... DOMESTIC uaws. Tag p ^ined ,AT NORT-U £ RN.—'ii is splendid vf-ssei was f x- £ pjJ^0n^uesdHy ;i the Inner K>si India Dock, by Si Co«»lrUinbel' of aval officer*. She had b*-er, et* *or the puipose of sui;ce5s;ullv combtiun. Gleaming, for tiie lon^e-i voy t^es, and is tlnn- ll js fj J|ct of Ihe highest naiioriHi ileiest Asasiparner 'Pr inv'S''ei' vvb 'be patent Archimedean screw prnpei- ...

... Before G. R. Morgan, Esq. Paul Mills, mason, was summoned by William James, .Isu mason, both of Dowlais, for non-payment of wages, amounting to 19s. The case was dismissed, and complainant ordered to pay costs. John Trotman. Mertbyr, was also summoned by Jas. A,h, for non-payment of wages, amounting to £2. 3s. Id. Settled out of court. Jacob Morgan. Merthyr, miner, was charged with bem* drunk, ...

... OPENING OF THE FRENCH CHAMBERS.-THE KING'S SPEECH. PARIS, JAN. ?, H/iti PAST 1 O'CLOCK, P.M. The King has just opened the ses3?6fr 61 the Chambers, or Cannoi 8a!' other than a new session. His Ma- t-sty wished to avoid the necessity of presenting himselt an this occasion, and of making a speech, observing that the chambers reassembled aftei a prorogation only, but he was overruled by ministers ...

... IMPORTANT STATEMENT OF CAPTAIN THOMPSON. The following extraordinary narrative of the circum- stances of the above calamity has been gained from Cap- tain Thompson, who returned from Boulogne on Saturday evening last: — It appears that on reaching that place on Tuesday even- ing, Captain Thompson waited on Mr. Hamilton, the Bri- tish consul, who sent his son with that gentleman lo the ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,—1 was much amused by the letter in your last MERLIN, signed Joshua Snail. Joshua, like his namesake of old, eems anxious to arrest the course of a planet, but Earth, at all events, will not obey his bidding. The Engine Driver is abroad, and lie-like time and tide-will wait for no man. Snail's comparison between the mule of 1793 and the Mon- ...

... OBITUAKY. Rev.*n'fif On the night of Friday, the 6th instant, the Allett Isaacson, Vicar of St. Woollos, Newp 'vjcar gt expired in the fiftieth year of his age. He Br9'1,(tic1? years, having been inducted by the Rector, fa Peh Gloucester, under the honourable circumstanc most numerously signed by the inhabitants 01 -jer* the borough. Mr. Isaacson had been labouring Dgj0us j» sition for some ...

... Before F. C. C. Williams, Esquire, Mayor. Catherine Moles, Eliza Evans, alias Whitchelow, and Ann Davies, all residing in the purlieus of Whitmoie Lane, were charged hy the police will; beingdiuuk, aull creating a disturb- ance in the public streets, at two o'clock in the morning of the last Sabbath, Eliza Evans was evidently the most vociferous, and being the leader in the disturbance, she ...

... *«locidm V, (i matter 1 c'n,nt' e'lve rnority of publication friends 5^' and S'ch' 'nde>>d' r'reis us lhis week* A feu Jrtends, residing Ilt a di.çttlntt will be courteous enough not t,, 4 s^ven days. (PartUs ivf marriage' Ul a ),lausibly deceptive shape our nan J21 Mert/iyr)> uas received by post, and instrted i„ WorsenA,'J1 *?'' Weeli' e finpe 'the fabricator will be trace i, and prosecuted, ...

... Monmouth, Saturday, hn. tl.-Wheat, to 6s. 61. Barley, 3s. Od.; Oats, 2s. 2d. Peas, 3« Bristol, Jan. 24'.—Wheat (red) per quarter 44s. to do. (white), 52s. to 54s# Barley (grinding), 2'2s. to do. (malting), 26s. to 29s. Oats (feed), 14s. to 15f.: do. (po. tatoe), 17s.to 19s. Rye, 30s. to 32s. Beans (new), 28s .to 30s. Pease (bog), 23s. to 28s.; do. (boilers), 32s. to 36s. Malt, 50s. to 56s. ...

... DEATH OF Mit. EDWARD DRUMMOND. We sincerely regret to announce the demise of Mr. E. Drummond, which melancholy event took place on Wednesday morning last, at 25 minutes before eleven o'clock. At half-past one o'clock on Wednesday, Baldwin, tha re- lieving officer of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, waited upon Mr. Gell, coroner for Westminster, at his office, in the Little Cloisters, ...

... FIRE.—On Monday night last, a fire occurred at the New Mills, Whitebrook, near Monmouth, in the posses. sion of George Lloyd, Esq The alarm was first given by Mrs. Lloyd, who, on passing from one room to another, dis- coveted a blaze in the drying room of the mill on the opposite side of the road. The men had, of couise, left their work long before the fire took place, but the farm-servants of ...

... NEWPORT? SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1843. Ai l INDIA. ftiail intelligence from India, by the last, ajjij'. contains nothing which was not previously tion01f3a6^' *S> satisfactory t0 find ^iat the evacua- tuai]° Afghanistan, by our troops, has been ac- °Ur acconip'ished, and that we may congratulate tab] 6S finaJ termination of the unprofita- lon 6 an ...