... ASSIZE ON BREAD. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—Allow rlf^through the columns of your very valuable journal, to call the attention of the magistrates of the town aad borough of Newport to th« exorbitant price of bread. It is, I submit, the duty of the magistrates to act in such cases as tbis, to see that a fixed standard weight be emplojed iw. weighing all bread made for sale ...

... THE GREAT BRITAIN. Captain Hosken has sent a letter to the diiectors of the Great Brilnin Company, in which, of course, he clearly shows—as the Eiaminer lately proved would be shown—that he went rhe very course he ought to have gone—or at least, he thought it was the right course and as Captain Claxton pointed out to our readers at first, so Captain Hosken now points out, that it was all ow. i ...

... IRON.—Together with the Corn and Customs Bills, the Royal assent was given on Friday night to about 60 other bills—a large proportion of which are for railways, making, with those previously in operation, an extent of railway enterprise that does not require an immediate addition to it to create the ex- tensive demand for iron lately noticed. With reference to the consumption of iron abroad, ...

... IT is from an unwillingness to weary our readers with a repetition of argument, and still more from a dislike of even the appearance of exultation over those who differ with us, that we do not present an analytic contrast of the Protest which Lord Stanley, to the great injury of his political fame, has just put upon the journals of the Lords, and that of Lord Grenville, made on the passing of ...

... The members of the Chepstow Cricket Club have generously presented five pounds to the exhibition committee of the United Horticultural Society of that place, accompanied with a request that it may be appropriated as extra prizes, to be tompeted for on Tuesday, the 8th September next, the day appointed for the second exhibition of that rising society and to be distributed, in the name of the ...

... The shops in the town have all been partially closed, the forges and other works in the neighbourhood have partially suspended operations, in respect to the memory of Mrs. Han- bury Leigh, of Pontypool Park, who departed this life on Saturday last. ft is expected that the remains of this excel- lent lady will be interred in the family vault at Treethin Church, on Wednesday next; on which ...

... AQUATIC EXCURSION.—These excursions seem to be the monomania of the day, in this neighbourhood and the other side ot the channel. Lately, the Oddfellows had an aquatic excursion to Swansea, for the benefit of the Widows' and Or- phans' Fund; and although the weather proved rather adverse to the enjoyment of the numerous passengers on board, it is a pleasing reflection that their main object ...

... THE POWER OF MUSIC. OH magic spell, that rulest o'er the hearts Of old and young—of ignorant and wise- Spirit, that liest hidden in the chords, From which no winged form is seen to rise— Whence art thou? wherefore canst thou soothe or rouse, Enchant to rapture, or subdue to grief ? Whence the faint pining for vague melodies, To give the sad and burdened soul relief? The old man heareth ...

... imnttng in t1)e THE PRINTERS CHAPEL. TwAS evensong time, when, after s. da, of listleness, the three pno'ers in the Almonry at Westminster prepared to close the doors of their office. This was a tolerably spacious room, with a carved oaken roof. The setting sun shone brightly into the chamber, and lighted up such furniture ss no other room in Lon- don could then exhibit. Between the columaa ...

... MERTHYK. THE BUSH DINNER. Our readers cannot have forgotten the piquant, lengthy, and circumstantial report sent us by our Merthyr correspondent, and published in the MERLIN of a few days ago, of the splen- did reception given by the town and trade of Merthyr to Robert T. Crawshay, Esq., in honour of his recent marriage. That magnificent, unanimous, and unequivocally sincere demonstra- tion of ...

... ) Mr. W. Tomlinson, of Rilahaw Farm, Wharton, near Wins ford, has a sow in his possession, which brought him in Novem* ber last. 18 pigs and in April following 18 more. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.—On Monday afternoon, a woman named Mason, the wife of John Mason, a labouring man, re- siding in Neville's-lane, Bromley, was safely delivered of four fine boys. They were subsequently baptised by the Rev. ...

... Taking into consideration the uncertain position in which the trade is placed by doubts as to the maimer and the time when the corn law question may be ultimately settled, business in grain has been lately characterised by 8 degree of firmness which could hardly, tinder the circumstances, hue been expeced. The only way in which we can account for the confidence displayed by holders, is by ...