... Awkwardness.—Man is naturally the most awkward animal that inhales the breath of life. There is nothing, however simple, which he can perform with the smallest approach to graceful- ness or ease. If he walks,-he hobbles, or jumps, or limps, or trots, or sidles, or creeps,-but creeping, sidling, limping, hob- bling, and jumping, are by no means walking. If he sits,-he fidgets, twists his legs ...

... The lines of A Constant Reader are more fitted for private cir- culation than for the columns of a County Newspaper, which ought,not to gratify one party at the expence of another-parti- cularly when it might unknowingly offend the feelings of a friend. ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. ¥ke division lists of the House of Commons are often so incorrect ihatws cannot take upon ourselves to decide the question put to us by a, subscriber at Abergavenny. We recommend a personal application to the gentleman whose,voie is the subject of dispute. We have seen the article in last Sunday's Examiner, to which Philo-Merlin alludes. We are not surprised that the testi- ...

... Monmouth, Saturday, February 19—Wheat, 72s Od to 80s 10 £ Barley, 38s 8d to 45s 4d Oats, 22s Od to 2Ss 8d Beans, OOso to 00s Od per Imperial quarter. Abergavenny, February 19.—Wheat, 80s5jd Barley, 42s V* Oats, 00s Od Beans, 00s Od Peas, 00s Od per Imperial Hereford, Feb. 19.—Wheat, per bushel weighing 801bs, Hs Oats, 00s Od Beans, 00s Od Peas, 00s Od per Imperial quarter. Hereford, Feb. 19 ...

... A, few days ago, at the suggestion of several respectable K^itlemen who thought that the object of the intended AIemorial to the Post Master General would be greatly tornoted by the support of the Marquis of Worcester and ord Granville Somerset, on account of their official con, •ection with this part of the county, we addressed a letter »u e proper quarter, and are happy to inform our readers ...

... CIVILSIDE.—Nichollsv. Stover.—This was an action brought to recover the sum of X247 being the amount due by the defendant for goods sold and delivered. Mr. Taunton and Mr. Godson conducted the case for the plain- tiff, and Mr. Phillpotts appeared for the defendant. Mr. Taunton said, that the plaintiff was a cooper, and the defendant a publican, and he should prove that the goods were delivered ...

... The icriter of the letter under the signature of Giraldus Cam- brensis having requested us to return his manuscript, as the delay of its appearance afforded him an Opportunity to revise and nmend some portion of it, will explain the cause of its being withheld this week. ...

... On the first of this month the weather was tolerably fine on the third most parts of England were visited by an awfully vio- lent thunder-storm, the deluging rains that accompanied which did great damage to some of the grass crops, by causing rivers, &c. to overflow their banks, whilst its lightning was, in several instances, fatal to both man and beast, as well as seriously de- structive of ...

... THE YOUNGEST. The voice of the mourner is heard on the air, And the old hall is darkened as midnight were there And the foot-falls are soft, as they feared to awake The sleep they would yet give the wide world to break. Their youngest, their dearest, is gone to his rest, With health on his brow, and with joy in his breast; The morning he bounded all life o'er the hill, At night the light step ...

... MANSION-HOUSE.—Ebenezer Coker, a Billingsgate porter, but as lean as a Spitalfields weaver, was called upon to show cause why he should not be punished according to law for having amused himself by pulling the nose of John Dixon, without the owner's leave. John Dixon deposed that he knowed nothink on the defendant, and the defendant knowed nothink on him, no furder than being tosticated he ...

... The Star gives the following epitome of the plan of Re- form said to be in the contemplation of Ministers:—The elective franchise to be extended, generally, to all house- keepers paying £10 per annum in clear rent; no out-voters or non-residents to have votes. The qualification of mem- bers to be raised and to be real: all places not having 200 voters, or diminishing to below that number of ...

... Mr. Maurice O'Connell has been returned for the county of Clare, Sir Edward O'Brien having resigned the contest. On Monday se'nnight a duel took place between Mr. Mahon, the brother of O'Gorman, and Mr. W. S. Brien, in consequence of the latter having called the former a liar on the hustings. An exchange of harmless shots took place and the parties left the field, but without coming to any ...