... THE DECEMBER PERIODICALS. EXTRACTS. DRIVEN OVERBOARD. Over our cinntr, I had asked Harley whether be could twim, and, in answer to his look of surprise, had stated my fear that such a contingency as taking to the water for cur lives was far from being improbable ere another tun had risen. My companion had replied that he cou'd swim a little, and I had promised to give him all the assistance in ...

... Our poets, nowadays, are clothed in purple and fine linen they hide themselves from us in the pro- fundities of a Brahminical self-contemplation; they are shut out from the active, actual business of the world, and appear to have no sympathy with it. When they do make an effort to leave their intro- spective chamber and enter the stirring life around thenn, they are dazzled and blinded, they ...

... MO-NMOUTRSi! ;Rti GUAKTfciR SESSIONS. T./t G aera' Quart r osasions n? i: county wtre o;.?nod at the Town rial -7.ic, ,,I Yt wbeo'fJie foil >vf;ny .eutlercen o: t r-.a^i-i. -K y ■■ ere 9. K. B03a» ...

... MYNYDDISLWYN- THB PLTGAIN AT THE PARISH CHURCH.—On the morning of Christmas day, the time-honoured custom of holding early morning services, or Plygaiij, as it is known amongst the Cyrnry, was duly observed at the above Church, The sacred edifice has lately undergone exteoBiTe internal repaid and improvements, by wav of R ,STK'° T' IO chancel, lha richly-ornamented candlesticks and ele ...

... CHARLES WILLIAMS DAVID, ESQ., MAYOR. LIST OF THE COUNCIL, WITH EXPIRATION OF OFFICE. NORTH WARD T. Evans, J. Bird and W. Nell- 1867 W. Vachell, E. Whiffeo, and H. Bo«ren—1868 • E. U. Spencer, — Flint, and Dr Taylor- 1869. SOUTO WARD R J. Todd, T. Harvey, and J. Win- stone- 1867; H. Clements, S. D. Jenkins, and J. P.Ingle, dew—1868; D. Joues, Joseph Elliott, and P. Bird- 1869. ALDERMEN-Charles ...

... ECLIPSES is 1867.—There will be four eclipses in the course of the present year. 1. An annular eclipse of the sun, March 6, visible at Greenwich 8h. 17m. morning. 2. A partial eclipse of the moon, March 20, invisible at Greenwich. 3. A total eclipse of the sun, August 29, invisible at Greenwich. 4. A partial eclipse of the moon, Sep- tember 13, visible at Greenwich, begins at lOb. 57m. evening ...

... LITTLE MILL. J ABSCONDING 1>ROM THE KEKOB.MATwRY AD itr- CAPTUKB OF THE TBDANT. -A named William Prosper, who had previously absconded from the Re- formatory at Mill in this county in 18t)40, and vras taken some months asjo after being time at sea, again abseouded on the morning of Deceatbttr 2 S', b. It was his office that day to cany water from Lie weii, which is only a few yards from the ...

... LILY grew upon the plains of Fars, And drank the living radiance of the sun, And fed htr fill upon those golden dewa That Persian poets call the teas of God. Around her lay a paradise of sweets. Narcissus cups and stately amaranths, ADd many another gorgeous Eastern flower, Bid the brown earth witii rain bow-coloure,.l blooms. And now and then, when the light morning breesi Inclined the lily's ...

... INLAND LIETTioRs-These inoluda letters passing be. tween plooes in the United Kingdom, and also the Orkney, Shetland, Scilly, and Channel IslanJd, and the Isle of Man. The rate of postage it regulated y weight, irrespective of distance, and if paid in advance, ia as follows Letters weighing not more than 9 ox Id It more than i 01 not exceeding 1 oz 2d II 1 oz 1 £ 08 3d I 14 ol 2 o. 4d I And so ...

... Her Majesty Queen Aleundrina. Victoria, only daughter of H.R.H the late Duke of Kent, born May 24, 1819 Tn°n0«e9i 1^7 Wi1]|am IV-. 20 proclaimed ♦* 7 or.own«d -Tune 28, 1838; married Feb 10, 1840, to her cousin, H.R.H. Prince Albert, of Saxa Col ni' £ pecember 14,1861- Has issue— horn Nnw aln Louisa' pncesa Royal, w n J married January 25, 1858, to H.R H Frederick William, Crown Prince of ...

... [TO THE EDITOR OF TUB MONMOUTHSHIRE MERLIN.] SIR,-ln the days of yore there was a good o;d practice ext icised by the bell-iingers of our parish churches of ringing the oil year out and the new year in. The giddy dance or the j yous song was for the moment stopped to hear hose meiry pea's welcoming as into the era of a iien age. Alas! why is tt is good old custom abandoned at the venerable ...

... NEW YORK, Dec. 3rd.-The following is a summary of President Johnson's message to Congress:- The expectation of an easy restoration of the Union has been disappointed by congressional legis- lation. No union exists as our fathers understood it, but I still hope that all will finally ooncur in a settle- ment consistent with the country s interest and the constitution. Mr. Johnson urges ...