... FOREIGN NEWS. Greece appears to be in a very unsettled state. Count Capo d Istnas, at one time the idol of the people, is now an object of almost universal execration. For two years past, he has been reproached with having introduced into Greece an administrative system wholly Russian, and with having by degrees carried his despotism to an intolerable height. lie employed, it is said, every ...

... SIR,-I shall be thankful for a small space in your columns this week, in reply to the retort uncourteous of your corre- spondent, the Rev. Mister Pooh-[dle.]—See Merlin, October 8, which, as Mr. O'Conneli says, I conceive to be very ungen- teel usage from so larned a Clarke. I contend that authors are public characters, and therefore the public who support them by the purchase of their books ...

... HOPS. Borough, Monday, October 24.—The trade with new hops has become a little renovated with those of Mid-Kent, Sussex, and Essex, at an advance of from 3s to 5s with those of East Kent, 6s to 8s and those of Farnham 10s per cwt. Old hops go off heavily at last week's prices. MONMOUTH: Printed and Published by the sole Proprietor, REGINALD J AMES BLEWITT, at the Office, in Monnow-street. ...

... Monday Oct. 17.—This day's supply of beasts was rather great; of sheep, fat calves, and porkers, but limited. The trade with beef and pork was, in the whole, dull at Friday's quotations; with mutton and veal brisk, the former at an advance of 4d, the latter 4d to 6d per stone. The stock was of fair average quality. (Per stone of 81b. sinking offal.) Inferior beef, from 2 0 to 2 4 Prime beef, ...

... Sm,—Permit me to call your attention to a bill now before the house, under the above title, brought in, I believe, by Mr. Slaney, the member for Shrewsbury. It is meant to be an exten- sion of the 59th of Geo. III. c. 12, an act hitherto seldom called into operation, and contains the following important clause :— That all and every the enactments, powers, provisions, and exceptions contained ...

... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14. -—The wheat trade was extremely dull this morning, and very few sales of either new or old were effected, still fine samples support Monday's prices; inferior sorts continue unsaleable. Very fine parcels of malting barley support Monday's quotations, but a great deal of what is on sale is so bad in quality, our maltsters will not purchase it; ...

... FLATTERY.—As the sun in all his splendour was peeping over the eastern hills, a newly-married man exclaimed, The glory of the world is rising! His wife, who happened to be getting up at that moment, taking the compliment to herself, simpered out What would you say, dear, if I had my silk gown on 1 A gentleman mistook a lady's arm for her waist, and in danc- ing a waltz, seized the former ...

... fWatfiets. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. f Monday, April 25.—Our supplies since this day se'nnight, 0 English wheat, barley, beans, peas, seeds, and flour, have p limited of foreign wheat andbarley, Irish and foreign oats, great; Bri of English oats and malt, as also foreign seeds and floui, mode rately good.—In this day's market, which was not very nume-' rously attended either by London or ...

... TO OUR READERS. The irmructiom to alter the Advertisement for the Sale by Auction, of the Freehold Property, in the parish of Panteague, did not reach us until after that part of our paper in which the adver- tisement appears had gone to press. The Sale is postponed from Saturday, the 8th, until Monday, the 10th of October, when it will take place at the Crown Inn, Pontypool. Lot 2 is in the ...

... Bow STREET, Nov. 25.—The prisoners Bishop, May, Wil- liams, and Shields were brought up for final examination. The alteration in the appearance of Bishop was extraordinary he had lost all his confidence and firmness, and looked pale and de- jected in the extreme. Two or three witnesses were examined, whose evidence proved that Williams and his wife lived next door to Bishop, but that they ...

... PREVENTION OF LITIGATION. The following singular paper was extensively circulated in the neighbourhood of Crickhowell a few weeks ago :— REFORM. It is intended to convene a public meeting of the nobility, gen- try, clergy, and freeholders of the Hundred of Crickhowell, on the 11th of April, at the Town Hall, Crickhowell, to arrange the formaton of a Law Dispensary, for furnishing the poor with ...

... COUNTRY, NEWS. It is said to be in contemplation of government to take all turnpike trusts in the kingdom under their own hands. -County Chronicle. A vessel, laden with 40 bullocks, has sprung a leak and gone down near to Balmae Hain, Scotland, about one- half of the mast being seen at low water. The bullocks, being fastened, were drowned, but fortunately all hands were saved.—Stockport ...