... « fIâvêyou. got any fish to-day; landlord ? said a travel- ler, wishing to order dinner at a respectable inn in a small village near Chepstow. No, sir, replied Boniface, I- not a shrimp to be had any where. The people hereabouts have left off eating fish, because there've been so many mad dogs thrown into the river lately. The above conversation took place two or three days ago, iu our ...

... Monday, July 25.—This day's supply of beasts and porkers was very limited; of sheep, lambs, and calves, moderately good. The trade with beef was rather dull at, in most instances, a de- pression with veal somewhat brisk at an advance of 2d per stone; mutton and lamb went off steadily, pork slowly, at Fri- day's quotations. ( Per stone of 8]b. sinking offal.) Inferior beef, from 2 4 to 2 8 j ...

... BRISTOL RIOTS. FURTHER PARTICULARS.—That there had been a regular plan for an attack upon the Recorder in a much more serious manner than was effected, there is no doubt, as a man, apparently in authority among the mob, said to another— How came you to let him escape you 1 You should not have let him come here! When the magistrates effected their escape from the Mansion House, some spirited ...

... MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE DELE- GATION PARLIAMENT. Those in Italics are Anti-Reformers. London, M. Wood, W. Waith- Wendover, S. Smith, A. Smith. man, W. Thompson, W. Ve-, Cambridge (Borough) Marquis nables. Graham, Col. Trench. Dover, C. P. Thompson, Capt. Amersham, T. T. Drake, W. Stanhope. T. Drake. Southwark, C. Calvert, Wm. Marlborough, T. H. S. B. Est- Brougham. court, W. J. ...

... TUESDAY, APRIL 12.—The house re-assembled this day. Lord Encombe asked Lord J. Russell whether it was the in- tention of Ministers to abide by what they termed the corrected returns of the population in various towns and cities in the year 18311 Lord J. Russell said, thatMinisters when they were consider- ing the Bill for Reform, obtained from the Home Office the number of inhabitants in all ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. THURSDAY, FEB. 3.—The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack at a quarter before five o'clock. NEGRO SLAVERY. Lord Kenyon presented a petition from Denbigh for the aboli- tion of slavery. The Duke of Gordon presented a similar petition from Port- sorrel. The Duke of Richmond presented a petition from the chamber of commerce of Galway, praying for the equalization of ...

... The two Houses of Parliament assembled on Thursday *ast; and in our second page we have given the report of proceedings up to seven o'clock on that evening.— Though short, they will be found extremely interesting. Earl ^rey, in the House of Lords, expressly stated that the Ministers had agreed upon a measure of Reform which, without exceeding the bounds of justice and of well advised ...

... SIR,—Through the medium of your paper I must give a direct contradiction to a letter which appeared in the Merlin of the 12th instant, signed A. W. Wyatt, concerning notice having been given me to quit land I hold under the Duke of Beaufort—for having (as I said at the county meeting) voted for Mr. Hall. Mr. Wyatt says in his letter that I sold the lease for X-50, and that the quantity of ...

... FRANCE.—A letter from Paris, dated Saturday evening, says-If Paris be France, then this must be the happiest country in the world. The three days of the glorious anni- versary have just passed over amid the most undivided and undisturbed shouts of popular approbation. The city, in- deed, during the whole time, presented But one unclouded blase of living light. I never beheld a population so ...

... THE KING'S VISIT.-His Majesty has signified his in- tention of being present, with the Queen, at the opening of the new London Bridge, which is to take place on the first of August. So far from supposing that any day has been named by the King for the coronation, we have good authority for believing that his Majesty has firmly, and we submit wisely, declared his determination never to go ...

... COUNTY MILITIA. — In consequence of his Majesty's Proclamation, contained in last Tuesday's Gazette, for filling up. vacancies in County Militias, his Grace the Duke of Beaufort, as Lord Lieutenant of this County, has appointed a Meeting of Deputy Lieutenancy for that purpose to he held at Usk, on Tues- day next, as will appear by the first advertisement in this page, to which our readers are ...

... CORN EXCHANGE, MARK LANE. Monday, May, 16.—Our supplies since this day se'nnight j English wheat, barley, Knglish and foreign beans, English foreign peas, arrd English and Foreign seeds, have been limited' of foreign wheat, and English, Irish, and foreign oats and £lour, great; of English malt and flour, and Foreign barley, good- This day's market was rather numerously attended both bv Lf11' ...