... FRID A:YTA¥LUCTRTIA77\ ANY dispassionate observer who has watched the pro- gress of the opposition which the Political Dissenters of this Country have offered to the Educational Scheme propounded by Ministers, and the means which have been adopted in order to strengthen that opposition, by unduly influencing those who otherwise might have viewed the measure as the result of an enlightened ...

... SWANSEA. AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. SWANSEA SAVINGS' BANK.—APRIL 17, 1847.-Deposits received, f429 3s. 7d.; paidj £253 3s. id. notices to withdraw, £90 13s. 2d. Manager, Mr. J. W. Clark. RE-OPENING OF THE UNITARIAN CHURCH, SWANSEA. —On Thursday, 15th inat., at the opening of the Uni- tarian Church (which was briefly announced in our last number) there was a large attendance of worshippers, both in the ...

... BUTE DOCKS.—Arrived, the Merchant, Clansey, Cork. bal- lu.JoLn aIld Mary, Fowev, iron ore. iSrotbeis, Hosknigs, Hrixham, ballast..Sifters, Hart, Chepuow, pitwood Britannia, White. Walerford, limestones.. Entfrprize, Guy, Bristol, liis»ht.. Uritish Queen, Hughes, do., do.. ROSE, Con- don. W aterlord, limestones. Gratitude, Newman, London hallast.nrgaret Roberts, James, Limerick, ballast.. ...

... anet zriotot I erfurp SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1847. 8 1 NO GOVERNME NT INTERFERENCE. 0Tan extreme Voluntaries and high-and-dry Political Economists are riding good principles to death. Volun- I taryism, in its pure form, is a noble principle-the free- 6 will offering of the individual for what he deems the ogood of his kind: but voluntaryism is confessedly un- 2 equal to many grave emergencies. ...

... I All Commnniications, and articles of intelligence, intended I for publication, require to be authenticated by the name and address of the writer; and unless these directions are r3gidly adhered to, Correspondents may rest assured I that no attention will be paid to their communications. I ...

... The morning train from London will shortly arrive in Li- verpool with the morning papers at noon each day The di- rectors have agreed to accelerate the speed to insure this convenience to the public. SCOTTISH MIDLAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.-The founda- tion stone of the Bridge over the River Almond, one of the most ponderous works on this line of railroad, was laid on Tuesday with all due Masonic ...

... -~ pn ac ANe wA tD srzatit AND M!AST-ILIDING WDINES. HULL, FRIDAY APRIL 16,1847. WE have before us the Bill introduced into Parliament by Lord MonPrTa, on the 30th of March last, for improving the health of towns in England. As the subject of Sanitary Improve- ment is one to which we have devoted con- siderable space and attention, and as Lord MOEPETrI's Bill, if carried into effect, will very ...

... in the night whilst her bedfellow, a person named Coxe, who had promised to marry her, was asleep, and hung herself at the foot of the bed. She wa« quite dead when Coxe awoke, and cut her down. —Last week poor girl, who had been seduced by Alfred Scott, draper's assistant, Manchester, and bad lived with him, or rather lived in lodgings as his wife, drowned herself in the Rochdale Canal, in ...

... LIBERAL LESSONS FROM TORY TEACHERS OR LORD JOHN SCHOOL AGAIN. €fte SALDB POPULI LEX SUPUE fA TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1847. | The overwhelming majority which on Thursday evening stamped with confirmation the Minutes of the Education Committee of the Privv Council, and the decisive division of the following night which negatived the motion Sir AY. Clay, we must not too hastily assume to be the index ...

... Qlorresponience. TO !TJIE EDI TOR OF THE HULL PACKET. ~sia,-The Editor ofthe Advertiser has committed an I error vivlch I shouald n6o have expected in a person who I was not born in this towvn. ',In his remarks last week I on drainage, he states-*' Though standing near the con- fluence of two'great rivers, the site is so level that it is exceedingly difficult and very expensive to maintain any ...

... PUBLIC MEETING AT PONTYPOOL,IN OPPOSITION TO THE GOVERNMENT EDUCATION SCHEME. At the meeting briefly referred to in the MERLIN, last week, and held at the Vabernacle, Pontypool, the resolutions, which appear in our advertising columns, were unanimously adopted by an enthusiastic and oveiflowing audience. We are now enabled to present to our readers some of tbe most important speeches de- ...

... MERTHYR AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. Mr. Lingen, the Commissioner, examined the different Schools at Aberdare on Tuesday last. We understand that the celebrated Tennesse Minstrels have arranged to give their unrivalled performances in Merthyr on Monday and Tuesday evening. DEATH FROM ANGER.—Two little children, last week, in Plymouth-street, quarrelled for an orange. One, a little girl, became so ...