Monmouthshire Merlin

RETROSPECTION. REMF.MI5U\NCF. throws a light divine O'er scenes and days departed The loves and joys of auld langsyne, The true—the tender-hearted- The cherished hopes that cheered me then, The chosen one'that charmed me The plighted vowsT, not pledged in vain— The thrilling wish that warmed me. Ten years ago !—delightful days The gay romance of youth, f Hallowed by Hope's inspiring rays, Sacred to love and truth- Ours were the pleasures none could share, The wealth none could impart Oh I worlds of wealth could ne'er confer Those treasures of the heart. When daylight faded in the west, And evening's dewy hour Fell softly on the balmy breast Of meadow, tree, and flower, Dear was the sweet sequestered walk, Wrapt in the shades of gloaming The promised joys—the happy talk— The fond romantic roaming. 0 many a mild and moonlit night, When home with joy returning, We've gazed upon the glorious light, Our breasts with fervour burning Or lingered in the leafy shade, The mellow radiance streaming, And glancing through the chequered glade, On dark eyes brighter beaming. Thy beauty in the beams of noon Had all my heart's devotion, But waked beneath the mellow moon A tenderer emotion; When first I breathed my love to thee, The cloudless moon shone clearly A silent witness then was she That thou did'st love me dearly. Oft when the nights were long and dark, And winds blew keen and chill, We've wandered in the lonely park, And o'er the gusty hill: We hee(led not the tempest's wrath, Nor felt the freezing storm— The light of love illumed our path, And lent the night a charm. Blessing each other, we were blest With all the heart's best love And now ten years have been the test Our plighted faith to prove. Our home is cheered with childhood's mirth, Our little one's we see Playing and prattling round our hearth, Like lambs upon the lea.

OMNIBUS. A TRANSATLANTIC LOVER.—A young poet in Cleveland, Ohio, has fallen in love the second time. It may be true that true love never did run smooth," but this can't be said of his poetry- o wunst i luvd a nuther girl Her name it was murrhier but betsy dear, my love for u is 20 times more higher The great work of Gibbon was once quoted by Sheridan, in his speech on the trial of Warren Hastings, as the luminous page of Gibbon." Proud of the compliment, the historian everywhere repeated it.—When this was told to Sheridan, he replied, I said vo-luminous." It is related of the mother of Rothschild, now in the 99th year of her age, and ambitious of reachiag 100, that she WdS lately indisposed, and her friends expressed their fears of her dissolu- tion. "No, no!" she exclaimed: "I must get up to pari" Did the venerable dame mean Old Parr?" 131-UE STOCKINGS.—Pedantry in man or woman is abominable, but it does not follow because a lady wears blue stockings that she must show them. A very pretty and apposite compliment was paid to Mrs. Somerville by Lord Jeffrey, on this point. Her stockings," said the lupiter Tonans of modern criticism, are intensely blue, but she wears her petticoats sufficiently long to conceal them." HE WAS LOCKED Up.Who was locked up? What was the culprit's sin against society! What iniquity had he-" a poor sickly boy, about fifteen years of age"—committed, that the awful Mr. ComLe, sitting in his magisteiial chair at Clerkenwell, should punish the prisoner (who had not 2s. 61. to pay a fine) with hard captivity What, asks the moralist, was his evil doing?" Listen, and sigh over the wickedness of humanity. The sickly boy" had obstructed ■' the footpath and carriage- way in Chapel-street, St. Pancras, with his basket of fruit for sale The audacious malefactor with tears in his eyes, said he had no other way to live itud the offending, destitute wretch was theiefore-locked up!-Ptiiieh. I PEAS.—The extraordinary and piolific crop of peas, prooucea originally from six seeds brought over from Egypt with a mummy by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, and which, from computation, must have been in the vases about 2,844 years, has lately been col- lected from the garden of W. Grtmaton. Esq., of the IIerbray, Highgate, who propagated the peas from the original seeds, as presented to him by J. T. Pettigrew, Esq. They have been as- certained to possess the most exquisitely delicate flavour equal, if not supeiior, to our finest marrowfat or sciemeters, to both of which they bear a slight res^mhlance- A Lulworth coirespoodent asserts that he has received a letter from HarrUburg, U.S., narrating the case of a soldier who was 150 years since fiozen in Siberia, i he last expiession he gave utterance to was, It is ex lie was then frozen sliff H marble. In the summer of 1844, some 1 rencli physicians found him, after having lain in a frozen state 150 years. They proceeded gradually to thaw him and, uppn animation being restored, ht: concluded his sentence with ceedingly cold." An infallible ciitarion, as it goes, of a good inn, is a clean mustard polo-If that is in proper order, you may be sure that the beds will be well-aired, the sheets clean, and all the etceteras properly looked after. Two Married Ladies met in a store, in New Orleans lately, when one rowliided the other, and then cowhided the propiietor for interfering. They had quarrelled at a soiree a few evenings before. PLFA FOR KISSINo-A lover gazed in the eyes of his mistress until she blushed. 11a pressed her hand to his heari, and said, My looks have planted rose,; on thy cheek. lie who sows the seed should reap the harvest." LAIJr.ORIH DUTIES.'—On the 10th instant, at the annual com- petition for the £100 given in premiums, by the Duke of Rich- mond, among the tenantry of his Grace's Highland estates, to en. courage improvement in the breeding of stock and farm manage- ment, his Grace expressed the following sentiments Where can a landlord have greater pleasure than in meeting and mixing with his own tenantry, and promoting their interests, and those of the industrious labourers, on whom we are all so much depend- ent ] conceive it to be the special duty of every landlord of the empire to identify his interests with those of his tenants, and to encouiage their efforts to improve their coudition, and increase their comforts, by increasing the production of the soil. I have always ever seen that, if.a landlord merits it, he will be ever rereivod by his tenantry. WEATHKU AND PRODl!Cr. \V ell this is likely to be a very severe season, but how will it be an auspicious one for the ladies ? Don't see it. Explain. By making sweethearts plentiful. I can't see that: I should think the contrary, as boas (bram) must be in great request and not a few muffs among 'em either. Yes, but there will be plenty of chips on hands. How TO MAKE NIONEY.-I,et the business of everybody else alone, and attend to your own don't buy what you don't want; use every hour to advantage, and study to make leisuie hours useful; think twice before you throwaway a sililling-remem. ber you will have another to make for it; find recreation in lookiug after your business, and so your business will not be ne- glected in looking after recreation buy low, sell fair, and take care of the profits; look over your books regularly, and if you find an error trace it out should a stroke of misfortune come upon you in trade, retrench, work harder, but never fly the track confront difficulties with unflinching perseverance, and they disappear at last though you should fail in the struggle, you will be honoured; but shrink from the task, and you will be despised. 's IICI,LOWAY OIN,RMFNT AND PH,LS.—James Little, a black- smith, residing at Cuckold's Point, in May last, was going to Guy's Hospital, to undergo the ampu.ion ofhis leg, which had been bad fur seven years; there were upwards of twenty ulcers on it, and mortification had commenced just uodet the knee. In this alarming state he was recommended to use Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which in a very short time cured the limb, to the great astonishment of all. If the t wo medicines are used j together, the most dangerous wouuda and ulcers, may, to a cer- mey, be cured by thir means.

