... On Monday last, a public meeting was held in Livefpoal, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for a revision of our commercial code. The meeting is described as one of the most important ever held in that great trading emporium. It was attended by men of all parties, and, by previous ar- rangement, all topics of a debateable nature wese excluded, In this category the Corn-laws ...

... Before David Evans, Esq., Mayor. William Bennett, alias Driver, a labourer, was charged with stealing a goose, and also with violently assaulting and wounding the police constable who endeavoured to take him into custody.—Joseph Fullilove said he on duty in Whit- moor lane, last Satuiday morning, and at about three o'clock he observed a man digging in a garden at the back of a house, and ...

... UNWHOLESOME FOOD.—A butcher, resident in Merthyr, last week purchased a cow which had died a natural death, for the purpose, as be said, of boiling the carcase for his pigs- How- ever he cut up and dressed the cow in the usual manner; and employed some persons to carrv the beef about the town. Being offered rather lower than the usual market price, it was readily bought by a number of families ...

... TO SAMUEL HOMFRAY, ESQ., High Sherijf of the County of Monmouth. ^'r> With every feeiing of profound respect towards /• self, as well as towards the 11Igh-the important office you ho.u as the administrator of the laws, I take the liberty of thus pub- ticiyaddressingyou. It is on a subject, in my opinion, IlIghly important to every individual in the county and most import- ant to those who are ...

... SUT,— Trusting you will excuse this liberty, I beg you will inseit the following questions in your widely circulated paper. Why is it that goods (say corn, flour, &c.,) shipped in Bristol by the regular trading vessels, with shipping notes, as are usually sent with goods, bearing every particular, plain as pos- siule-why is it, I ask that the purchasers of these goods can- not receive them at ...

... An account of coal and iron. brought down the Tram-road, in the week ending the 13th inst • C°a' 9,818 tons, 13 cwt. Iron 1,526 — 8 — An account of coal and iron brought down the Canal, during the week £ oal 1552 tons. Iron 1922 The Monmouthshire Hounds will meet on Monday 8 Cross Buchan Friday 12 I'allYcoed Wood Lach day oit half-past ten o clock. The Herefordshire Hounds will meet on Tuesday ...

... PARLIAMENTARY DIVlSloNThe members connecteJ with this district voted as follows in the division on the Irish Registration Bill on Thursday last:— [11 the majority.—R, J. Blewitt, Hon. H. Berkeley.lion C. Berkely, Hon. G. Berkely, E B. Clive, C, Greenaway, LorJ A. M. llill, R. Holland, K. Hoskins, John Martin, Sir R, Price, F. Protheroe, J. Phillpolts, Lord J. Russell G. P Scrope, T, ...

... The primrose has gone ere the summer's bright beam Had enlivened the glade, or illumined the stream; It died ere a bud of the forest was seen, Or Spring had appeared in her tresses of green. It bloom'd in simplicity's meekest of form, The sport of the winds and the gust of the storm. Like the offspring of want on a pitiless shore, JSfo-hand to upraise it—no heart to deplore. It knew not the ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,— It is with unfeigned satisfaction that I have now the opportuuity to announce to the public, through your widely cir- culated and respectable columne-, the re-opening of the above Docks. Of these splendid works, I consider it unnecessary to say much, their merits having been so recently descanted on by men of the first class knowledge, and ...

... NOTE.—The researches of Campanari, Avalta, and the writings of 13te authors, with the Sarcophagi in the Museum of Lucien Buona- parte, at Musignano, incontestably confirm the Egypto descent of the Etrurians. If Monsienr Anthony D'Abbadie, who is at Aden (on the Red Sea), would complete his researches in Abyssinia, as promised in November last, and his excellent and learned brother, Thomas ...

... The Queen held a Levee onWeclnesday last, wind) was most numerously attended. Her Majusty looked in the best health. We ore glad 10 state that the Duke of Beaufort is near- ly recovered from the cficcts of his fall vvlnle hunting on Monday wek. The Marquess of Normanby, has appointed Major Jas. Bums, son of the poet, a sub inspector of Factories. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Sir ...

... SATURDAY, MARCH 13,1841. If We are to attach any serious meaning to the th our bright contemporary, it would seem at some of the Ultra-Conservative party, elated thi ^le'' temPorary victory (without a contest) in *~°unty, arc making preparations for a sweep at •yy at the first convenient opportunity. Ca«not precisely assure our readers of this for 1X°^cal determination as a matter of certainty ...