... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. NEWPORT CATTLE MARKET.—WeoNMDAY, Nov. 4. Price per lb. to sink the offal. s. d. g. d. 0 6 0 61 0 61 0 61.. 0 7 Pitts (per score) 8 6 9 0 Owing to the great fair taking place on Friday, the 6th inst., our market was rather limited. There was a good demand for beef, and a complete clearance effected. Sheep of good qua- lity continue to sell well, and scarcely enough appearing ...

... DOMESTIC SEWS. » At the Court at Windsor, on the 3 ...

... The ploughing match of the above society took place on Tuesday, the 27th ult., in a field upon the Lodge Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Henry Rowlands. The day was fine, and the number of persons who came to witness the competi- tion, very large. Sixteen teams stood in a line at one end of the field, waiting the woid to start. At ten o'clock preciseiy the signal was given, and away they all ...

... NEWPORT. Arrivals and Sailings for the week ending Nov. 4, 1840. ARRIVED. Velocity, McGrath, Quebec, 2500 sleepers, 3160 staves. Thomas and Mary, Newton, St. Malo, 1440 c\ft. potatoes. Begeda, Awestang, Skein, 82 pieces of timber, 357 spars, 2667 deals and battens.—Cheviot, Griffiths, Stettin, 1153 quarters barley.-Susanna, Kydd, Quebec, 364 pieces of timber, 1082 deals and deal ends.—Yandeu, ...

... FASHIONS Ft)It WOVEMRF.lt. Black continues to be the favouiite colour f-.ir walking dresses in velvet, silks, or woollen materials. D^mas will be fashion- able for smiees as well as ihe promenade, reps bioches. Plums and stripes, pftrlirularJy the catreau royal ieps bluet, lafh.ta^ d*1 talie, &c., 6ce., lank among the principal materials for winter oilettes. Double Hod triple skirts are not so ...

... TilE Kr.r.r.Tnic day last week a curious incident occurred of the wonderful utility of this invention. A lady at Cambridge, b> ir.g in a most dangerous state in childbed, her husband, by means of tha electric telegraph, conveyed to London his wish that Cambridge Fiirenn in attendance on his wile should hold a consultation with Dr. Locock, the accou- cheur to the Queen. A message was ...

... MUNICIPAL ELECTION. On Monday last, Monmouth, in common with many other boroughs, was the scene of a con. tested Municipal Election. Unlike the majority of similar contemporaneous agitations, it was untinctured with party spirit, though, as the result proved, it was as needless a con- test as could well have been got up. As we last week stated, a public meeting had been held for the purpose of ...

... ELECTION OF TOWN COUNCILLORS.—The gentlemenwho went out of office by rotation, and who came forward to be re- elected, were John Jones, Esq., John Powell, Esq., D. W. Lloyd, Esq., and G. R. Bevan, Esq. There were also two ex- traordinary vacancies to be filled, arising from the death of one of the councillors, and the disqualification of another. A great many of the burgesses having become ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Chepstow, Nov. 3, IS46. SIR,—I have now succeeded in making a highly explosive cot- ton, after several unsuccessful attempts. I prepare my nitric acid in the fallowing manner: Addbenoxide of nitrogen slowly over water, to an excess of oxygen gas. The cotton, when immersed in this acid for ten minutes, becomes white, and loses its elasticity. It is ...

... €tra bottom SCENE—A room in llie barber's Shop tJ > Mr. Nulls. Mr3. Nutts What is all this abo-l gun cotton 1 Cotton going oil-and Dotting up We! as I was saving to tUis. Biggies, over did way, it's eaoogh to frighten a woman from ever taking a needle and cotton in her hand. 1 don't know how it i>, but now, somehow, [ do dread to near my cotton box. Stowgoe Thai's not a new complaint willi ...

... DIAMONDS. DIAMONDS !—what a strange parsmn, what a curious disease, what a topic for speculative curiosity, is Ihe thitkt whkdi some women fe-.l for ibis precious ariirie and, as if it were not even enough to spend thousands of pounds upon II hat paste and glass may be made to imitate, they must needs have better than their :1tig::bours, and in the desire 10 outshine, fOlgel everything else. ...

... We have observed thit coughs are as common in this as in any other month of Winter, and perliaps more so. Colds of all kinds aie very pievalent in general, and seem to constitute a Solt of obscure epidemic they occur also in the early spring, and more sparingly at other times of the year, but are now more paticu- larly prevalent and general Warm clothing should be lesorted to, particularly the ...