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. CARDIFF. IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE MUNI- CIPAL ELECTORS OF THE NORTH AND SOUTH WARDS. In consequence of an address having been issued by Mr. T.G. Phillpotts to the electors of the above wards, a meeting was ap- poiuted to take place on Friday the 3rd inBlant, at the Masons' Arms Inn, at seven o'clock p. m. Shortly after that hour, the room was densely crowded, and Mr. Thomas Rees was offered the chair, Mr. R., however,declined presiding, and Mr. Rees Lewis, on the motion of Mr. Phillpotts,seconded by Mr. Stanley, was then called to that honor. Mr. Lewis then rose and said, gentlemen I have no doubt you are all aware that this meeting is convened in consequence of an address being issued by Mr. Phillpotts, who I am sure is far mure able to addiess you than 1 am, I will nor therefore occupy your time farther, but will at once call on Mr. Phillpotts to address the meeting. Mr. Phillpotts rose and was received with cheers. lie spoke to the following effect Gentlemen, although I took upon myself to write the letter to which our chairman refers, and to cause its distribution throughout the town, yet I did not do it without the concurrence of my townsmen: a numerous body of respectable inhabitants saw, with myself, that the time was come when we ought to be up and doing that we had lived long enough, aye too long, under a municipal despotism, that we ought to burst the chains and fetters of oppression asunder, and that we ought to have men, impartial public-spirited men, men that would fear. lessly and disinterestedly represent us at the town council board. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, Cardiff, as a port, is not insignificant; its commerce is daily increasing, the inhabitants, I am happy to say. in this age of intellect, are becoming more and more enlight- ened, and that they will no longer submit to the sway of oppres- sion they have so long lain under, but that they will rally round the standard of freedom, and as thinking men, burst theirchains. (Loud cheeis.) Gentlei-neii, recollect, rarely, I was going to s3y in no cases, and we can with respect to Cardiff speak very feelingly, do the gentry and aristocratic part of the community come forward to assist the middle and working classes of the town, (cries of true,) ttien-such being the facts, unite, seek, and obiaiu, your rights, for let me tell you that if you do not do it yourselves you will never have them, for unquestionably those that have hitherto ruled over you will stand as fast as they can but be assured that weak is their foundation if you only unite and persevere in obtaining that which by the law of England is your right. (Cheers.) 1 say, that in law, you are now in power to come forward and tell them, your ruleis, that you are equal to them in might,—some fifty or sixty years ago the labouring man was not equal t. what he now is, he was not allowed a franchise, but he now possesses it education has triumphed, people are more enlightened, and consequently in a very different position. (Cheers.) As a proof of the triumph and spread of education, I may observe that during my professional career, I have had several opportunities of observing it, and in looking over some deeds, of five or six skins, at the bottom was to be found the mark of so and so, Esq., but now there is no such thing, the sig- nature is appended. (Cheers.) By the Act of 5th and (iih Wm. 41h, chap. 76, you were granted the franchise, it was a political boon which you are eutiiled to enjoy, but you have not exercised it as von ought to have done, you havo ine ely enjoyed it, if I may use the term enjoy, as you were told to do it granted you a power to look into the management of the affairs of your own your native town it conferred on you a power to elect men to represent vou in council you certainly have elected men, but after the election how have they treated you, why they have kept closed meetings, and never given you air oppoitunity of seeing who does his duty and who does not. Recollect you ought to have men to go there without any private ends, the same as -.in M. P. is in theory, who ought honestly to represent his constituents, hut I am Sony to say many, even of M.P's. are too like your town council men, there for their own ambition.- [ I he speaker was here interrupted by the town crier, who had upparently been indulging in his potations, by crying Mo, not one, iVfi, not one, but he was cried down, and left the room.] Mr. Phillpotts continued, at the ensuing municipal election it will be your duty to consider the conduct and character of those gen- tlemen who have already obtained your suffrages, and see whether you can conscientiously give them your future support, and it is your duty in this room or out of it, in public and in private to give your assent or dissent, and to use your influence to elect such men only as will fairly and honesty represent you in council, for remember it is not a private affair, but one with which the whole town is concerned. (Cheers ) But before I touch upon the conduct of some of the candidates, I will go through the address, (which was here read.) I am happy to say, resumed Mr. Phillpotts, that there is every appearance of this town no longer bearing the cognomen of Rotten Borough," and it gives me great pleasure to know that that appellation is fast get- ting into oblivion, in fact it will shortly be extinct, or only found in an obselete dictionary. (Cheers.) Those gentlemen that stand as candidates ought to come forward and tell what they mean to do, and when you have heard them, you will be able to form an opinion as to who ought to be elected. Now perhaps it is not generally known amongst you, that a communication has been made by government, to the authoiities of this town, re- specting the building of a Borough Hall, with accommodation for two judges, with the view of getting the two assizes here. Possibly it may be a benefit to the town to have the two assizes here, but you ought to see what would be the expense of getting them. (Cheers.) And had it not been for the stir that you have made yourselves, you would never have been asked as to the pro- priety or impropriety of so doing. Now, I would ask you, as free-born subjects, have you not a right to be consulted on such an important matter, and not allow your property to be alienated and appropriated to sinister ends? (Cheeis.) Again; I say those candidates ought to come publicly, and say what they mean to do. Let us have a public meeting on these points, then most gladly would I attend and support your rights. (Cheers.) In my address, I stated that the building of the couit would, in all probability, cost you 18,000. Since that, I have been informed by one on the town council, that the building will cost that sum, exclusiw of the purchase-money for the eite and I am very glad I made the mistake on the right side, for that would make the expense £2,000 more. New, that expenditure would require a borough rate of threepence in the pound. And again would I ask you, are you to be saddled with that great burthen, without first being asked as to the propriety or impropriety of having such a building? Gentlemen, by your conduct you will answer. I say, have a public meeting for that purpose, and also have your council meetings public, and let you hear for yourselves. Let the roporters of the public press attend, and let the proceedings of the Cardiff town council be known at home and abroad. (Cheers.) I see not why they should be afraid of open meetings, for every man that acts conscientiously need not dread public notice but those that act otherwise are afraid, and are glad to have a shield to protect them such as a close court, where no one knows who does this or that, save and except the body itself, who, perhaps, are aftaid of each other. (Cheers.) Were it not different in other places, you might ask why should you wish Cardiff meetings open but I will only refer you to Newport, 12 inIlea distant; there, reporters and the public are admitted. Biistol and Swansea are the same, and all other well-regulated placee, too numerous to mention. Well, what the cause of the close meetings at Caidiff can be, I am at a loss to know. Do the councillors make such brilliant speeches ? Have they such lengthened arguments, glossed with overwhelming eloquence, that they are afraid that ordinary intellects would be overwhelmed by them Or are they afraid to lose some copyright'! What- ever may be the cause, let this shield be removed and then you will have that justice you have never yet had and if you are of my opinion, it will be the duty of this meeting to pass a resolu- tion not to support any candidate who will not pledge himself to vote for open meetings; and also, if any important expenditure is about to take place, that a public meeting should be called. I don't mean to say that, if the police want clothing, gas pipes want repairing or laying down, the prison to be cleaned, or any of those minor items, that a public meeting should be called but, on an occasion such as I have alluded to, you ought to be con- sulted. (Cheers.) It was strange, when I wrote this letter, f had not seen the corporation accounts but on since seeing them, I found them, as 1 expected, to be of the same "ample and s itisfactory" ( haracter as those I had occasion to refer to, two years ago. On referring to the Act of Parliament, which I always provide myself with, and find useful for reference, I find, by the 93rd section of the 5 and 6 Wm. IV., chap. 76, that the auditors shall audit the accounts, and that the treasurer shall cause to be primed, in the month of September, a full abstract of his accounts for the year, and that a copy of them shall be open to all the latepayers of such borough," &c. &c. The Act is plain, and if we understand plain words, we ought to have a full abstract, such as would give us a fair detail of the accounts, without the lediousness of going through the items. For instance, that Mr. Edmunds h id SlIItl54 tous of coal, at 109. per ton, it would be right to put in the abstract paid Mr. Edmunds for 54 tons of coal, at 10;. per ton, £27., hot when we look at an ab. stract of an account, where the large sum of £ .2,337. 8s. 2Jd. is expended, with only three names mentioned, I think it is too bad, lor in the abstract for the year ending 1st of Sept., 1844, the only names mentioned are C. C. Williams, Mr., Hodges, and Evan Lvans, and the gross amount paid them is £ 1GB lis. 4(1. These are the only names the treasurer coritieseendi to give you, with the exception of signing it himself, and telling you that the balance due from him is t58. Is. 9d. but in the next impres sion ofthe Merthyr Guardian you'll be told those accounts are of the same ample and satisfactory nature as those accounts were that 1. at a public meeting, held at the Black Lion Inn, in this town, two years ago, had occasion to refer to, and which you yourselves unanimously declare to be of a contrary character, and boldly gave the Guardian's statement the contradiction. Gentlemen, you must not rely on the statements of the Merthyr Guardian. (I lere M. P. proceeded at some length to animad. vert upon our conteicpoiary.) The speaker then proceeded to go thiough the treasurers account, and said lie inusi not be asked for any further explanation than lie would give at present, from the very short abstract that was before him he was unable so to do he ihen lead the first item in the abstract, viz., Auctioneer letting £ 2. 2," Mr. P. ciied the whole ot the 28ih section of the act which, amongst other things, showed that if any one in the Council shall hold any office or place of profit, other than that of Mayor, in the gift or disposal of such borough, or duiing such time as he shall have directly or indirectly, by himself 01 his part- ner, any share or interest in any contract or employment with, by, or on behalf of such Council, he shall he disqualified, and forfeit a sum of ,[SO He then personally rt-feired to paities who had subjected themselves to the consequences of infringing the law, in this respect as members of the I own Council. Paid for gas, in 1844, .[:38. 10s. 8d., and in 1845, £44. 15s. 2d., being an increase of 16. 4s. 6d., if any extra burners had been used it would have been very easy for them to have given you that in. formation, but perhaps you'll be told that coal has risen in price, but if anv one of the members of the town council had to pay that out of his own pocket, he would say a great deal more than I now do. (Cheeis.) The next item of importance was the POOrs' rate for the two years. In 1844 was paid 1135. 2s. Gd. 1845, 1:61. 14. 6d., being a saving of £73. 8d. (Loud cheers.) So that it does appear that you have done some little gooll by the stir you made for the reduction of your poors rate. (Cheers, and cries of We have, we have.) Really, gentlemen, the next item is of very great importance. When we come to have a few sums of £100. lumping together, they will become to be very serious, and if you tamely submit to these items, by and by you'll be turning round and say, Who would have thout!ht it. The item I allude to is that of repairs and alterations, X I (i7. 15s. 4d. 11 2 Now, what those alterations are, where they were done, and by whom, we know not, and we have no right to ask but that day is gone by, and you have a right to know. and, whilst I am among you, if it were but for my own sake I will have to ascer. tain. (Cheers.) I want to know what they are, probably, for aught we know, they may be paid to some of the town council- men and those gentlemen councillors deny us the pleasure of seeing their names in the account is it in consequence of knowing they would be liablej to! be unseated and subject to the penalty before referred to. (Cheers.) Mr. P. then passed on to the street-rate, and showed that in 1844, £42, was paid, and in 1845, £29 (jj" showing a saving of ,£\0. 14s. (Cheers.) The next item 1 have to speak upon is the Solicitor's bill; this may be by some considered high treason, but I cao't help it, in the discharge of a public duty, the amount is .£21 18s. !Jd. I don't know who he is; there are very few of us in the town, I can tell you I am not the solicitor; I am also at a loss to know what it is for it is placed under the market account, and the only inference we can draw is, that it is connected with that branch, and probably if you go and enquire who this gentleman ii, or what it is for, you will, most likely be told that the aud- tors have signed the acci unts, and that you have no further right to question but I should like to see them, and 1 will and if the treasurer does not comply with the act, viz., by giving a full abstract, I will move the accounts by mandamus, in the Court of Queen's Bench, where I shall have an opportunity of seeing them. (Cheers.) The only explanation I can give on the next item, weights and measures, 9s. 9d., is, that if the town council were weighed, they would be found wanting. (Laughter.) After passing over two or three minor items, Mr. P. came to the Judge's lodgings, paid in 1844 £ 45., and in 1845, £ 40., saving X5., so that the gross saving for the year, on poor's-rate, street rate, repairs, and judge's lodgings, amount to £ 214, 17s. 5jd. 2 (Cheers.) With regard to the judge's lodgings, (although sneered at by some persons, not in the room, I would say more were they present), the town has no right to pay this charge the county is legally bound to pay it, and not you and yet we know you do it. It is not so in Monmouthshire—the county pays it; and on what principle you pay it here I am at a loss to know, unless it is to show the profuseness of the Cardiff Council, in the expenditure of your money and, if you choose to submit to it, it makes very little difference to me, having discharged my duty by telling you of it; and it they are so profuse in their ex- pendituie, they might as well, on the same principle, have given .LIOO.. as saved the ;C5. (Hear, hear.) Mr. P then pro- ceeded to read two or three items, one of which was X4. 14s. 6d. for Plans, concerning which, he could give no explanation. The next item was the police clothing,-and,lo this point, 1\11, P. requested the serious attention of the meeting. He said, in dis- posing of the first lot he told the meeting that no councilman could trade with the council who supplied the clothing in 1843, I can't say, but in 1844 it was very singular that a tradesmen in this town sent in an estimate to supply the clothing foi X22. 15s. 9d., whi. h was much lower than they had been charged previously, but in 1844, one of the councilmen had got a person to do it for £ 22. 6s. 8J., beint; 9s. Id. less than the for- mer estimate I- of that I don't complain; I wish to give them every credit for their economy, but this I do complain of—this year there was no estimate sent at all, and the charge is X58. 16;. 2d. for police clothing, being £ 31. 9s. 6d. more than last year. (" Oh, oh.") I was much struck with the great in- crease in that item, and sent for the paiticnlars forming it. I find £17. 7s. 6J. paid for hoots, and Sl Is. 9s. 6J., and £ 24. 19s. 2J. for clothes, amounting to £36, 8s. 8d. lor that which cost only £ 22. 6s. 8d. last year. Now, probably, when this report goes foitb to the public, you will have a supple- mentary account, attempting to explain it—for it %is so last year when looking over them for that year, it was spoken of,some objections were made, and then they said it was made out in a hurry, and they published another as an explanatory one. (I believe Mr. Hibbert is a London tailor, but sUlh a man as 1). Jones, tailor and draper, Cardiff, I can't find. (Cries of No, not one." Mr. P. under the impression that Mr. Bird had supplied clothes for the police argued the proprety of his leaving the town council, and said,—1 have no personal ill will to Mr. Bird, and if that gentleman will satisfactorily explain this matter, and pledge himself to be the friend of the public, proud should I be to give him him that support I have in my power. (^Cheers.) Let us take a glance at the figures under the head of Salaries. In 1844, £ 426. 19s. 9d. was paid in 1845, £ 417. lis. 9d., showing a slight saving of X9. 8s. in this yellt.3 account, who these salaries are paid to, I am at a loss to know, but I find it in the account under the head of police. NJW if those salaries are paid to the police, why not give the names why noi put down Superintendent's salary so much, Sergt. Au. brey, so much, P.C. Phillips, so much, and so on ? but here, in this abstract, we have nothing af the kind we have only one total stin-i of £417. 14s. 8J., which is not in accordance with the Act of Parliament. (Cheers.) I am an advocate for the payment of public officers who faithfully discharge their duties, and I can't see why their names should not be given, or why the public should object to such payment. Mr. P. then reviewed fleveral rerns, and alluded to a second solicitor's bill of £33. 3s. 7". for the year 1844. making the solicitor's fees for that year, £55. 2<. 4.1, which ought to be explained. Mr. P. then proceeded by staling, that the 1844 account only showed a balance of X58. Is. 9d.; that £300. had been received in that year for a borough rale, and in 1845, no borough-rate had been received, and vet theie was a balance In the treasnrer's hand of X339. 16s. lid., making a difference to the town of near f700. -(Cheering,)-" which you, certainly, would not have had had you not exerted yourselves as you did, in getting such a large reduction in the amount of your poor's. rates," (Cheers.) Mr. Phillpotts then having gone through the accounts addressed the electors at great length as to the fearless manner they ought to give their votes, impressing on them the necessity of giving them to those persons, whom they thought would most properly represent them in council. Mr. P. then named the members who are going out of oilice for this year, for both wards, and stated, that as none of the candidates for the south ward were present to give their sentiments, he thought it would be prudent to have a meeting in the south ward during next week for the purpose of hearing them, which meeting would be announced by placard. (Cheers.) Mr. P. also recommended Mr. Insole to the notice of the electors of 1he north ward, and concluded by proposing that this mteting is of opinion that Mr. R. L. Reece, Mr. George Insole, and Mr. John Edy, are fit and pro- per persons to be elected at the ensuing election, as town coun- cilmen for the north ward, and that this meeting pledge them their support." Mr. Whiting seconded the motion, which was carried unani- mously. Mr. Phillpotts then thanked the meeting for the patient hear. ing they had granted him, and sat down amidst cheers. Mr. Philip Bird moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Phillpotts, for the manner in which he had couducted himself throughout the meeting, with three cheers, which were given. Mr. P. briefly returned thanks, and the meeting separated, after a sitting of two hours and a half.

