... emblem of happiness, not bought nor sold, Accept this modest ring of virgin gold. + Love in the small but perfect circle trace, And duty in its soft though strict embrace, Plain, precious, pure, as best becomes the wift; Yet firm to bear the frequent rubs of life. Connubial love disdains a fragile toy, Which rust can tarnish, or a touch destroy; Nor much admires what courts the gen'ral gaze, ...

... The Lists of Persons qualified to Vote in Boroughs and Counties are now posted up. These Lists should be carefully examined every qualified person omitted should make his claim to be inserted, and unqualified persons should be objected to..Every person having more than one quaiifica* tion should see that he is inserted for all; as in case of being cut off for one by any accident, another may ...

... THE PONTYPOOL CHURCH-RATE AGAIN PDOCSEDINCS BEfORE THE MAGISTRATES. On Saturday last, the 6th inst. three Dissentmg Ministers, two Independent, and one Baptist, with twelve other individuals, appeared before the Magistrates, E. H. Phillips, Esq., and the Rev. D.Jones, to answer to a summons for non-payment of a church-rate alledged to have been ftiade on the 161h of May las'. Mr. Robert?, ...

... Th. more the merrier. Not 10: ono hand is enough in II pUlle. Po fwyaf ùdaw, medd awen-dihareb, Deuir yn fwy Uawen. Eigon yw, dd gwn, I hen Gadw ond uti llaw'n ei goden. NOlblns hurt. the stomach more than vomiting. Yes, laek of mat. JJdu rwy!t! nid oes a ddryga,—collar. Pel cyfiog y cvlla. Pwl iawn! onid inwy yw pIa Oes bur 0 eisiau bara Nothing but has an end. Not 50: a ring hath none, ...

... The Municijto.. Proceedings Bill, Bill, were read a third tim^'and paa Lord Campbell questioned the Lora v,uaiice».ji> .whether it was the intention of the Queen to appoint Lords Justices to exercise the royal authority during her Majesty's absence in Germany. The Lord Chancellor said, it was not the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to advise her Majesty to issue a commis- sion appointing ...

... EXECUTION OF J)OWING AND PO\vYS. STRATFOP.D, NATURTIAY AO received this morning Kx, ti ^nov'A communication was Queen having been ,aut,10ntles' to the effect th,.t the prisoners until the 25th 0 resP'te the execution of the a crown case for the dm,?' 'el U?e,PurPose of submitting having been against the Drkon„ JudKes, and that decision be given to the sheriff' |i, K0 further instructions ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin, SIR,—I had read the letters of your numerous correspondents for and against the Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Society with a similarity of feeling, supposing the discussion would end in establishing the Society upon a fiimei basis, until I came to the letter of A Gentleman of the Principality where he avows bis determination to put an extinguisher upon ...

... At Tredegar, as well as many other places, where education has been, until within these few years, urgently ctlled for by justice towards the children of the working classes, in order to the training of the rising generation, to a more elevated state in religion and morals—a large school, established by the Tredegar Iron Company, has for some years been dispersing its blessings. Here the ...

... A collision on the Thame between a couple of stesmers is not quite so smashing an affair as between two rival trains on a railway. Ihe one which occurred on the river a few days ago, tietween the Emerald aud ihe John Bull, was, however, sufficiently terrifying ol its kind, to impress ihe passengers with a vivid notion 01 the perils attendant on even so shoil a voyage as a trip to Gravesend. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, FEB. 10. The Earl of St. Germans took the oaths and his scat. The Noble Earl took his seat on the Ministerial side of the house, immediately to the right of the Duke of Wellington. After the presentation of petitions, The Earl of Dalhouse gave notice that he should to-morrow lay before their lordships papers relating to the Railway depart- ment of the Board of Trade, ...

... COLLIERY.—The number of men injured was eleven, and con- trary to the expectations which we expressed, they are all rapidly getting better. The cause of the explosionis supposed to be, the falling away of a. portion of the walls which separate the working from the old levels, by which a large quantity of &re damp WM liberated, and took fir. It of tn. workmen's ...

... Ti-ir, INCOME TAX & THE FRANCHISE. When a bad thing cannot be got rid of, it is wise lurn it incidentally fit far as may oe, to a go.i e hence we approve of the motion given tice of hv the Marquees of Nornianby, for leave to in a bill to confer the Parliamentary Franchise upon all who pay the income tax. The great majority of persons paying' this tax rnay be voters alieady, but there are ...