... Monmouthshire Epiphany Sessions. USK, MONDAY, JAN. 5,1846. A considerable number of magistrates came down to these sessions on Monday, most of whom took their seats on the bench punctually at twelve o'clock. We observed the following; LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSET, Chairman, Sir Digby Mackworth, Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.P., S. R. Bosanquet, Esq., the Hon. Wm. Rodney, William Addams Williams, Esq., ...

... IVPORT CATTLE MARKET—WEDNESDAY, JAN. 21. Price per lb. to sink the offal. ) s. d. s. d. Beasts 0 5 £ to 0 6 Sheep 0 6J.. 0 7 Calves 0 6J.. 0 7 Pigs (per score) 8 6.. 9 0 market this week was moderately supplied with fat cattle, ep, and pigs. The beef trade was very sluggish, and not to business done. Mutton fully maintained late prices. ton pigs were a shade lower—dairy-fed porkers, at better ...

... WEEKLY CALENDAR. IS,-—Second Sunday after Epiphany. Isaiah 51, Mat- thew 16. Evening Lessons,-Iaaiah 53, Rom. 16. ,N sÀGB.Laat Quarter, 20th day, 3h. 52m. afternoon. ...

... Stars were abroad at the midnight hour, Beams on the earth the moon was flinging, When I heard a bell in Saint Mary's tower, A plaint to the silence singing. Would that the end of the world were come, For I am weary of always swinging, Or would I could strike my own tongue dumb, For I ache to the heart with ringing. Up with the light of the earliest morn, At the end of my rope they're ...

... BANKRUPTS. W. Ward, auctioneer, Manchester. T. P. Hawley, cheesemonger. Sir John Ross, Knt., banker. « ork-road, Lamheth. J. H. Banks, copper-plate printer, Great Newport-street, Middlesex. W. Baldwin, victualler, Nottiog-hin, Middlesex. F. Glass, woollen factor, Basmghall-sireet, Loudon. T. Dean, victualler, Cheniss-strect, Tottenham-court-road. V. S. U. Lenormand, milliner. J. Rickety, ...

... OIK LETTER BM. THE MIT.TTIA. To the P.,ni„r .■ the Merlin. re^m^Tb^ in >;nur sensation in this town. The foil! created quite a called upon to serve their Q ^*• hl 'i l3T11 °' TS they have only to refer to the h r of''r' V I'T 1 'u find, that about lortv Years J,? .1;n-V1;t' and 1 lp> Wl» hardships of this sort in a th^ ('fV,ld V now called upon to endure. The peoJe of I 'V i'1'0 period, ...

... CHURCH RATES. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,—I find that I have a new antagonist on this subject, of muttifdrious reading, in Fair Play; or, I am inclined to think (and I fancy 1 shall not be fat from the truth), I have an old antagonist, new christened tor the nonce. Be this as it may, however, I thank Fair Play for writing, and you for inserting, his letter. 1 rejoice ...

... ALGERIA. Accounts from Algeria Shire that Abd.el Kader was only an hour in advance of his deadly enemy, General Jousouff, whose indefatigable perseverance, cunning, and courage, lieem to menace the Emir wiih capture or death. No Indian ever fol- lowed the track cf a foe, says a private leller, with more per- tinacity, sagacity, and resolution, than Jousouff displays id'the pnrsuit of the ...

... THE PRESIDENT STEAMER. Our Madrid correspondent sends us the following statement with respect to the ill-fated steamer, the President :— The Gazette contains an announcement from the Home-office, stating that the political chief of Guipuscoa had communicated that some fishing boats of Motiico had picked up a bottle, which was floating in the sea, with a paper inside, which was sent to the ...

... I take the liberty of addressing the magistracy of the county of Monmouth in defence of myself, against certain charges con- tained in a report made to the last Quarter Sessions. On that report has been founded a notice of motion at the next session for my dismissal from the office of governor of the Hou-e of Correction. I presume, however, respectfully to ask of each magistrate, as a matter ...

... THE CORN-LAWS. It has bean supposed that Sir Robert Peel's plan for the repeal of the Corn-Laws was,-to fix, in the first instance, a duty of 4s. a quarter on wheat, and to diminish Is. a year till the duty was wholly abolished. We have the strongest convic- tion that the immediate and total repeal of the laws would not only be better for the coontry, but that it would especially be better for ...

... To the Editor of lite Monmouthshire Merlin self 'MerJrr'P?er °f bsV wn, ...