... WE'RE ready—we're ready—it really is hard That fromH yrnen's sweet bonds we so long are debarr'd :—■ The men are so cautious-the hard-hearted creatures- That they care not for all our bland smiles or fair features. There are plenty of red coats-we like them the best, But they're just like the others when put to the test. They tell us we form the delight of their lives, Yet they very well ...

... Monday, December 27.—This day's supply was throug -th limited, but fully equal to the demand. The trade was f'1 t each kind of meat very dull with beef at an advance of 2d per stone with mutton, veal, and pork, at barely Thursday I prices. (Per stone of 81b. sinking; offal.) n Inferior beef, from 2 2 to 2 4 Prime beef, from 3 2 to Ditto mutton 2 2 to 2 4 Ditto mutton 3 8 to f n Middling beef 2 ...

... 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the farmers have such high prices for their produce—prices full as high as during the war besides a great many taxes repealed in their favour with clothing and foreign merchandise reduced more than thirty per cent., and rents not higher than formerly, nor tythes 1 We on the hills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 ...

... COVENT-GARDEN.-The revels of the season commenced at this theatre, on Monday night, with the usual mystical combina- tion of the sublime and the ridiculous-of the deepest tragedy and the broadest burlesque. After five acts of martyred patience, in the performance of the Grecian Daughter, the true genius of Christmas gambols entered-Sir Pantomime—the cousin german of mince-pies, plum-pudding, ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,- Whilst the greatest part of the kingdom are now labouring under great degrees of excitement, I have to exult in being a resi- dent in the most peaceable part of the king's dominions for altho' the inhabitants are Foresters (a term of terror to some timid per- sons who are not acquainted with their real character), we have not had a single ...

... ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS BOXES.—On looking into history, we find that this custom derived its existence much about the time that mass was first said by a Catholic priest. Rome, which originally gave birth to superstition, had an incredible number of clergy to support, and among other devices, this was invented as one, and took its name of mass from the Latin word mitto, to send. This Viord mitto ...

... ■■-COUNTRY* ;NEWS; BIUGHTON, DEC. 27.—MARRIAGE AT THE PAVILION.— The happy.event =of the union of Miss Fitzclarence with Lord Viscount Falkland occurred at the King's Naval Pa- lace this- morning. Their Majesties, with the bride, and bridegroom and a splendid and select party, took breakfast in the banquetting-room of the Palace, and, directly after the repast; removed into one of the drawing ...

... A happy new year to all our readers! Health to the I and mirth to the sad More felicity to the rich, and lbore money to the poor Freedom to the slave, and mercy 9 the oppressed Peace to the troubled, and content to the ^■stless! Knowledge to the ignorant, and improvement to .6 wise! May the single possess the object of their affec- _QHs j ancj far, far from the wedded be all corroding cares !d ...

... FATE OF THE EX-MINISTERS ot CHARLES X.-During the last week Paris and France have been occupied with but one topic—the trial of the ex-ministers of Charles X. That trial has now terminated, and the judgment has been pronounced. Prince Polignac, Count Peyronnet, M. de Chantelauze, and M. Guernon de Ranville, have been found guilty by the Court of Peers of high treason, after having been tried ...

... BANKRUPTS- James Hardwick, Cheltenham, carpe c'- John Oakden, Rodsley, Derbyshire, flax manufacturer. Edward Grant, jun., Oxford, corn factor. Alexander Ironside, Louth, Lincolnshire, nurseryman. William Hales, YVem, Shropshire, cabinet maker. Geo. Cuming, Bedford-place, Commercial road timber merchant. Henry Richardson, Taunton, Somerset* Elizabeth Baldwin, Manningham, ? sPinners. Isaac, ...

... A gentleman of great attainments in the art of metallurgy has enabled us to lay before our readers the following article, as the commencement of a series, on the subject of iron, copper, and lead smelting. ON THE MANUFACTURE OF IRON. In the present state of the iron trade every iron master in Wales should turn his attention more to the quality than the quantity of his results, if he be at all ...

... Monday, December 27.—Tbe past week's arrivals of most de- scriptions of gram were moderate. Of flour the quantity tolerably good. There is not much corn of any kind fresh *3? this morning. The navigation of our river being partially peded by ice, occasioned very little business to be transacted her to-day. From the few sales that were made, wheat may be re' ported rather higher, and fine oats ...