... HOUSE OF LORDS, Monday, June 22. It is well known that the two Houses of Parliament are ex- tremely jealous of any infringement of their respective privileges, not only by the public, but by each other. A short time ago the House of Lords made certain amendments in a bill transmitted them by the Commons, for the purpose of altering the laws relative to the employment of children in the cotton ...

... TROTTING MATCH FOR 100 SOVEREIGNS.—-On Monday after- noon, a grand trotting match took place for 100 sovereigns, be- tween Mr. Bonner's Glamorganshire pony, and Mr. Perry's cele- brated Flintshire pony, which has won every match. The ponies were to trot in harness, and the ground chosen for the occasion was, from the one mile-stone on the Mile End-road, to trot ten miles out on the Rumford ...

... CRIMINAL INFORMATION.—EX-PARTE THE LORD CHANCELLOR. At the sitting of the court the Attorney-General rose to move for leave to file a criminal information against J. Fisher, Robert Alexander, and John Matthew Gutch, the publisher and propri- etor of the Morning Journal newspaper, for a libel inserted in that newspaper of and concerning the Lord Chancellor. It might be asked, why, in the case ...

... This morning, at twelve o'clock, these sessions ended, when the Recorder passed the sentences upon a greater number of prisoners than have been brought up for judgment at any corres- ponding sessions, for several years past. The awful sentence of death was passed upon the following unhappy individuals, viz.: Charles Smith, Henry Pike, Mary Brown, Susannah GIbbs, Mary Ann Bacon, Thomas Devine, ...

... Letters from Rome to the 5th inst. speak of the shocks of earthquake experienced there, and add that the severest shock was felt on the 1st, by which one of the churches and several of the buildings sustained serious damage. PARIS, June 16.—Vessels bound for those ports of the Ottoman empire which Admiral Heyden has just declared in a state of blockade, have been stopped by the Russian ships. ...

... APRIL, 1829.—It is now time to say something of St. Peters- burgh, and I can assure you that this is a task I enter upon with considerable reluctance, as the subject has so recently been dis- cussed by more able and accomplished travellers, yet I should but ill discharge the duties of your correspondent were I not to contribute my mite, and should pay but a poor compliment to the Russian ...

... The Rev. Thos. Williams, of the Priory, Usk, has been appointed by the Chancellor of the Diocese of Llandaff, a Surrogate for granting marriage licenses. HAY-MAKING.—The continual rain that has fallen during this year's hay-making season has not only damaged a vast quantity of clover and hay, but has actually rendered the crops in some places in this neighbourhood of no use, but for the dung ...

... MY DEAR B.—We was all at the wet feet at Chissick on Sa- turday; Lavy and Fulmer, and Mounsheer, my second, and two june dimiselles, as Mounsheer calls them and sich a site as that for a breakfast, never did I clap my two eyes on-furst of all, we went off in Fulmer's broach and Mounsheer's brisket-all in the poring rein-two cargoes of us, and we was literally socked through and through afore ...

... PARIS, JULY 4.—Letters from Constantinople of the 11th of June say that it is expected that the Sultan will admit into his presence, without the usual formalities, the Ambas- sadors of France and England, as soon as they arrive in the capital, in order to converse personally with them, only through the medium of an interpreter. This supposition is founded on the circumstance that the Sultan is ...

... HOPS. Borough July 6.—The accounts this day from all quarters state that the bines continue loaded with vermin; the strong bines continue growing, though in many places the poison from the vermin begins to show its effects, and according to all appearance must soon yield to the attack. The duty £45,000 to £ 50,000. Rather more doing in New Sussex and Weald Kent pockets, at 3s to 5s advance ...

... ODD MISTAKE.—Judge Hall says, I once travelled through Illinois when the wateis were high; and when I was told that Little Mary would stop me, and that to get by Big Mary was impossible, I supposed them to be attractive damsels, who, like beauteous Circe of old, amused themselves with playing tricks upon travellers. But lo instead of blushing, blooming, and melodious maids, I found torrents ...

... THE REVENUE. Upon the revenue for the quarter ending 5th of July, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, there is a deficiency of £ 349,693; being somewhat about £200,000 more than was expected. For ourselves, we confess that we are not at all surprised at the deficiency, nor do we think it can be matter of wonder or alarm in any quarter. There must always be a fluctuation in ...