... To tht Editor of tht Monmouthshire Merlin. Cardiff, July 9th, 1845. MY DEAR SIR,-Allow me to treat you and your readers with a morctau I have lately met with in the yard of a sculptor in this town. The following couplet, beautifutly chiselled upon a tombstone, is the gem to which I refer:- were—but word* will fail to tell what Parent# ought to be,-—they were that. t°™ £ 8tone will shortly ...

... EXTENSION OF THE RAILWAY SYSTEM.—The rapid progress of steam navigation, and more particularly steam as applied to railroads, has made in England during the past ten or fifteen years, is emulating all the continental powers, and the most in- fluential speculators and capitalists to embark in these great enterprises. There is even at the present moment upwards of sterling applied for, to carry ...

... The Aberdare Railway. The Committee, consisting of Mr. Beckett, chairman, Mr. E. Buller, General Johnson, Mr. Childers, and Mr. G. P. Phillips, met on the 18th June, 184.5, for the purpose of considering the above scheme. Mr. Williams opened the case for the promoters by stating the present was a project for making a Railway from the Taff Vale Railway to a certain tram-road leading from the ...

... CHURCH RAT £$. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—The impartial manner in which you have allowed the Church rate controversy to be earned on in your highly respect- abtejourm). is the theme of general praise; it induces me to offer you a few remarks on the secood letter of your corres- pondent, who signs himself A Church Ra'e Payer- As your coirespondent is already in good hands, ...

... NEWPORT TOWN 21st, 1845. Present-The Mayor, Thomas Hawkins, Thomas Hughes, and X> • ,T. S. Allfrey, Esquires. Benjamin W llliams, detained on suspicion of stealing ducks, which seemed to have been taken from a good breed, as they were plump and handsome- but as no prosecutor appeared Williams was allowed to waddle off. John Walker was committed for stealing a sovereign, a half A ^ZOR, and a ...

... IMPORTANT INVENTION.—An invention by Captain Mercer, R.N. superintendent of the packets at Dover, for disconnecting horses from four-wheel carriages, in case of the horses running away attd becoming unmanageable, was tried in afield belong- ing to Mr. Dray, Charlton road, a few days since, in the pre- sence of Sir Francis Cockburn, Capt. Washington, R.N., the Rev. Air. Glover, and several ...

... Fatal Accident on the Sheffield and Ashton Railway, ASHTON-UNDEII-T INE, SATURDAY NIGHT. About three o'clock this afteinoon, one of the most f.-ital and melanchfJly accidents ,I hat this neighhoul hood ha; eVPr witnessed occurred on the line of railway which is now in the course of consructi!Jn from the lioe of the Shdtidd and Manchester railway 10 this town. This line of railway, which is ...

... LOCAL DTELLHiEm NEWPORT UNION.—The following are the Guardians elected for the ensuing year:—Bedwas, Thomas Price Bettws, John Hodgkinson; Bishton, Benjamin Samuel; Caerleon, Rev. Daniel Jones; Christchurcb, Henrjf Hale; Coedc«rnwv-Thomas Matthews; Duffryn, William Phillips; Goldclitf, Charles Seys; Graig, William Edmunds; Henllys, John Samuel; Keineys Inferior, Edmund Jones; Llandavenny, ...

... TAR PAVEMENT MusANcE.-Once more we nf ,i.p nnMee to the disgraceful manner in call the attention ■'JV avenny are crowded, after night which the pavements knQts 0, t'wos> thr| fall, by the s0 tUit other persons are obliged and fours, t gutters, or the middle of the street, to betake themselves to> tne gu > followed bv a nn We hope this notice will, fof th« future, py a pre- wntion of th« nuU ...

... THE Corat.— Should the contemplated arrangemfnts H car- ried into effect, and her Majes'v and his Hovsi H.ghness Prince Albert visit the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, during the approaching s-ojouru of the Court at Brighton, the royal visit to the Noble Duke and Duchess is likely to take place On or about the 11th prox:mo, instead of the 18th. It is said that her Mujesty and ...

... BAPTIST CHAPEL, BETHEL, BASSALLEG. The Rev William Thomas, lor the last four years the respected pastor of the Baptist Church, in the above place, having re- cently resigned his charge, to become co-pastor with the Rev. William Rogers at Dudley, his old flock have sent him a silver cup, wtt!ithe following inbcnption: Presented to the Rev. William Thomas, by the members of the church, at Bethel ...

... HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION.—The exer- tions of the honorary secretary, and the gentlemen composing tie committee, are likelv to be crowned with a result that wi!i give the palm of pre-eminence to the meeting at the Casrle, on the 4th of September, over anything ot the kind that has eve»-f;iken place in '0 is countv. The exceedingly good conduct of tue ship- writi'hts, and various orher ...