... Sin, If you consider the following observations worthy of a place in your columns, you will have the goodness to give them insertion. W. A. COMMUTATION OF TITHE. The measures hitherto adopted for the commutation of tithe have arisen principally under Acts of Parliament for the inclosure of waste lands, and have consisted either in the grant of such land or of a corn rent in lieu of the tithe. ...

... i MONMOUTH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1830. MARRIED. ri if Thursday last, at Mitchell Troy, by the Rev. Henry George an e Hon. Philip Henry Abbot, second son of the late, Pa -i° jy brother of the present, Lord Colchester, to Frances f ^'•daughter of the Lady Elizabeth Talbot and the late Dean .Salisbury, and niece of the Duke of Beaufort. r £ tely,at Boston, Lincolnshire, George Evans, Esq. surgeon ...

... By JAMES KENUEY, ESQ. (From the Gem, a Literary Annual.) Dear Tom, my brave free-hearted lad, Where'er you go, God bless you You'd better speak than wish you had, If love for me distress you. To me, they say, your thoughts incline, And possibly they may so; Then, once for all, to quiet mine, Tom, if you love me, say so. On that sound heart and manly frame Sits lightly sport or labour, Good ...

... A List of Vessels which have entered Inwards and cleared Outwards at this Port, in the week ending the 29th Dec. 1829. INWARDS. IN BALLAST.—St. Ann, Thomas, from Harjleur.—Fair Trader, Smallcorn, from Bridgewater.—Providence, Davies, from Cardiff. —Union Packet, Press, from Watchett.—Providence, Green, from Gloucester. VVrnI SUNDRIES.—Tredegar, Harwood Mary, Stuckev Bris- tol Packet, Scott; ...

... DKURY-LANI-.—The pantomime at this theatre, under the title of Jack in liie Box, will not add much to the reputation of Mr. Barrymore, by whom it was produced, as it wants the fun which we have witnessed in former pieces of this description but the acting was excellent, and the scenery is admirable. Stanfield has outdone his former doings in his diorama. Wind- sor Castle is the first object, ...

... I The effusion of human blood has not yet entirely ceased in the ,> \st of Europe. In Candia sanguinary and obstinate skirmishes of frequent occurrence. In a recent instance, the Captain French man-of-war, who had interfered in these barbarous elusions, for a humane purpose, was made an unwilling- partici- pator in the combat; he is represented as having lost six of his elusions, for a humane ...

... j To the Editor of the Monmouthshire, Merlin. SIR,—That fine new approach to the town of Usk will never become sound as a highway, if only sand-stones are used—already it is through to the sub-soil in many places. It ought to be known to road contractors, in these days of improved road making, that the speedy disintegration of most sand-stones renders them very unfit or useless in forming a ...

... The following account of the result of an experiment on the construction of Roads, is from that eminent engineer, Mr. Tel- ford, and is appended to a Report of the Commissioners of the road from London to Holyhead. In order to ascertain the most effectual mode of rendering the driving way hard and smooth, I caused an experiment to be made along a quarter of a mile, at the northern extremity of ...

... The end of the year is usually chosen by the teachers of mOral wisdom as a proper period for inculcating some les- son for men's future guidance through the dark and thorny Path of life.-Reader, be not alarmed!—we have no inten- tlon to fill our columns with maxims of Socratic instruction; and yet, paradoxical as it may appear, there are few para- graphs in thjs or any other number of the ...

... STANZAS Addressed to a young lady suffering from severs illness. Ut Mariam finxit natura, arspinxit: utrumque Raruni et sollertis sumimim opus arttticis. Ipsa animum sibi durn pingit, sic vicit utrumque Ut natura radis, ars videatur iners. BCJCHANASI EPIGH.Df, LI8 2. Mary when I saw thee last, Who thought thy bloom would fade so fast- Who thought thou would'st endure the blast Of sickness and ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-Many thanks are due to you for your excellent hint in the Merlin of last Saturday, to those with whom lies the payment of what are called Christmas accounts. I am, sir, a tradesman, not, certainly, in an extensive line of business, but in which the whole of my little property is staked; and, I assure you, the present period of commercial distress ...

... AGRICULTURAL SOClETY.-The Annual December Meeting of the Forest of Dean and Chepstow District Agricultu- ral Society was held on Saturday se'nnight, at the Beaufort Arms Inn, Chepstow, for the show of fat and other stock, &c. when the premiums were awarded as follow, viz.-For the best piece of Swedish turnips, to Mr. Williams, Beachley—the best common turnips, to Mr. Rogers, Ifton Hill-a cup ...