... TO CORRESPONDENTS. In out first edition, last week, we erroneously stated) in our Notices tefc Correspondents, that a Letter had been received from the Rev. Micuh Thomas. It should have been the Rev. f Thomas Thomas. Lycurgus is received. Breconian' shall have all the information we can consistently give him. We never advertised the line to which he refers. Lector—Address to the Tavistock ...

... WE expressed our cordial approbation of the new commercial policy of the Premier, as an enlightened, bold, and comprehensive scheme, and should be well and thankfully satisfied to bide our time for the salutary working of his projected reforms, were it not for the frightful accounts of widely-spreading destitution, which daily reach this country from the sister Island. The question, in ...

... BLAENAVON. IRON Works —On Thursday, the 29th ult., a fatal dent befel John Williams, aged 13 years. The deceaseds emploved as an underground haulier, and by some meat'J; horse got loose, and, as he was endeavouring to stop i'»i J?1}? animal kicked, and struck him on the forehead, causing a p. pound fracture of the skull. Richard Steel, Esq., surgeon, in immediate attendance, and rendered every ...

... ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER. -We learn that Captin Atkinson, the celebrated sportsman, who some years ago resided at Clanhugh, in the neighbourhood of Westmealh, Ireland, and afterwards at the Cottage, Rathowen, was surrounded by a large party of the Molly Maguires, whilst shooting on a bog in the neighbourhood of Carrick-on-Shannon last week, and ordered to deliver up his fowling-piece; ...

... ODDFELLOWSHIP. IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE REV. HENRY NEWLASD, OF WESTBOURNE, SUSSEX, AND THE REV. SIR ERASMUS WILLIAMS, BART., OF MAULBOROCGU. To the Hon. and Rev. Sir Erasmus Williams, Bart., of Marlborough. DEAR SIR,-—At a meeting held last week at the Palace (Chichester) consisting of the clergy, magistrates, and other influential laymen of the county, for the ...

... « —- THE HARBOUR-MASTER'S NEW PROJECTION. To the hditor oj the Monmouthshire Meriin. .j?1,1 your paper of Friday last, a person choosing to call himself WATKIN RICHARDS, HARBOUR MASTER, takes upon himself -though some have greatness thrust upon them, which does not ill become their shoulders-to reply to what I sCllbbled the Pilous week, about that new projection, a ballast bank down ...

... In proportion as the time approaches for the meeting of Par- liament, anxiety ai to what alteration will be proposed in the corn has increased rather than diminished and in the absence of definite information on the subjects, all sorts of rumours have been in circulation. As all doubt must now shortly be at an end, it is scarcely worth while to mention the different reports that have been ...

... NANTYGLO. AWFUL SUDDEN DEATH.—An inquest was, on Saturday, the 31st ult., held by — Butt, Esq., deputy coroner, at the Bush Inn, Nantyglo, on the body of v\ m. Jenkins, a singlp man, labouier, at Nantyglo Works, who was engaged in his usual employment, to all appeaiance in robust health, when, on a sudden, he fell down and expired. Mr. Rowlands, the surgeon of'the works, with his accustomed ...

... The men possessed of the secret of making gold, whether, as some ages ago, passing by the name of alchemists, or the present description of stags, have in all limes found some difficulty in procuring the apparatus. It is with them, as with Saint Denis without hit head, the first step in which all the cest lies. They know how to mike tons of solid gold, but they must have a little money to ...

... HOW TO BE MISERABLE. Sit qt the window and look over the way to your neioh) our* excellent mansion, which he has recently built and paid for, and sigh out,O.thitlwasarich man Get angry with your neighbour, and think you have not got a friend in the world. Shed a tear or two, take a walk in the burial ground, continually saying to yourself, when shall I be buried here ? Sign a note for your ...

... SINGULAR AND MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Mr. Thomas Stephen Rees, the proprietor of the Neath and Swansea boat, died a few days ago at his residence at Neath. Rees was much respected, and his death cast a gloom over the neigh- bourhood in which he had lived. Saturday last was the day appointed for his burial; and just as the corpse was being taken from the house, his widow, who had been ill for ...

... LATE HOURS. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sir,—I don't know whether your remonstrances, with the tradesmen of this town, have had the intended. effect; but there seems to be a disposition, on the part of two or three, to close their shops at eight o'clock in the evening. I hope they will not lose anything by so doing. Nothing but petty jealousies prevent so desirable a measure ...