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TOWN-COUNCIL.—A meeting of the Council took place last night. The report of the proceedings shall appear next week. Mr. Thomas Morriss, of Stow-hill, was elected alderman in the room of Mr. Thomas Hawkins, resigned. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—It has seldom fallen to our lot to record a more lamentable occurrence than one which has taken place in this town during the present •veek. We allude to the accidental death of Sophia Thomas who was unintentionally deprived of life by a boy named John Pem. bridge. It is needless to repeat here the particulars of the fatal event, as they are fully given in another column, in our tepori 1 of the coroner's inquest which was held upon the body. We ■ cannot, however, omit the opportunity of impressing on the minds of paren's and masters the danger of keeping loaded fire- irms in their houses, and the necessity, where their presence is ibsolutely required by peculiar circumstances, of placing them out of the reach of children and inexpeiienced persons. It furnishes, too, another melancholy warning of the too often fatal consequences of jestingly piesenting fire-arms under any 1 circumstances at a fellow-creature, because, if loaded, death i. generally the resuh, and if unloaded, the impunity with which they may be played with furnishes an example which too often leads to their use when the consequences are such as we have to deplore on the present occasion. s On Friday evening, the 19th inst., the Rev. D. ? ap Rhys Stephen delivered the first of a course of lectutes on the subjectof Education, in the Girls' British School, Llanarth- street, Newport. The rev. lecturer commenced by observing that the subject of Education, lelating, as it did, to the moral and intellectual improvement of man, was at all times one of commanding interest; and that a capacity for Education is that which distinguishes man from all other sublunary creatures. In "j its most comprehensive sense, Education ia a vast and noble subject, embracing the well-being of our whole nature in body and mind. We must, however," observed the rev. gentleman, "restrict our views, and occupy a somewhat limited ground. In the present lecture our object will be to point out the neces- I slty of an intelligent education such an one as will cause the pupi to t unk; in a woid, such as will give him the knowledge not merely of words, but of things." Mr. S. then, m an able m»n J 1"anner». ,P.r°ceeded in a definition of the intellect of r iudirin 1 s caPa 'y of expansion by the instrumentality of fectd h fh ra,,0n- ^'s expansion of intellect must be ef- <J if hah e ormaiion of a /m/jif 0/ thinking—by the formation 1 s of right thinking—and by the furnishing the mind with proper materials for healthful and useful reflection. The habit of thinking," said Mr. S., "means the power to reflect consecutively upon a subject in its various parts, bearings, and tl consequences and you must not confound this with the restless 4 workings of mind common to all men." The rev. lecturer, ad. verting to the materials necessary for useful and healthful thought, observed that they consisted of Truth in its various modifications, comprising physical, scientific, mental, moral, and religious truth. The advantages of education, in its intel- p lectual department, said Mr. S., are these—" It destroys pre. a judice, annihilates superstition, furnishes sources of exalted gra v tirication, placing man, as far as his intellect is concerned, in n the position for which his benevolent Maker intended, destined, t and qualified him and thus only can we assert the claims, ex- a eicise the prerogatives, and discharge the duties of mind."—We t were sorry to observe so thin an attendance upon this lecture t yet we hope the succeeding ones will be delivered to a larger t audience, and that the rev. lecturer will reahse the object he a had in view, viz, that of adding to the funds of the school. a FATAL ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held on e Thursday last, at Risca, before Wm. Brewer, Esq., coroner, on n the body of Thomas Morgan, labourer, who met his death in a S quarry where he was employed. A stone so ponderous as to II require seven horses to remove it from over the wretched raanV a remains, fell on him and litetally crushed him to atoms. Ver- 0 diet accidental death. n At the lown Hall, Abergavenny, on Wednesday a last, Henry Morgan, laodlord of the Bush Inn, was charged 3 with allowing drunk and disorderly persons to be in his house „ at 3 o'cloek on Sunday morning, the 141h inst. He was cau- tl tioned and dismissed.—George Long was committed for trial to • Usk, charged with stealing from John Edwards a silver watch, [j a £5. note, a sovereign, and a shilling. t, On Sunday last a painful excitement was caused s at Monmouth, by the sudden disappearance of Mr. Nathaniel v Shellard, butcher, of that town and which, from the circum- ti stances attending it, and the previous state of his mind, has very » generally induced the impression that the unfortunale man has tl committed suicide. In consequence of derangement, Shellard a was some time since at Mr. Millard s asylum at Whitchurch, tl from which establishment he returned convalescent about seven c weeks ago. His wife subsequently died, which had induced II great depression of spirits, but had not prevented his paying fi attention to business. On Friday last, however, he declined tl preparing for the market, and during the whole of Saturday he h appeared absorbed and absent in his manner. He retired to n bed with his son about 10 o'clock, but the latter waking about J o c ock in the morning, immediately missed his father from a his side, fancying he saw him at the end of the bed, he called n his side, fancying he saw him at the end of the bed, he called 11 to him, but receiving no answer, he made an alarm to an in- II mate, and they both proceeded tosearch the house. They found il the back-door open, and, preceded by a faithful dog, which con- [I tinned smelling the ground, they traoed what they believed to g he poor Shellard's footmarks to the river Monnow, which flows at the end of the garden. He kft nODe of his clothes behind S him except one of his braces. J he river was dragged on Sun. n d^y and on Thursday last, but the body has not been discovered, II which may be accounted for, supposing the worst has happened b to the missing individual, by (he fact of the river having been II much swollen by recent floods. C On Monday last, Wm. Evans, a carpenter in the employ of Messrs. Burton, Monmouth, whilst descending a 11 ladder, and within a few steps of the ground, missed his footing (' and received a compound fracture of the thigh in his fall. Monmouth November Fail was held on Monday; last. There was an average supply of stock but in consequence II of the recent high prices, few buyers were present: those sales d which were effected were accordingly at an unexpected sacrifice, except with fat beasts, which fetched 7d. per lb. Sheep were J worth 6|d. Pigs are rather lower, and may be quoted at 9s. fid. per score.—The cheese market was tolerably supplied liest making obtained 60s. to 65s.; second do., 50s. to 55s. ROBBERY.—Between Saturday night last and n Monday morning, somfe fellows broke into the spirit cellars ot Alessis. Dowle and Co., at the Priory, Chepetow, by removing II !>e tiles and forcing a way through the ceiling. They sue- <1 ■teded in removing abouJ- £.40. worth of brandy and rum,"the • greater proportion of which, however, was discovered in a pool u In the meads, having been deposited there by the thieves as a place of security, until they could safely take it away. A re- 1 ward of 20 guineas has been offered for their apprehension. si ;¡

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