... TOWN-HALL, NEWPORT.—MONDAY. Present-H. J. Davis, Esq, (Mayor,) and T. Hughes,Esq. JuliaCrawleywas charge i by the Dock police-officer, with being on the dock last Thursday, with a felonious intent. She was said to be the leader of a regular coat-sweating gang.—• Twenty-one days at Usk.—Coal stealing does not appear to be decreasing in Newport, notwithstanding the severity of sentences which ...

... WHICH APPEALED IX THE MERLIN* OF 31ST JAX. (By G. F. Holbrook, sign painter, 71, Commercial-street Newport.) Charade Ist,-Codlir.g. 2nd,—Horsemanship. Rebus 1st,— Prince Albert. 2nd,—Stall, Tall, All. Transposition 1st,— Rock. 2nd, Ruby. (By J. T. E. Vartcg.) Rebus 1st,—Stall, Tall, All. Transposition 1st,—A heavy mass of stone, Rock, transposed into Cork, a light wood. 2nd, —A precious stone ...

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... THE NEW REFORM BILLS. THE printing of the bills enables us to arrive at that understanding of their provisions which is an indis- pensable preliminary to their correct discussion. Taking first the measure for England, we find the new occupying franchise for boroughs is to be based, as we expected, upon a rateable value of jE5 that is, every tenement assessed to the poor rate at £ 5, will give ...

... THE SHAREHOLDERS IN THE MONMOUTH AND GLAMORGAN JOINT-STOCK BANK. [TO THE EDITOLL-1 DEAR SIR,—By means of your widely-circulated journal, through which you have done so much good in this serious matter, have the goodness to permit a fellow-citizen, who is Wholly unconnected with the above concern, to address a few words on the all-engrossing subject. As the dark clouds which a few weeks back ...

... V\ HILE the stormy petrels of politics are uttering their disappointment at the tameness with which the session has opened, and the vaiious sections into which parties are divided, are finding in what minis- ters are doing or not doing, grounds of complaint, we have great pleasure in calling attention to at least one measure of substantial improvement—the Bill for the Relief of Suitors in the ...

... LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. Representation of the IVEonmouthshire Boroughs. PUBLIC MEETING AT NEWPORT. A public meeting of electors was held at the Town-hai!, New- port, on Friday evening last, tor the purpose of affording Tvir. Lindsay, the Liberal candidate, a further opportunity of ex. plaining his political views to the constituency. The meeting was called for seven o'clock, and soon after that ...

... ERRORS.—The last leader, in a considerable portion of our last impression, was tessellated with typographical errors, in consequence of a compositor's neglect. BOROUGHS' ELECTION.—The executive of the Monmouth- shire Railway and Canal Company, have issued a circular to their different officer, strictly forbidding any exercise of the company's influence witli persons employed in the under- ...

... TAFF VALE RAILWAY TRAFFIC For Week ending Feb. 7th, 1852. Total receipts.••• £ 1,652 4 1(7 A AT THE Doc HI. A disturbance took place on Wednesday last, at the Bute docks, between some Iriih and Welsh workmen, who wereabout contracting ft rthe loadmi of a remarkably fine ship, the Julia, which has recently entered our port. It appeared the Irishmen subsequently agreed at a lower rate than the ...

... BRUTAL MURDER OF A WOMAN- A* the Maryfebone Potice-court on Tuesday, after the ordi- nary night cases had been disposed of, a man named William Styles, a horse-keeper in the service of the London Conveyance Omnibus Association, was placed at the bar on the charge of having; murdered Emily Styles, his wife. Harapson, 230 D, said, Yesterday morning, at a quarter-past 2, the prisoner came to me ...

... COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, BRISTOL, Thursday, February 12, [Before Mr. Commissioner Hill.] RE HENRY COURTIS, GROCER, NEWponT.—Mr. Trenerry, solicitor to the assignees, commenced an examination ot the bankrupt, which had not proceeded far before it was elicited that, allhough the balance-sheet set out that the bankrupt had no capital when he commenced business, he had, in fael, £15 from his father, ...

... PARIS, FEB. 11. A decree defines the nine districts of the department of the Seine for the elections of the Legislative Corps. Another decree announces the appointment of M. de Casa- bianca, former prefect, as Secretary General of the Ministry of General Police. ...