... SIB, —I this diy read your letter iu the Monmouthshire MERLIN of the istn til and, HJ ...

... [TO THE EDITOR.] SIR-Allow me to trouble you with a few remarks on the subject of a recent report in your paper, respecting a witness in a late examination, where one Beckinsale is shown up by your reporter, in a most astounding way. As I hap- pen to have known something of the party for perhaps a year or more, I wish to assure you, aud the reporter, through your kindness, that Beckinsale, ...

... [TO THE EDITOR.] Sm,-Seeing in a late number of your excellent paper, so clear a tabular sta ement in proof of the assertion, that thu price of gas was much too high in Newport, I certainly did auticipate hearing, before this, that the company very justly intended making a reasonable reduction, as other companies had done, and with very great profit to themselves, too. But let us hope we shall ...

... TOWN HALL-JAN. 9TH, 1850 [Before the Hon W. Rodney, and W. Williams, Esq.] Willisr. Saunders, tailor, from Cwmyoy, appeared to an- swer tho charge of an assault upon Thomas Williams, a boy, his neighbour. Mr. C. Lloyd, attorney for the defendant, said he ur. • ed the assault; but the circumstances attending it were oi ggravated a character, that he had no doubt it would with their worships ...

... COST AND TRAFFIC OF RAILWAYS. THE remarks we recently made upon the necessity [ constructing and working branch railways more chea.Ir.. if the benefits they afford are to be profitably extecoeA are strongly confirmed by the statistics which been published.. These returns amply shew, that while the average eott of constructing railways throughout the kingdom* hjjf increased, the average ...

... An old man sat in hts antique chait, 8eau:> ing his lockeis and empt'ing their store A lo.^y-faa»d boy with gulden hair, Accepted the tiedxuies m count them o'er. Sat'J he—' G i mid Fi di-n't go auay, .Until you've tj'ven n e 0! ...

... THE AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION MEETINGS. 1 THOSE who believe, as thousands do, that to raisa the price of home-grown corn by duties upon what is imported, is a policy right in itself, and essen- tial to the inteiests ot the community, are in duty bound to advncate such a principle; and if they believe, also, as many do, that therp is a great re action in public feeing upon this question, they •; ...

... Mo:;mou^ishIre Eplpliany Sessions. [CONCI.PDID FltOM LAST V,'StK.] FRIDAY. Septifi-lis D ...

... WORKMEN'S Su, Pri, R.-On New Year's Day, Mr. Thomas Bowen, contractor, of this town, treated his men, numberii g about sixty-five, to a supper, consisting of good old English fare -roast beef and plum pudding. After the cloth '.as removed, Mr. Bowen gratuitously provided each uiaii m ith one quart of good old Christmas beer, and about ten o'clock, the company separated, wishing their master ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Friday evening, a lad named Timothy Donovan, employed as furnace filler at the 1-ace works, had the misfortune to fall from the top of a fur- nace to the cast house, a distance of about 40 feet, by which the poor f-llow shattered his thigh aud jaw. He still survives, and the medical gentlemen are endeavouring to save his life, in which theieii good hope of their succeeding. ...

... GLAMORGAN!? H 1 [I E STIFF MAP OP THE TO^.V and PORT OP CAltnftr1 — A copy of this m ip, (just published.) has been laid before us, -urveyed by Mr. S. O'ttourke. We quite agree with pro- teseional men who have examined it, that for accuracy of minute detail, clearness and perspicuity, it is equal to any such production ot the present day. This is a work requiring toe highest prcfes-ional ...

... Everybody should read and oaxitit in the circulation of 2^ II orking Man's Friend and Family Instructor. Though it tains thirty two page*, clown octavo its pnccisbut One The preas, 10 a very coosirieiab e extent, has pronounced it to the ct>eape»t and best publication evet leaned. ltHsale 's increasing, and it iliose wiio ddllOU. of seeing a ilemand fo a licalthy literature created ainooitsi ...