... The following letter has been addressed by Sir Robert Peel to the tenant-farmers on his estate I wish to communicate with you on the present etnte and the prospects of agriculture so far as they concern our relations of landlord and tenant, and 1 know not that I could select any better mode of communication than this which I have adopted. There can, I think, be no question that the effect of ...

... CARDIFF POLICEMondav. [Before Clarles Vachell, Esq., Mayor, and C. C. William*, iMPor.TVNT TO William. seaman, was chared on the information ni William RO«S«T, a branch pilot, with having n'l the ;;rl! J.J.>1lllry, att>d as a pilot in the Eleanor, uf Bristol, wilhollt duly and Ii. Sf) to contrary to th statute.— illiam Kosser proved that he tendered his services to tha master of tile vessel ...

... Sir Charles Vapier says that)11 his opinion Sir John franklin is lost, and condemns the idea ol seeking a north-west passage. The General Board of Health have directed Dr. Gavin Milroy to inquire officially into the condition of the Covent-garden graveyard. It is gratifying to us to inform our readers that Lieut. Lynch, the author of the Expedition to the Dead Sea, has been promoted to the ...

... THE reasons assigned by the woithy chairman of our Quarter Sessions, for holding them mote fre- quently, appear to us quite cogent. The first consideration is that untried persons should be detained for as short a time as possible. It is an old principle of British law, that justice should not be delayed and it is a gtievous hard- ship for an innocent man to be in pti*on. The question of ...

... Magisirates presellt-T. B. Baclielor. Esq., ,Mayor), and b 1. iiuuhes, Esq. FOHGhtiV BV A SOLOlF.Il. D.vid McCann, a private iu the 14 n Reg.msOt of Foot, wss charged wi.h to-ging .« ordc for e'even shilltng. which m-oey he obtained theieby of Ur.Stew.n, gro.er, H'.h s Wi ol'eit, far the r roecu iou, exam neif Jo o IJr'»l he prose'utor. Sergeant Pe.ke, aod P.C. Hupkto., t, «hose .videooe t' ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS ( Concluded from our last number.) FRIDAY,—JANUARY 4TH. John. Eoans, who was found guilty on Thursday, the 3rd instant, of having broken and entered the dwelling-house of Mrl. Margaret Davies, at Merthyr-Tydvil, and stolen theielrom about £ 35 10s., in notes, gold, and silver, was this day sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to bard labour for eight calendar ...

... THE reductions recently made in the expenditure of | county of Gloucester, by the magistrates, have r forth a severe attack from the Times, which those conservative and wealthy gentlemen of having | tated the practice of the levellers of the first French rr volution, and the theories of the socialists of the last | change there, by adopting the Jacobinical principw J# progressive taxation ...

... Ai.h. reoient ol a l-.ver Ol the language aod lifefslure Of Wa es «e publish the spee.h leeen h del.ve.d by ChancsHor VVIia'n.s 'h, EJu auonalCoogiess, he'd at Llandovery. The R'ev.Cheo.elorssi-i: I ■« '«»■ »« ,be have, one nn—an bonout I cer attily did notexpect, Z0,.> eUm'«- straotet amo-gs, >- bu. so deep an interest .io I fe.I in »b« success of the institution, of which you .vViu-t laid ...

... THE CIIURCH-G012K AT LLANDAFF. [TO THii BDITOR ] SIR,-I did not my*ell think it at all necessary to notice a y of tije. atit,t!iuents made regarding me. in an art cle in \our paper of the 29th ultimo, copied as you say, from the Bristol times, and contributed hy a person under llm signatme t 1'lie Church-goer out it has heen repr sented to me, thin t e portion of those stuteiueirs which ...

... PRICE BUTCHERS* MEAT. T;0 iUH EDITOR.] SiR, Allow nI a svui. spice in yonr excellent and exten- sively-circulated pawr. The MERLIN has ever shown itself a warm and strenuous advocate of the weal and best interests of the workingman; its columns from time to time contain- ing salutary and important counsel to them But there are other features belonging to it, which are worthy of co.nnien dation ...

... BEGGING AT [TO THE EDITOR.] SrR.-I have read a letter in your paper, signed A Way- farer, in which, the writer complains that Tie has bee'.i both annoyed and amused during the Christmas time, by swarms of town mumpers: first, by the carol singers, who welcome the glad moru, on which, eighteen hundred years ê.SO, the Prince of Peace was born, when angels sang at liis. birth, Glory to God in ...

... FRIDA I, J VKUARV 12, 1850, THE EXPORTS AND IMPORTS; SHIP- PING RETURNS, &c. The returns of the Board of Trade for the month ending December 5, Were not issued till late in last week. They are highly satisfactory. The exports are greater hy 374,903 than in the corre«pondiu ...