... HATS AND BONNETS.—The materials have varied but little we remark, however, a good many bonnets of Tuscan straw, and some in new kinds of fancy silk. The shape both of hats and bonnets continues the same, or nearly the same, though we think the brim is a little enlarged. We observe that feathers are much less worn to trim bonnets than they were last month. Flowers are more numerous they are ...

... Monday, September 10.—This day's supply of beasts was, for the time of year, great; of sheep, lambs, and calves, moderately good; of porkers but limited. The trade was, throughout, dull. With beef and mutton, with the exception of the prices of the most inferior kinds remaining stationary, either on account of their being scarce, or of improved quality, at a depression of 2d,—lamb 4d per stone ...

... In vain we seek thee, nymph of healthful bloom, Where grandeur riots in its lofty hall Where gaudy fashion, in her tinsel loom, Weaves her thin web at folly's sportive call. In vain we seek thee in the busy court, Where art, ambition, and a subtile train Of dark, invidious spirits, oft resort, And oft disturb a peaceful monarch's reign. Where, then, meek comrade, art thou to be found, If not ...

... HORRIBLE MURDER AT ASI-IOVER.-On Wednesday morning, a man named Chadwick, from Morewood-moor, deliberately walked into the house of John Sellers, at Cold-Harbour, in the parish of Ashover, in this county. The house stands in a lonely part of the country-just such a place as we might imagine suited for the committal of the horrible crime which it is our painful duty to record. Sellers had just ...

... SIR,-As I perceive in your last Merlin a letter, signed Phi- lalethes, complaining of an account from a correspondent in the paper of the week before last, concerning the opposition to the Breconshire Races. I think it a duty incumbent on me, as such correspondent, to state publicly my reasons why I insinu- ated such proceedings arose from a political feeling; and I have no doubt you will ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. Recollections of France, No. 8, and other communications omitted this week, shall appear in our next. ...

... AGRICULTURE^ God made the country, man, the-cityJP INDIAN CORN.—Mr. Palmer of Pencoyd, and Mr. Palmer of Bollitree near Ross, have this year successfully cultivated several acres of what is generally termed Cobbett's corn. The following method of cultivation was adopted by Mr. Palmer of Pencoyd, The crop was planted on the 10th May, on ridges, six feet over; two rows on the top of each ridge ...

... AGRICULTURE. During the last and the two or three first days of the present week the weather was very unpropitious for getting in the harvest. On many of the days the rain came down in torrents, entirely superseding for the time the labours of the field. Fine weather has now rerurned, and if it continues for a short time all will be well. Barley appears to have suffered most from the late ...

... (For the Merlin.) THE SOUL! Spark of Heaven !-boundless thing! Baffling man's imagining,- Vast as thought, and free as wind, E'en in fetters unconfined ;— Deathless as the seraph high— Breath of very Deity Tho' degraded, marr'd, and lost, Link'd to earth, and passion tost, Tho' defil'd with sin and shame, More of worth than nature's frame Chiefest in Jehovah's view, Of his glory's revenue ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. (From our Correspondent.) Accounts have been received from Oporto to the 23d ult., but they add nothing of importance to the intelligence already be- fore the public. The fortification of the town is carried on with spirit under the superintendence of Don Pedro, and, it is stated, by officers of eminence who have recently returned from thence, that it is at present in ...

... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LAWE, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28. -The grain market remains nearly as on last Tiarket day, wheat being without much enquiry at the prices we then quoted. Bar- ley and oats are nominally as then quoted and beans, peas, and other articles of grain, remain as last quoted. ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,—In the Merlin of last Saturday appeared a letter, signed A Poor Reformer, relative to the decease of Mr. Renie,°and the circumstances in which his family was unfortunately left. Mr. Renie certainly was a most ardent and sincere supporter of rational liberty, and his premature decease may, in a great measure, be attributed to his exertions, and ...