... [TO THE EDITOR.] SIR,'—I have been in this part of the world some years, and as I regularly receive my old friend, the MONMOUTH- SHIRE MERLIN, I often see that many of my Monmouth- shire friends emigrate from my former home to Aus- tralia. In the hope of doing some good, I forward you the following, for insertion in the MERLIN, knowing from experience that the information therein is worthy of ...

... A SLEDGE MASQUERADE. Potsdam was enlivened by an animated spectacle on Saturday evening. The officers of the garrison got up masquerade, or rather en costume representation-partly III sledges, and partly on horseback-wherewilh they traversed the crowded streets, to the great delight, but not much to the historical edification of the spectator. The masque represented an episode in the history ...

... $01rit of Up Press. Stu roar readers see specially requested to observe, that under MO this head we give Belectiolls from the leadinz articles of oar go] contemporaries as a matter of '1 Nnws, without respect to off their politicaltoua.21 sat WHO WILL DO0 THE 'WORK OF TH PEO~PLE? I) Uri (Tire~s.) M Lord Palmerston ]ras referred us to an incident in the Snt reign of Richard 11., and we will ...

... THE SECOND REPORT OF THE OFFICIAL MANAGERS. The official managers, by the desire of the Master of the Rolls, beg to lay before the shareholders a fur- ther report of the company's affairs and to refer them to- their former report, dated 17th December, 1853. The accompanying statement of the liabilities and assets of the company, as made up to the 30th September, 1853 and to the corresponding ...

... Oh if it be a duty to succour those who need, To cheer the helpless wanderer, the weak to clothe and feed, Tains of those wretched outcasts, the ragged children poor. Neglected—friendless—homeless, they lieg from door to door. No loving accents cheer them to choose the path of right, Religion comes not near them, with starry crown of light; Crime-hardened from their childhood, a poor despised ...

... AUSTRIA. VIENNA, SATURDAY MORNING.—The Vienna papers state that on the 3rd instant, a convention was concluded between England and Turkey, by which the former took 20,000 Turks into her pay. The whole of Southern Ana- tolia is declared in a state of siege. The combined attack of the fleets and army was shortly to take place on Sebas- topol. Both, the Russian Grand Dukes are now, with an army ...

... The accounts from the Crimea are more favoura- -( ble ; the weather being fine, in the beginning of am February, and thetroopsbettersul)plied; ?? to have, however, been obliged to take an importanta r part of the duty heretofore performed by the En- ne, glish. The Russians had again shown themselves thE in force on the right,-and were throwing up works of on the heights, in the vicinity of ...

... We have much pleasure in transferring to the columns of the MERLIN an abstract of the report presented to the meeting of the shareholders of the East India Iron Com- pany, held inLondon on Friday last. It will be seen that most honourable mention is made of the Indian manager, a Monmouthshire man, Mr. Beaumont, a gentleman well known, and highly esteemed in this county, and the son of a ...

... THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Bucharest, of the 3rd, mentions that the Croats in the Austrian service have been committing such atrocities in the neighbourhood of Craiova and other parts of Moldavia, that Prince Ghika at length declared to Gen. Coronini that unless something were immediately done, he would lay a statement of them before the Emperor. Gen. Coronini seeing the firm resolution ...

... FURTHER NEWS OF THE NAVVIES. Though the correspondence of the papers of Saturday acquainted the public that a commencement had already been made of the railway works on the intended line from Balaklava to the heights around Sebastopol, yet, as letters have been received from the navvies themselves, and from some others connected with the engineering expedition, the details so furnished will be ...

... , We are happy to be able to state that the pros- te pects of succeeding in erecting a pier at Porthdyn- a llaen are becoming every day more clear. The fec meetings that have been already held in Nevin and ta the surrounding country have been invariably most tar encouraging. The inhabitants of Lleyn are, with- a out exception, most enthusiastically at work in the matter, and, providing that ...

... A CURIOUS SUIT is about to be tried in the Bristol Small Debts' Court, W. O. Bigg, Esq., having summoned Monsieur Jullien for the sum paid for reserved seats at the late concert; the places appropriated to Mr. Bigg and his family not being the same as those he selected from the plan of the room, ...