... A NO-POPXHY SCARECROW.—Mr. Watson's measure for the removal of certain pains and penalties to which Roman Catholics are still liable, has been lost. The chief honour of this victory of intolerance rests with Sir Robert Inglis, Mr. Plumptre, Mr. Spooner. and Mr. Newdegate; and the lion's share of the glory pertains to the honourable baronet—if we may compare him to so noble an animal as the ...

... EDUCATION. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—Duncombe's amendment has been lost by 325 majority out of 372. and Sir William Clay's by )36 out of 201 and the views of ultra-dissent were represented in parliament by only two persons—Bright andDuncombe! Abuse, verbal critticism, and logic, are a pretty heavy load for one small shoulder to bear and 1. G. Charles Conway, and T. L. ...

... Newport County Court. TOWN-HALL, NEWPORT-FRIDAY, MAY 23. His Honour took his seat this morning at ten o'clock, with the following heavy list before him. We had made arrange- ments to add as many judgments to the plaints as might be given before going to press; but owing to the list of the court being differently arranged to the one below, and but few cases ha,Vn/ een decided up to our latest ...

... BRITISH WOOL MARKETS. LEEr s, May 14.—Sales have been flat this week, and prices have a rather downward tendency but there is not ...

... To the Editor of the Monuuntthshire Merlin. SIB,—With regard to the remarks contained in Mr. Word's, letter, relative to the men having charged him with stauuu' that he would make them eat grass, I can only say that the men at the time said so, and the instant I saw Mr. Wood s letter, I felt it to be my duty to make strict inquiry about It, I and the answer I got was that it had been a proverb ...

... ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE VYES LOSr. '^Tiie following are more detailed particulars of this awful ca- lamity, briefly referred to in another part of oar paper. One of the passengers of the Modem Athens, arrived at the Braomielaw of Islsy, yesterday, gives the following awful ac- count of the total loss of the ship Exmouih, of Newcastle, from Londonderry. with one hundred and sixty-eight ...

... Magistrates present—Joseph Latch and T. Hawkins, Esqrs. Elizabeth Jenkins was charged with drunken and disorderly conduct at the station.—Cautioned against such unwomanly conduct in future, and discharged. Richard Godwin was charged with an embezzlement of the money of Jonah Evans.—Remanded till Monday. SOMETHING LIKE HOUSEBREAKING. Patrick Sullivan, one of the destitute Irish, was charged ...

... Deal meekly, gently, with the hopes that guide The loneliest brother straying from thy side If right, they bid thee tremble for thine own— If wrong, the verdict is for God alone What though the champions of thy faith esteem The sprinkled fountain or baptismal stream Shall jealous passions in unseemly strife Cross their dark weapons o'er the waves of life? Let ray free soul, expanding as it can ...

... IRELAND.—A WH1TEBOY SHOT. Ad instance of the dark and dogged spirit of resistance, which acts. armed and in the open day, occuned on Thursday last, at a place called Liskenoett, about sixieen miles from Limenck. A party of police were on the patrol for some marauders, when ihey encountered a band of eight armed men. They were nine to eight. Both challenged to stand and surrender, and nei- ther ...

... THE May 'tis come in its freshness, With its branches budditig green, And its low white flowers and its tiny birdj, That as yet no summer have seen, And its airs all sweet and balmy, Yet passing with quickened wing, As though all fraught with the roughened breath Of the late departed spring. The May 'tis come in its softness, With its showers of gentle rain, That fill up the skrinking lily's ...

... OMNIBUS. Religion is the best armour, but the worst cloak. Philosophical happiness is to went little and to enjoy much; vulgar happiness is to want much and enjoy little. A celebrated organist once imitated a thunderstorm so well, that for miles round all the milk turned sour. A Coquette is said to be a perfect incarnation of Cupid, as she keeps her beau in a quiver. Why is the newly ...

... There are two descriptions of cheap things—the cheap and good, and the cheap and very bad and we suspeet that the lat- ter predominates in the market. Of all ingenious ways for ob- taining a livelihood in the great metropolis, that of selling cheap bargains, is perhaps the most profitable for it is the natural de- sire of people in geoeral to obtain commodities upon the easiest terms possible, ...