... COUNTRY NEWS, ARRIVAL OF DON PEDRO.-His Majesty's ship Volage, commanded by Lord Colchester, arrived at Falmouth on Thursday morning, having on board the ex-Emperor of Brazil, who is on his passage to Cherbourg.—Don Pedro is accompanied by the ex-Empiess and a numerous retinue, and intends to proceed through France to Munich. The Queen of Portugal is on her passage to this country in a French ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 3.—The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at a quarter before five o'clock. NEGRO SLAVERY. Lord Kenyon presented a petition from Denbigh for the aboli- tion of slavery. The Duke of Gordon presented a similar petition from Port- sorrel. The Duke of Richmond presented a petition from the chamber of commerce of Galway, praying for the equalization of ...

... The two Houses of Parliament assembled on Thursday *ast; and in our second page we have given the report of proceedings up to seven o'clock on that evening.— Though short, they will be found extremely interesting. Earl ^rey, in the House of Lords, expressly stated that the Ministers had agreed upon a measure of Reform which, without exceeding the bounds of justice and of well advised ...

... SIR,—Through the medium of your paper I must give a direct contradiction to a letter which appeared in the Merlin of the 12th instant, signed A. W. Wyatt, concerning notice having been given me to quit land I hold under the Duke of Beaufort—for having (as I said at the county meeting) voted for Mr. Hall. Mr. Wyatt says in his letter that I sold the lease for X-50, and that the quantity of ...

... FRANCE.—A letter from Paris, dated Saturday evening, says-If Paris be France, then this must be the happiest country in the world. The three days of the glorious anni- versary have just passed over amid the most undivided and undisturbed shouts of popular approbation. The city, in- deed, during the whole time, presented But one unclouded blase of living light. I never beheld a population so ...

... THE KING'S VISIT.-His Majesty has signified his in- tention of being present, with the Queen, at the opening of the new London Bridge, which is to take place on the first of August. So far from supposing that any day has been named by the King for the coronation, we have good authority for believing that his Majesty has firmly, and we submit wisely, declared his determination never to go ...

... COUNTY MILITIA. — In consequence of his Majesty's Proclamation, contained in last Tuesday's Gazette, for filling up. vacancies in County Militias, his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, as Lord Lieutenant of this County, has appointed a Meeting of Deputy Lieutenancy for that purpose to he held at Usk, on Tues- day next, as will appear by the first advertisement in this page, to which our readers are ...

... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. Monday, May, 16.—Our supplies since this day se'nnight j English wheat, barley, Knglish and foreign beans, English foreign peas, arrd English and Foreign seeds, have been limited' of foreign wheat, and English, Irish, and foreign oats and £lour, great; of English malt and flour, and Foreign barley, good- This day's market was rather numerously attended both bv Lf11' ...

... 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, ...