... NEWPORT TOWN-HALL, THURSDAY, SEPIEMBEK 24. Magistrates present—J. Latch, Esq., mayor, T. Hughes, and Thomas Hawkins, Esqrs. CHARGE AOAINST MISS BAGOT. [The following case was but briefly noticed in our last. We now present the report] Sarah Ann Bagot, late of Newport, milliner, was charged with having obtained a prayer book by false pretences from Mr. W. L. Kelly, bookseller.—Mr. Woollctt for ...

... DOMESTIC NEWS. THP. Cot fiT.—On Saturday morning the Qceen held a Privy Council at the Castle. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albeit, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chan- cellor, Lord John Russell, first lord of the treasury; Rir George G>ey, secretary of state for the home department; Vis- count Palmerston, secretary of state for foreign afTjirs and Sir John Hobhouse, ...

... LxKDs, Sept. 25.-Sales of combing and clothing wools are limited to a supply of the current requirements of the manufac- turers, who do not buy Ireely. We do not quote any alteration in prices. WAKI FUXD, Sept. 25.-There continues to hang a heaviness over the wool trade but it does not affect prices, which have been steady for some weeks. The impracticability of buying from the grower to meet ...

... MLSTOL AND SOUTH WALES JUFSCTLOFT RAILWAY. The fust geneial meeting of the shareholders in this under. taking was held on Thursday week, at the White Lion, Bristol, James Gibbs, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The secretary (Mr. Shapland) having read the notice con- vening the meeting. The Chairman said that the meeting was convened for certain puposes required by their ...

... To the Editor of the J.loll7nouthshire Merlin. SIR,—There are many who start at straws and leap over bundles, saith the old Scotch proverb and I am half inclined to think that a good improvement commissioner, a respectable merchant, is of that class. I was lately much pleased to observe liiui trying to put down crying nuisances in the streets, and getting persons fined for causing nuisances ...

... Quarter computed from the Inspectors' Retllrlli. GENERAL AVERAGE. s. d. s. d. Wheat 48 2 Rve 31 0 Barley 30 9 Beans 40 4 Oats 23 4 Peas 37 11 DUTY ON FOREIGN COHN. Wheat* 9 0 Uye 2 6 Barley 2 6 Beans 2 6 Oats 1 6 Peas 2 6 Oats 1 6 Peas 2 6 ...

... WHEN God removed papa to heaven, And ma was left to strive for seven, With scarce enough for burial fees (So lillgering was poor pa's disease), Though full of grief, we'd no despair, Relations spoke so kintl and fair! Our grandpa said that he, for one, Would think and see what could be done. Our uncle William and our aunt Hoped we would never come to want; But mother's brothers talked the best ...

... THE DISPUTED CORN DUTlEs.-The Globe says the claims of those parties who paid duty on foreign grain, under protest, in the interval that occurred between the lapse of the old corn bill and the operation of the new, in 1844, are at length about to be adjusted. Govern- ment, it appears, have offered a compromise, which has been accepted. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 30, 1846.-The de- mand in our ...

... [From the John Bull.] Among the reforms which we think the present age will loudly call for, and that before long, is the system of voting by proxy in the House of Lords. On various occasions, but especially during the last session, when the monstrous con- sequences of this system were exciting general disgust, we have endeavoured to show its inherent absurdity. The task was an easy one, we ...

... Entciltgencc. FRANCE.—The remonstrance against the Montpen- siet alliance, presented by the Marquis of Nurmanby to M .Guizot, amounts, according to some accounts, to a very fornal protest. The interview between M. Guizot and the British ambassador is said to have been of a very ani- ma'ed kind, and Lord Normanby is understood to have expressed in energetic terms, the hostility of Great Bri- ...

... foresight. He always wished to see a good-tempered fife, a sober and industrious husband, and clean healthy looking children. These remarks, of course, elicited cheering and laughter,—making those who heard him pleased with themselves as well as with the speaker; who proceeded then to advert to the respective positions occu. pied by masters and men-their mutual obligations. He laill he had ...

... A CORRESPONDENT of a metropolitan contem- ( porary has called attention to the important subject of the accounts of Executors. A large amount of [ property belonging to widows and orphans, and f others, is annually wasted through the incom- petency of persons who have the management of tt1 r as in sorts oaseg; the dishonesty of execfitors. The miietlial mcastire proposed, is, that exbhutors ...