... MANsION-HousE.-Friday, Mrs. Glennon, the poor Irishwo- man who a few days ago waited upon the Lord Mayor with a letter from the Mayor of Limerick, requesting his lordship's com- passionate notice of her case, came to the Justice-room to beseech two or three words with the Mayor of London. The change in the appearance of the poor woman was indeed very great. Her daughter had been restored to ...

... Monday last, being the Charter-day of this Borough, the following gentlemen were elected and sworn into office j S* the year now ensuing, viz. RICHAIID POWLES, Esq., I -D Y.OR' THOMAS DYKE and CHARLES TYLER, Esqrs., ailiffs;* arid WILLIAM PROSSER, Esq., COrober. MONMOUTH RACES.—Our Races this week commenced under very unfavourable circumstances, both with respect to weather and company. All ...

... PORT OF A NEWPORT. A List of Vessels which have entered Inwards and cleared Outwards at this Port, in the week ending the 4th of August, 1829. INWARDS. WITH TiMBEn AND DEALS.—-Margaret, Williams, for Brewer and Batchelor, from Guernsey. WITH CATTLE, &c.-John and Mary, Edwards; Friends, Mason Martin, Buse; Susannah, Lane and Heart of Oak, Owen, from Corh.-William and Mary, May Fortitude, Tra- ...

... Worcester, Saturday November 14—To-day only sixty-two pockets of new and old hops were weighed in our market • prices are nominally the same as last week. Borough, Monday, November 16.—Our market still remains IRT JUT ?INCE OL ...

... On Thursday a meeting of the unemployed silk-weavers took place at the Crown and Anchor, Waterloo-town, to hear the re- port of the committee appointed at a previous general meeting held at the chapel of the Rev. Mr. Isaacs. A little after two o'clock Mr. Pedigree was called to the chair. After some observations from Mr. Lazarus, a committee-man said, that at the last general meeting it was ...

... NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE.—The following anecdote of Na- poleon, which has never been hitherto published, may be relied upon as authentic. The obligation imposed on British subjects f resident in St. Helena to address Buonaparte by no title than that of General, presented a serious obstacle to a private a audience of the illustrious exile, as he, it is well known, invari- ably refused to dispense ...

... I HOUSE OF LORDS.—Thursday, Oct. 15, being the day for the further prorogation of Parliament, the Lord Chan- cellor, the Earl of Roslyn (Privy Seal), and Lord Beresford, entered the House, and took their seats in Parliamentary robes, as Lords Commissioners for the above purpose. About half-past two o'clock Mr. Quarme, the Deputy black Rod, was directed to call in the Commons he ac- cordingly ...

... In our last we mentioned an extensive robbery which had been effected at the house of Mr. Lowe, the sign of the Waggon and Horses, in the Pork Shambles, and that a person named Farrady had been taken up on suspicion of being one of the robbers.We are happy to say that these suspicions, have, upon investigation; proved entirely unfounded, and that the right parties have been apprehended and ...

... CLERICAL APPOINTMENTS, &c. OXFORD, NOV. 7. The Rev. R. M. Boulthee, B.D., of Merton College, has been instituted by the Bishop of Peterborough to the Rectory of Barn- well, Northamptonshire, on the presentation of the Right Hon. Lord Montagu. The Rev. E. H. Griffies Williams, M.A., to the Rectory of Rushall, Wilts, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Milling- champ. The Rev. J. Dunningham, M.A ...

... COMPARISON OF TIIE EYES IN DIFFERENT ANIMALS.-—The ac- companying observations from the third part of the Library of Religious Knowledge, are more philosophical in point of illus- tration than a parallel passage in Paley :— The first variety which demands attention, is what is called the nictitating membrane. It is a skin thick enough to defend the eye, and yet not so opaque as to exclude the ...

... BERKELEY PEERAGE. Most of our readers will probably recollect that in the course of last summer Colonel Berkeley preferred a petition to the House of Lords, claiming a seat in that house, not as Earl of Berkeley, a Peer of the Realm, but as possessor of the Barony or Baronial feud of Berkeley Castle-devised to him by the will of Frederick Augustus, late Earl of Berkeley. This day Mr. ...

... LADIES' FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. (From La Belle Assemble) HOME COSTUME.—A dress of changeable silks, the colour either amber or fawn, shot with the lightest shade of straw-colour or white. At the border of the skirt is a very broad hem, headed by two rouleaux of corn-flower-blue satin, set on separate, and the rouleaux next the hem much wider than the upper one. The body is made plain, and ...