... 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 ...

... 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' ...

... SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.—Yesterday, the 10th, tha inau- gural lecture of this institution was delivered by the Rev.. D. Rhys Stephen. The talented gentleman delivered a mas terly address on the history of knowledge in ancient and modern times; and elicited the repeated applause of a large and attentive audience. We wish the excellent institution the very best success. ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS. Tlie-e Sessions concluded on Friday last, on which day the following c-ses weie disposed of be!or- Dr. JSithoH, D.( .L John Evans, a m ner, loutid uuiliy on a charge of house b-eaking at Merthyr, wa placed at the bar t.} n-ce vto his te leiice. A document signed on the I¡ri: ...

... 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 ...

... A CONTRAST. Comparisons are Odeious. OLD G td! some btief years ago, llQvej '0 see vour coat of 5UW, 1 i'3t :il:; '.ved the h,pse of time— (fleigh-hul That joke 's no laughing Iheti )t)\\ were c-er inch a king, And brought such gilts ami wai-sailing, Ihnt in vour praise the tonpue uould ting- Howe'ei the teeth might chatter! Tlie holly-be .riss U! a glow— The blezin* lo*—ibe ...

... MAGISTRATES' OFFICE. HIGH S) HKET. NEWPORI, Before t'.e li.v. I Hums* Pone. Tsir.e* Lfwis was cot victed in he penally of ore gumea, ir- cliidn.g co-U, lor aisautting mso who ha.I gone w.th another iu'o lus house io ia e away cei 'am g»' s 11 nmed by In- mothe.. Before the Itt v. jjm- Co!e,, T Pope, Ciiancellot W-liiam*. nod 0 tavii* Mor^-o, E q. Wrlltsm Rees, Isimei, wss toovu't t in the ...

... Bv a letter received at Lloyd's from their agent at Terceira it appears the Sophia, Captain Bonnell, has Jost off that island in consequence of not being allowed to enter, the qiiarrarfine regulations being still in force. Stratton. a ckrk in the Aylesbury Savings-bank, has abscon- ded o America, taking witti him his wife and two children. He had got possession of a considerable sum belonging ...