NEWPORT MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS. (Continued from our last.) No. 59.-ST. MARTIN DIVIDING HIS ROBE WIT [I A BEGGAR, AT THE GATE OF CALAIS. (After Vandyke.) S. J. Evans.— This is an excellent copy of one of Vandyke's best pictures. It is magnificent as a specimen of colour, composition, and drawing. The only thing which we think a fault, and as not existing in the original, is, that the horse, compared with the figures, is re- marbly small it cannot, indeed, be more than a strong pony; it is, however, like every other portion of the picture, well painted. 68.- Tiliall.-This picture is of so equivocal a cha- racter, that the framers of the catalogue have not been able to give it a name. We are equally at a loss. We have been told that it contains portraits of members of one of the royal families of Spain, who, in the pictuie, are represented as partaking of a repast with a person, dressed and habited as the Saviour com- monly is, in pictures of the Last Supper. There is much that is very good, independently of the inconsistency of the composi. tion. Some of the heads are fine in colour, and correct in draw- ing. ] ndeed, if it were our picture, we should not hesitate to cut it up into small ones-the heads alone would form good-looking old portraits. 70.—DEAD GAME.—The hare is well drawn, and the manage- ment of the gronp is good in this picture. 71.—LANDSCAPE AND FICUKFS.—There is no painter's name in the catalogue but this picture reminds one much of Berghem, more particularly in the figures and animals, which are good. 72.—LANDSCAPE AND FIGURES. J. Bent. (By a pupil of Wovermans.)—There is somewhat of the spirit of the master fit this woik. 74.-ST. PETER. Reubens.—Very fine in drawing, and good in colour; but that it is by Reubcns we are rather inclined to doubt. 75.—GRANDMOTHER AND CHlU). J. F. Mullock,— I'he atti- tude of the child is rather boldly conceived, and the drawing to. lerably good. 76.—AN I'IAT.IAN CARDINAT,. Andrea Mantegna.—The mi. nuteness of finish in this work is very lemarkable but it is, in composition, stiff and unpicturesque. (H.-CHASE OF THE SMUGGLERS Montague Stanhi.—The conception and general effect of this work are grand in the ex- tieme, the sky being particulaily fine in the contours ef the clouds, with the sun rising in awful majesty on the verge of a dark and troublesome sea and the forms of the vessels cutting, with their half-defined, mysterious outlines, the lower and higher parts of the sky witli all these, the tout ensemble, to a poetical mind, has an imposing effect. It is, however, a lamentable in- stance 01 the mania among young artists for macguelphs and other nostrums, trashy vehicles; by the use of which, in a few months, the pictures crack, and, as in this instance, sails are made to appear rent and lorn, or great gapstoopen in the middle ofthe sea,— results which the artist never contemplated. 84.— WEST INDIAN LANDSCAPE. Post.—The pictures by this painter are rare ;—we think this a good average specimen 01 his style. 86.—DUTCH LANDSCAPIS AND FH.IIIUS. I)a i id Teii iei-s. -A very beautiful little picture, most likely by Teoieu the younger. 90.— THE GIPSIES. Gainsbormtgh.—This is amazingly clever, considered as a sketch. The tone of colour is very warm and transparent. 92.—PORTRAIT OF A I.ADY.-I'ery delicate and neat in the execution; the texture of the various pa/ts of the dress is well expressed. 9:J.-UIRU' SCHOOL IN ROMF. Ritlig.-fleie we have a most marvellous poodtiction the cffeet is produced by and neat finish, combined with a careful observance of the effects of light, shade, and perspective. It is a picture of a very popu- lar character. 104 and 105.-DF.Ai, GAILE. Taylor.—The-e are very well painted. 110.— VIHGIN AND Cmr D, AND CHRT-.T BEARING HIS CROSS, (A double picture.) Rti)tjetli. is an instanced the minute finish painting in oil is capable of effecting-

♦- RISCA. Another instance of the uncertainty of human existence occur. red here on the night of Sunday week, to the wife of d. labouring man named Samuel Curtis. She returned from attending Divine service about t-ight P.M., in her usual good health, and partook of supper with the family, and about ten o clock went up to bed in apparentiv good lieslih. In a few minutes the husband, who had was below, hearing a groan, went up and found her nearly black in her face. Medical assitence vv as sen t for, but as NJ r. Robotham was from home, it was some time befoie he got theie. He did all that could be done, but she never rallied, and expired about ten o'clock on Monday morning. On luesday an inquest was held before W. Brewer, Esq., coroner, and II respectable jury, when a verdict ol Died by the Visitation of God" was returned. The destruction of the potatoe crop. so general in every part of the country, is likely to prove very serious in this district, and will be very severely felt by the mining population, who generally cultivate a great breadth of them. In many instances they are entirely useless, and in other cases, that which seems tolerably souud, when dug, rots as soon as taken into the house, or in the course of three or four days at the farthest.

