... Sm,—Please tell we in the Iron-trade how it is that the agri- cultural labourers are so badly ofF now, when the farmers have such high prices for their produce—prices full as high as during the war besides a great many taxes repealed in their favour with clothing and foreign merchandise reduced more than thirty per cent., and rents not higher than formerly, nor tythes 1 We on the hills cannot ...

... How true it is that one half of the world does not know how the other half lives What misery, what wretchedness occurs in the very next street to that in which those dwell who would gladly relieve it if they but knew of it! What a case is that of which the following extract is a part of the report! The wife of a captain in the navy (so he is de- scribed), deserted by her husband, with six ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN, JAN. 24.—Prosecution I against Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Steele, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Redmond, ?' John Reynolds, Mr. Cloney, Mr. Edward Dwyer, and Mr. John Lawless.-The avenues to this court were, at an early hour, Crowded to excess, in consequence of the expectation that some r petition would be made of the prosecution of the gentlemen who 1 j^ve been ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN. SIR,—I have been carefully perusing an extract from the ter Flying Post, inserted in your print of the 25th Dec. u headed, very properly, AN IMPUDENT JEREMY DIDDLEB, fatLe feel a hope that the tradesmen and others in the circuit ot Merlin will not suffer the two spirited individuals (^feSuejr Howell and Briggs) of Chepstow to be at the entire loss oCHLr. expenses ...

... ..COUNTRY NEWS, STATE OF MAK CHESTER.—Meetings have been held in this town. to coneert measures, or rather to memorialize the Home Secretary on the inability of the magistrates and other local authorities to enforce adequate measures, for the protection of those operatives who are willing to work, but who, from, the acts of intimidation indirectly used by the turn-outs, are afraid to avow and ...

... The corporation of York have voted the freedom of that city to Lord Brougham and Vaux, which will be presented to him in a box made from the celebrated Cowthorpe oak. Lord Dundas has been elected mayor of York for the ensuing year. Mr. O'Connell has announced his resolution of holding the future agitation meetings at Liverpool! Fifty or sixty agitators to come over by steam. The Geological ...

... ADULTERATING Am.—A case novel in this country, and im- portant to the public, was investigated lately in the Court of Ex- chequer, Edinburgh. A brewer residing in Eyemouth, was ac- cused of mixing with his ale deleterious and poisonous ingredi- ents, in order to make it heady, as one of the witnesses de- clared—that is, of an extra- intoxicit ingnatijre-brisk, and clear. The case was opened ...

... VF.STPIS'S LEGS.—A young fellow was charged at Marlborough Street Police-office, some days ago. with stealing several plaster casts from the work-shop of Mr. Papera, the Italian modeller. Among the casts stolen, were the legs of Madame Vestris, a little above the knee, and including the foot. The Magistrate thought it possible that other artists might have spanned the legs of the fair lady but ...

... 0, JEANIE, THERE'S NAETHING TO FEAR YE ( By the Ettrick Shepherd.) 0, my lassie, our joy to complete again, Meet me again i' the gloaming, my dearie Low down in the dell let us meet again— 0, Jeanie, there's naething to fear ye Come, when the wee bat flits silent and eiry, Come, when the pale face o' Nature looks weary Love be thy sure defence, Beauty and innocence- 0, Jeanie, there's naething ...

... CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 7.—-The Rev. John James Blunt, B.D., Fellow of St. John's College, author of the Veracity of the Gospel and Acts, the Veracity of the Five Books of Moses, &c., was on Saturday last elected Hulsean Lecturer for the present year. The value of the lectureship now amounts to nearly X300 per annum. Winthrop MackworthPraed, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been ...

... COMMITMENTS TO MONMOUTH GAOL. January 17th, Watkin Jones, by Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq., charged with breaking open the dwelling-house of William Morgan, and taking away bread and cheese, and articles of wearing apparel, the pro- perty of the said William Morgan, of Trevethin.—January 20th, John Williams, by the Rev. William Powell, charged with steal- ing a mare, the property of William Steel, ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. ALGIERS, DEC. 24.-The feeling of the inhabitants of Medeah has manifested itself so strongly in favour of the French, that they have asked and obtained permission to form a National Guard, for the purpose of defending that city. The inhabitants of Belida who had fled whilst it was the theatre of war, have returned. Tranquillity is so per- fectly established that the route from ...