... DOMENICHINO'S ADDRESS TO THE PORTRAIT OF HIS MISTRESS.* Ah! smile not so, thou mimic loveliness- Thou cherish'd image of my lost Floranthe The smiles of Hope and Joy are lost on me They shine around me like the useless light Upon some dreary mountain's lone sterility, Making its desolation only visible. Yet once I woo'd coy Happiness, and won her, And this lone heart was bursting with her ...

... DOMESTIC. The appearance of the French squadron at Spithead has induced a very general belief that England and France have at length determined to enforce upon Holland and Belgium a final adjustment of their differences and that the blockade of the Dutch coast and the occupation of Antwerp would immediately take place. The Nouvelliste, one of the organs of the French Government, has given what ...

... A Natchez paper relates the particulars of the shocking death of a young man of respeclable relations named John Morfat, who kept a grocery store in that city. He was much addicted to hard drinking, and for the last two or three weeks of his life he had not a sober hour. Under the maddening influence of intoxication, he sold his esta- blishment, and started on horseback fur North Carolina. ...

... AUDI ALTERAM PAHTOI.—A juryman applied to be excused from serving at the Monmouth Assizes. Mr. Baron Bolland On what ground Sir ■»—Juryman I am deaf, my Lord. Mr. Baron Botland: Can you hear what I say?—Juryman Yes, my Lord, but I can only hear with one ear. Mr. Baron Bol- land Then you may go, Sir. A juryman ought to have two ears it is bis duty to hear both sides. BLUNT WrTNUSES._H Mr. Hill. ...

... ADULTERATED FLOUR.—Lime constif tion of the chymical components of nUteSa^ree nftr detect lime put into flour, by the hand, }tUre wheat. Tr should fto sure to be found in it; the proof of °F lime is would be better obtained by placing Alteration' flour in water, and examining the serfjfJ ...

... PUNISHMENT OF THE I.ATE MINISTERS OF FRANCE.—The Chamber of Deputies is engaged with the preliminary proceed- ings of an impeachment of the French ministers. These men de- serve punishment, but we think that France will best consult her own honour and happiness by inflicting it with moderation. From the spirit of some of the denunciations pronounced against the delinquents, it seems that it is ...

... At Caen, in Normandy, they have a public library still more extensive and magnificent than that at Tours, accessible to all persons, strangers as well as others. This library contains many valuable, authentic, and ancient works relating to events inter- esting to this country, as well as to France, treating of that period of history when the north and north-west part of that country belonged ...

... SIB,—I am sorry to be the cause of giving you any trouble on the present occasion, but knowing that your valuable paper is more in circulation in this quarter than any other Journ al, I beg a small space, should you think the matter worth noticing. At our late contest for the borough of Brecon, there were, on both sides, many small voters, £10-men. A few days ago some acting in- dividuals in ...

... SPAIN. HEAD-QUARTERS, ST. SEBASTIAN, APRIL 22.—The 6th and 3d regiments, with the Lieutenant-general and his staff, disembarked here at eight o'clock this morning. nine days after leaving Vittoria, including three days' sojourn at Santander. The RiBes, under Colonel de llottenberg, vill arrive to-morrow; and in the course of two days more the whole force of the Legion will be concentrated here ...

... division, arose on the subject of the Metropolitan Suspension Bridge. The majority for the further consideration of the report was 79. Mr. Gully begged to call the attention of the house to a subject that had occurred some time since with respect to the challenge thrown out by the hon. member for Dublin to the hon. and learned member for Bradfoid. He accused the hon. member of having paid £20 ...

... COUNTIIY MARKETS. Mon month. Saturday, August 19.— W heat, per quarter, Impe- tial measure, 58s 1 Id to OOs Od; Mariey, OOs Cd to 00s Od Oats. (i, Od to Os Od. Bristot, Auguft 22.—Wheat, per quaiter, 51s 9d Barley, 24s Od Oats, 22s lid Rye, Os Od Beans, 44s Od Peas, Os Od. Brecon, Tuesday, August 16. — Wheat, per bushel, Imperial measure, 7s 6d to 8s Od Barley, 4s 3d to 4s 6d Oats, 3s t>d to ...

... SENSIBILITY TO MUSIC.—The published fact of the female r 10 IM! ^r0nr> ,Mrin« 100 n,ur'1 fousic, we do not imagine to *nown in this conntiy we therefore give a sketch of t en from the Surgical Repertory of Turin. A wnmm, 28 years o age, who had never left her village or heard a conceit, was pre^nt ai a ihree days' fele in 1834, and dancing was car- ne on to the sounds of a biilliant orchestra. ...