ABERGAVENNY. VrsrTANION-Ün Wednesday week the triennia) visitation of the Rev. Dr. Coplestone, Lord Bishop Llandaff, was held at St. Mary's Church, Abergavenny. A large number of the clergy and th laity wu in attendance. J he Venerable Archdeacon C'rawlev delivered an admirable address on the duties of a Chris- tian minister. After the conclusion of the service the clergy sat down to a dinner at the Angel Hotel. PI.ENTY OF MONEY.-As a proof of the soundness of bona fide railway speculations, we are to state as a fact, of winch we have the means of ascertaining the accuracy that the depositors of the Direct London and Manchester Rail- way (Rastrick's) have Ipaid up their 10 per cent, without a single exception. POTATOE Cpt)ps.-The neighbourhood of Abergavenny has not been more fortunate than other localities in the crops of potatoes We have even quantities of them raised, in wet soils, with an average of at least three in every five decayed. The late heavy falls of rain we fear will do much to increase the disease. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—On Wednsdny, as the Paul Pry coach was entering the town through the Mill-street gate, it encoun- tered amongst the nrray of vehicles returning from the Horticul- tutal Show, one laden with a piece of timber, which became en- tangled in the traces of one of the leaders, which, being a very spirited anitnal, plungeil, and knocked down a child that was standing by. The liitle creature fell between the legs of the horse, and must have been trodden to death, had not a by- stander, with great presence of mind, succeeded in extricating it from i's perilous situation.—We do not wonder at accidents happening at this entrance to the town but we really are astonished that so very few take place. It is an ill-wind that blows nobody good," and perhaps one of the good effects of the ptejected railway will be the remedying of this dangerous and too-long-endured nuisance. MATERNAL ASSOCIATION.—The members of the Abergavenny Maternal Association, with those of the branch societies, of Llan- foist and Govilon, met to commemorate their first anniversary on Friday, the 3rd of October, at a social tea party, in the vestry of the Independent Chapel, Castle-street, at which above eighty were present. After being regaled with ten and cake, they were addressed by the Rev. Messis. Bunn and Poole, on maternal duties and resposibilities. Hymns were sung, and prayersoffered, and the party separated by eight o'clock, highly pleased wifh the proceedings of the meeting. I'he members now amount to 113, and their children to about 330. Many were unavoidably absent from the tea party, fiotii indispoltioo and other causes. It is hoped the operations of the society have not been without bene- ficial results. That some mothsrs are more alive to the impor- tance of the charge committed to them, and are more anxious than formerly to fulfill the duties they owe to their children.

MONMOUTH. A singular scene was presented at the theatre, at Monmouth, on Friday night week. A gentleman of the neigii bout liood, in consequence of the ill-success of the management, patronised the intended performance of the evening, and a most iespectab!e, as well as a full, house, was the result. After waiting an hour for the" Queeo's servants," the audience became impatient, and the calls for Mr. Henderson, the manager, became loud and ge- neral. At length Mr. II. appeared on the stage, and announced that in consequence of a strike amongst the Thespians, the per- formance conld not take place but that the mouey of such as applied for the same should be returned to the auditory. The good folks accordingly returned to their homes to digest their disappointment.

CHEPSTOW. PRIMITIVE MODE OF UECKONING.—Some years since, I was in the employ of a tradesman, in and while making out Christmas bills, I arrived at one amounting to the sum 01 ,E27., due from a respectable farmer living near that town. presented him with the account on the first maiket day, that ] met with him. He said he would call npon Mr. and settle with him he did so. After conversing some time with 1\1r. the former said he was come to put matters straight and, to my surprise, he pulied out It sliek about Iwelye inches long, and began to cast up his accounts, thus :—Fiist notch on the stick meant a bushel of oais second notch (a little longer) stood for half a ton of lifty third noteli (longer still) four bags of lieans a capital 0 stooll for a cheese there were a few other marks, but I forg-et what they meant. However, the farmer sum- med up his notches and round O's until he ii-ached the amount of £ 26 14s., so that there remained a balance 01 6s. due to my employer, who did not dispute one ilem of the farmer's account, and they settled the business very amicably over a jorum of home- brewed. ] afterwards found that Nlr.s old horse had consumed most of the produce charged on the notched slick. I was, one ilay, through ii)e village of St. Briavel's, and happening to mention the foregoing occurrence to the coachman, he stated such reekonings were not new to him. He said we had just passed passed thiough a turnpike, where the keeper kept a stick to reckon by. I had once (said he) a quarrel with him. 1 used to piy him once a week—on Saturdays but lie stopped me on a Friday, and insisted that it was Saturday, producing his stick to prove the fact. 1 luff him in a flaming possion, and he would not be convinced of his error unfit the bell of the parish church, on Sun- day, warned him that he mllslloaye kept a false reckooing, He then, unwillingly, allowed that (like Titus) he had lost a day." Correspondent.

ABERGAVENNY TOWN HALL, WEDNESDAY, Ocr. 8. Present—H. Williams, Esq. David Williams, haulier, of Abergavenny, charged by Jonas Coss, of f Janvihangel, with using thieatening language to him. was bound over to keep the pere.

CARDIFF, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6. Preseiot-Ifenry Morgan, Esq., and Rev. T. Stacy. Benjamin Griffith Williams, captain of the Lady Mary, of Carnarvon, charged Charles A'der, his mate, with absenting him- self from his duty on board the ship, after having signed aiticles to proceed to Alaita, at S4. per month. Coiriplainant stated tliat defendant joined the ship on the 27lh ult., and that on the Tuesday following he went ashore, about seven o'clock P.M., and did not return until Thursday, at one P.M. that the vessel was not finished loading, and that he ought to have been on board to superintend the loading that he re- monstrated with him for his conduct, but agreed to take him back if he would stay on Loard. He promised to do so, but he again left on the Friday, and had not since returned and that on the Monday previous to his first leaving he had paid him X4., being a month's wages in advance. He never asked leave to go ashore the Captain saw him dressing himself on the Friday, and said now young man,you have staid too long on "shore before, mind and be back in hours. Defendant said he had been on shore, but he never intended leaving the ship, nor did he now-he meant go the voyage; and on Saturday night last as he was going down the street, he met the captain, who asked him for the keys of the harness cask, who said they were on board. He then asked me when I was going to load; I told him now. He next said his wife was up the street waiting for him, and asked me to come with him, and we should all go on board together. He then put his arm under mine, and we went up the street, and when we came opposite the station house, he gave me in charge, and I have been in custody ever since. Mr. Morgan said his conduct had been very unjustifiable, and if the captain pressed the charge, he should be obliged to com- mit him to hard labour for a month. The Captain said if he would pay him back the f4.. he was willing to cancellhe articles and let him go about his business, as he was certain they should never agree. The amount, with 7a. costs, was paid, and they left the court. Elizabeth Freeman and Phipps were charged with being drunk and disorderly, and Freeman charged Phipps with assault- ing her. Mr Slockdale said that Phipps was a convicted thief, and a most notorious character, and required to be closely watched. This being Freeman's first offence she was discha.ged, and proved the assault against Phipps. He was fined 15s., in. cluding costs, or one month's imprisonment.—Committed. John Mc'Carthy was charged with, on Saturday last, being drunk and disorderly, and assaulting Anne Tennant, who had a child in her arms at the time. Sin- did not appear to prosecute, but from the statement made to the magistrates respecting the nature of the assaull, a summons was issued for her appearance on Thursday. IIIURSDAY, OCTOBER 9. Present—Henry Morgan and Wliitlock Nicholl, Esqrs. Mr. Henry Alarliu, butelier, charged two men who were in custody, but whose names did not transpire, with illegnlly taking from his premises a quantity of hones, value 12s., leaving with his servant girl only IOd. for them, and that he had since ascer- tained ihat they had sold them for 9s. or 10s. Mr. Martin's servant, a little girl, apparently about twelve years old, said that one of them came when her Mr. and Mrs. were in town, and asked if she had any bones or rags for sale, she suid she had no rags, but there were some bones but he had better call when her master was in, as she knew nothing about them. lie looked at the bones and went away, and came back with another man and two sacks, and said they always bought all ihe bones, and used to get a great deal more than was there for Is., but lie would give 10d. for them, and iliey began to fill the sacks, and after they were full there was some left, and put the lOd. in her hand and went away. They came to the bones round the back way she saw them, and went through the house to them. She did not take them to the bones. Defendants said they sold them for 7s. Old., ;klong with other booes and rag3.-Sertled 0111 of court. Catherine Powell charged Richard Catleugh with assaulting Anne, her daughter. Mrs. P. said that on Saturday night last, she sent her daughter on a message to the Bunch of Grapes when she. came back, she said she had been abused and struck tiy Catleugli. She a--ked H here he was she told tier at the HUllch oÎ Grapes. I then went and asked him what he meant by abusing my daughter so. When he again began to call her abusivw names, and to strike her. I inteifered to protect her. and in the scuffle lie struck iiie and on the Sunday morning, when my daughter was making a fire in my boose, he came and got her head under liis arm, ,1 struck her most unmercifully. Aiiae Powell said, on Saturday xhe bad been sent to the Bunel. of Giapes, by her mother, for some plates tlldl she called in at a neighbour's house to show them that Catleugh came in, shut the door, and said here is the b 1 wanted, and struck her twi, eon tlw bleast and face and that on Sunday lie came to her mother's house, and conducted himself as desciibed by her. Mary Anne Mofiit pro'ed the ftssult on Saturday night, Chailes Thomas oil the Siludiy, and prisoner was fined 10i., aoif 5s, costs, or 21 days. Rachael lIalliday charged Anne Gould wilh an assault. Com- plainant said that she and Elizabeth Thomas, both from New- port, were walking up the stieel on Monday last, when defend- ant came up and spoke to Miss Ihomas, and then turned round and said to complainant, how does George Gould's money get on 1 I said I never had any fiom him. She called a liar and thrust her finger in my eye, and struck me iievertl timts. Elizabeth Thomas corroborated the statement, and Gould was fined 20s. and coits, or one month. John Mc'Caithy was charged with assaulting Anne Tennant, who did not seem at all inclined to prosecute, but the case clearly proved by Mr. Thomas Evans, who was passing at the tune, and lie was fined 5s., and 5s. costs, or seven days—paid. Mary Anne Jonfs was sentenccd to seven days' hard labotir, as a disorderly.

