... WOLVESNEWTON. Last week as Mr. Thomas Ellison of Nant-y-gelly farm, Wolvesnewton, was assisting to secure a load of hay, the rope with which he was tying it slipped, and he fell backwards from the top of the load to the ground. He was severely injured and had one of his fingers broken by the fall. Under the care of Mr. Shepard, surgeon, he is going on favorably. ANOTHER SERIOUS ACCIDENT.-On ...

... SPEAKING of the news furnished by Russian deserters, who very frequently come forward and voluntarily surrender themselves up to the British sentinels, an officer in the 34th Regiment ob- serves :— We had a strange affair with a deserter the other day. One of our outlaying pickets came into camp and informed me that he had discovered either a deserter or a spy in one of our store tents, which ...

... On Wednesday last the mortal remains of the la- mented chief of our Crimean army, were removed in solemn funeral procession from the Caradoc through the city of Bristol to Badminton, the family burial place of the illustrious branch of the Plantagenet race, from which the family of Beaufort sprung. The sad and solemn ceremony of consigning to the tomb the remains of the late Field Marshal, ...

... The letters of the celebrated Times correspondent in the Crimea, Mr. W. H. Russell, is just published In a collected form by Messrs. Routledge & Co. ...

... Latest Intelligence. NEW MINISTRY IN HANOVER. Hanover, July 25, The whole Cabinet excepting the War Minister have resigned. A new Ministry has been sworn in. The King will preside himself. THE EAST The Russian general has suddenly abandoned the siege of Kars, although he was in the vicinity with a force of 30,000 men. The town of the Dardanelles is in a state of siege, by the revolt of the ...

... USK. On Tuesday and Wednesday evenings last, two Lectures were delivered by Mr. Mackintosh, at the Writing school, under the patronage of the Usk Mechanics' Institute. G. R. G. Relph, Esq. gua- ranteed a certain sum to the lecturer, and the num- ber that attended each night, fully answered the expectations of the promoters. On Tuesday even- ing about 50 were present. The subject of the lec- ...

... ON Monday, the members of the Grand Lodge of English Free- masons, to the number of about 300, accompanied the Grand Re- gistrar in procession to lay the foundatien-stone of a new wing to the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road, to be called the Sussex Wing. The Grand Master, the Earl of Zetland, was un- avoidably absent, owing to the serious illness of the Countess; and the Deputy Grand ...

... THE following extract from a private letter, from an officer -serving in the Flying Squadron in the Baltic, will be read with in- terest:—On Friday, July 16, we started about six p.m. with eight boats and the gunboat, and proceeded unmolested up the narrow passage leading into Frangsund, until within 400 yards of the entrance, which we knew from pretty good authority to be staked. A Russian ...

... From dispatches just received from Gen. Simpson, dated before Sebastopol July 21st, we learn that the Russians continue to hold their strong position along the Mackenzie heights that they have pushed for- ward their outposts to the range of heights overhang- ing the valley of Baidar; and that they are believed to have a force of artillery and infantry at Apulka. The mass of the French and ...

... AN incident of an almost unexampled character occurred during a thunder-storm which passed over Birmingham, on Friday afternoon, last week. The workmen employed on the Independent College, in course of erection on Moseley Common, near the Stratford-road, were sheltering from the rain in a couple of wooden sheds, situated some thirty or forty yards from the building, the one shed being also ...

... CFIAIEA, JULY. 25.-After a brisk artillery fire the Russians made a sortie, about midnight, on the left of the Little Redan. As we are now quite close to them it took the enemy only an instant to reach our gabionnades. They were vigorously received by the Chasseurs-a-pied of the Imperial Guard, and by some com- panies of the 10th Regiment of Infantry of the line. The Russians beat a hasty ...

... FOREIGN GLEANINGS. Intelligence has just reached London of the almost total loss of the fine collection of antiquities which the agents of the French Government have been employed for some years past in bringing together, from the various ruins of Assyria and Babylonia, for deposit in the Museum of the Louvre. This collection, consisted, firstly, of all the antiquities found at Khorsabad ...