... SIR B.HALL AND THE VICAR OF [TO THE EDITOR.] SIR,—There is ono fe.ature so perfectly surprising in the letter of Sir B. Hall, which appears in your number for last Saturday, that 1 am unwilling to allow_ it to pass without calling the attention of your reapers to it. 1 glanced only casuailv at the letter above-mentioned, but I saw that among other places in which it was stated that two ...

... Now that the question of the brick dutie& is in agitation, we think it would be as well to consider the very important duties which bricks-in conjunction with mortar-have to perform in constituting electors. A man with all the qualities of a statesman, but living in a garret, is of course noteniitled to vote-Illis is entirely in keeping with the principles ot our glorious constitution. But why ...

... ELGPEMBNT.—An elopement, under circumstances of a peculiarly painful character, occuried in Cheltenham last week, and-as may be supposed would be the calc-has ever since formed a principal topic of conversation throughout our fashionable circles, the family of the young lady having been many yea.s resident in the place, and participating a deal in its gay doings the gentleman, if such he must ...

... TESTIMONIAL Tl THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN.—A meeting was held at the Shire-hall, (jjoiicester on Tuesday, which was at tended by Earl Fiuhatdinge (the Lord Lieutenant), Lord Ellenborough, and several other magistrates, foi the purpose or opening a subscription, to present Air. Purnell, the county chairman, with a public testimonial, for his conduct in rela- tion to Private Lunatic Asylums, for which ...

... » NEWPORT EISTEDDFOD. [TO THE EDITOR.] SIR,-I was very glad to find in the last MERLIN that it is in contemplation to have an Eisteddfod established in Newport. I tegret that so little has been done here to encourage the culti- vation of Welsh literature. Now, I expect that there is a good time coming. The Eisteddfodau have been highly respected for ages, by the Welsh people, and no ...

... > BRSTITIONS.1 r. Jackson delivered his third lecture at awn IIlllJon Tuesday last. It embraced a review of the E ititions ot past ages, and was a philoaop ical and pleasing Par. ition, and shewed that mesmerism was intimately connec- Loci tli many charms, fulfilments of presentiments, Jtc., (U. £ I he talented lecturer was mubfi iippluiidi-'d by a crowded rail* 9 pec ta bis audience. Mr. ...

... We transfer from the columns of a contemporary, the follow- ing communication, involving a point of local interest, with re- gard to the Copleston Testimonial Controveisy, recently pub- lished in the MERLIN SIR,-Permit me to state a simple fact or two within my own knowledge, in answer to a question asked by Mr. J. C. Cony- beare, in his attack upon the worthy chancellor of the diocese, in a ...

... [TO THE EDITOR.1 -R5—In addressing you, tho object 1 and those at present acting in conjunction with me have in view, will, I am sure, extenuate my doing so, and thereby, through tho medium ot the MKRLiN,caMing public attention to one of the most impor- tant movements of the present day. I allude to the formation of Freehold Land Societies. In September last a few per- sons formed themselves ...

... TIRITISH AND AN AU8TRIAN RUMOURED COLLISION MTW.IN A BRITISH SHIP OF WAR.. n ...

... B. HALL AND THE VICAR OF CHEPSTOW. [TO THE EDITOR.] (^IR'~l liave observed in your paper of the 2nd instant, a ^.headed as above. 1 have not the honour of knowing tlie Vicar of Chepstow, either personally or by name. I never mentioned tlie rev. gentleman or his parish in any of my letters, but it appears that he has seen the name of his own a Parliamentary return, alphabetically arranged wan ...

... PARISH MEETING. On Thursday last, a meeting of an odd description took place ill the vestry-room of St. Mary's Church, Monmouth. f The Town-council have for some time past determined to erect a weighing machine in the town, for the convenience ot the public. The site they fixed upon, was the spot where a a machine formerly stood, in Whitccross-streot; an opposition to the place was made by the ...

... only for the Republican form, but tor in» K j to nominate the p'e,,d1 of f J Republic has been published, )■ w on tbe ptei', inch »•» PP^ J J0 Th.P«'r oodiSc.ion in Ihe F.e.ch Mi.i.lrj .n..».ced U lhe.ppointo.ent of M. Baroche. Procureur Genera of tbe Republic, to be Minister of the Interior, in the place of M. Ferdinard Barrot, who is Hppoioied Minister Plenipotentiary .» Turin, m place ...