... 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 ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,—The general desire which appears to exist in the town of settling the disputes with the county, induces me to request you to insert this note in your Journal, as the best method of submitting some points to public consideration which appear not at present to be generally known- Froii the fourth of October, 1819, when I made the second apphcation ...

... I HAPPINESS. gm (BY THE LATE BISHOP HEBER.) MB One morning in the month of May fill I wander'd o'er the hill; fin Though nature all around was gay, B My heart was heavy still. PP Can God, I thought, the good, the great, HI These meaner creatures bless, H| And yet deny our human state The boon of happiness? Tell me, ye woods, ye smiling plains, SB Ye blessed birds around, BB Where, in ...

... THE KISG V. ELIZABETH BUXTON, OTHERWISE HICKSON.— Mr. Brougham applied for a writ of certiorari to remove the pro- ceedings in this case into the Court of King's Bench. The grounds upon which the learned counsel made this application are of a singularly distressing'nature and shortly as follows. In the beginning of the year 1828 the present, defendant, a young lady most respectably connected ...

... (From an English translation just published.) The Magyars are a nation who abound in the staple ma- terials of poetry,—fancy, invention, enthusiasm, and strong susceptibility to the external influences of nature. They are a branch of the great Hungarian tribe but it is only of late years that poetry, as an art, has been cultivated with any success among them. Once sown, however, the seeds seem ...

... Mr. Littleton, after disclaiming all personal feeling towards the member for Colchester, introduced a motion which originated in a petition he had previously presented from Mr. Ayre Lee, who had received a letter signed W. R. Sidney, announcing that the writer had entered into a professional connexion with Mr. D. W. Harvey, a member of that House, for the purpose of car- ry ing on the business ...

... DOMINE MERI.IN,-—-Although every place has its peculiari- ties, yet Monmouth possesses some that are rare, and 1 had almost said, incredible. Being in a joyous humour, I will re- late a few of them, for the amusement of the men of Gwent, on the May morning, which promises to be as bright and sunny as many I can remember in the days of my youth. Know then, friend Domine, that in this town we ...

... HERTFORD, March 6.—James Franklin was indicted for the' murder of his wife Mary, at Bishop Stortford, on the 12th of December last. The prisoner had been married to the deceased more than twenty years, and was the father of eight children. From the evidence of the witnesses who were examined on the part of the prosecution, it appeared that, on the 12th December last, while the family were at ...

... On Wednesday last a meeting took place on Usher's Quay, in Dublin, to celebrate the late events in France, the Marquis of Westmeath in the chair. Ilis lordship addressed the meeting at some length, and concluded by moving that the first resolution should be read, and submitted for their consideration. A letter from Mr. O'Connell was read, in which he eulogized the French people, and ...

... The Duke of Wellington arrived at Manchester on Saturday night about six o'clock. He merely changed horses in the town, and then proceeded to Eeaton-house, the seat of the Earl of Wil- ton. He returned to Manchester on Monday morning, about 12 o'clock, when he proceeded to visit the factory of Messrs. Sharpe and Co., engineers, and of Messrs. Birley, spinners, and paraded slowly through the ...

... FATAL CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA. — We have this week to lay before our readers a most distressing instance of hydrophobia, in the case of a boy named John Bradshaw, re- siding in Gore-street, Salford, which terminated fatally yester- day morning. It appears that about two months ago the boy was in Oldfield- lane when a number of persons were pursuing a dog supposed to be in a rabid state; and, ...