... If we were asked to point out, amongst the protective duties levied by European nations, the one which was most unsound in principle, or that which most checks social improvement, we should, in either case, point to the duty upon the importation of iron into France. Jroo is, under any circomstances, an unfit article for taxation. It is not only a raw material, and, as such, open to ail the ...

... Price per lb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. 0 5 to 0 6 0 6 0 6. 0 6 0 7 9 0 10 0 There being but few arrivals of stock from Ireland, our market this week was rather small; however a large number of sheep appeared, and, as usual, those fit for the stalls met ready customers, and a clearance was nearly eilected. Good beasts were scarce, and hardly any graziers were offered. Calves were few in ...

... STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN,-Liuerpnol, Tuesday.—The noble steam ship Great Britain, Captain Hosken, sailed for New York, at eleven o'clock this morning. She carries out 110 less than one hundred and eighty live passengers, the largest number that ever sailed for America by steam she has also a large cargo of goods. ...

... OPENING OF THE Cf-IURCM OF THE tttfilACULM'K CONCZPi ION OF D.V.W., Of 1 ;nr ou il. shire. This beaytiftii church, sit a'cd o.n ail eminence above the town of Skenfrith, was sj'emnly dedicated 011 Tuesday last, by the Right Kevereud Dr. Brown, Bishop of Apollonia, V.A. of the Welsh assisted by a the clergy. Hitherto, the Catnoiics scaitpml over this part of the country, the remnants of ...

... EGYPT.—The popularity of Ibraham Pacha is, as we learn from Grand Cairo, on the increase. He has given proof of his great tolerance on two occasions lately. The great Rabbi of the Jews had died, and it was indispensable to do that honour in death, to the chief of a religion, which was his due. The fear lest some fanatics might disturb the ceremonies had caused an application for protection to ...

... TilE VACANCY ON THE 13ENCH.— The death of Mr. Justice Williams gives a valuable piece of legal preferment to the Whig government to bestow on their friends a't the bar. Neither the Attorney nor the Solicitor-General is very likoly to take i,, as they have a lucrative prartice in the courts, and are in the way of higher preferment. Probably some gentleman not in office will be elevated to the ...

... BEDWELTY, THURSDAY, SUPTKIVIBER 24. The lists of voters for the parishes o' Bedwas, Bedwelty, and Mynyddyslhvyn, were this day revised. No objections appeared to have been made for Bedwas. In Mynyddyslhvyn, the objections by Protectionists were 38 by Liberals, 3. In Bedwelty, by Protectionists, 17; Liberals, 9. Mr. T. M. Llewellin attended on behalf of the Liberal inte- rest, and Mr. H. J. ...

... TROTTIXG MATCH FOR FIFTY POI NDS A SIDF.—The lovers of trotting will have a treat at Cheltenham, on the (5th October next, when Burke, of trotting celebrity, will exhibit his horse against time, to do twelve miies and a half in three quarters of an hour. Mr. Hurlstoiie, of that town. is the bace, cr of time -against the horse and considerable sums of money are now pendi -.g the result. ...

... WOMAN'S PRIDE.—Figuratively speaking, a fine woman may be said to X L at forty. WANTS A PLACE.-The Wellington Statue. No objection to travel. A STRANGE SALE -We were rather shocked a few weeks since, at seeing a young lady in Kensington Gardens with the lollowin? label attached to her visite- No reasonable offer will A (A U DLEISM.-SocrEttes, the first victim of Curtain Lectures, upon being ...

... The following passages are extracted from an article which appeared in the Standard of Tuesday.—It covers a multitude of the sins for which that unquestionably-clever paper has to answer, with reference to its former conduct towards Ireland. The awful consequences of the failure of the potatoe crop are, we feat as yet but very imperfectly appreciated. Taking the Irish population at eight ...

... On Monday last, a meeting of the Council was held at the Town IIall, present, It. lteeee, F.S.A, mayor, in the chair, Messrs. C. C. Williams, H. Morgan, Charles Vachell, William Vfichell, William Bird, Grifrifh Phillips, David Lewis, John Widiams William William- David Evans, Joseph Davies, M. Alexander Lisle, and John Moore. BUIKDLNOS IN WIIITKOUE LANE. With regard to the ground in Whitmore ...

... CHEPSTOW. On Wednesday week, at the Baptist Meeting lipase, Chep- stow, Mr._T. Isic'.ioUson. Lydney, delivered a lecture on Chris- tian Missions, in his usually neat, comprehensive, and pointed style. The lecture was illustrated by forty dissolving views of the most important subjects connected with the missionaries, stations, and efiortf, of the various sections of Christians in the four ...