... MONMOUTH COUNTY REFORM MEETING. We gave the introductory particulars of this meeting in our last. The following gentlemen, who were not present, have de- sired us to make it known that their absence was not occasioned by any reaction in their minds, nor by any lukewarmness in the great cause, but by reason of illness or of private business that would admit of no excuse or delay:—George Lewis, ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. A dreadful crime has been committed in Greece. Count Capo d'lstrias has fallen the victim of assassination. The following are the particulars;—Napoli Oct. 8. This morn- ing as the President was going according to custom to at- tend the service at the church, two men who were waiting at the door assassinated him, one firing a pistol at his head, and the other stabbing him in the ...

... Monday, October 31.—In this day's market, which was for the time of year throughout well supplied, each kind of meat met with a rather a sluggish sale beef, mutton, and pork, at Friday's quotations veal at a depression of full 2d per stone. (Per stone of Bib. sinking offal.) Inferior beef, from 2 0 to 2 21 Prime beef, from 3 4 to 3 10 Ditto mutton 2 8 to 3 0 Ditto mutton. 4 0 to 4 8 Middling ...

... -Maity favours are this week unavoidably deferred. The reason will be apparent in the Merlin of to-day. ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sir,—It was with feelings of regret and disgust that I saw confirmed by your leading article of last week a report that many persons had ceased to become subscribers to your paper, because you thought proper to express openly your opinion in favour of the great question of reform. But, however strong my feelings on the subject, I should not thus ...

... We've often thought, and p'rhaps 'twill strike he reader, the Reform Bill's like Our subject-plate, a waggon The fore-horse in the team's a Grey, And, though they're working night and day, But heavily they drag on. For our own parts, we never mix In state or civic politics, Yet wish the Bill may be a Most sov teign cuie for England's ills, And prove, like Abernethy's pills, A perfect panacea. ...

... COUNTRY NEWS. MANCHESTER.—(From a correspondent of the Courier.) -So far from a re-action in public feeling in this town, you may be assured that general opinion is widely extending in favour of reform among all classes of the people. Those who at first questioned its expediency, now see the actual necessity of its being carried they who were lukewarm and indifferent, are now decided, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... MONMOUTH COUNTY RKFORIVI MEETING. The speech of Mr. Phillips continued.—The peers will he per- haps surprised t.p learn that the proposal to.alter the constitution of their own body is by no means novel, and that one of the most acute writers of the last century has declared the necessity that would be created for such an alteration whenever the people should obtain a full, fair, and efficient ...

... Monday, October 31.—Our supplies since this day se'nnight of English wheat, English, Irish, Scotch, and foreign barley, Scotch flour, English and Scotch oats, English and foreign beans and peas, with malt and most kinds of seeds, from all quarters very limited of Irish wheat and oats great; of foreign wheat, and English, Irish, and foreign flour good. There were no foreign oats or rye from any ...

... LONDON NEWS. Previously to the Grand Duchess Helene of Russia leav- ing town she presented 150 guineas, through the medium of one of her household, to the King's servants, who had been in attendance on her Highness during her short so- journ in the metropolis. Her Highness's establishment at Sidmouth, including the persons of her suite, amounted to 130 individuals. Sir George Nayler, Garter ...