... From the Comic Offeringfor 1834. Bucks-Dashing beaux; animals of the deer kind; part of a county, the remainder of which is in ham shire. Coventry—A place to which disgraced people are sent, but don't go; a punishment said to be unspeak- able. Gentility—A word, the use of which betrays in- curable vulgarity. Heart-Of a statesman, in his head-of a soldier, in his (irms-,of a coward, in his legs ...

... CAMBRIAN, GLOUCESTER, ASD BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A meeting was held at Gloucester on Wednesday last to consider the expediency of forming a Railway from that city to this town, and resolu tions in favonr of the projected undertaking were accordingly passed. The Committee however ap- pointed at that meeting have since met, and as rery serious objections appear to have arisen to the pro- posed line ...

... These races commenced on Wednesday, the 24th ult., the weather proving favourable each day for the occasion with a fine breeze. It atttacted a numerous assemblage of rank and fashion, anxious to witness these highly de- lightfll1 aquatic sports, with which every one seemed much entertained. From the number of pleasure-boats and yachts seen cruizing about to witness the manoeuvring of the ...

... THE NUMBER of YOTERS in ENGLAND BEFORE and SINCE the PASSING of the REFORM BILL. (From the Quarterly The ministers presented to the late parliament a paper, stating the greatest number of electors which had polled at any contest for the several towns in England in the last thirty years we have selected all those that appear as contested in that list, and have compared the former number of ...

... our last number, in toe anicie Beer For Air. C. Forrest -in(i Evai,s, Surgeons, read Mr. C. Forrest and Sir. Roberts, &c. ...

... CAMBRIAN, GLOVCESTEU, AND LOXDOX RML- no.vii.—Our readers will see in an advertisement, that our liberal and enterprising neighbours in Swan- sea have taken in hand the promotion of this great national improvement, in their usual spirited manner. We regret that the crowded state of our columns pre- vents us referring to the subject at present, which, however, we shall do in our next. WF.SLEYAN ...

... Viewing the principle of those excellent institu- tions, the Savings Banks, conducted as they have hitherto been, in conformity to the plan laid down by that eminent statesman and true patriot, Sir George Rose, we have hitherto considered them worthy of our unqualified commendation. We confess, however, that the following extract from the Age induces us to fear that something ominous is now ...

... MERTHYR TYDVIL Printed and Published b/# t WILLIAM MALLALIKU, at the Office, High &e, | where Orders, Advertisements, Communications* I are requested to be addressed. f ...

... GOLD AND SILVER COINED. The returns of the operations at his Majesty's Mint for the period of twenty years, closing with 1829, show, that during the latter ten years (1810 to 1829) the value of the Gold coined was £ -23,803,783 more than during the preceding ten years (1790 to 1800), and of the Silver coined Xg,148,195 more. It is indeed somewhat remark- able, as to the latter metal, that ...

... MERTHYR y YDVIL, SATURDAY, April 5, 183 4. Whoever has carefully viewed the fluctuations which the last ten years have brought upon trade and on the condition of the labouring classes in England, must be forcibly struck with the coinci- dence between these events and the astonishing decline of religion and loyalty, of moral princi- ple, and of patriotic feeling, that we have at the same time ...

... GLAMORGANSHIRE, THE MARQUIS OF BUTE.!—The Marquis and Marchioness of Bute are this day expected at Cardiff Castle from Mountstuart. Tiie 13i 11 for altering and enlarging the powers of an Act passed in 183 1 for empowering the Mar- quis of Btue to make a Ship Canal at Cardiff, near the mouth of the river Tuff, was read a third time in the House of Commons on the 26th tilt. and on the same day ...

... GXSaniWST POETICAL, VERSUS POLITICAL, ECOXOMY.—Fre- deric the Great, king of Prussia, as it is well known, was very economical, and so was also Voltaire; and this circumstance in their respective characters occasioned additional differences between them. Among the advantages which were to accrue to Voltaire, in consequence of his residence in the palace of the king of Prussia, was the being ...