POSITIVE AND COMI-ARAI ivr--An attempt to poison yourself is a" rash" act but a sli< e ol fried bacon is rasier A showery day is damp *e 'efusal of n young lady lo marry you is a damper A sovereign short in weight is light but a boat for the conveyance 01 goods is "a lighter What yon attach to a window is a blind but a flash of light- ing in your eyes is "a blinder- Prince Albert is called it fine" man but one who refines metals is c, a finer A tiliff old lady is prim but a child s spelling-book is a pritner I" A cracked head Is a 11 sore" titillir L)ul a skylark is a-soirer A negio is a black but one who cleans boots j, a blacker A capital O is a bold O bul the member lor Chippenham is a "Boldei-O i t The woollen trade of Gloucestershire jas not 1-een so flourishing for a number of years as it his been of ale, and is at the present time. MARRIAGE —When a young tradesman in Holland or Ger- many, goes a courting, the first question the young won, dn asks of him is, Are you able lo pay the charge That is 10 say. in English, Are you able to keep a wife when you have got her What a world of misery it would prevent if the young women iu all countries wouM stick to the wisdom of that question M al. rtage is not made of mushrooms, bul of goor round cakes," is one of the pithy sayiogs-by which our ancestors conveyed the same gieat tule of prudence. gieat tule of prudence.

ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES. No. 3. Quoth Hnclibras, you lye so ope That J, without a telescope, Can all your faults so well espye, Where you tell truth, and where you lie!" To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. MR. EDITOR,—I should Dot have condescended to reply to the observations contained in a vapid epistle inserted in your last week's journal, bearing the signature of an unlucky wight, rejoicing in the cognomen of Number Right," were it not in justification of another person, whose veracity is also impugned, and to establish beyond the shadow of a doubt, the liutb of my statistics, as to the population of Newport. From the incoherent ravings of "Number Right," against all matters pertaining to antiquity, I at first imagined this stat nominis umbra writer (ashamed, no doubt, of his own proper name) to be the very identical Martin, who in his maniacal wrath against time-honoured edifices, set fire to York Minstei, Secondary reflection, however, convinced me that if Maitin (who by the bye is brother to one of our most sublime modern painters) be in the land of the living, he cannot at present leave his lunatic asylum, to wander forth in his erratic course beneath the pale glimpses of the watery moon. In this dilemma I consulted our worthy Superintendant of Police, from whose lynx-eved vigilance I haveoflivcd at the fact, that the saciiligeous barbarian who lately smashed ttte Barbarini Vase, at the Biitish Museum, is at present on a visit to a fellow Goth and Vandal, in Newport. Concluding, therefore, that such epistle is the joint concoction of these worthies, we will now proceed in a medico-legal manner to probe the case, and dissect the evidence and, as one single- (act will always outweigh a hundred arguments, you shall per- ceive how a few plain words shall put them down, and the public observe the vandal quite abroad in the matter of truth. In the first place, "Number Right" contends that I have erroneously quoted the census return for 1841, as 13,7G1 whereas il should have been 5 more, viz., 13.76G, as comprising "the entire parish of St. Woollos, including the borough of Newport." He proceeds, It is not strictly correct 10 attribute the population to Newport, inasmuch as it is partly spiead over the country around, which is studded with not a few farm and labourers' houses." 0, sapient "Number Right," of a verity thou erectest a wall for Ihe esperial purpose of propellitl thy obtuse pericranium against. 1 conlend that albeit Ihe old borough of Newport is for parochinl assessments, hmiled to boundaries ending at or neal the Salutation, the entire population is part and parcel of the port of Newport, and that the inhabitants of Commercial-road, Pillgwenlly, Botany, and the Newport Docks, and also of the Cardift'.road, up to the Waterloo-gate, are all included in the Moundaiy Act consequent upon the late Reform Bill and being dosely contiguous wIth each other, they are as mud. integral parts of Newport, as Clifton and Hotwells with Bristol Docks are portions of the city of Bristol itself. Hut, in order to give" N limber Right" a Rowland for his Oliver, and floor him with his own arguments, I will refer to the Government census returns of 1841, and in which it will he fonno Ihal the population of the old lJorollgh is returued as 10,815, whilst the added population of Saint Woollos, amoulJtirg to 2,951, would constitute the gross return of 13,706 Allow n e 10 enquire of No Right," ..Iter dedueting the population eompflsed in a circle, commencing from George-street, lound Ihe Canal-side, Dock, Botany, Pillgwenlly, down to Mendilgif, and thence to Waterioo lurnpike, and up the hill 10 Blynhylrytl-if there be any fractional portion of these 2,901 not comprised in this cire/e, as settled II/I the Reform Boundary Act. "Number Right (let it be Numbel Wrong j next asserts that he "is no antiquary." God "save the malk!" No one will ive him the cledit of being such he is, certainly, no conjuror but, it appears, was a sort of a snpernumeraty employed in col- lecllnv, the census returns, aod aSHlllles an insulted digoilY at 1115 figures "being needlessly and groundlessly assailed." A woid with you, Number Wrong: I contend thai it was never averted that Mr. Tombs pretended to immaculate accuracy he merely stated the simple fact that in his district, comprising Cross-street, Club-row, Canal-side, and other populous plares, 011 calling lor the relnrn papers, he found a manifest disposition to conceal the number of occupants. Iu some "ish abodes, instead of fifteen or sixteen residents, metely the solitary II 01 Ole of the immediate tenant was inserted. The dread of a capitation (or poll) tax had pervaded the minds of tbelower classes, and the rectifications, by way of addition, were so made by that gentleman, not taking the mere ipse dixit of the occupiers of houses, but by pertina. ciously insisting upon the insertion of every lodger's name, he legitimately increased those voluntary returns to an amount of some two or three hundreds. Thus much in reply to the sneers of Number Wiong. The errors of Mr. Tombs are said to have been corrected by way of addition. The paragraph of Number Wrong which I will next quote— Now 1 cannot but conceive that IllIs must have been adding error to error; because, in a matter of calculation, the numbers exist of themselves, and no addition can make them accurately what they are not '—is mere twaddle, and establishes the lact that Number Wrong will never obtain the honour of a senior Wrangler among the Cantabs, until he has mathematically resolved the pioblem of setting the Thames on fire, previously to his bottling it off as Aqua Vita alias Geneva, to inspire oue ray of genius in his hemuddled pate. The observation as to antiquarian bombast," and my endeavour to show a most devoted patiiotic love, and a desire to make Newport appear something more than it really is," I treat with sovereign contempt a Latin quotation is beyond the comprehension of Number Wrong; I will, therefore, give it in English-" Eagles do not stoop to catch flies." It were ulter waste of my time to break such a butteifly on the wheel, or damn him (as Pope says) to an elernity of fame I leave him, therefore, 10 his primitive insignificance. If I enter into the lists of disputation, and break a lance in controversy, on such matters of literature, I will only contend with an adversary of classical attainments and a gentleman, possessing the Suaviter in modo and jurtiter in re, and not a miserable scribbler, and a vulgarian to boot. I would advise him to get the following translated for his especial guidance—Ne sutor ultra crepidam. His patriotism for Newport is, at all events, of a negative description. He next proceeds to assert, I have very good reasons for differing from your antiquary on the computed population of Newport, at present, and, instead of 18,000, would set it down at 14,000." What those "good reasons" are, he does not venture to inform us. "If reasons were plentiful as blackberries, I will give you no reason on compulsion," exclaims the bully- swaggerer Falstaff, and so we are lefl in a happy state of ig noraDce. On tbe contiary, I have much pleasure to refer you for the accuracy of my computation 01 estimate of the present nomber of inhabitants within the reform boundaries of the borough (1 Newport, to a very competent authority, viz., Mr. David Lewis, the assistant overseer of the borough and parish of St. Woollos, and he will back my assertion that it may be fairly computed at 18,000; and although I have not as yet spoken to Mr. Morris, the land-surveyor, I have no doubt that gentleman would permit any respectable person to investigate his sutvey map of the parish of St. Woollos, and it would be soon found that the infinitesimal parts of the parish not comprised in the new borough "studded with farm and labourers' houses," are, as regards the number of individuals, like angels visits, "few and far between," indeed. So much for Number Wrong, and his "lollles parturiunt, nascitur ridiculus mils" stamps him as no oidinary dunce. Here is a splendid specimen of peroration to the profound exordium with which he commences his lelter-" False appearances are never useful; and as lovers of antiquity generally take things as they find them, and Itore and cherish them In their time-woim state, rusty and dirty though they may Le, other than in attempts to brighten them, destroy their real characters," &c., a slyle of composition worthy so erudites a genius, why the blockhead confuted himself! If the delightful aerugo were defaced from the coin, it would appear a modern antique, and the attempt to "brighten" give it a regular Brummagem shine and "false appearance," indeed. It were better employment, God wot, were Number Wrong to brighten his style of composition, and not break Priscian's head simultaneously, with those of his friends. His very observations betray his utter want of t iste and science, aud, like George the First, when requested to patronise the works of the immortal Hogaith, Number Wrong can with congenial feelings exclaim, I hate baintiug and bcetry, and d—n all the sciences and fine arts! I will not much longer tresspass on your readers. I trust they will allow that Number Wrong Lie. 011 the record of fame-black and ¡¡mitten, J.ike a dry Mummy, on which Time has written, His proud scorn of llie embalmer. I dismiss him, and his Poilland Vase destroying companion (arcades ambo) to the tomb of all the Capulets, and shall bougie, mnulgre £ cc., whtneer I choose to rOlJlpile horn the variolls manuscripts 1 have by me, and to dissipate an idle hour (pour passer le temps) submit such of my lucubrations, historical or otherwise, as you may deem worthy to conlrillllle a trllnsient amusement 10 my fellow townsmen. To such ctlvlllers as Number Wrong I say— Yes, far from me, their birth or place, Such long ear'd judges of llie Phrygian race. Their censure and their praise alike I scorn Meanwhile MI. Editor, rale, vale. W. M. TOWNSEND. Cardiff-road, Oct. 6th, 1845. P.S. To qoarrel with this milk and water genius is decidely infra tliK, especially as a writ de huiatico tnquireudii was I duly issued out of the high court of Parnassus, at the iustance of the muses, and the >ilowiog verdict duly lecorded :—"Incapa- ble of purity of veise, or elegance of composition, and, murever, destitute of both rhyme and reason.— By order of the Tuneful Nine—Apollo YV. M. T.

