... The following interesting description of the attack is given in the last number of the United service Journal:—The ships company were piped to dinner, and at one o'clock the captain and officers sat down to theirs in the gun-room, the principal dish of which was a substantial sea pie wine was pledged in a bumper to a successful attack, and a general expression of hope for an unsuccessful ...

... (For the Monmouthshire Merlin.) As from the scenes of pomp and pride, Where o'erdone splendour palls the sight, We turn distastefully aside, And in the cottage seek delight. So, when the summer sun hath set, We pause not at his loss to grieve, But find a solace for regret In gazing on the charms of eve— Those purer charms, that to the mind A tenderness of joy impart- Such as religion leaves ...

... INQUESTS.—The two following accidents will furnish a useful caution to mothers :-On Thursday week last an inquest was held before Mr. Stirling, one of the coroners of Middlesex, touch- ing the death of Johez Alexander Mackenzie, aged five years. Mr. M'Leod, surgeon was called on to attend the deceased on Saturday week last, and was informed he had been playing near a window, and had fallen out ...

... A SCOTTISH LEGEND-BY SIR WALTER SCOTT. In the reign of Alexander III. of Scotland, there flourished in that kingdom Thomas of Kersildoune, surnamed the Rhymer. This personage-the Merlin of Scotland, and to whom some of the adventures which the British bards assigned to Merlin Cale- dcn;s, or the vVild, has been transferred by tradition-was, as is well known, a magician, as well as a poet and ...

... To FARMERS.—On the Utility of Saltpetre as a Manure.— About ten years ago the price of saltpetre became so reduced, as to offer facilities to cultivators for its use. It is principally ap- plied to wheat as a top dressing, and used in spring at the earliest shoot of the plant. The driest and most grainy rough saltpetre is to be preferred, and applied in the proportion of two bushels, or one ...

... CURIOUS CORRESPONDENCE.—TO make the following corres- pondence intelligible to our country readers it is necessary to premise that the first letter contains the name of every Fire and Life Assurance Office, established in London at the time it bears date:— London, 9th January, 1823. My dear Girl,—Being particularly anxious of insuring you for life, from the conviction that a Life Association ...

... AIR. WILLIAM Jmms's ALMS HousES AND FREE: GRAMMAR SCHOOL. This is a perpetual charity; and the name of the founder will be co-eval with the existence of Great Britain as a civilised country for who but barbarians will ever dare to con- fiscate the inheritance of the poor? The objects of the charity are to clothe the naked, give food to the hungry, and instruction to the ignorant. Though the ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Thursday, June 4. Sir J. Mackintosh presented a petition from Mr. Charles Buck, complaining that managers of theatres were allowed to perform dramatic pieces without the knowledge or leave of the writer, and without any profit to him. The hon. member said that Lord Byron and Mr. Milman had made similar complaints, and that every person who had given that subject consideration ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—Thursday, June 4. The Royal Assent was given by commission to some public and private bills of no general interest, and the house adjourned. Friday, June 5. ANATOMY BILL. This bill was withdrawn for the present session, after various objections had been stated by different noble lords, and particu- larly by Lord Tenterden, who said he could not consent to give power to the ...

... ON SEEING THE TOWLR CHEPSTOW CASTLE, WHERE HEN It Y 18 SAID TO IrAVE BEEN IMPRISONED. if- (For the Monmouthshire Merlin.) Why shudderest thou, my soul 1 why fall these tears? E'en Kings must die—too true-they must-they must And when enfeebled with the weight of years, As nature's law compels, they sink to dust- The ugh sad the consummation, it is just. But thus by traitors doom'd upon the ...

... A Canton paper of the 17th Jan. has been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, stating that the latest accounts from Peking confirm the report which was heard some time since of a rebellion being detected in Yunnan. The rebel leader had an imperial seal engraved, and published manifestos on the frontiers and in Cochin China, to invite the people to the standard of revolt, but ...

... The vacant trusteeship of the British Museum, occasioned by the death of Lord Colchester, has been filled by the elec- tion of Mr. Alexander Baring. The following story is in circulation relative to the ad- vancement of the Lord Chief Justice Best to the Peerage: It is said that some little time back he was waited upon by the Lord Chancellor, who informed him that it was a settled arrangement ...