... MONMOUTHSHIRE RAILWAY.—We are given to understand that a deputation from the London Board of Di- rectory met, in Newport, a few days since, some influential gentlemen connected with this neighbourhood, with a view to the formation of a local Board of Directors, for perfecting ar- angemenu to carry out the general objects of this Company. 1 he late Mrs. Mellorv Buraew, of Clifton, has ...

... The Times last Friday published the following, as a correct lilt of the new ministry :— first Lord of the Ireasury—Lord John Russell. Lord Chancellor-Lord Cottenham. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs-Lord Palmerston. Secretary of State for the Home Department-Lord Morpeth. Secretary of State for the Colonies-Lord Grey. Under-Secretary for the Colonies—Mr. C. Buller. Chancellor of the ...

... OSWESTRY, DEC. 3.—It will be recollected that an old wo- man, named Susannah Rider (supposed to be a maniac), was taken into custody upon a charge of attempting to murder her own daughter, a delicate yeung woman, who was found in the cottage apparently dead, and mangled in a peculiar manner, which admitted of no description. The poor sufferer, who was placed under medical treatment, had so far ...

... THE last breeze from Erin Has passed o'er my brow, The gale of the ocean Is over me now; I leave thee my country! Farewell! though thou art The life pulse that stirs me, The veins of my heart. Erin mavoumeen, farewell! I gaze where the bright scene Falls back to the west, And tinges the blue clouds That hang o'er thy breast: The bark bears me from thee To sail o'er the deep, While on thy green ...

... 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?, ...

... 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. ...

... [We have much pleasure in publishing the following pIa. for the formation of a new ballast bank, tor the port of Newport and fur reclaiming a large tract of land between the mouth of the river Usk aud the Rhymney river.] Muqji scientific attention has of late years been given to the action of the sea upon coasts not defended by rocky outlines, and, by the use of available means, to the ...

... 1'0 tfle Editol' vf the Monmouthshire Merlin. StR,-Kuowing. the Irue and liberal principles your widely circulated paper invariably advoca'es, and the leadiness with which you on all occasions open iie columns to the hwful com. plaints of the people, I the more readily beg leave to intrude myself with a few observations relative to the immense con- stabulary impost of the county of Glamorgan. ...

... AMERICA. By the British and North American royal mail steam-ship, the Caledonia, which atrived at Liverpool on Friday night, we have received New York letters and papers to the 15th, Boston to the 16th, and Halifax dales to the 18th oil. From these we learn that brother Jonathan has somewhat cooled down upon the Oiegon question. The Washington Union, appears to have received thint from the ...

... Corn Trade. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have been rate, only 4,735 qrs. having been reported up to this (Satu avening. The quantity exhibited at Mark Lane by lao, riage samples from the neighbouring counties lias also small indeed, with the exception of a run or two from B the stands were neaily bare of wheat, as well on YVednesw on Friday. As it is impossible to manufacture ...

... THE MILITIA—NEW POLICY FOR IRELAND. THB rumours which have, for two or three years prevailed about this season, respecting the embodiment of the militia, appear this time, to be founded in truth. We had thought that, even setting aside all other considerations, the late government would have hesitated to put arms into the hands of a body of men, which must include a very large proportion of ...