... I NEWPORT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1875. HE HERBERT STREET CROSSING. IMONG other matters which engaged the ttention of the Newport Town Council on Luesday was the question touching the public ghts in the neighbourhood of the Herbert- reet crossing. In former references to this latter we have urged that it is clearly the 'i y Corporation to maintain any riglit lc^ the public may be ascertained to ...

... A collision between a passenger and goods train took place on Monday at Hnghley, near Ipswich, on the Great Eastern Railway. No lives were lost. Many of the passengers were considerably wounded and bruised. An accident, of a singular character, happened on Monday at Springs Branch Junction, near Wigan, near the soene of the accident on Christmas Day mominj, but fortunately it waa not attended ...

... (Afti'Menu/) b.jar ot a proved OWN edition to Wpublished by sub-crip'ion by Mr. Jos Foster, theoomptlefand publishe- of tho yt,cently-i.,stj,-d volumes Of Lanca.-bu'e an.i P»>digree^, of KoRer GiLle's !Ieaiah u,m Hor.one de Rich- mond. which was originally fodo eize, 17*22, and is now vefy »etu» e. Of this now impies son, ouiy fisty copi es are to printed The plates which appeared in the ...

... SAVAGE ATTACK ON A MAN AT —On Sat urday night, about half-past ten o'clock, a young man named George Phillips, residing at No. 11, Morgan- street, Adamsdown, was in company with his land- lord, a man named Thomas Jones. On their way through Bute-terrace, Jonps stopped behind for a few moments and Phillips went on. On arriving opposite the gas works, Phillips observed a number of young men ...

... THE SEVERE WEATHER AND ITS' RESULTS. THE WKATHXR ON THE CONTINENT. A RPutees telegram from Stockholm says: The railway fraflic in Sweden is stopped on ac- count of a heavy fall of snow. Snow continues to fall with great abundance in* different parts of France. For twenty years, says the Covrricr des Alpes, there has not been such a oownfall in the Parentaise, the snow being six fr deep on t ...

... THE REPORTBD PLOT TO ASSASSI- NATE PRrKCE BISMARCK. Duchene-Foncelet, of Seraing (Belgium) has published a letter in some of the Belgian journals stating that he was drunk when some facetious comrades made him write the letter to the French archbishop, offering to assat-sinate Prince Bismarck, and that in his sober moments he thinks of nothing of the sort. ...

... an and jeLnged Power's d do; ifc. — ,er for yteal- 'he/M! sever?.] c 4, according to tier a l-izy. dis- tiabour. I'ERN ST A ION'.— espectable 1 -j .king oeitig drunk ;ii the and being g :ltyof ivioit; Th-.irM r, An ell tii*t 'uei'end.n.0 was -ifiu'Tsi, and had to be .ed. He had a th-kwt for dice-station, he deposited a ...

... THE OLD AND NEW YEAR. GONE as the years have gone before, Is Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-four And not one hour of its joy or pain Will return to gladden or grieve again. Happy moments too bright to last, Have faded into the shadowy past; And griefs and trials, so hard to bear, Are remembered only as things that were. With all it brought us of hopes and fears, 'Tis numbered now with the bygone ...

... PONTYPOOL. f ,N DEATH.-Mr. E. IX Bfttt, coroner, OCH: eat on Monday last at the Horse ana ^lanvihangel Poutymoil, touching th aeath jam Jacobs, a roadman is the employ ti-^ rau- Local Board. On the 22nd lnstan n* v .-nt to ^ork under the instructions of Mr. Jotv.-p i r->odcnough to cleanse the roads, &c., and feeing r toleut trains in- fcernally, returned home. Meet test. ia w»#seat lor but ...

... It would not be practicable within the limits to which we are confined, to give anything like a history of the great events of the year which terminated at mid- night on Thursday and a p rfcial or incomplete ra- cord would b« of little interest and less utility to our readers. Instead, therefore, of attempting such a narrative, we shall content ourselves with presenting a general survey of the ...

... News of much importance to the shipping trade between England and America was brought by the Hamburg-American steamer which has just arrived at Plymouth. For months past great inconvenience has been experienoed from the general strike of 'long-shore men engaged in loading vessels in New York. A firm stand was taken, chiefly by the agents of the Liverpool bteamer lines, and at the cost of much ...

... The Earl of Yarborough is to be presented with a testimonial from the-flohu-men, gentlemen, and farmers, m mbeis of the Broekletby Hunt. The Duchess of Cambridge continues very unwell, but a slight improvement has taken place. Her illness during the last ten days has occasioned some anxiety. At Carnarvon, William Jones, Penygroea, haa b,een fined Y,2 and costs for having absented him- self ...