... „ SPAIN* i rivate letters fyoui Bayonne state that Don Carlos is suffering from severe indisposition, brought on by his late reverses. lie labours under great depression of spirits, which his family and his Generals vainly endea- vour to remove. It is also stated that Villareal is to be removed from the command of the rebels to make way for Gonjes. The latter will have enough to do, as Nar- ...

... coal. SPORTING. The Monmouthshire Hounds will meet on Monday, Jan. Trothy Bridge. Thursday, j, Lanellan Bridge. Saturday 21 White Hall. ■n' V' '.I' Lanvapley. s'turda7,'28lh Lanvihangcl Cmcerney. At Half-past Ten o'clock. The F. D. II. (Mf.Carr's Hounds) will meet on Thursday, 19th KenneJ, Monday, Jan. 16th • • • • |T1e^c' Each day at 1'en o clock. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. As ...

... Lord John Russell has issued the usual ministerial circular, earnestly requesting the attendance of the Mem- bers at the opening of the Session, as business of great importance ,wt!! be brought forward immediately on the meeting of Parliament. The Conservatives are busy in the work of organiza- tion they purpose commencing the campaign by an attack on the address. Lord Marcus Hill has ...

... We are happy to announce that the impetus given to Welsh Literature by the spirited exertions of the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion, continues to produce the most gratifying results The King has been graciously pleased to testify his entire approbation of the objects of the Committee named at the last Anniversary, for the purpose of forming a Society for perpetuating, by publication, the numerous ...

... MEETING AT PO N'TrPOOL. On Thursday, the 5th of January, a meeting was held at the Baptist Tabernacle Chapel, Pontypool, for the purpose of adopting petitions to both houses of Parliament for the abolition of Church Hates. Shoitly after eleven o'clock William Conway, Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. W. W. Phillips moved the first resolution, which was seconded by the Rev. John Jones. Mr. ...

... TO VIOLETTA. W IIF.N Summer-winds begin to woo, And hay-fields to look hoar, When cloudless skies are golden blue, And cal m the ocean shore When Neptune's silvery curls aie thrown Each moment on the strand, Yet, frailer than thy jetty own, 1 o perish in my hand When slumbering as the billows swing, Vpon her watery slide, The Halcyon with her silken wing Flatters tire gentle tide And cradled ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR ,-Accordin to my promise, I proceed now to examine Mr. Williams's argument against Church-rates, as founded on the precedent of Ireland. It is hardly necessary for me to state the circumstances under which the abolition of Church cess was incorporated into the Irish Church Temporalities Bill of 1834. Agitation was then at its height. All the ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,—Having seen a statement in a newspaper of an ad- joining county, of the 26th ult., that the deaths in county lunatic asylums average one in four, the cures one in five, I deemed it right to furnish the public with the following Comparative View, which will shew that there is an in- creased proportion of de Iths in those asylums where the low ...

... FROM THE INFLUENZA.—At least half the people in Maidstone have coughs, and many of them have jeen attacked by a species of influenza, similar to a disorder ixtremely prevalent after the heavy fall of snow in 1814. It ippears the symptoms are rather disagreeable than dangerous, Jut persons who are liable to affections of the lungs will be >rudent not to expose themselves more than is necessary. ...

... Bankrupts.—Robert Rolling, of 29, W ailing-street, and 39, Ludgate-hill, City, cheesemonger.—Edwin Bryant, of George-yard, Lombard-street, City,.merchant.-—Geoige niel, of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, perfumer, Jan. '20, at half-past one. and Feb. 28, at one, at the Court ct Bank- ruptcy. Mr. Belcher, official assignee and Mr. David Jones solicitor, Sise-Iane.—Will/am Augustus Bartlelot, of ...

... On Monday last, Mr. Hall, the present respected Member for the Bortfiigks, published an address to his constituents, in which he announces his determination of net ag?.in offering himself for the honour of representing them, in the event c'f a dissolution of Parliament. As Mr. Hall's intention had been previously known to some of the leading Reformers in the boroughs, measures had been taken ...

... The St. Sebastian correspondent of the Courier hnr forwarded to our contemporary a letter from a Mr B. Stephens to a Mr. Mitchell. Mr. Stephens, accord- ing to the Couriers informant, is the able correspond- ent of a Morning Tory paper, while Mr. Mitchell the public need scarcely be reminded, is the veracious correspondent of another Morning Paper. The letter of Mr. Stephens bears internal ...