... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The Special Commission is still sitting, and several prisoners remain for trial. Robert Holdaway, Henry James, Thomas Harding, Matthew Triggs, James Painter, John Heath, and Aaron Harding, were charged with having, on the 23d November, demolished the poor- house of the parish of Bramshott.; Thomas Shoesmith, master of the workhouse, deposed that on the 23d of November, Triggs and: another man ...

... PARIS, DEC. 3L-The French Chamber of Deputies, on Thursday, was again the scene of personal explanations from the Ministers and their opponents. General Lamarque put some questions respecting Belgium, condemning strongly the Government for not having at once taken possession of that country, since the people were most anxious to be united to France. Buonaparte, he said, chose rather to die at ...

... COUNTRY NEWS. SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.—The Winchester trials closed on Thursday night by the conviction of Mr. Boys, a farmer, and Mr. Tussel, for heading a riotous mob for the reduction of rents and tithes; they were both sentenced to transport- ation for seven years. One hundred and one prisoners have been capitally convicted, six of whom have been left for execution; 36 have been sentenced to ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE REPRESENTATIVE SYSTEM.-The expense of an election may be, and must be diminished. The out-voters, or foreign- ers as they are called, are nearly as great a nuisance as the rotten boroughs. The expense attendant on the conveyance of non-residents is enormous. Even where there is no contest, these unblushing vagabonds are in the habit of requiring the members to indulge them in a ...

... (From the Month ly Magazine.) Wizard! dreaming in ycur cave, Twice ten thousand fathoms deep. Where the brothers of the grave Sit enthron'd—'Time, Death, and Sleep Where the bones of Saxon kings Feed your ancient altars' blaze- Tell me what new wonder springs, Wizard on your New Year's gaze? MERLIN. Stranger leave me to my slumber— Merlin long is sick of earth; Scoundrels still the soil will ...

... Advertisement.-BRITISH MELODIES, by T. H. CORNISH, post 8vo. beautifully done up in De la Rue and Co.'s ara- besque binding, price 10s 6d. London: Smith, Elder, and Co. This attractive volume, done up in arabesque binding of great beauty, is before us. It contains 132 melodies, na- tional, jovial, patriotic, playful, founded upon the tender- ness of early recollections, the passions of the ...

... |jT;HE tlEIMJIlfJ MONMOUTH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1831. DIED. On the 17th ult. at Neufchatel, Switzerland, in the 34th year of his age,-Henry Vanne Salusbury, Esq. LL.D., late Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, youngest son of the late Sir Robert Salusbury, Bart., and brother of Sir Thomas R. Salusbury, Bart. of Llanwern, in this county. On Sunday last, at the Pool Farm, in the parish of ...