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REBECCAITBS IN SOMERSETSHIRE.—A good deal of ex- citement has been created within the last two or three days m the upper I part of Somerset, by its becoming known that a turnpike gate had been carried off by a number of people In the I style which made "Rebecca" so noted in Wales. It appears that the Black Dog Turnpike Trust, from a failure of tolls, has for some time been in difficulties, and that an application made to the magistrates some months since by the trustees under their act, with the view of compelling the seTer.) parishes though which the roads passed, to unde-iake the repairs, wa» unsuccessful, in consequence of a sum of about £ 5,000, with which a former treasurer of the trust had absconded, not having been brought into the accounts. Since ibis time the trustee*- and the parishes have each declined to repair the roads, which between Bath and Frome and Bath andWarrnineter have con- sequently become in a very bad state. The bondholders, however have seized the gates, and are taking the tolls for their own security. The consequence of high toils and bad roads ba» been, continued complaints from those who have occasion to travel over the roads, and the grievance appears to be generally felt throughout the district, and has al last resulted 10 forcible removal of one of the gates, which lia« not smce ueea recovered. On Thursday morning about one o'clock, e i taker at the Midford gute, which is situated about loar aulas from Bath, on the Frome road, was awoke by the finng of several runs, which shattered the lamp outside 'he toll house to pieces, and so alarmed him that he was afraid to go out. He afterwards discovered that the massive gates across the road had been unhinged and carried away, an I although search been made through the neighbourhood since, not the slightest tracp of them can be discovered, nor c In any one be found at all inclined to divulge the secret, as to the parties by whom the. act was committed.

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TOWN HALL, NEWPORT.—MONDAY.