... ABERGAVENNY RAIL W A YS. To the Editor of the Mo'wamthx'tire Merlin. Siu, — hi »09wer to your correspondent, 6.D., I beg to say, that rnv reasons (or putting befoir the pu'ilu through the medium of your vitluab'e journal, ihe position in which we are placed heie, as to the railway Hccopjrnodalion thit vve were promised, and of which we Siand so much in need, together with the little likeli- ...

... CARDIFF COUNTY COURT, MONDAY, DEC. 20. AVM. JACOB V. J. B. STCCKDALE. Mr. T. G. Phil I potts appeared lor the plaintiff, and Mr. Thomas Evans for the defendant. Mr. Phillpotts, addressing his Honour, said This was an action brouofit by the plaintif fto tecover ihe sum of 19s. 6d. The defendant was a police officer of this town. Some lime pievious to the lastquarler sessions the plaiutiff' was ...

... EXPLOSION AT NANTYGLO. To the Editor of th€ Monmouth,chi™ •' 'First-born of 1(0016, which, when it saw ihe lovely child, The melancholy Mass, put on kind looks and smiled. —-Cowley's Hymn to Light. SlR,-I do not know any class of men towards whom our sympathies can be more deservinglv drawn than the working co liers, whose incessant labour at this season of the year ex- cLdes them from the ...

... WERE not the mirror dimmed with passion's bieath. Or stirred with fears, we might ourselves behold Within Time's glass which now the year, grown old, To younger, steadier hands abandoneth. He totters slowly on, quite nigh to death, Laden with joys and agonies untold He glideth gently on to that dim fold, The~Past, where memory awakeneth God's angel—heretofore man's servant; leaving Us and our ...

... LONDON MARKETS. COKN liXCHANUK. MONI»AT7~ lhere were in the course of last week good supplies of Knglisb wheat aud trarley, aud also a large arrival ot iorejgn oats, into this market. The general trade of the weet wa* fully up to All Average, aDd pi ices of wheat were raii.er higher, but barley ana some other graiu met a slight decliue. This morning theie were very few samples fiesli up either ...

... Mary Ann Hunt who was tried and convicted for the wilful murder of an aged woman, oi the name ot Stowell, has a: length given birth to a male infant. DEATH OF run ARCHDUCHIES MARIA LOUISA. The Paris papers of Thursday bring us. ccounts of the death of the Arl:lI. duchess Rtaria Louisa, widow of die and Duchess of Parma and Placentia. Tins event occurred ai Paima ON the 17th. The illness of her ...

... THE DIAMONDS OF THE EPHOD. Dama was a Jeweller at Ascaloo, and distinguished by many virtues. One day the elders came to him to purchase precious stoaes, 10 ornament that part of the co-turne of the high priest which the Bible designates by the name of the Ephod. They explained the onject of their visit, and offered him a reasonable price for the diamonds they desired. Dama replied that he ...

... MURDEIt OF A CHILD BY ITS MOTHER Considerable sensaiion was occasioned on Thursday last in the neighbourhood ol Great Waitham. in tins county, by a repoit that an infant, only fourteen days old, had been murdered at North-end, its mother having cut iis throat with a razor, which unhappily proved to be troe, fur upon softie of the neighbours entering the house of Chailes Pi ior, a labouring man ...

... A SHOCKING SKIN DISFASK CUHED BY HOLLOWAV'S OINT- MIMT I ILIHitching, a gentleman residiog in Ar- oour-square, Coinnurcial-road, who has been several >eats ia India, where, ubout seven yi-ars ago, he was almost suddenly coveied with a dieadful skin disease resembling lepra since his 'e'uln to Europe had been to the most celebrated waters In Gem any, iiesades trying (without benelit) all ether ...

... GAiWAY LNION.—The usual weekly meeting ot the Bond of Gu-irdians of this union took place at the board-room, on Wed- nesday Ltst. J. Redington, Esq., D.V.C., in the chair. Mr. Kiliian called the attention of tht^board to the circum- stance of eleven boat loads of paupers having been imported into this town irom Contiemara. within thc last few days. They principally compose (said Mr. K.) the ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. MR. EDITOR,—At the comineocement of a new year, I beg to suggest to you that I think it would be an important addition to the general utility o your useiul if you would give up a portion of a column to agricultural and horticultural mai- lers, and notice therein any new or improved modes cf culture, a description of new implements and machinery, &c., ...

... Thebank notes and cheques io the value of £ 7,866.7d.,stolen from ihe clerk of Messi?. Sirahan Pau, and Co., in February lust, have been sent buck to the banking house, in a parlel, con- taining the idenU notes and cheques, with the exception of one country bank no e of 15. More than fifty slave verse's have been taken on the coast of Africa within t„e last twelve months. Ths numher of ...