... EMIGRATION. Mrs. Chisholm, a lady who is laudably engaged in assisting intending emigrants, delivered the following observations, air Birmingham, a few days since:— In looking out for a ship. the first duty of a parent was to certain that he could provide his family with an enclosed cabin, without which they would necessarily be exposed. Up to the day she commenced her labours it was customary ...

... THE NEWPORT FLOWER SHOW. TO THE EDITOR. SIR,-I am astonished to find upon inquiry, we are to have no flower show this year in Newport. After the very flat tering and auspicious beginning we had last year, I was not f at all prepared for such a result. The cause, I hear, is the loss of funds which had been lodged in the bank of Messrs- W illiams. This, of course, was quite unforeseen, and ...

... CHEPSTOW. Opening of the Great I*, ail way Bridge at Chepstow. I Wednesday last was the auspicious day, so long desired by railway shareholders, men of business, and tourists, whea an unbroken line of railway should connect South Wales with the Metropolis of the linipire. Glorious sunshine, perhaps too glowing welcomed the event; cannon roared and reverberated from rock to rock upon either ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The rumours that Louis Napoleon intended to prolong his stay at Strasburg prove to be unfounded, the President baying quitted that city for Paris on Thursday, stopping for the night at Nancy, where, as at every other place on the line, he was most en husiasticaily received. On Monday morning the Prince reached Paris, and shortly afterwards proceeded to his summer ...

... The public sales of colonial wool have been well attended during the past week, and most of the parcels offered have changed hands at full prices. The auction advertised for the 7th proximo has been withdrawn. Privately, we have no trans- actions to reports. Since our last, imports into London hate amounted toj-205 bales from the Cape, 700 from Port Philip, 932 from Port Beaufort, 1,048 from ...

... THE ANNE POWELL. This fine vessel has weathered a terrific storm in her recent ^oyage to New York. We extract the following passages *com a letter just received from Captain Rowlands: — .e Now York, nth April, 18.> Thank heaven, I am now enabled to write and acquaint Yon of the safe arrival of the Anne Powell at the port of desti- nation; and 1 may nfttrm, without any exaggeration, that we ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, APRIL 19. Their lordships met, after the adjournment, at five o'clock and sat but for a short time. The Lord Chancellor brought in a Bill to abolish the office 0 Masters in Chancery, and substitute other officers to perfof' their duties. His Lordship explained the measure, and intended to introduce another shortly, which, with that now be' fore the House, had the ...

... The New Quarterly, Part I.-This new serial opens with an able Retrospect of British Literature, for 1851, in which the year's productions are boldly reviewed in a brief but com- prehensive style. There is a spirited notice of the Memoir of Edward Copleston, D.D., Bishop of Llandaff, in which a satirical tract is introduced, written by the late Bishop, when treasurer of Oriel, which, says the ...

... At Cossal, a little rural village in this county, the original seat of the ancient family of the Willou^hbys. a 'ew years be- fore Waterloo, might have been seen three you lis, following their humble, but invigorating employments, and, as evening drew on, they could be observed romping or rambling with their few companions, the house of one ot whom was lie old manor. John Shaw is here alluded ...

... [The following is,a copy of a letter received by Mr. Charles Hall, from Mr. C. Evans, master of the brig Silurian, of this port-1 Malaga, March tb, 1652. DEAlt Silt,—I am sorry to inform you that we have met with a sad disaster, in nearly losing the ship and] our lives but thank God we are once more in safety. On the Gth instant, we were moored in the quarantine ground, by the pilot, with the ...

... ABBEY TIXTERN AND BIGSWEAR ROADS. [TO THE EDITOR.] take the liberty of again trespassing on your columns in reference to the Bill now before parliament, for the continuance of tolls on these roads and bridge for ano:her twenty yeais. I shall leave it to the discernment of the public, to say wheher such?. Bill shall be allowed quietly to pass, without asking for an account of the previous ...

... PUBLIC MEETING ON THE SUBJECT OF THE RAILWAY EMBANKMENT. The readers of the MERLIX will best understand the object cf this meeting, if we make a few preliminary observations, in explanation. In the year 1817, when the South Wales Railway Company commenced their still-unfinished branch from Monmouth to Newport, they began the work of a tunnel-among other works fur constructing the line-at a ...