... TUESDAY. At the watch committee meeting on Tuesday evening, at the Town Clerk's office, there were present, Mr. Townsend, in the chair, Mr. Turner, Mr. Edward Thomas, Mr. Dowling, Mr. W. Evans, and Mr. S. Iggulden. Mr. Handy, in the absence of the Town Clerk, read the minutes of the last meeting, and reported that the request made by the town committee on the subject of borough magistrates, ...

... FIRESIDE READINGS. Answer TO Ribis, in LAST Siirdu—jjt —«i Frkhino — lhe e is juft oow a great deal of talk about ina'.uficuirrd tee. My sistr*r, quoth a poor brother, i. the fintft specimen 01 it I ever saw- She re ...

... F0SE16.il FRANCE. The result of the ballot on the Legislative Assembly on Friday tleaily hat di-union is spreading anion^st the racks 01 trie Co' s-rvaiive mxj niiv. M. Dupin, v»bu was elected piesident on the 3id ol Ootohei b>s', by 3'i9 votes, could only obiam 290 on his election ud Fn ...

... [ro THE EDITOR] f IE,—It has been propose to appoint a stipendiary nr-gis- trate for th' Uorough of \ewport. It h'8 alno bi en prop ised to hold the general sessions If the cuunty at intervals of six weeks, instead of quarterly. And .Mr. O. Uorgan, M.P., con aiders that there U no doubt much criminal business will be ti ansferred to the j'iri«diction of the county courts. Looking a*, tte ...

... the oam of bell and .ye Old CrøclrY, tbe ul his 00 by iofernal r'l?t-bullt what yel roaifl Mieetf when) m»oy a. Olltl. w Itndl8 den 10, the it wat & abOOltDg-t:O&. -bu the F»odfn>o0IUj absorbing bosrd snd msny a »cion rl a • ospired over bi, f .t thi .lrpb.ot's looth. The country *»»,e b;' I.'over, what «» ...

... Court gossips declare, that on or about the middle, of April next, the Queen will present her nation with another royai scion At the Privy Council on Tuesday, a royal proclamation •was ordered, convening parliament on Thursday the 31st of this mont'i, then to meet for the dispatch of ilivera urgent and important affairs The Commissioners of the National Debt have announced that one-fourth of ...

... Faikeu than thee, leiovtd. Fdl!tl than IlJet- There is but one thing, beloved, Fairer itian thi-e. Not the glad sun, beloved, Bright though its beams— Not the green earth, beloved, Siiveied with streams— Not the gay birds, beloved, Happy aDd hee Yet there s one thing, beloved, tairer than thee. Not the c'ear day, beloved, Gloiving witt: light Not, faiitr still, beloved, Star-crownfdntght. ...

... The Duke of Bordeaux has met with a Mad accident. The train on the Austrian southern railroad, in which his Royal Highneas was travelling, hadn!! Kiouped at AJurzsuschlag, he left the carriage, and. all the waiting room at the station was excessively crowded, he preferred waBing up and down near the rail to enteriti: it, alrfiongli the snow was lying deep on the ground. Unfoitwiately some very ...

... FROM THE LONDON CORRESPONDENT OF THE MERLIN. V CITT. THURSDAY EVENING. XoU tna? lhe rtvtmue return* t*>i t; t quar ti'io*! ended more than bear out ihe es imaif, un er this heati so*r,e ti.' e »ck, of rt surplus 1*0 nmli ns, and it need lurdly le acd d th^t O'.r ti-iancial posilt c, previously Miotic and eal'- y, is mcer.dHy streo^t t-ned by :r.t* s.tislactory state of toe ex- cuequer. ...

... 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 ...

... Magistrates present—William Evans, Thomas Hughes, and W. Brewer, Esqrs. Martha Rees. companion of a female committed on Monday in the same case, was lo-day committed for trial on a charge of stealing several pitchers and pans, the property of Mr. Davies, Pillgwenlly Edward Clarke—a person better known by the police than appreciated—and occasionally concealing his real name by certain aliases, ...