... On Saturday last four men were examined at Bow-street, on the charge of having murdered a young Genoese lad, who used, to go about the streets hugging a live tortoise, and soliciting with, a smiling countenance, in broken English and Italian, a few coppers for the use of himself and his dumb friend. A porter to. the dissecting-room at King's College proved that the four pri- soners brought the ...

... ORATOR HUNT. The knight of the blacking-pot has been journeying through the large manufacturing towns of Manchester, Leeds, Preston, &c., and speechifying against the Reform Bill which he so ex- tolled on its first introduction into the House of Commons. He has evidently been bribed by the Tories to exasperate the working classes against the bill. The following is a specimen of the lying ...

... The following proclamation appears in a Supplement to the London Gazette of Friday, Nov. 18:- WILLIAM R.—Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 22d day of this instant November; we, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued on the said 22d day of this instant November, to Tuesday, the 6th day of Decr ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin SIR,-As one of that body which has been addressed by A Lover of Peace, one of whose placards I have just seen, I beg to assure him, on behalf of my brother freeholders, that we shall not be induced to desist from our endeavours until we have at- tained the object of our wishes, viz.—a full and efficient Reform m 1 arliament, and a free representation ...

... To the Editur of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sir,—I desire, through the medium of your paper, to give a direct contradiction to the assertion of Wm. Evans, as made at the late Reform Meeting at Usk, that he had received notice from the Duke of Beaufort's agent, for having voted for Mr. Hall- such notice being given in consequence of his having sold his interest in a lease under His Grace, ...

... An anonymous scribbler, under the signature of A Lover of Peace, has issued an address to the freeholders and inhabitants of Monmouthshire—specious as the song of the Syrens—delusive as the mirage of the desert. The professed object of the author is to inculcate peace and bro- therly love-to effect which amiable purpose he begins by attacking the public press with the whole art Ileiy of false ...

... THAMES POLICE.—On Friday Jacob Tornell, a Russian sailor, of powerful appearance, belonging to the ship Adonis, from Riga, lying in the Grand Surrey Canal dock, was charged with threat- ening the lives of his Captain and chief officer, creating a dis- turbance on board the ship, and severely maltreating several officers and others. It appeared that on Wednesday afternoon, while the Captain and ...

... On Saturday, in pursuance of a requisition signed by nearly all the most influential inhabitants of the county, the High She- riff, John Arkwright, Esq., convened a meeting of the freeholders and others, at the Town Ilall, Hereford, to take into consider- ation the propriety of voting an address to our most gracious Sovereign, expressing their warm and devoted attachment to his person and ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sir,—As some short account of the progress of the Indian Cholera may be interesting to your readers at this time, I have attempted to furnish it from my readings of the most expe- rienced writers on that subject. Its origin can be distinctly traced to Jessore, about 100 miles N.E. of Calcutta, to which it was brought in August, 1817. It was conveyed ...

... POLITICAL UNION OF THE WORKING CLASSES OF THE METROPOLIS. A Political Union of the Working Classes has been formed in the metropolis, and the following is a declaration of their creed Labour is the source of wealth. That commonwealth is best ordered when the citizens are neither too rich nor too poor.—TmT.ES. At this moment of great political excitement, it is alike the in- terest as well ...

... FRAZER'S MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER is an excellent number. The critique on Bowles's Life and Times of Bishop Ken, intended as the first of a series of papers on the worthies of the Church of England, will be read by the clergy with peculiar interest. Nothing can be more graphic than the description, in the Spen- serian style of ane flicht through faery lande onne ane famous steede, yclept the ...

... PARIS, Nov. 20.-The list of new peers comprises the names of some of the most distinguished leaders of the old army. Among those familiar to the newspaper readers of every country in Europe, will be found those of Generals Pajol, Drouot, E'Erlon (Drouet), Bonnet, Gazan, Flahaut, Excelmans, Lagrange, Dauthouard, Rogniat, C'affarelli, &c. Two admirals figure in the list, Jacob and Emeriau. We ...