... Thepaperaof the past week tell U8 that the Examinations for the Newcastle Scholarship, have terminated but they failed to supply us with the questions put upon the interesting occasion. We are, however, enabled to give a few for the agents of Punch—like the spies of Nicbolas-are everywhere; albeit, it is hoped, with a different purpose. Q. What is your opinion of the Maynooth grant A. My ...

... The Revenue returns have just been published; they present the following results:—The Customs shows a de- crease in the quarter of nealy half-a-million and in the whole year, of near two millions and a half. The Excise shows a similar deficiency of about £300,000., on the year. and about f 340,000. on (he quarler. Against this may be set an increase of near £400,000. in the Stamps, and about £ ...

... CONSIDERING the importance of the corn question, and the gross ignorance upon the subject which has so extensively prevailed, we can hardly com- plain of slowness and deliberation with respect to the measures which have come so startlingly upon the monopolist interests. But at the same time we must condemn the factious spirit which has been shewn in some quarters, and cannot but deeply regret ...

... I HE SUCCESSION OF RACES OF MEN.—Generation after gene- ration takes to itself the lorm ot a body, and forth issuing from Cimmerian night, on heaven's missions appears. What force and tire is in each tie expends!—one grinding in the mill of industry; one, hunter-like, climbing tiie giddy Alpine heights ef science; one madly dashed pieces on the rocks of strife, in war wiih his fellow and the ...

... The following official notice from the Board of Trade esplaioa more fully, than has as yet appeared, the object of the bill which her Majesty's Government intend to bring forward immediately after the recess. Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade *■ Whitehall, 9th April, 1846. If SrR,-I am directed by the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to communicate to you the ...

... In making their sixth Animal Report, the Monmouthshire Board of Education have yreat pleasure in stating that the other pouion ot the Diocese of Llandaff is about to unite with them tor furtherance of the important objects which they have in view, and that in future their plans and operations will assume a diocesan character, and be extend- ed over a wide sphere. This suggestion, which ...

... NEWPORT CATTLE MARK ET.-WBDNESDA Y, APRIL2 2. Price per lb. to sink the offal. tt. d. s. d. Beasts. 0 51 to 0 6 Sheep 0 7. 0 8 0 7 0 71 Pigs (per score) 8 0 9 0 There being several arrivals of cattle from Ireland since last market day, together with several lots from the neighbour. hood. our market to-day was well supplied with beef; a great portion of which was of very superior quality, ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin SIR.—Having been acquainted by a friend that a report had gone forth about Pill, that Mrs. Davies, the wife of Mr. J. Davies, ironmonger, at Pill, whose family so narrowly escaped being poisoned last week, had purchased the poison at my shop in mistake for arrow root, I beg leave to state, that such was not the case. The facts are these :—Mrs. Davis ...

... TREDEGAR On Easter Monday, one of the most gratifying and imposing scenes ever witnessed in this growing town, took place. It was the day appointed for the procession of the Sunday schools of Tredegar and Sirhowy, belonging to all denominations of Dissenters; and, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather during the forenoon, the rain occasionally coming down in torrents, there was ...

... As is almost invariably the case on a holiday Monday^ supply of home-fed beasts here to-day was limited, but >^2 adequate to meet the wants of butchers, whose attendance *5 by no means numerous. For all. breeds the demand, there^S ruled heavy, at barely, but al ...

... A VERY important fact, illustrating the operation of diffeiential duties, has just been made known in Belgium. This system had been applied to coffee, under a notion that by giving a preference in duties to direct over indirect importations, the former would be encouraged, to the benefit of trade. The result, as seen in the comparative quantity brought in during the first three months in 1845, ...

... POLICE UTELLlGliSCSi. TOWN HALL, NEWPORT, M«ND,U, AP.MI. 6. Before the Mayor, W. Brewer, and T. HuS1,pS, Elizabeth Wan en. who was discharged on Timrsri.iv. after a trial for robbing Thomas Phillips, in company with a man ™IUnd!i'.at Mo,unouth Assizes, was chargcd wirlt going to Edmunds s parents' house, and insisting on a renewal nLj ,l C0ne™n ^tween herself and their son. She was pushed out ...