... Alessandro Volta, Italian barque, while lying in Pen- artn Roads, 23id instant, drove from her anchor and fouled the baique Jetierson Davis, for Sierra I Lane, doing the latter some damage. A writ has been placed on the Alexandra Vflta. Excel schooner, of Wnitehaven, in entering the East Dock, Cardiff, 23td inM., ran into the pier, and carried away bowsprit and jibboom. Englishman, from ...

... For many a year, says the Pallltfall Gazette, mysterious little stories have been wafted to England from the Cur- ragh-hint8 and glimpses of a certain colony of poor wretches there, who lived as nobody else in the three kingdoms lived—poor wretches called wrens, because they live in holes in the banks. And as lately, it is said, that things are not so bad as they used to be some years ago, ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. LORD DERBY has now & bishopric and deanery to dis- pose of, and in the present condition of the church his difficulty must be considerable. Lord Palmerston ap- parently used to consider that the best bishops cou'd be made out of the must hard-working parochial clergy- men, all other things being equal. Among the bishops whom he appointed were the rectors of Marylebone ...

... PWLLPANT QUARRV.THORE «RE great many English. men and Scotchmen empioyeu ac this quarry under the Marquis of Bute. Every effort is made by the Trustees to secure the comfort of the men. The Trustees pay a clergyman for officiating amongst them. Divine service is performed every Sunday in a long room at the quarry. Great improvements continue to take place in this town. Houses are increasing ...

... IMPORTANT SALE OF CONTRACTORS' PLANT.—It will be seen, on reference to our advertising columns, that a large quantity of contractors' plant, used in the construction of the Mid-Wales Railway, will bo brought to tne hammer (without reserve), by Mr. William Freeman, proprietor of Aldridge's, London, at Rhayader and Builth railway stations, on Thursday and Friday next, the 17th and 18th instant. ...

... PENARTH. HARVEST THANKSGIVING AT LLANDOUGH.—A large number of the parishioners and friends from the neigh- bourhood assembled in their parish church, on the occa- sion of a harvest thanksgiving service, which took place on Thursday, the 3rd iost. The decorations reflected great credit on the correct taste those estimable ladies who had been engaged in of their execution. The font was encircled ...

... ™8°fPE Or A CPN™ AT PORTSMOUTH.—As a IunthSr the timber were Wringf? Und°f ^rtsmouth Dockyard, to the Pdl>u fS?eveQine? sjnee, to be conveyed eighteen years of age n*med°Edw» y°mi?r. u!a Although a strict^rch hi ilr« d I,Jlss:D^ been r .-i«)ture ...

... SETTING FIRE TO A BARN AT A REFORMATORY.—In the month of February last, a barn attached to an institu- tion of the abovs description, situate about three miles from this town. at a place called Little Mill, was burnt down, and an inmate, named Davies, a lad about twelve years of age, was subsequently brought before the magis- trates to answer the charge of having set it on fire, hut owing to ...

... MARRIAGE. On Thursday, the 10th inst., inconse- quence of the ceremony of matrimony being solemnized by the Rev. David Morgan, the respected vicar of the parish, between Mr. William. McA herser Sheratore and M iss Jane Samuel, youngest daughter of Mr. W llliam Samuel, of Llanbythery, this village exhibited a very gay appearance. The florists of the neighbourhood and others, out of lespect for ...

... SERIOUS CHARGE.-At Westminster Police-court, James Ellar, a discharged soldier, was charged with feloniously assaulting and ravishing Charlotte Arthur, the wife of a printer. For the defence it was alleged that the com- plainant had allowed defendant to kiss her before on the same day. She said, however, that he belonged to the same sect as she did, and when she went to see him he said that ...

... Rattazzi gave in his resignation and that of his col- leagues at one o'clock on Sunday morning. The King replied that he would communicate his reply during the course of Sunday, and when he did so he accepted the resignations. The Temps cherishes the hope that the position has really improved, and that the new Italian Ministry will be able to maintain a modification of the September Con- ...

... The twenty-three prisoners charged with the murder of Police-sergeant Bimt and the regent outrage in the Hyd^road have now been committed fbr trial. At the last sitting Mr. Roberts called several witnesses for the purpose of establishing an alibi in the case of the orisoner Boylan. John David Fullan, a boy of eleven, staged that Boylan was a teacher in St. Ali^tfa\ School, Every-street, and ...