... Mr J. Phillpott's letter on Touting, next week. The re> eoonter on wr.'nch M writes, lias not i,een a magisterial iueestigation, as asserted. The circumstances of a csli uor-n sbe dtcta'ci ot lili.d affection are Some promised communications, which will not suffer by post- ponement, arf on the file ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... TnF oVl house by the lindens stood silent in the shade, An*, on the uM«e! pa'hway ttie i\ ot the children—they were no longer there Tiie/r?. New fonnd'and b^use-dog was s'atiding by the door; e locKci. rot bis. little playmates, who would rfurnno mote: R t'V i 6 r*01 linGe' 'e lindens — they pUted nat in ...

... 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, ...

... THE USK FAIR CORRESPONDENCE., rTO THE EDITOR] S:R,— Relying on your willingness to give everyOlttj opportt.mty of refuting mi-.repre»entution «r«pecially anilines tl.e leatuivs of personal iuvectivu 1 |iav« t«ke#'| li eity sskiny you for a little #p«ce in your columni, to|jj h wo d* it reply to a corrtspoiidcut of the Beacon, sigpi h.uiselt An Old Hurj:ei»s. S H accused the T ir reeie of this ...

... 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 ...

... 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 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 ...