... weaker than cat, and very timorous. Spinsters Amongst our industrious and frugal forefathers, it was a maxim, that a young woman should never be married until she had spun herself a set of body, table, and bed linen. From this custom, unmarried women were ...

... observations of Mr. Plunkett, in the course of whicn, he said the right hon. gentleman had stated the association had, got an army—an army of 30,000 men, armed with—a leathern bag, and slate to register names, officered by two thousand five hundred priests. ...

... —llth. We are not to believe t/icir oaths, for their principles are damnation ! We are bound to drive heretics out of the land with fire, sword, faggot, and confusion; our holy father says, their heresy prevails, we are still to become their slaves. ...

... the naval code; he contended that all offences not defined or definable should be inquired into by court martial, as in the army. He mentioned several cases of severity in the navy, arising from what he termed arbitrary punishment, and here read extract ...

... at the Foreign Office. There were present Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, the Prussian, the Swedish, the Nether, lands, the Spanish, the Danish, the Sardinian, the Neapolitan, &c. Mr. Canning gave private interviews to each of their excellencies ...

... marriage: At Gruyera, tiie famous cheese city, bachelor of eighty-six an elderly gentleman, who has seen service in the French army and in the course of it lost both his legs, at the age of thirty' was married this day fortnight to a lady of seventy years ...

... the archbishop of the army. The two kings, Ricbartt and Philip, were exempt from these restrictions, and might play for what they pleased ; but their attendants were not to exceed 205., on pain of being whipped naked through the army for three days. The ...

... Lady Patroness, Miss —prosperity to the County of Lancaster.— Prosperity to the County Chester—The Duke Wellington and the Army—The Towns and Trade Manchester and Salford. The gentlemen who have been nominated Stewards for the ensuing year are A. Borron ...

... dry land. Singular Custom—There a custom in Jersey, which occurs fortunately but once in thirty years, but when it does come it is absolute, and from it there is no appeal. Certain officers who have the care of preserving the boundaries of land, ride ...

... committed in Paris.— The following is the substance of the details, which are indeed horrible:—A woman named Henriette, who lodged in the same house with another woman of the name of Bcuon, where she kept fruiterer's shop, off red to take charge of her infant ...

... with the remnant of the Austrian army, to Berlin, where he resolved to await the French army; but on the defeat of the Austrians, tbe battle of Austerlitz, returned to Petersburgh, leaving the greater part of his army on the frontiers of Germany. lf!flf» ...

... engaged in taking out some the windows, and had fortunately just escaped in time to avoid being buried in the ruins Last week woman in London sold the dead body of her husband for dissection—lt is reported that the Ariadne, which was to have brought home ...