MAXIMSFOR MERCHANTS. Credit 5houlù be sparingly giVtD, and ÎDlegTity be the basis of it. Guarantees should only betaken in writing, aud a considera- 1 lion expressed therein. The honour of an honest man, as far as pounds, shillings, and pence goes, dies when he dis-thfrcfore, honourable conditions in writing. Lying wont stand, while truth is truth. Rascals may flourish, but honest men will outstrip them. Wealth is desirable, il honestly acquired, and blessed by con- tentment. Prudence in promise is a fair guarantee in the redemption of them. A genuine scoundrel is a man who, by his sanctity, has ob- tained credit; and, through religious professions, keeps back property fiom his legitimate creditors. A burglar is a gentleman, compaied with a smooth-faced mer- chant robber. Credit or confidence given to men of doubtful integrity, is an injustice done to all who hold on to their honesty- Liberality should never be extended to the niggardly and de. ceptive. Risk anything before you risk your reputation. Truth is a restolallve-It saves the conscience, and keeps up a glow of happiness under all the woikings of life.

FOOT-RACE FOR FIFTY POUNDS.—On Thursday se'nnight the match between Jameson and Dean was decided. The men were matched for £25. ¡¡SIÙe, to walk ten miles of road, at a Lir toe and heel walk, and either party rumng.to go over the giound not fniily walked. 1 lie contest drew a good muster of the pedestiian fancy, and the betting was 5 to 4 on Jameson. The men kopt well together, and covered the first mile in nine minutes and ten seconds. They continued at a similar pace and without either gaining an advantage, and four milesgwas performed in thirty- eight minules. At the sixth mile Dean took the bad, and per- formed six miles and a quarter within the hour. The pace now appeared too fast for Jameson, but he struggled un, Dean attained his 8th mile in seventy-eight minutes, and had a lead of fifty yaids. Jameson exerted every elto, t, but nature appeared exhausted, and, at the approach of the last mile, he was com- J pelled to relinquish the contest: and Dean went in an easy winner, accomplishing the ten miles of road in one hour and thirty-seven minutes, fair walking. The match came off over one mile of road, in and out, near the Wellington ion at High- gate.

Monmouthshire Tontine. Capital, £ 9,000. In 3W Shares, of £25. each. Deposit, E5. per Share. TR IISI EF S. Christopher Shapland, Esq., of Sneed Park, near Bristol. Matthew Fothergill, Esq., Tredegar. BANKERS. The Monmouth & Glamorgan Bank, Newport, and its Branches. Messrs. Stuckey's, Banking House, Bristol. t Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co., London. SOLICITOR. Mr. Edward Burges, Bristol. This Tontine to be founded on the purchase of a valuable Property in the county of Monmouth, producing a rental of £ 445. a year. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY. 1sT XJUGOTLAND'S ESTATE, situate at Malpas. two t't miles from Newport, Monmouthshire, consisting of a handsome Mansion House, erected within the last nine yeats, anti Twelve Acres of Land; together with Lawn, Shrubberies, Gardens, and Orchard, Coach-Houses, Stables, Harness' and Servants' Rooms, Granary, Store-Houses, Cow-Ifouses, and other suitable outbuildings, &c., &c., with every requisite for the residence of a family of the first respectability. This pro- perty is well-known, as being in one of the most beautiful situ- ations in South Wales. 2nd. The TREDEGAR ARMS HOTEL, with five other houses adjoining the latter property, the best in the town, has been substantially built within the last eight years, and is well known to the commercial world from the extensive business carried on therein, As a proof of the value of this property, £1100. was given, about nine years since (in consequence of no beer-houses being allowed in this town) for the site, and a small dilapidated inn, which was obliged to be taken down. Tredegar, ;and its environs, contain a Ipopulation of upwards of 25,000inhabitants. The tenure of the whole property is leasehold and that firstly described is held for a term, of which 42 years are unexpired and that secondly described, for a term of which 37 yeas are unexpired. PLAN OF THE TONTINE. Capital, £ 9,00::0.; in 3bO Shares, of £ 25. each. Each share- holder shall have the option of naming either himself, or any other person, whose age, next birthday, shall not be less than 74 years, but shall not be at liberty to appoint any nominee who has been previously named. The rents to be divided annually, on the 30th of October, among those shareholders whose nominees were living on the 29th day of September preceding. Each party on taking his or her shares, is to pay a deposit of £ a. to either of the Bankers above named, to the credit of tiie Monmouthshire Tontine and shall, before the expiration of thirty days after such payment, deliver to the Solicitor a written nomination of a life, or his or her nominee in respect of such shd re or shares, whose age on the next birthday will he, at least, 74, and shall afterwards pay the residue of his or her subscrip- tion, by such calls as the Trustees may make. That if either of the said nominees shall die before the whole of the shares are taken, the party nominating such life may sub- stitute another life, whose age on the next birthday shall not be less than 74 years, as aforesaid. Upon the death of all the nominees, save one, the Tontine shall be determined, and the whole (if lite premises shall become the absolute piopeily of the shareholder owning a share or shares (as the case may be) upon the life of the last suiviving nominee, unless it shall happen that one person shall at any time be en- titled to the whole of the shares, in which case the trustees shall convey the property absolutely to such person. The foimaiion of the Tontine is intended to be completed by the '21st December, 1845, or sooner, if filled up, when the pro- perty shall be vested in the names of four trustees and in case any shareholder shall either neglect to appoint a nominee, or fail to pay the remainder of his or her subscription money, then his or her share or shares, with the deposit paid thereon, shall be forfeited. The trustees shall always be four in number and in case of a vacancy, the majority of the shareholdels shall have the power of filling it np. Each shareholder to have one vote only. Tire Tontine to be managed by a committee of six proprietor, to he appointed at a general meeting. The Tontine promises great advantages, and presents more in- ducement for investment than any speculation of the kind which has yet been submitted to the public, for the following reasons, viz. — The property has cost considerably over the sum of £ 0000, and is in excellent repair. 'I he trustees have received an offer of X440 a year for the whole property, lor seven years, on a repairing lease, which after deducting giound rents and insurance, would give an im- mediate dividend over four per cent., the lessee binding himself to do all repairs. Fiom the very advanced ages of the lives, it may reasonably be expected that in a very few years the surviving life will be- come sole possessor of the property and this not only offers an immense gain to the Shareholders whoae nominee shall be such last survivor, but also very great advantages at each annual division of the rents, to those whose nominees may survive the average of the lives named. The annual dividend to such of the shareholder nominees as shall survive, will increase in the same ratio as the lives decrease. The following may be enumerated as amongst a few of the advantages to be derived from the scheme:- An immediate return of a lasge rate of interest for a small investment. An annual increasing income. The great probability that the sharclioltler will, in the course of a very short period, become the owner at the property. To aged persons inserting their own lives, it offers a centinu- ally increasing and certain annuity. To parties expecting property on the decease of aged lives, this investment otters, for a small sum, a certain return, till the dropping of the life or lives renders the income no longer an object to persons so situated for instance, a party exuding church preferment on the death of an incumbent aged 74, or upwards, may, by this scheme, insure an increasing income, until the death of the incumbent puts him in possession of the living. Applications for shares may be made to the solicitor orbrokers. Applications for plans, particulars, and prospectuses, may be made to Mr. Edward Burges, solicitor, Bristol; Mr. Thomas Whatley Bolton, 4, Elm-court, Temple Mr.R. Waters, solici- tor, Tredegar; Messrs. Wreferd, Nicholls and Wreford, stock- brokers, Bristol, and Bank Chambers, London Mr. Matthew Wotherspoon, stockbroker, Liverpool; Messrs. Bradley, Ford and Parker, stockbrokers, Manchester, Mr. Jos. Barntcot, EfTia Villa, Effra Road. Brixton Mr. J. J. Nichols, merchant, Newport; Mr. F.R.Owen, ditto; Mr. Pritchard, auctioneer, ditto; Mr. Gilbert, draper, Pontypool; Mr. John Morgan, draper, Ahergavenny the Hereford Times Office, Hereford Mr. T. Davis. Bush Hotel, Merthyr the Guardian Office, Cardiff; Mr. W. Williams, draper, Usk Mr. Morgan Price, spirit mer- chant, Swansea Mr. W.T. Morgan, draper, Neath Mr. \V. Harris, draper, Tenby; hlr. O%ien Thomas, wine and spirit merchant, Pembroke; Mr. W. Williams, draper, Haverford- west; Mr. Joseph Davis, Chepstow; Mr. Morgan Jenkins, draper, Cardigan Mr. D. Jenkins, draper, Brecon. FORM OF APPLICATION. To the Trustees of the Monmouthshire Tontine. I request you will allot me Shares, of X25. each, in the Monmouthshire Tontine, and I will accept the same, or any less number allotted to me, and sign the Deed of Settlement, and pay the Deposit, and further calls thereon, when required. Name in full Address and description Date Name of referee.

