... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-The letter I addressed you under the signature of candor, though for some time unavoidably delayed, at length appeared in your columns, and seems to havi aiousad the bile of several of your readers no less than three doughty champions having appeared two under real, one under false rolouts, in the lists of controversy, or I sholild rather say of ...

... V r IMFROVBMEN* or IRELAND- i lwnwtedfi-an tlle Report of Mt. Lynch's Cemmitt* on Pub-, tie Works. Mr. Bald, the engineer, is a-gentleman of great practical knaftlttdgeof-bog reclamation, haviog,lt*d extensive experi- ence not only in this-country but abroad. He represents the; process of drainiag. as- being, iD' general attended with an expen of only fl.- the statute aere; the after, cost of ...

... The Providence, Way, master, bound from n iron to Oporto, was wrecked off St. Ann's T with Thursday, the 21st. The crew were saved, with on tion fit one man, whose death was occasioned K t exceP- of the mast. the falling SWANSEA, Jan. 25.—The Lady Gambler Roll a schooner from Jersey, which capsized bottom master, in the harbour, on Friday night, in a heavvUpWarcls.w^en righted with very little ...

... SPOUTING. IThe-F. D. H. Hounds (Mr, Carr's) will Monday, 1st February. o Thuisday, 4tU Beast Common. w—k I! LI ™ '• • • The Kennel. Mr,.Wilkins*s bounds witt- -nreet on February, at Llanvillo, at half-past ten. a^' ObTtiday the 22d instant, the hounds of w.i. Esq.) M.P., Maeslougb Castle, threw off at T1 after drawing several covers without succexc and madfe fof tbe beautiful fone eove'r on ...

... sontesttc HETHO^OLITAN. OPERATIONS AT THS LONDON PoST OFFICB.—The ordinary busrness of each day is, in lette., in the In- Oflioè tettfM receded, and 40^)00 sent (23,475,000 annually) exclusive .of the numbers in the Foceign Office Dtpartment and tbe Ship-Letter Of- fice, and altogether independent of the Twopenny Post. ItelTmrabers of newspapers: datity vary fpom 25,000 to 60^000 (on Sunday40 ...

... SPRING CIRCUITS. Northern. Lord Denman and Mr. Baron Parke.. Home. Lord Chief JusticeTindaland Mr. Justice Vaoghaft. Midland. Lord Abinger and Mr. Justice Bosanquet. Norfolk.. Mr. Justice Park and Mr. Justice Gelee. 'Western.. Mr. Justice Littledale and Mr. Baron Bolland. Oxford Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams. • • • Mr. uaron Gurney and Mr. Justice Coleridge. ...

... BRISTOL. BRISTOL DOCYS.-WE are informed that the survey of the locks of Cumberland Basin, recently made by order of the Doik Directors, with the view of tin ally determining upon the best plan for adopting them for the passage of the largest class of vessels, has been reported upon by Mr. Brunei. The Society of Mercnants have, with the same laudable object in view, ordered their dry dock, at ...

... Pax does not come within our province but if his state- ment be correct (and we are not disposed to do'ubt itsucor- rectness), we should say, persevere. There is no injustice but what courage and industry will be able to remove. Our Pontypool Bard next week. We fear that some of our distant subscribers have cause to com. plain of irregularity in the arrival of their papers, but we as- sure ...

... The earth is old six thousand years Are gone since 1 had birth; In the forests of the olden time, And the solitudes of earth. We were a race of mighty things The world was all our own. I dwelt with the Mammoth large and strong, And the giant Mastodan. No ship went over the waters then, No ship with oar and sail; But the wastes of the sea were habited By the Dragon and the Whale. And the Hydra ...

... L/lapter the Second-describing whatpasd in Paris. L()ndo, *X-wickod, merciless 'London-with its eyes peering over blinds, and its tongues whispering the Atigagett suries, ill the world, and its ears open to every sound ofscandal and ill-nature—London is left behind; and the gay Capital of tbe grand Nation leoeives the and his fait partner:— ^e.W|>^ was all before them, where to choose libe ...

... LATE DUKE OF BEAUFORT AND HIS FOX HOUNDS. (By Nimrod, of the New Sporting Magazine.) At the end of the last, and at the commencement of the pre- sni;entury, there were to be seen, within a triangular space «f leg than thirty miles, three masters of fox-hounds, whose equas in that eapacity, might perhaps have been found, but hose superiors would have been looked for in vain.— Thes were John ...

... 33omC0ttt fiemø. The Address (to be moved in the Lords by the Duke of Leinifer) will be seconded by Lord BurligtoD: in the Com. mons, moved by Sir J. Wrottesley, and seconded by Mr. Park ...