Mexico with a large amount of money. A large proportion of the citizens of Kentucky ...

... OUR MISCELLANY. A certain Irishman making love to a lady of great fortune, told her he could not sleep for dreaming of her. A Cure for Stupidity.—You are very stupid, Thomas, said a country teacher to a little boy eight years old. You are like a donkey, and what do they do to care them of stupidity? They feed them better, and kick them less, said the arch little urchin. A Quaker's Excuse ...

... GENTLEMEN, AOCEPT my best thanks for the honour you hare done me in Electing me for the fifth time as the Representative of your Boroughs in Parliament. I feel the importance of the trust more particularly from the generous way in which you have confided in me. You may rely upon my giving the various sub- jects affecting our Foreign, Domestic, and Financial Interests my best consideration, and ...

... The addresses of two loading members of the Con- servative party has been published. Sir Bulwer Lytton, addressing the electors of Hercfordsl1ire, says tlmt, Judgmg from the pf1st procedure of her Majesty's Government, we have no right to expect from them a measure of Parliamentary reform They use that question much as a man who takes care of hÏillsclf iu this changeable climate uses an upper ...

... Nn. XI. HISTORY OF PENYGARN BAPTIST CHURCH. Tuu introduction of Christianity to a country is an ever-memorable event. It enters silently and unobtrusively, works its way gradually but irresistibly, until it pervades all the community, and changes the sentiments and the character of a people. It is silent, like nature, in its ope- rations slow in its progress, but certain in its triumph. It is ...

... The lesson I taught him he has executed. By the gods he has bettered my instruction. MR EDITOR,-Permit me through your columns to thank the numerous persons who called upon me and expressed their regret at the unexpected decision in my case. Allow me also to refer to the answers in cross and re-examination:— —I never kept a game bird-Not one of your birds ever fought mine. ■—I never had steel ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE ELECTION. The nomination took place on Tuesday Monmouth. The usual formalities having been gone through, the High Sheriff called upon any elector to nominate fit and proper persons to re present the county in the next Parliament. Mr J. E. W. Rolls, of Hendre, nominated Ir Octavius Morgan, and Mr Thos. Gratrex, banket seconded the nomination. Mr Bosanquet, of Dingestow, proposed ...

... To the freeholders and lleators of the Comity of Monmouth. a GENTLEMEN, A GENERAL ELECTION being about to take J place, I purpose a&ain to ofFor myself as a can- didate to represent your important County in Parlia- f ment. j During the six years that I have been thus honored, I have endeavoured to deserve the confidence you have placed in me, and the principles I first advocated f I have done ...

... CITY, JULY 11. — There is very little business is. flfer Stock Exchange to-day, many of the members being aiwafv chiefly in connection with the elections. Foreign sfessfe and financial shares are very ftuiet. The discount aessstefe is quiet to-day, with a large amount of money se'Js«C employment. The quotation for choice paper illI. 2t to three per cent. The rats in the Stock Excha«gw £ w ...

... Caerleon Petty Sessions, PanteWlue Local Government Meeting and Trelleck Petty Sessions crow led out, A Member of the Philanthropic Order.Your communication should have been senteaflwr. ABERGAVENNY AND NEWCASTLE.—A post too late. LIE insert notices of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, FItRE of CHARGE (except marriages containing the trords No Cards, i, it are charged 2s. 6r/. each), ami should, ...

... SIR,—Will the fair poetess of Bettws, A. A. kindly urnish the poets of Usk with the named style of metre as con- ained in her elegant Lines on Grace Darling! Usk, July 10th, 1865. ENOUISBR. ...

... The Ea.rl of Winchilsea and Nottingham, of St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, was summoned last week by Mr. T. Bent, on behalf of the London and South-Western Railway Company, for unlawfully smoking a cigar in the Yauxhall Railway Station. Mr. Croriibio, the company's law clerk, attended at Wands- worth Police-court on Saturday in support of the summons, which was made returnable at eleven ...