... DOME STIC. A Son)cRana .-AIA extraordinary scene took PULce in the Central Criminal Court on Saturday lnight last. A woman, named Ryan, who has been long known as a pickpocket and shoplifter, was tried, together with her brother, for having picked the pocket of it widow in passing into the pit of tile Pavilion theatre. A person belonging to the London Docks swore that he distinctly saw the ...

... SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CISTIAN KEOwLboE-nOf Sunday morning last, a sermon was preached in the Parish Church, Lancaster, by the Rev, Georgc Morland, and a col- lection made in aid of the funds of this society. h1is LATE MATESTY.-Owing to a report which appeared in a second edition of Monday's Standard, the usual de- monstrations of loyalty and sorrow, evinced on the death of a sovereign, were ...

... FoltEIGN , SPAIN. The intelligence from Spain is more favourable to the cause of the Queen; and there seems to be a fair ground for expect- ing a speedy termination of the war. The Carlists, feeling that they could not cope with the large force assembled in St. Sebastian, removed their artillery from Hernani ; and the main body of their forces marched eastward towards the kingdom of Arragon, ...

... -A mtuial passion had been, formed between a young clerk of Paris and Madame B-, a married lady, residing near St. Germain, who, though dappioaching the age of 40,. was still handsome. The clerk, a few mornings back, liaid a visit to the lady, and informed her that he was sbout to travel for ton months, but was resolved not to go withitit her; and on her objecting to elope with him, declared ...

... BIBLE STATISTICS. fit the Old Testament. In ?? New. Total. ?? 39 .. - 27 ?? 66 Chapters ?? . 929 ?? . 2(10 ?? . 1189 Verses ?? .3,214 ?? ?? 7,959 .31,173 'Words .. 592,493 ?? 18t,253 . 7 73,746 Letters .. 2,72S,11)0 ?? 838,380. . 3,56t6,48c0 The Apocrypha has 183 chapters, 6081 verses, and 125,185 words. The middle chapter and the least in the Bible is the 117th Psalm ; the middle verse is the ...

... MAL-A-PinorPos OEnDrrzcr. -A schoolmaster (worthy brother of the scholar in Hierocles) taught his boys, when- ever they heard him Sneeze, to rise up with solemnity, cross their hands on their-bosoms, and ejaculate, I God preserve our venerable tutor! One day he took themnout for a walk, and the weather being hot, it was proposed they should drink at a well. The well was deep, so the master ...

... PRESTON MARKET.-(TnsS DAY) Twe'SCv o'clock There was a fair supply of grain at this morning's market. Good qualities of Wheat maintained the quotations of last week, but ordinary sorts were about 6d. per windle lower. a. A. i. d. WhiEAT, V windle of 2201bs ?? 27 0 to 29 0 Do. Red, new ?? 25 6 27 0 Unsound and inferior sorts ?? 0 0 0 FLoun, Superfine, Vt pack of 2401bs . ?? 45 0 46 0 Do. Common ...

... - - ?? ,I . ?? I PUBLTC ABATTOIt S. . They order, said 1, this matter better in rranee.'`-,9trrc. To the Editor of thc Preston, Chi oni&. It is surprising to me that in a town so well regulated generally as Preston, no notice should be taken of the great nuisance which the places occupicl by the butchers for the slaughtering of cattle, are to tlte population in their immediate vicinity. It may ...

... CatlE It; SOCIETY IN AMeRcA.-Whatever may be the talents of the persons who meet together in society, the very shape, form, and arrangement of the sheet- Ihgis sufficient to paralize conversation. The wo- men invariably herd together at one part of, the room, and the men at the other; but, in justice to Cincinnati, I must acknowledge that this arrange- ment is by no means peculiar to that city ...

... 1.,- ?? n.,gt1 1 X tt8.' ?? : Jr FRANCE. . ALiA5 flAidAKNCB8 AAT L: ow ?? Paris journals of S~atiaday.'ati~j't^tghasterious disturbances had broken out at ?? in the kingdom, and some of the writers Rwtate tintbt th'ins~i~tton threatened to extend itself through Ithe',wh'tld o~thiii4 mi O The-carses of the commotion were saidto he be Ays is known to be the chief manufacturing o*4w nniir B ...

... SATURDAY, DECEM1BER 17, 1S31. Trim NEw 1REFOant BILt..-O.1 .lo'idiy last, Lord Tohn Russell brought forward ?? new Rletorni lill,-uor rather the old Bill in an amended shape. From the cur- sory exposition which he furnished of its several altera- tions and provisions, it appears to be so nearly allied to the last, both in 'principle and in tenour, that its efficacy in practice will, we doubt ...

... ?? -- 'Jl F 1 JM i, t. 1-11'. I ?? ?? I 7'itia Pse 'a P 'zr I -2 a,, , I .uday I35a,llUl pe rantii, again st aegro slat- erve. TIhe Earl of SuffieldI presented ?? petitions n the same subject. REFUORM COMMITTEE. Thle ?? t C/rawan'Ir proposed thle 18th clrvase, as aamaaatdd. It now providedl for the righlts of batnafifde free- hlo'&rs. The 19th, 201th, '21st, and 123d clauses were tagrect ...