GOLDNER'S PATENT PRESERVED PROVISIONS. Protected by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN BOND. Stewed Beel ad. per If). Round of do 6,1 1d. Flail k of do G^d. „ Ox Cheek. Ijd, Tripe (i^d. Ljt of Prices of Goldner's Patent Preserved Provisions. MILK, s. d. s. j. Milk perquart I 4 Curried Fowls rach 7 6 Ditto per pint 0 9 GAME. Ditto per j pint 0 O G uillea J'owb each c, o SOUPS. Venison, Hamicb £ 3 to £ '6. Real Turtle per quart 10 6 Venison,Hashed per lb. 2 2 Mock TUI tie 2 3 [fare, Roasted each 6 0 Ox Tail ,• 2 3 Hare, Jugged.. per III, 2 2 Ox Cheek 2 2 Cartridges, Hoas-ted, eacli 2 6 <>ihlet •> 2 Pheasant, Roasted ..6 0 Hare. ,,2 S Roasted 3 6 Vegetable 2 b Ptarmigan, do. 30 Carrot 2 2 lifack Catite, do. a 0 Mulligatawny ,,2 8 Wild Duck, do 3 0 Concentrated Gravy .1 4 Rabbit, Curried per lb. I 8 Chicken Broth ,,3 0 Rabbits, with Olliolk Sauce, I t; Veal Broth 2 6 FISH. Mutton Broth 1 9 Real \V. I. Turtle, Calipash Botch Potch 2 2 and Calipce pel lb. 10 6 Soup & Bouilli per lb. il « Ditto Steaks .5 0 Ditto from 6 lbs. upwards 0 Gj Salmon 10 VEGETABLES. Cod Fish 16 Green Peas pet lb. I 0 Slewed Eels .2 0 onions 0 10 Lobsters in Shell 3 6 Canots and Gravy „ 0 III Fresh Hen inns I t; Carrots, plain „ o G Yarmouth Bloaters I C. ,], I ii i p s 0 10 Cod Sounds I ti Beet Root 0 6 SAUCE. Parsnips 0 7 Lobsters for Sauce, per pint 2 6 tilEF. Ditto per pilit 1 6 Roast Beef per lb. 1 I Oysters per pint 2 0 Spiced Reef I 0 Ditto per pint I 3 Rump Steaks stewed I 3 Mushrooms.. petontt 2 C Beef Alamode 0 10^ Shiimps 2 0 Gulyas Beef I I —— Ox each 6 6 FRENCH DISHES. Tnpe and Onions, per Ib, I I Reef. a la Mode per lb 2 (1 Russian Toiijues each 5 II Beef, a 13 Koyal 2 6 MUTTON. Ox Palate 3 0 Roast Mutton per lb. 1 1 Ditto haliall 3 3 Roast Let{ uf Muttoll I I Ditto with Peas .3 0 Boiled Mutton 0 10$Teudlons of'Veal 3 0 Boiled Leg of Mutton I I Ragout uf Veal 2 0 Hashed Mutton 0 IIIA Veal Cutlets Jardiniere ..2 0 Haricot Mutton .11 Ditto with Peas .2 6 Irish Stew 0 10 Ditto Toinala 2 6 LAMB. Ditto Italian 2 0 Roast Lamb peril). I 6 Sweetbread per case 0 0 Roast Lea of Lamb I (i Nlioic,-d Val per It,- 2 6 Stewed Lamb & Vegetables I 4 Noix de Vean 2 0 Lamb aud Greeu Peas I 4 Fricandeau 30 VEAL, Calf's Tongue Sauce Piquaute 3 0 Roast Veat per lb. I S Calf's Tongue with Peas 3 0 Roast Fillet of Veal 1 6 Ditto Smoked .3 0 Knuckle of Veal I 2 Mutton Cntlets, Toiiiata 2 6 Stewed Veal and Vegetables I 3 Ditto Italian 0 Veal anil Grttu Peas 1 4 Ditto Jaidiiiiere 2 0 Veal Collets 0 Ditto with Peas .2 6 Minced Veal .16 Ragout of Mutton .2 0 Veal Collops ..16 Lamb Cutlets, Jardiniere -.2 6 Calf's Head .II Ditto Italian 2 6 Ditto and Bacon •• '6 Oitto Tomala .¿ fi Di/to Hashed with Bacon Ditto with Peas 2 6 and Brains 1 6 Leg and Shoulder of Lamb Call s Brains 1 6 braised 2 0 (';tli"s Feet and Jelly I I Ragout of Lamb .2 0 Curried Veal I 4 Ki-iiiey Salite 2 o POKK. Pheasant each 8 0 Pork Cutlets per lb. I 6 Bitto Trnffled 1.5 o Sucking Pig 12s, to 15 0 Partridge 3 0 Hams per lb. I 4 Supreme of Fowl, per case 12 0 POULTRY. Frlcaseed Fowls per lb. 2 6 Turkeys, Roasted or lloiled, Duck aud Peas each 6 6 each 7s. to 15 0 Teal ell salmi., per case* 6 0 Geese, Roasted t'aeh !I I) Grouse en Salmi. (j 0 Ducks, Roasted, each 4s. to 4 6 Partridge en Salmi 6 0 Ditto and Green Peas 5 0 Pheaallt ell Salllli () Fowls, Roasted 01 Boiled, Peas 0 each :is. (id. to 5 6 2d. extra charged for I Ih. Dorking Capons each 6 6 cases oil French dishes. Pigeons,Roasted,per couple 2 0 Grouse Soup per quait 3 6 Ditto and Green Peas 3 0 Superior Turtle Soup 15 0 Pigeons, Steak, and Giblets Cleir ditto 1-110 for Pies per case 3 0 Julienne 3 0 MADE DISHES. POTTlm MEATS. Ragout of (ioose per lb. I G Potted Beet per 11). 3 0 Ditto of Turkey 1 6 Ditto Veal 3 0 Ditto of Fowl .2 0 Oittu GllIlels 3 0 Ditto of Mutton I 2 Ditto Tongues 3 0 Ditto of Veal .14 Ditto Ham .3 0 Ditto of Lamb I 4 Ditto Slirisnps 4 0 Ditto of (j illlets I (j Ditto Lobsters .4 0 The above can be had in Canisters containing from I lb. to 500 Ills. each. One penny extra charged for 1 lb. caies. These provisions are free from the objectionable gaseous flavour so much complained of in those preserved by the old process and the very moderate price at which they are sold, renders them advantageous for Home Consumption as well as Sea Stores. Sole Agent at CARDIFF—J. G. BIRD, Ship and Insurance Broker, and General Commission Agent.

