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... Peter Hebard, an inmate of a condemned cell in the prison ut Abbey, in France, was for five months expecting the final order for his execution. The crime of which he was convicted was a murder under the most aggravated circumstances. He was al- lowed to indulge in hopes of a reprieve, and even encouraged to it by the turnkeys, when, one morning, at ten o'clock, his door was opened by a ...

... ANCIENT PARLIAMENTS.The number of members in the parliament summoned by the Conqueror was twelve for each county, and four in that of Henry III.: and the electors, till the eighth year of Henry VI., were all those paying scot and lot. Even freeholders of 40 shillings per annum were never known, as possessing exclusive rights of election, till the enactment of the famous disfranchising statute ...

... V:- MONMOUTH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1831. n MARRIED. V e 24th inst. at Bristol, Wm. Maurice, Esq. of Haverford- K st. to Ann, only daughter of the late J. Maurice, Esq. for '( 5t ^ars medical practitioner of Bristol.—On Thursday last, John the Baptist, Gloucester, by the Rev. F. T. liayly, • David Davis, of the Steam Packet Inn, Chepstow, to Anne, longest daughter of the late Mr. John Fryer, ...

... When the Lord Chancellor left the Council on Saturday evening the crowd assembled outside received him with loud cheers, and, taking- the horses from his carriage, drew him themselves to his house in Berkeley-square. It was rumoured that his Lordship proceeded to Windsor imme- diately after the decision of the House of Lords on Saturday morning. THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—The crowd assembled in ...

... PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, AUG. 9.—Several petitions were presented, when The Duke of Richmond moved the first reading of a bill to alter the act of the 29th of George III. which gave to the overseers of the poor in every parish the power of renting land not exceeding 20 acres, in order to provide employmeut. The object of the bill he now introduced was, in. the first ...

... RIOTOUS CONVICTS.—On the arrival of the Eclipse coach in this town from Manchester on Tuesday evening se'nnight, a shameful and alarming scene was enacted in the public streets. The coach had for its outside passengers nine convicts, all in a state of boisterous intoxication, on their way from the Salford New Bailey prison to London. When leaving the Swan Hotel they made a simultaneous and ...

... Borough, Monday, August 8.—Our hop trade is in a very stag- nant state. What little has been done, since this day se'nnight, in hops of last year's growth, has been at a further depression, of from 5s to 10s per cwt.; whilst in older ones, nothing, or next to it, has been doing. The quotations of East Kent hops may be considered rather as having been demanded than obtained. Currency East Kent, ...

... Y, OCT. 13.—Mr. Hunt gave notice for next es- sion, of a i:on for the repeal of the assessed taxes, and for substituting- ins jad of t hem a modified property tax. Sir gave lotice for the next session, of a motion for the introduction of a nutasure for the amelioration of the con- dition of the poor of Irela nd. A long discussion took place upon the motion of Mr. Trevor, (with reference tp an ...

... PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. ^SECOND READING OF THE BILL.—The doubt and uncer- 'inty of the public mind, with respect to the success of the Ministerial Reform measure, is now set at rest. After ano- er debate of two evenings, the House divided upon an ^hendrrient of Sir H. Vyvyan, that the bill be read this ay six months. This is a sort of a genteel parliamentary ^de of ejecting a disagreeable ...

... INDUSTRY EXTRAORDINARY. — Three children of one family, of the ages of seven, ten, and twelve years, gleaned four sacks, or sixteen bushels of wheat, on a farm at Enford, this season.-Devizes Gazette. On the morning of Sunday se'nnight a devotee of Bac- chus was found fast locked in the arms of Morpheus on the top of the Arbroath steeple, which is now 110 feet high. It is supposed he was ...

... TUESDAY, SEPT. 13.—On the motion of Lord Ingestrie, a new writ was ordered to elect a member for the county of Dorset, in the room of John Calcraft, Esq., deceased. 1Œr. Rice moved a new writ for the borough of Flint, in the room of Sir E. M. Lloyd, Bart., now Lord Mostyn. REFORM BILL. Lord John Russell said, that in rising to move the order of the day for the consideration of the report on ...