... The election for the County of Monmouth took place yestef' day in our Shire-hall. The morning at its earliest dawn W#5 illumined by a bright vernal sun, that seemed to smile upon 0^ ini nascent spirit of liberty and independence. Lord Granvil I4jj Somerset first made his entry, about half-past nine o'clock; *Q accompanied by the usual paraphernalia of electioneering Pro lltii cessions, and ...

... NEW PARLIAMENT.—It is confidently stated that the le- gislature will meet in June, and after transacting all the bu- siness which can be forwarded by dint of ministerial intrigue, it will be prorogued till next February. DEATH OF LADY NELSON^—Viscountess Nelson and Duchess of Bronte, widow of the Hero of the Nile and of Trafalgar, died in London, on Wednesday last, aged 69. The Lord Chancellor ...

... CHAIRING OF Mil, HALL AT NEWPORT. Wednesday last was the day appointed by the friends of the newly elected M.P. to celebrate his return, by a. splendid public entry, chairing, and dinner, in tie town which saeminently con- tributed to his success. A friend, who is no stranger to the getting-up of electioneering pageantry, has informed us that the coup d'ceil was equal to any thing he had ever ...

... Monday, Marj 9.—This day's supply of beasts, sheep, lambs, was limited of calves and porkers tolerably good. £ aC» kind of meat met with a brisk sale mutton at an advance of about 2d per stone beef, lamb, and pork, at fully, veal at barely frt- day's quotations. (Per stone of 81b. sinking offal.) Inferior beef, from 2 10 to 3 0 Prime beef, from 4 4 to 5 0 T Ditto mutton 3 4 to 3 10 Ditto ...

... AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR APRIL. April has been more of a plain plodding business-like month than it usually is, with less of its ever shifting proverbial muta- bility of weather. The early part was rather wet and cold, but since there has been a period seasonably dry, with a temperature calculated to repress the luxuriance of vegetation, which the treacherous smiles of April not unfrequently ...

... COUNTRY NEWS. On Friday morning his Majesty, accompanied by the Queen and a splended retinue, presented, at Windsor, a pair of most elegant silver kettle-drums, weighing 1900 ounces, value £1400, to the 1st Life Guards. DEATH OF SIR JOSEPH YORKE.—Sir Joseph Yorke and two other gentlemen lost their lives on Thursday while sail- ing in a boat that was upset during a squall on Southampton water. ...

... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18.-This week the supplies of grain are only moderate. The trade for wheat is very dull, and the top price of flour is now settled at 60s per sack. Barley meets few buyers, and appears to be still de- clining in value. Beans and peas remain unaltered. Oats find a limited sale, and Monday's terms have been hardly maintained ...

... PATRIOTISM IN MERTHYR-TYDVIL. MERTHYR-TYDVIL, APRIL 26.—We, whose names are hereunder signed, engage and agree to convey from the parish of Merthyr-Tydvil, to and from Brecon, free of all costs, such voters for the county of Brecon as may be de- sirous of voting for a candidate at the approaching election, who will pledge himself to support his Majesty's Ministers in the measure of Reform in ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. Accounts from Warsaw, dated the 28th ultimo, give an official report of the defeat of a Polish division under Gen. Sierawski, by the army under the command of the Russian General Pac. The Brussels papers contain the Russian account of the same battle. They are nearly the same in substance, each agreeing that the loss of the Poles was two thousand in the sanguinary affairs of the ...

... Fresh flowers are on the groen sward, young blossoms on thebough, The brook its tranquil orisons to Heaven is murmuring now The song of birds-the Summer song-gives life to every spray- Both glade and grove are full of love and—May sweet May Stern Winter's moody company of clouds hath fled the sky, Sole monarch of an azure world, the Sun is riding high With balmy incense teeming, Earth salutes ...

... COUNTRY NEWS, After the Recorder had passed sentence on a prisoner, named Mary Anne Drane, alias Blue Ribbons, at the Yar- mouth Assizes, adjudging her to seven years' transportation, she held out her arm and vociferated, I pray God Almighty you may sit there till I come back, and then I'll tell you how nike it. Several ships of war are assembling at Spithead, of which it is said Sir E. ...

... consequence of the great despatch we were necessarily obliged to 't Hake use of in preparing the report of the Borough and County Elections last week, some inaccuracies have been discovered, which We are most happy to correct. Our account of the speech of —' IF. A. Williams, Esq. represents that gentleman to have said, 'he knew of no other point upon which Lord G. Somerset and himself differed ...