... A few days since, the Commissary of Police of the Quar- tier St. Martin received an anonymous letter, informing him that an innkeeper, named Becher, in the rue Vertbois, had, at the instigation of a mistress, kept his daughter for some months locked up in a small closet, where she was treated with unexampled cruelty. 1 he Commissary immediately visited the poor girl's prison, where he ...

... On the 6th inst., Vaughan, Esq., of a so .v. nti. On Thursday, the 5th ù.. u i .he Jones, M.A., T. Hooper, Esq., of Torrington Park, Hunts and late of Grand Parade, Brighton, Sussex, to Catherino Price, of the Priory, Monmouthshire, daughter of the lato Charles Price, Esq., of Somerset House. On the 12th inst., at Newland, by the Rev. W. F. Powell M. A., Perpetual Curate of Stioud, the Rev. ...

... SIR,-Is all Monmouthshire asleep, and is this ruinous railroad to proceed 1—Cutting up farms, running through drawing-rooms, and last, but not least, the certain result that this new communication with Ireland will be the destruction of the peasantry of South Wales—as the unfortunate Irish will be naturally led to rush over in large bodies from their distressed country, at all seasons of the ...

... The news from Spain continues favourable. The contending parties remain in the same condition-Es- partero in Bilboa, and the Carlists between Guadaleano and Meravalles. The Pretender is safely ensconced in Durango. Villareal has thrown up his commission,and the Infant Don Sebastian is appointed Generalissimo. This must prove a change considerably for the worse Villareal was at least a soldier, ...

... The Emperor of Austria has presented the Arch-Duchess Therese, bride-elect of the King of Naples, with a superb bouquet, composed of piecious stones of every colour. She has besides received souvenirs of great value from the Dow- ager and reigning Empresses. The bridge of boats on the Rhine, at Coblentz, was car- ried away on the 20th ult. hy one of those laree timber rafts which are ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. JJ of local matter, to an eitent beyond our calculation, '■hides the insertion o/ some articles of domestic intelligence ■It u-ere in, type. Plumtree would tempt the consequences of a libel 'out danger to himself. lank our sporting friend, from Monmouth, for the account 'nthnnt with the Motmetithhire hounds, but he will see •} ...

... v Isaiah liii.—2d Le#»on, Roman* xiii. pm~ MEIRLIIWH Netoport, AT UUP AY, JANUARY 14, 1837. e Commissioners appointed by the Chamber of uties, to draw up i|le address to the Speech from LJien have executed their duty, and pre- OCument which is more liberal and firm in its Sh f0 WaS t0 exPec,ed from any committee ema- g 10m the present representatives of France. It owever, far from ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. On Tuesday, the address in answer to the speech from the Throne was read in the French Chamber of Deputies. 'Tis a mere echo of the royal speech-the following paragraph relating to Spain excites some attention We deplore, along with your Majesty, the civil war which continues to desolate Spain. France was affected by the grave events which burst forth at Lisbon and ...

... CONSTANTINOPLE, DSC. 14.—The relations between the Porte add England, which lately appeared to assume a friendly character, have been again disturbed by acci- dents. It appears that Lord Ponsonby is at variance with Mr. Urquhart respecting the satisfaction to be given to Mr. Churchill, the one desiring that the Porte should be completely humbled, the other that the respect d ne to a friendly ...

... The late extraordinary vicissitudes of the wea the r It a i-e produced a greater degree of illness than has been experi- enced in the metropolis sine 'the last memorable influenza. VAUXIIALL BALLOON.—C the 9th inst., the stupendous machine made its second ascent from Paris with seven per- sons besides Mr. Green, the machine was driven with feaiful force by a gale of wind against a house in the ...

... AT PONTYPOOL. (Concluded fiom our tost page.) his infinite power on so many occasions, might have seized the reins of Government either before or after his resurrec- tion. But there is the strongest reason to conclude that such was not the purpose of the Son of God. Not only did he rtfuse to interfere in the controversy between two brothers respecting their inheritance, and withdrew from the ...

... i ri FRANCE* Jhe Paris papei* of Thursday, Friday, afid Saturday are. singularly barren of intelligence. The Cortimittee oil the Address were warmly engaged in diScussihg the points touched upon in the King's Speech, and had eli- cited curious declarations relative to the expedition against Constantine, and to the spy Conseil, whose con- duct had in Switzerland occasioned so much noise and So ...