... 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. ...

... 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. ...

... (From the New Monthly Magazine.) In Moscow all kinds of churches exist, and amongst them is a church, it cannot be called a mosque, for Tartar worship. I at- tended on Friday; and as they had no minah to call the pious at the hour of prayer, the Imaun mounted a wall, and stood in a tottering situation, exhorting the people with Allah is God to prayer, come to prayer-prayer is to be preferred ...

... The above institution, at a late meeting held at the society's house in the Adelphi, after the usual routine business was dis- posed of, arranged the rewards in money, and gold and silver medals, for the session 1830, to be given for the following, among other improvements in agriculture, the arts and sciences, viz.- Gaining tracts of land from the sea, and bringing the same into cultivation ...

... J PROVINCIAL. ) Monmouth, Saturday, Decembei- 19.—Wheat, per bushel of ten' gallons, 9s 5id to 10s 2 £ d Barley, 4s 2d to 5s 6d Oats, 3s Od to 4s Od. Abergavenny, December 19.—Wheat, 66s Id Barley, 3653id Oats, 20s Od Beans, 48s Od Pease, 41s Od per Imperial quar- ter. Gloucester, Dec. 19.—Wheat, 7s Od to 9s 6d; Barley 4s 6d to 5s 9d; Beans, 5s Od to 6s Od; Oats, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per bushel; ...

... The Speaker communicated to the house the fact of the above- mentioned bill having received the Royal assent, with certain amendments made by the House of Lords, which had not received the assent of the Commons, and a deputation was appointed to confer with their Lordships thereon. A conference having taken place, and the explanation of their Lordships having been stated to the house it was ...

... THE ARMY. MILITARY REMINISCENCES. A Night before St. Sebastian.-During the second attack upon St. Sebastian, I passed the most eventful night, or rather morn- ing, I ever spent; I will not allow from fear, for I was not afraid, but from extreme suspense and surprize. I was sure of being killed, and had made up my mind to it. I was desirous to be killed at once, feeling like a man going to be ...

... Worcester, August 8.—The hopes faintly entertained last week of the hops rallying, so as to produce a middling crop in some- places, are, we understand, now entirely vanished. The planta- tions, we learn, have been daily getting from bad to worse, and. that it will fall ...

... The following are the details, as given in the French pa- pers, of the reception of Mr. Gordon, the British Minister Plenipotentiary, at the Palace of the Porte, at Constantino- ple, by the Kaimakan, as substitute for the Grand Vizier :— At half-past eleven o'clock in the morning, the procession left the hotel of the British Legation, and proceeded, by way of Pera, to Tophane, the place of ...

... EPIGRAM. To a Great Beauty. Believe me, my corpulent fair, I love your fat cheeks and full face; Oh! my heart!-your eyes kindle love there, And I sink in your melting embrace. The poor buzzing fly does the same, While yet inexperiene'd and callow; First burns his bright wings in the flame, And then-tumbles into the tallow! IMPROMPTU. oil some Church Bells alternately ringing for a Marriage, ...