... A meeting of the Liberal party took place at the residence of Lord John Russell, in Chesham-place, at ten o'clock on Monday night. The Marquess of Lansdowne, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Minto, Viscount Palmerston, and Lord Cottenham were among the noblemen present. Mr. Tuflnell M P. was in attendance. A very numerous meeting of the Liberal party was held at Brooke's Club on Monday night ...

... (From our own Correspondent.) LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. In comparing the events which have passed since the publication of your last week's paper, with the predictions of what I thought was likely to take place—many of your readers will imagine that I must have been very ill informed on the subject, on which 1 professed to enlighten them. That I was in error with regard to the anticipated ...

... It has for some time past been rumoured that it is the inten- tion of her Majesty to honour the yacht squadron stations with a visit during the summer, and it is said she will be present at the Plymouth regatta, and the Royal Western Irish Yacht Squadron wiM make the port their rendezvous on the occasion. ...

... SOMEWHAT RICH.—A few days since, a gallant Captain, who stands in a high position in the county of Carmarthen, took a walk into a hayfield, where the haymakers were pursuing their avocations. No sooner had he entered the fitld, than, in accord- ance with a custom which generally prevails in some districts in Wales, of giving every new visiter, of whatever class, age, or sea, an initiatory ...

... T. W. Hill, Esq.. has resigned the office of Stipendiary Ma- gistrate for the Merthyr District, having been appointed Judge of the Court of Requests at Manchester. It is generally be- lieved that John Wilson, Esq.. of the South Wales Circuit, and Recorder of Carmathen, will be his successor. The Morning Post gives the following rumour:—Colonel Wood, member for Brecon, is to be rewarded with a ...

... LLANDRINDOD WELLS, BRECONSHIRE.—There is a nu- merous and fashionable party stopping at this Spa; where no- thing can exceed the salubrity of the waters, except the fasci- nations of the social circle, and the skill and judgment of the whist and chess players. CONFLAGRATION AT SOHAM,-The Cambridge Chronicle gives a deplorable narrative, under the head of a fire, which occurred on Friday ...

... AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF A BAD LEG AT HORNCASTLS, BY HOLLOWAY PILLS AND OINTMIRNT-A few days since Mr. John Simpson, a highly respectable bookseller in that town, states that a gentleman of his acquaintance had been suffering for many years from one of the worst description of bad legs, frequently enduring the most excruciating pain. He had been under the care of several madical men without ...

... A Cardiff reader, who signs himself Veritas, complained last week bitterly of the officious conduct of a person residing in that town, who, he .alleges, in a very unneighbourly and underhand manner, prevented Mr. White, the equestrian show proprietor, from compensating a respectable innkeeper for injury done him by the menagerie-caravan breaking the sus- pended sign of his hostelry. The ...

... A shocking affair was discovered in Nottingham, on Wednes- day morning—the suicide of two brothers; and it is feared that to thd heavy crime of self-murder, the yet deeper offence of par- ricidç must be added, The two brothers alluded to were William and Samuel Col- lyer^oth joiners, residing in Coal-court,. Parliament-street, of the.Apective ages of 36 and 32. Their father (also named Samuel) ...

... MURDER OF AN INFANT BY ITS MOTHER, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER AT BRIGHTOiV. A shocking murder was committed on Tuesday in the Brighton Workhouse, by one of the female inmates, named Norman, the wife of a man in Lewes House of Correction, who is undergoing a sentence for felony It appears that the wretched woman had lately complained of pains in her head, and was allowed to re- main in bed ...

... Ibraham Pacha continues actively engaged in gratifying his curiosity, and extending his acquaintance with English arts and institutions. Amongst his engagements, he dined on Friday at the Reform Club, as the lion of a grand party—seated between Sir Charles Napier and Loid Palmerston, his two old friends of the Syrian war On Saturday his Highness proceeded by a spe- cial train to the Bushy ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR -.My attention has been directed to a report in your paper of Saturday last, of some observations bv the Rev. J. Coles, at the recent Quarter Sessions, in which that gentleman has endeavoured to fix an imputation on the Town Council of Newport, which, however well-founded it may seem on an exparte statement, will not, I think, appear in the ...