Saint Nicholas fair, on Monday last, was very thinly attended. There was very little stock of any value, and scarcely any dealers. Average price of wheat in the Cowbridge Market , on Tuesday last, £3. 8s. 10d. per quarter. On Wednesday, the 10th inst. a grand match of Cricket was played near Ragland Castle, between eleven gentlemen of the County of Brecknock and eleven of the County of Monmouth, which terminated by Brecknockshire besting them single innings. At six an elegant dinner was served up by Mr. ALLEN of the Beaufort-Arms. The return match was to be played on Wednesday last in Court-y-gullen Park. A Prospectus for building, by shareholders, a new town at Aberdovey, Merionethshire, have been published. The country is romantic; the sea views are delightful; and the sands on the shore are firm and hard for driving upon or horse-racing. The buoy lately fixed to that dangerous rock, the Rundle-stone, parted from its moorings during the gale on Monday sennight, and was picked up by a Mouse-hole hole boat at some distance. The boatmen brought it into Penzance, with about fourteen fathoms of chain cable. Within the last few days, several firkins of Irish butter have been washed on shore at Perran, from which it is feared some Irish vessel foundered in the late severe gales. The brig John and Mary, William HARRIS, master, was driven on shore in Barnstable Bay during a gale, on the 4th inst. the crew were saved and the spars, cables, sails &c. were got on shore. The Master sold the hull for £40; but the speculation proved unfortunate for the purchasers, as the day after she went to pieces; - the vessel was in ballast. Lyn Nunn Brisbane Australia
It is proposed, by deepening the bed of the Wye in some of the streams, to render the river navigable at the lowest water for barges carrying ten tons. The Devon and Cornish coasts are completely thronged with pilchards. Monday night the driving-boats belonging to Looe took upwards of 40,000 very fine pilchards; and on Tuesday one the seans enclosed about 14 hogsheads. A site of ground, about two miles from Chester, has been marked out for the erection of a new pottery next spring, and potter's earth is represented to be thereof a superior kind. Saturday evening, Mr. Green made a fine balloon ascent from Worcester; and descended at Beauchamp, three miles from Gloucester. Mr. G. had in view at the same time Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Upton &c. and the entire command of he Bristol Channel. The public should be cautioned against the use of imitation pepper. The detection is by no means difficult, as the stinking quality of the article cannot fail of discovering itself after having been kept, it being composed of glue, snuff, and pepper dust, sold to the Jews by the porters who sweep out the pepper warehouses. A few years ago the sale of this, even in respectable shops, was very common, and now it is ground up with good pepper and sold in retail shops. Lyn Nunn Brisbane Australia