... SOUTH WALES (FROM STANDISH TO CHEPSTOW WITH DEVIATIONS). The railway committee met on Monday, at twelve o'clock Mr. Round in the chair. The usual formal protest having been given with respect to this line, Mr. Talbot, Q.C., proceeded to open the case on the part of the promoters. He said the bill proposed to accomplish various objects, the principal one being the completion of a most impor- ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin, SIR,-As an elector and freeholder of the county of Mon- mouth, I assure myself that you will permit me, through the medium of your widely-circulated and well conducted paper, to make known my sentiments upon the extraordinary proceed- ings now passing among us, for the avowed purpose of pre- venting the return to a future parliament of our present ...

... THOUGH we hold the Government criminally responsible for the six weeks' delay which the Irish Coercion Bill has occasioned in the passage of the Corn Relief Measure, through the House of Commons, yet we do not consider their policy to have arisen from any change of purpose as to the corn law, but rather from a desire to promote it, though they certainly appear to have taken a very mistaken ...

... This morning, about six o'clock, a little lad, in the employ of Mr. Oliver, printer, named David Davies, aged twelve years, and residing with his parents in the courtlage of Mrs. Jones, Hill-street, committed suicide by hanging himself in the privy by bis handkerchief. He was discovered by his little sister soon after he bad committed the awful deed, and cut down by Mrs. Jones. No other reason ...

... [We make the following extract from a Russian novel, translated by Louis Vienti(led Tarass Boulba. The story opens wi!h the return of the two sons of Tarass Boulba from the college of Kiew, to their paternal home, ou the completion of their studies.] LET U* see turn about. Lord, how odd you look What does ihis priest's gown mean ? Are you all made such figures as this of, at YOllr arademy 1 ...

... INTERESTING TO I.ADifc.3.-— Precaution is in no instance mor requisite than with respect to the Femate Complexion. Ther are no greaterenemies of those distinguished (raits of Beauty than extreme heat and dust. It is, therefore, an Imperative duty upon all ladies who value their complexion, in all their rural walks, summer promenades, visiting close assemblies, in the ride, in the drive, and ...

... THIS measure has been defeated, on the second reading, but by so small a majority as to leave its supporters with the most sanguine hopes of future success, while the opposing party talk of a volun- tary compromise of eleven hours. It is highly gratifying to observe the rapid progress of enlightened feeling with regard to the long-con- tinued toil of the operative classes, upon whose condition ...

... Magistrates present—E. Dowling and T. Hughes, Esqrs. George Phillips was charged with being a disorderly appren- tice on board the Henry, Capt. Thomas, of this port.—Settled by consent. Abraham Hewlett, who has an unquenchable thirst, was again charged with being drunk and disorderly.—Reprimanded and discharged. Michael Kennedy, William Davies, Isaac Blake, Isaac Rees and Henry Morris, all ...

... The influence of the sun on the skin and complexion at the present season is frequently subversive of comfort to persons of delicate skin, by producing sun-burns, freckles, tanned skin, and lips parched and swollen. To oppose these ionovations, the most infallible specific is Rowland'sKalydor, a preparation from the most delightful exotics, which not only by its use insures the skin from the ...

... [PROM: OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.] LONDON, WEENESDAT EVENING. ALTHOUGH the railway business is still proceeding vigorously in both Houses of Parliament, there can be no doubt that before the end of the session, many of them will be consigned to The tomb of all the Capulets. Few of the scbemrs which are not sup- ported by the large existing companies, or by the great railway speculators and ...

... THE frequency of a disordered state of the Digestive Organs, occurring in the people of this country, and the melancholy circumstances to which they aive rise, are truths too often witnused and painfully endured, to require here the symptums to recognise tbe complaint. The numbers of authors who have elahoratelv written upon this lusidlous atfeetion, would take an Industrious reader years to ...

... A PP it E IL F.N si (IN OF A GANG OF Bunc.LARs.—Those active officers, Summers and Elms, ot the Bristol detective loice, accompanied by police-sergeant Hamlyn, succeeded, on Mon- day week, in apprehending a portion of a daring gang of bur- ylais, who have successfully pursued their Defarious practices in the counties of Gloucester and Somerset, generally attacking the abodes 01 the leading ...