... POSTS' CORNEK. i A MINSTREL'S REPLY. [FOR THE MERLIN.] THE MUSE the soul of minstrelsy— Awoke a Poet's lay :— Sweet mellowed music floated back, Its brilliant Roundelay. Imbued with taste, each flower of song With master-hand he twin'd And charmingly each gem of thought, Portrayed his Poet's mind. If tones have still a charm to wake And thus to mem'ry bring A pleasing solace, thine have power ...

... THE VACANCY IN THE REPRESENTATION' OF BATH. —There is every probability of a close contest tor the seat resigned by Mr. Phinn, Q.C upon being appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty- Both parties are on the qui vive, and Mr- Whately, Q C., who was defeated at the general election, was in the field as the Conservative candidate as soon as Mr. Phinn's acceptance of the office was known. He ...

... EARL GREY'S MOTION. Earl GREY moved tho following resolutions:— That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, to thank her Majesty for having ordered the protocols of the recent ne- gotiations at Vienna to be laid before us; to inform her Majesty that this House deeply deplores the failure of the attempt to put an end, by these negotiations, to the cala- mities of the war in which the ...

... On Friday last, the 25th ult., Colonel Sir Josias Cloete, C.B. and K.H., attended by his Aide-de-Camp Captain W. Parish, inspected the First Devon Militia, the regiment paraded at 11 o'clock, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. J. Fortescue, in heavy marching order and after having received the Inspecting Officer in line, the regiment marched past in slow and quick time and in ...

... the f—^fay-day was pleasantly observed here by rien ...

... Present—Samuel Homfray, Esq. (Mayor), and George Gething, Esq. A JUVENILE TILL-IIOBBER. John Regan, a child only eleven years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a salt-cellar and 5s., the property of Mr. Boon.—The prosecutor stated that the till of his beer-house had been robbed five or six times and on Friday morning last, about nine o'clock, hearing a noise, he discovered his till had been ...

... The English funds have experienced another rise of a half per cent. to day. Consols for money, which left off last evening at were first quoted 924 to 1; and although there was then a reaction to 92$, owing to a temporary demand for money, they soon again advanced to 92j to i, at which they remained up to the official close. At a later hour the improvement was carried further, and transactions ...

... FRIGHTFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. at-,1 A shocking accident occurred on Friday last in the of Ash Colliery, at Great Fenton, near Longton. Owing* w the pit engine requiring repair, the major portion of tP, men were not at work, but nine men and# a boy h* descended into the pit, and it is supposed that one of thePjjirs had incautiously exposed a lighted cand'e to a current0 m; impure air, for about ...

... THE ^lottnwnfljLiljire Berlin. NEWPORT, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1855. OUR SUCCESSES AND PLANS IN THE CRIMEA. THE position of the allied armies is now more cheering and satisfactory than at any time since the period of hope—so soon to be disappointed- which followed, like an Indian summer, the battle of the Alma. The splendid success of our French companions in arms, on the night of May 22nd, must have ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. This day, Lord Panmure presented his compliments to the manager of the Electric Telegraph, and intimated that he had received a communication from Lord Raglan dated the 29th May, who had been communicated with by Sir George Brown, under date of the 2Sth, to the effect that the troops in the newly-acquired town were in good health—that five ships laden with corn had ...

... [TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERLIN.] SIR,—Allow me, through the columns of your valuable paper, to call the attention of all concerned in the ship- I ping trade of this port, to that shameful impost—compul- sory Channel pilotage. For some time we had been led to believe that the system, being a rotten one, was abandoned; but during the last month, it has again raised its head in the shape of what ...

... DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS. Paris, Saturday, May 26. The Moniteur publishes two despatches from General Pelissier, dated the 23rd and 24th inst. In the first, the General thug expresses himself:—■ 41 The enemv bad formed between the Central Bastion and the sea, a large place cFarmcs, where they proposed assembling considerable forces to make important sorties against us. In the night between the ...