... Woman's Wit, or Love's Disguises. A play, in five acts, by James Sheridan Knowles. Moxon, London. With whatever success the present age may have com- peted with the past in science and in the lighter walks of literature—however the genius of a Scott may have given an historic dignity to the Novel, or the muse of Moore a captivating grace to the less solid cieations of the poet\ fancy—it must ...

... IMPORTANT TO FAnMEns. &:c.—How to preserve scylhes, •■tckles, reaping-hooks, and other iron and steel tools from rust if>er the season for using them. Wipe them clean and diy, ihen hoid them before the fire and keep drawing them back- wards and forwards until warm enough to melt wax then take siome bees wax and tub it all over. A halfpenny-worth of wax vill be sufficient tor a scythe. Then put ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESOAY, AUGUST 5.-The Lord Chancellor, after going over the evidence in support of the Warwick Borough Bill, gave it as his opinion that the petitioners had failed in their case, and moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. He had much suspicion upon the case, and felt the difficulties under which the petitioners had laboured, but did not think they had ...

... DISSOLUTION OF THE CABINET.—A sensation of the greatest astonishment was excited throughout the metropolis on Saturday morning by the intelligence, that Lord Mel- bourne's administration had ceased to exist; that when his Lordship had waited on his Majesty on Friday, he was in- formed by the King, his Majesty would not further trouble him with the re-modelling of the Cabinet, but that he ...

... AN *Rfn,i.»iAia$I U' Are you guilty or not guilty? sru I0 5 Priso»Gi' the other day, An' ST pjV' m f*U lhsr? M Kid ...

... (FROM THE LEEDS MERCURY OF JAN. 20.) We regret to learn, on the authority of a French mercantile house, of the first rank, that the proposed increase of duty in France on the importation of linen yarns and linens has the sanction of the government of that country, and is likely to be Girled into effect. The increase is not less than from 10 to 15 per cent, ad valorem ahove the present moderate ...

... TUESDAY, JULY 10.—After the transaction of some important business, house went into committee on the Iris' Tithe Bill.—Adjourned. WEDNESDAY, JULr 11.—The Parochial As¡;essmentBIl1 was read a second time. The Small Debts (Scotland) Bill was lost. 'The Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill was read a secof time and committed for Wednesday next. The Imprisanment for Debt Bill was read a second ...

... Wc are happy to see thai this noble and national ga me becoming more and more general in this and the neighbouring counties. Stimulated by the example of the Monmouthshire Club, (the father of ciicket in this distiict), other cricket clubs have been embodied in the neighbourhood, and several spirited and well contested matches between the rival interests have been played during the present ...

... LORD STANLEY'S FAREWELL. Farewell to the cause where the dawn of my glory j r?se> an« connected the Whigs with my name l abandon them now, but the page of their story, At least all the blackest, is filled with my fame. lhave warred with the Tail, which vanquished me only When an impulse of temper betrays me too far; inave worked with the Dill y, which leaves me thus lonely, The last Tory ...

... The Records of a Stage Veteran, in the New Monthly Magazine, contain some amusing passages on the eccentricities of actors. We annex one or two whimsical extracts :— MATHEWS AND MKI.VIN.— Meivin, of whose eccentricities I spoke in my last, ere he had reached the climax of irregularity there detailed, lodgeri with Mathews in Stone G tie, York, at the house of Mr. Wright, brother of Miss ...

... HaeSE OF COMMONS. THURSDAY, MARCH 19.—The orders for taking into considera- tion the petitions against the returns for Kinsale and Kings' Lynn were discharged, in consequence of the recognizances not having been entered into. Mr. Hodges presented a petition from Chatham, complaining that the Commanding Officer of the Marine Barracks had inter- fered with the trade of certain peisons in ...

... COMPIEONE, AUG. 17.-1 arrived here this day from Paris, and found the town and adjacent country so completely aJiv41 with militaiy of every description, that one had little difficultl in believing himself transported lo the seat of some grand ca^J, paign. Embrowned faces and formidable mustachios, with «>'t the pomp, pride, and circumstance of glorious war, met yocr'f' every direction. Since ...