... WHEN sweetly tolls, at evening hour, The vesper bell o'er land and sea, The blandness of its healing power My childhood bringeth back to me The days when hope's bright halo spread. Ere sorrow's chain my heart had bound, And lightly as the faries' tread, My buoyant footsteps touched the ground When wizard fancy held her reign. And star-deckt kings and queens appeared, To 'illumine, with their ...

... NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN.-Some people scora to be taught: otheisare ashamed of It. as they would be of going to »chool when thev aie old but it is never too late to learn, what it is always necessary to know and it is DO shame to learn, so loog as we are i^nor.ot—that is to say, so long as we live. Heroism, sel'-denial, and in all instances where ...

... It having been understood that John Jones, Esq., the repre- sentative of the oldest family of the county, and his lady, would arrive at their old ancestral halls on Wednesday last, the trades- men of Aberganmny, to testify their respect and regard for the houses of Llanarth and Llanover, and their gladness at the return of the newlv-married couple, ordered the bells to be rung, and on that day ...

... An important case was heard at the Railway Hotel, Cardiff, on Saturday last, the f>th iost., before R. Lewis Reece, Esq., coroner, on the body of William Smith, aged 42 years, pedlar or hawker. Barbara Smith, sworn, said—I am the widow 0f deceased, and have been matried twelve years. Previous to out marriage, he was a collier, and met with an accident, caused by fire damp in the pit, which ...

... NWPOHT WOOL AND CATTLE FAIR.—This fair, which HFE been looked forward to by sellers and purchasers of wool, as well as of fat stock, &c., took place within the walls of the commodious New Cattle Market in this town, on Wed nesday last, when a very good supply of wool was pitched, which met with ready oilers and sales among the largest number of pur- chasers we have yet known attend any ...

... A dreadful accident has occurred at a coal pit at Blaina works to a lad named Buttery, son of Mr. Kichard Buttery, coal agent, who got between the side and the full trams. The poor fellow was literally crushed to death. An inquest was held on the body, and the verdict of accidental death was returned. A coroner's inquest was held the body of an unfortunate man named Jonas IMakeinore, collier, ...

... EDUCATION IN TREVETHIN, &c. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-Allow me to set before your readers, the real statistics of education Hi this parish, and one or two other places in the neighbourhood. Mr. T. Stephens has beeo a good deal misled by his friends, who have proved themselves ill-informed and un- safe guides in this matter. 1 will not now dispute the correctness of the ...

... Up to the present time the reports from the agricultural dis- tricts continue to speak well of the grain crops, but complaints respecting the reappearance of the potatoe disease have lately increased, though they ate not, we are happy to say, so general as to have given rise to serious apprehension. Several large growers of potatoes, with whom we have converted on the sub- ject, stated that ...

... MR. EDIToR,-The quiet little town of Abergavenny ha recently been frightened from its usual propriety by certain freaks of venerable mother church. The good old lady, through the instrumentality of her official, Henry Pennor, Esq., has effected a seizure for the payment of Church Rates on the property of Mr. Jacob W'yke, a man upon whose integrity of character and purity of principles the ...

... CANVASSING. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sm It is somewhat amusing to see the active and spirited canvass now going on for the office held by the late Mr. David Lewis. It is a good thing to have the chance of choice, and it is hoped, 1 believe, by all the Kate-payeis of Newport, that the Guardian5, in whom they have vested the power of appointing their officer, will not confer it ...

... BOROUGHS ELECTION MEETING ON TUESDAY. [In our fourth page will be found a report of a public election meeting at Monmouth on Monday.] In the early part of last Tuesday morning, intelligence was casually received of the withdrawal of Mr. Jones from the con- test and in the afternoon, the news was confirmed by an ex- press from Newport; immediately upon the arrival ot which, handbills were ...

... CORN EXCHANGE. A fair average quantity of English Wheat has been received up to our market this week; and the show of samples of that ar- ticle here to-day was moderate. Owing to the large importations of foreign wheat the trade was very dull, and to have effected sales a decline of quite Is. per quarter must have been submitted to. With foreign wheat we were heavily supplied, hence sales pro- ...