... Is the question which many a Merthyr elector is sorely puzzled with at the present time. The great majority of voters would like to give their voice and interest for the Ballot, but then the Candidate of most local influence is an anti-Ballot man and then comes the question, which each one asks of himself or puts to a friend, What am I to do ? We fear that there are a great num- ber who have ...

... fEatftets?-, LONDON, MÓRDA'Y,'MAf:CH 28. Purchases are made with more, readiness in Colonial Produce supplies are, moderate, atid this currency rules ftrtfifer. ltatiftnd has tenfoishwi fbr RMsiM Produce, arid lower term# accepted i MltJjPB&h spooks arc not Jarfre. Prices ere fully 9s bighfut articles •nwd to Manufacturing Purposes, and there-are greater-trafisoc- itfcHS. Metals have been ...

... gfetopt Jutal nttlligttttt. Mr. James Vaughan, a barrister of note, on the Oxford circuit, presented himself here on Saturday last offering to stand for the boroughs in the Liberal interest. A brother-in-law of John Bright, and of the same political creed, it was expected that he would be supported, but we learn that one member of the council, and the chief leader of the opposition, refused to ...

... iSpttotnect Neto. Advices from Auckland, New Zealand, confirm the statements of the discovery of good coal in that province. The death of Mr. W. J. Champlain, so many years chairman of the London and South Western Rail- way Company, is announced. The Paris correspondent of the Globe says:— Emile de Girardin is coming out with a Letter to Benjamin Disraeli on Universal Suffrage, recommending ...

... CITY, WEDNESDAY, APKII. The funds to-day have been favourably influenced by the siderable rise which took Place yesterday nfternoon on the pariS Bourse, where the Three per Cent. Rentes closed at 68fr. money and 67fr. 85c. for the account. Consols, however, exhibti an improvement of only 1-16 to f per Gent., the let prices or tl,e, morning having scarcely been supported up to the present hoW- ...

... NEW BOROUGH MAGISTRATES, We understand that Messrs. James Pride, C. W. David, and George Bird, have been appointed magistrates for this borough by the Lord Chancellor. CARDIFF CRICKET CLUB.—The members of this club will be glad to hear that the committee have determined to com- mence their season on the first Tuesday in May. For par- ticulars see advertisement. Mr. Elderton, a London attorney, ...

... We learn that steps are taken to form and open a branch establishment of the above institution in Cardiff, in connection with the parent office in Lon- don, which has been already incorporated under the Act of Victoria 19 and 20, cap. 49, (Limited Liability Act), comprising a numerous body of shareholders, conducted by a board of directors, under the dis- tinguished presidency of the Earl of ...

... j £ >cotIantr. c MONUMENT TO LEYDEN. We (Scotsman) rejoice to see that a memorial of this truly memorable man is to be raised in Denholm, his native village. This is as it ought to be. For John Leyden was not only a man of genius, a genuine poet and sweet singer, and a miracle of general, and especially of Oriental scholar- ship. he was not less a noble type of what is noblest in our per ...

... ue (Cram of puncl). POETICAL ECONOMY. Were we all working men, where would all of room? If we were all producers, all the produce how c.°nSatufe3 And what would be the fate of Art, and Liter doom ? If some must consume that the others may prodnc For enjoying good things there's a capital exens elf And that's the way how I should like to make w use. Some landholders and fundholders clearly ...

... OPPOSITION TO THE SITTING MEMBER. A very large and influential meeting of the electors of the borough of Newport, for the purpose of taking into consideration the expediency of choosing a new represen- tative in the next parliament, took place at the Tkiwn- hall on Monday evening, Henry Sheppard, Esq.,the mayor, in the chair. Mr. Crawshay Bailey, M.P. for the Monmouthshire boroughs was present ...

... jjiaiml and ØJtilitaQj. ADMIRALTY CHANGES.—It is mentioned in professional circles that several changes are on the taph at Whitehall among the members of the Board of Ad- miralty. Two, if not three, of the naval members will retire, including Captain Carnegie, and either Vice, Admiral Martin or Sir R. S. Dundas. Sir A. Milne's name has also been mentioned in connection with the coming changes. ...

... w TO' TffE ELECT OR S, MERTHYR TYDFIL, ABERDARE, AND VAYNOR. GENTLEMEN, THE Bill for Amending the Representation A of the People having been submitted to the judgment of the House of Commons, has, after ample deliberation and calm discussion, been rejected as inadequate to the settlement of so great a question. From the Vote of the H ouse of Commons, the. Ministry has thought fit to appeal to ...