... The Confectioners in various parts of the kingdom took the opportunity of the severe part of Suuday night to ftupply themselves with ice, which in many places was three quarters of an inch thick. Outstanding c^rn, aud the thermometer at 25 degrees, in October, are, fortunately, very rare coincidences- A YANKEE EDITOR.—The following is from the New York Herald, a penny newspaper :—«« We ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE MERTHYR GUARDIAN. S I Lt In your paper of Saturday last, I perceive that A Conservator has travelled a long way from Hereford to get his misrepresentations printed aitd published. Had his real object been to speak the truth, the whole truth, aDd nothing but the truth, he knows that .neans are affordad him in the columns of the two newspapers published in this city. ...

... GOLD AND SILVER COINED. The returns of the operations at his Majesty's Mint for the period of twenty years, closing with 1829, show, that during the latter ten years (1810 to 1829) the value of the Gold coined was £ -23,803,783 more than during the preceding ten years (1790 to 1800), and of the Silver coined Xg,148,195 more. It is indeed somewhat remark- able, as to the latter metal, that ...

... The Bishop of Durham has, in the most quiet and un. ostentatious manner, dispensed in private charity during the lust year upwards of nine thousand pounds. Wei) may it be said to the detractors of this excellent and pious individual; Go you and do likewise. Newcastle Journal. TROOPS FOR JAMAICA.—Monday, Captain Goldie. Ensigns Morritt and Durham, and 40 rank and file of the 37th regiment, ...

... COMMERCE OF RUSSIA. (From the ■Journal of St. Petersburyh, Nov. 26—Dec 8.) Fp to the 1st of October the merchanUise exported from the port of Taganrog amounted to the value of H 333,(JOB roubles, in which sum wheat figured iox tLIE sum of 6,005,609 roubles, iron bars to the amount of 768,073 roubles, wool for 451,228 roubles, Imports were to the value of 5,563.5tiS roubles, of which t,()74,4i ...

... NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. A free thinker who sends i:s his first address, need not trouhle himself lo prepare a second. H. Y. Z. is quite unintelligible. Mont-c-la's letter ii i-ece;ve(l. ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE AND GUARDIAN. SIR,—In your last week's Guardian I read a letter signed Nidensis, in which he seems to wish for an account of the celebrated pirate and Buccaneer, Captain Morgan. In 'a book entitled A 'geiteral history of the lives and alTd actions of the most remarkable Highwaymen, Pirates, &c.» I find a short history of this Morgan, but us the .account alluded to ...

... KEPPEL t'. BAILEY.—COURT OF CHANCERY.—In this case the appliOMiOtl was to dissolve an injunction granted by the Vice Chancellor. The injunction re- strained the proprietors of the Beaufort ironworks from using a railroad which they themselves had made, on the ground that it was against a covenant which their predecessors had entered into, binding themselves to use a railway belonging to the ...

... THE Cliunctf, Dl^SENTEitS, Ire. THE ESTABLISHED Cli utteil. -Monday, the Rev. Hugh Hunter and Mr. Win. Howitt, the gentlemen appointed by the Nottingham Dissenters to present their memorial on Church Reform to Lord Grey, were introduced to the Premier by Lord Duneannon, and a conversation of about a quarter of an hour took place. Mr. Howitt said, the memorialists prayed for the separation of ...

... From the Comic Offeringfor 1834. Bucks-Dashing beaux; animals of the deer kind; part of a county, the remainder of which is in ham shire. Coventry—A place to which disgraced people are sent, but don't go; a punishment said to be unspeak- able. Gentility—A word, the use of which betrays in- curable vulgarity. Heart-Of a statesman, in his head-of a soldier, in his (irms-,of a coward, in his legs ...

... CAMBRIAN, GLOUCESTER, ASD BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—A meeting was held at Gloucester on Wednesday last to consider the expediency of forming a Railway from that city to this town, and resolu tions in favonr of the projected undertaking were accordingly passed. The Committee however ap- pointed at that meeting have since met, and as rery serious objections appear to have arisen to the pro- posed line ...

... CONTEMPORARY PRESS. (From the Times.) A most pitiable person, who signs himself A late Assistant Commissioner of the frisli Poor Inquirv, has sadly put his foot into it by writing a letter with the same view as the Swiss had. The gist of this sin- gular specimen of stupidity is, that the Dublin Found- ling Hospital is closed, that parish assessments (for the support of foundlings) are ...