HEALTH, LONG LIFE, AND HAPPINESS, SECURFO BY THAT POPULAR MEDICINE ¥i-: NO Medicine yet offered to the world ever so rapidly attaiiIL4 1 such distinguished celebrity is is questionable if there now any part of the civilised globe where its extraordinary heaH ing virtues have not been exhibited. This signal success is attributable to any system of advertising, but solely to the stronj. recommendations of parties cured by their use. The Proprietors of Parr's Life Pills have now in their possession upwards 0 FIFTEEN IIU ND It ED LETTERS, several of them from Clergymel of the Church of England, many from distinguished Dissentiol Ministers, from gentlemen connected with the Army and Navf also from Members of Parliament, Merchants, and last, tliou not least, from members of the Medical Profession, and a skilf Analy tical Chemist; all speaking in the highest terms of t value of this inestimable medicine. This is a mass of evident in its favour beyond all parallel. The extraordinary properties of this medicine are thus desert bed by an eminent physician, who says, "Alterparticular obse vation of the action of Parr's Pills, I am determined, in toi opinion, that the following are their true properties First-They increase the strength, whilst most other med. cities have a weakening effect upon the system. Let any 0 r take from three to four or six pills every twenty-four hours, an instead of having weakened, they will be found to have revive the animal spirits, and to have imparted a lasting strength t the body. Secondly-In their operations they go direct to the disea After you have taken six or twelve pills you will expetience the* effect; the disease upon you will become less and less by ever) dose you take, and if vou persevere in regularly takin» fro# three to six pills every day, your uisease will speedily be removed from the system. T hirdly —Tliey are found after giving them a fair trial for* few weeks to possess ihe most astonishing and invigorating prOj I perties, and tin y will overcome all obstinate complaints, ;■Restore Sound Health there is a return of good appetitff shoitly from the beginning of their use, whilst their mildnees J a puivative is a desideratum greatly required by the weak and delicate, particularly where violent purging is acknowledged If be injuriuus instead of beneficial.. Fourthly-As ageneral Family Medicine they are exceedingly valuable, and no family shouid be without them, they may b used with perfect safety in any disease, for to every disease the are of inestimable value. John Dale, Esq.. of iUanchesM Lectin er on Chemistry, and Pupil of ttte late celebrated '!) Dalion, •R.S., in a letter addressed to the Proprietors in Lo i. don, says I beg to state I find them woithy of being recom' mended to the public for their eflicacy and simplicity, and to be really vegetable pills, containing, as they do, nothing but wha J is of vegetable origin. With this assurance the public need liav no fear of giving them a fair trial. Fifthly-There is no medicine ever introduced to the public that has become so universally popular with females as PARR'* LIFK PII.I.S. For all complaints peculiar to females they areoj nHbt astonishing efficacy and they are confidently recommence" to them for general use. A trial of a box of these pills will once prove the truth of this assertion. IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC. 4 We consider we are performing an act of humanity to t. community of Van Dieman's Land, in acknowledging th statements have been made to us by several persons who half taken Pair's Life Pills with the most beneficial effect to tlie(MO Accounts of theiretficacy have been furnished us by vaiious ii)dil Accounts of theiretficacy have been furnished us by vaiious iiid»* viduals who have taken them, since the supply furnished by the patentees in England to Mr. Dowling but they have generally savoured so much of the marvellous, that we have hesitated to make the statements public. However, we are now satisfied fi-o further accounts given to us, that, lo hesitate longer would be per- petrating an act oi criminal omission to our fellow creatures, an^ h iving taking taken the pills ourselves with the most satisfactory result, we perform an act of duty only in most strongly i,ecorn mending the use of litem to the public at large. This we feel the more confidence 111 doing, knowing thai under any they cannot do harm and our conscientious belief is, that thej^ cannot he lakenby any person without doing him good."—Co?"' i, all ( run Liemans hand) Gazette, Dec. 23rd, 1844. The medicine of Old Parr is the most popular of the present day. tt has been before the public only v few years and to this holl period has firmly estaulished Itself in puulic favour, and has effected an immense benefit to all who have obtained: this inestimable medicine genuine. Hence the list of rospeciablo names bearing evidence to the high character of this remedy, ani testifying, beyond the possibility of a doubt, the wonderful character of the medicine bv the number of extraordinary auJ decided cures wholly resulting from its use. This inediciDe» solely hy reason of high character, has extended itself to all parts of the world and therefore, its healing virtues may justly be considered umveisal. Agents are now established in every town in every town in the United Kingdom, and persons desirous of tastiog the character of Parr's Life Pills, may obtain the printed copies of authenticated Testimonials, relating satisfaC' tory particulars of cures effected by this remedy. The following is a list ot H holesale Agents :—London—Edwards, St. Paul's Churchyard, Barclay and Sons, Farringdon-stieet; SuttoB) Bow Churchward. Manchester—Mottershead and Co., Market' place. Edinburgh—J. and It. Raims and Co., Wholesale. Druggists, Dublin—Lecky, Wholesale Druggist. Glasgow-^ s ftlackloed, and Apothecaries' Company. And retailed by every [ Medicine endor in town and conntiy. I Sold in botes at Is. I tid., 2s. 9d., and in family packet JIs, » the lion CommissIOners of Stamps have ordered the words "l'A lilt'S LI FE PILLS''to be engraved on ilie Government. Stamp, pasted round the sides of each box, in WHITF. letters oO, T a it H D ground. Purchasers are also requested to observe Ihat » fac-simile of the Proprietors' signature, "T.RoBEmsandCo. Crane-couit, Fleet-street, London," is piintcd on the directions wrapped round each box, without which none are genuine. IhT Beware of Imitations EXTRAORDINARY NE\V CASES! ATTESTING THAT THERE IS HEALTH FOR ALL I TEA HOLLOWAY'S PILLS. I THE following case of DROPS\ can scarcely be called 3 cure, being so wonderful and extraordinary as to be little short of a miracle Mr. John Robinson, an opulent farmer at Grazie, residing ill Wotton, in Bedfordshire, was lately reduced to the apparent extremities of death, being at the time so bloated with water as to be increased in size to double his usual bigness indeed, his legs had become so large around, that they actually burst in three places. In this most alarming and dangerous state, IllS medical man informed him "that he could not possibly live more than two days longer!" Mr. Robinson, upon hearing this, instantly dismissed,"his doctor, and had recourse alone to the wonderful efficacy of Holloway's Pills, which not only saved his life, but likewise effectually expelled the water from the system, and restored him in a short space of time, by a steady perseve- lance in the use of the pills, to as sound and as perfect a state of health as ever lie enjoyed. N.B. Mr. Robinson, whose life has just been saved by these PilIs, is well known to most persons, not only throughout Bed- fordshire, but also 111 the surrounding counties. AN ASTON iSlllNG CURE OF A CONFIRMED LIVER COMPI.AINT. Mrs. Mary Sandford,residing in Leather-lane, Holborn Lon- don, had been labouring for five years under the effects of 'a dis- eased Liver, winch produced Indigestion, Sick Headaches, Dim- nellS of Sight, Lownessof Spirits, Irritability of Temper, Drow- siness, Occasional Swellings of the body and legs, with General Weakness and Debility. She attended the I lospiials, at diflerent periods, for about three years, but she only got worse instead of better, and her recovery at last appeared quite hopeless; but, notwithstanding the very bad stale of her health, she was. in about two months, restored to perfect health by the means alone of this all powerful and efficacious medicine—Holloway's Pills. Cure cf a case c!1 Great Debility of the System, occasioned by the baneful injluence of Mercury, and the injurious effects of a long residence in tropical climates, by Hollotuay's Pills. James Richards, Esq., a gentleman in the East India Com- pany's Service, and who had resided for the last seventeen years in diflerent darts of India, where his constitution had become impaired from the influence of the climate, and the injurious effects of powerful and frequent doses of that dangerous mineral calomel. which, together, made such inroads on his constitution as to oblige him to return home to England, and on his arrival he placed himself for some lime under the care of a celebrated medical practitioner, but received no benefit from that medical geutleman'* treatment. lie was then advised by a friend (who had tried this medicine), to go through a proper couise of Hol- loway's Pills, which he did; and in about four months his for- merly shattered frame was so completely invigorated as 10 enable him to prepaie himself again for his immediate return to India, whither he will ernbaik in the coming spring of this year, 1845. This gentleman is now residing in Regent's Park, where he is well known, in consequence of his opulence and liberality. Immense demand for Holloway's Pills in the East Indies. Extract of a letterdated 20fh of September, 1843, from Messrs. S. Ferdir.ands and Son ( Agents for the sale of Holloway's Me- dicints in the island of Ceylon). These gentlemen state- All classes of people here are desirous to purchase your Wonderful Medicines, and we regiet that we have now scarcely any left 10 ineet the Immense Demands thaI are daily made upon us for them. We enclose you a testimonial from J. Davison, Fsq., the Superintendent of Lord Elphinstone's Sugar Estate at Caltura, Ceylon and we can, if necessary, send you abundant*- oilier proofs, not only from tha.middling classes, but also from the opulent and influential here, many of whom have deiived immense benefit from the use of your invaluable medicine." Copy of the letter from J. Davison, Esq which is the same alluded lo in the extract of the letter above — "Caltura, 7th August, 1844. My dear sir,'—Mr. Davison has received so much benefit al- ready from Holloway's Pills, that I am induced to trouble you for another supply— viz., an Eleven Shillings Box. Yours truly, J. DAvrsoN. To Messrs. Ferdinands and Son, Holloway's Agents for the Island of Ceylon, Colombo. Time should not be lost in taking this remedy for any of lie following (it, (,a.e., Ague, Asthma, Bilious Complaints, Blotches on the Skin, Bowel Complaints, Colics, Constipation 01 Bowels, Debility, Dropsy, Dysentery, Erysipelas, Female Irregularities, Feveis of all kinds. Fits, Gout, Headaohe, Indigestion, 1 nfiammalions, Jaundice, Liver Complaints, Lumbago, Piles, Rheumatism, Re- tention of the Urine, Sore Throats, Scrofula or King s Evil, Se- condary Symptoms, Stone and Olavel, Tic Doloreux, Tumours. lUcersj W'or.ns of all kinds, weakness from whatever cause. &e. These truly invaluable pills can be obtained at the establish- mentof Professor Holloway, near Temple Bar. where advice, may be had Gratis, and of all respectahle Vendors of Medicines, throughout the civilised world, al the following prices: —Is. l £ d, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d I Is. and 3:35. each box. There is a consi- derable saving by taking the larger sizes. N.B.—Directions for the guidance 01 patients in every disor- der are affixed to each box. NFCFSSITY OR FREE WII I. has in former times agitated the public mind more than in the present day. Boeihave says, It has been either by chance or necessity that all the great dis- coveries in Medicine have been made but still he has lefl the question of NKCI SSI I v v. FREE wn.i. undecided and although Blail's Gout and Hheumallc PIJ)S ale marlltestly olle of the greatest discoveries with which Ihe world lias been blessed, it certainly has nol brought us neaier to the decision ofthe impor- tant qutstion. Newport, Saturday, October 18, 1845. Printed and Pubiislied for the Proprietor, E D W A R f) UOWLtNG ot ') Iltli, lnthe Parish of St. Woo, in the MKH. IN Gene, Printing Office, situate in Corn-street, in the Lorough of Newport,by UT(,[,[ AM CHRISTOPHERS, of No. 1, Cha. les-stieet, in the said Borough. k°iw'0nnA|?.fnl|* :essrs- Newton and Co., Warwick-square, Mr. R. Barker, 33, Fleet btreet; Mr. G. Reynell, 43. Chan- cery-lane, Mr. S. Deacon, CoHee-house, Wo. 3, Walhrook, Dear t be Mansion House, where this paperis regularly liled. i