... GARDEN OPERATIONS, &c. (From the Gardener's Chronicled) THE FORCING DEPARTMENT. Nothing undergoing forcing can he hurried on in the absence of light, and therefore the degree of heat (artificial) applied to plants forced at this season (when we seem to have more than our ordinary slr-.re of gloomy days). must 1), entirely Jregulated by the amount of light each day brings with it—if bright and ...

... FCR-IGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. Things go on very quietly. The Emperor and Empress are to be seen everywhere without any escort, and employ themselves in alleviating the distresses or privations of the more indigent classes. Xo doubt some who were disaf- fected to the government have been among the recipients of the imperial bounty and herein consists the peculiar tyranny of the system of the ...

... Before the Mayor and Rev. E. P. Lendon. Edwin Watkins was charged with having assaulted William Hopkins. Defendant had, from behind, struck complainant suddenly, .and without the least provocation, or saying a word to him. Complainant fell to the ground from the effect of the blow, and had two of his teeth knocked out. Defendant, in default of paying a fine of 40s., was committed for six weeks ...

... The Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Earl of Clarendon, the I'like of Newcastle, Sir William Moles- worth. and Sir James Graham, are among the Cabinet Ministers in town. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, accompanied by their youthful family, and at- tended by a numerous suite arrived at Dover on Friday last from Ostend. Their Royal Highnesses passed the ight at the ...

... c ff r o martt ri bi v 7y tr AEDENAWC. PRAITH II. SWLL II. — Gwersyllfa' r Brytlioniaid. Gwigfa ;—manau yn dew o goed deiliog lle mae'r lacyni deneua, mae craig wastad t'w gweled. Yn y tir cefn,—ychydig o dun, ac amryw o Frythoniaid, wedi ei gicisgo niewn crwyn, yn gor- wedd, ae yn cysgu oddeutu iddo ;—gerllaw iddynt, ar hyd y llaior, tarianau, hclmau, picellau, ac ystenau. Y CYMERIADAU. ...

... FROM TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. BANKRUPTS. J. Smith, Brighton, and King-street, Snowhil], stationer. J. Green, Port sea, draper. W. Honey, Gillingham, Kent, builder. D. Jenkins, Mile-end-road, licensed victualler. J. Dent, Homerton, carpenter. J. Turner, Iligh-street, Whitechapel, and John's-row, St. Luke's, cheesemonger. IN THE COUNTRY. W. Bowor, Pickering, Yorkshire, tailor. H. Dawber, ...

... ^eef WP0RT CATTLE MARKET.—Wednesday. 5(1 to 5d per lb. I Bacon pigs 9s 6dper scr. 6rl to 7d per lb. Porkers 10s per score 7d to 7Jd per lb. ^re SOUTH WALES RAILWAY. Doc- 25> 1853 • £ 4174 8s. 8d- sl>ondmg week, 1852 3058 10s. Id- THE MONMOUTHSHIRE HOUNDS WILL MKET ON Monday, Jan. 2 Llanvapley Court Thursday, 5 Skenfrith Bridge At half-past ten o'clock. THE LEDBURY HOUNDS WILL MEET ON Friday, ...

... THE QUEEN AND LORD CARDIGAN. We have been informed from a private source of a curious piece of gossip which the Court, after its tem porary residence there, has left behind it in Ireland. It is II characteristic confirmation of an adage some time prevalent in Dublin, that at the creation Man. woman. and Bruedenells were made story is this that amongst those present at the Ball given at the ...

... A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF DAFYDD AB GWILYM: [A WELSH BARD OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.] One of the most remarkable consequences of the con- quest of Wales by Edward I. was the depression of that lofty poetical spirit which had previously distinguished the Welsh nation. Before that event the Cambro-British bards appear to have devoted their genius to the grand theme of national independeuce. ...

... CYWYDD YR OED. Lluniais oed ddwylhm ys hir, A dyn a ddywed anwir;— Nid a gwen i dy gwinwydd, Nag at un i gadw oed dydd. AHeiliawdd yr hudolcs Dy o dail, er nid oedd o les, Yr haf o bydd cvwir hon Y cadeiria coed irion. Yn wir, nos Wener nesaf Yw nos Wener banner haf, Genyf v mae, gwyn fy myd! Ugain haf ag un hefyd. Ni wyddwn dwyn i'r ddyn deg, Ar gariad mwy na'r garreg; Ghreniaeth ni ddaw o'm ...

... OPENING OF THE NEWPORT, ABERGA- VENNY, AND HEREFORD RAILWAY. IT might seem superfluous, at the present day, to insist upon the essentially mutual, as well as so- cial, character of mankind—to assert that we are meant to be not only gregarious, but reciprocra- tive—to maintain that the variety of the earth's productions and natural facilities in various places, as well as the differing ...

... THE JUVENILE DELINQUENCY CON- FERENCE. THE influential men who assembled, last week, at Birmingham, to discuss that highly-important subjcet-the treatment of juvenile criminals— evinced a laudable earnestness to bring t'o bear some practical measures, in addition to those that are now in existence. It was truly remarked, that since the conference of 1851, the public had been very extensively ...