... TLe numbers of misguided men who, having been induced te take an active part in the disturbances which have recently dis- graced the agricultural districts of this county, imparted to these sessions a greater degree of interest and importance than usually occurs, and the influx of visitors to this city during the week was very great. On Wednesday morning the Court was opened before the fullest ...

... ..COUNTRY NEWS, STATE OF MAK CHESTER.—Meetings have been held in this town. to coneert measures, or rather to memorialize the Home Secretary on the inability of the magistrates and other local authorities to enforce adequate measures, for the protection of those operatives who are willing to work, but who, from, the acts of intimidation indirectly used by the turn-outs, are afraid to avow and ...

... 0, JEANIE, THERE'S NAETHING TO FEAR YE ( By the Ettrick Shepherd.) 0, my lassie, our joy to complete again, Meet me again i' the gloaming, my dearie Low down in the dell let us meet again— 0, Jeanie, there's naething to fear ye Come, when the wee bat flits silent and eiry, Come, when the pale face o' Nature looks weary Love be thy sure defence, Beauty and innocence- 0, Jeanie, there's naething ...

... CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 7.—-The Rev. John James Blunt, B.D., Fellow of St. John's College, author of the Veracity of the Gospel and Acts, the Veracity of the Five Books of Moses, &c., was on Saturday last elected Hulsean Lecturer for the present year. The value of the lectureship now amounts to nearly X300 per annum. Winthrop MackworthPraed, Esq., M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, has been ...

... SIR,-I wish to ask your correspondent, An Old Iron- maker, whether his letter, which appeared in last week's Merlin, was the issue of a dream, or was it a flight of fancy ? I should not have troubled you, Mr. Editor, with this com- munication, but knowing that the Merlin circulates widely, and consequently likely to get into the hands of some hun- dreds of the labouring class, who might be ...

... EXTRACTS FROM HERSCHEL'S DISCOURSE ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY IN DR. GARDNER'S CYCLOPAEDIA, VOL- XIV. MECHANICAL POWER or CoALs.—The Menai Bridge, one of the most stupendous works of art that has been raised by man in modern ages, consists of a mass of iron, not less than four mil- lions of pounds in weight, suspended at a medium height of about 120 feet above the sea. The consumption of seven ...

... j We have this week the pleasure of submitting to our readers an improved and amended edition of the Memorial Proposed in our last number, relative to the establishment ? a new Mail from Bristol to Hereford. Should no ob- jection be made to the Memorial in its present shape before Pxt Saturday, we shall on that day detail the particulars of 4 plan we have formed for more easily obtaining the ...

... Correspondent at Usk is desirous of knowing whether the per- sons who are sworn in Special Constables will be exempt from the appr caching ballot for the Militia. We have no time to refer to > £ act which compels individuals, under certain circumstances, to he sworn in as Special Constables, but we believe there is no ttemption of the kind, in that act. Want of time prevents vs also from ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. I The private.accounts from Paris this morning state that com- ^tirce there is in a most distressing state. Bills of the first des- ^ipti'on cannot be discounted. Numbers of the nobility and Wealthy people have put down their carriages. It is very cur- 'ently reported there that an eminent banking-house is on the Point of calling its creditors together for the sake of ...

... On Wednesday se'nnight Jane Hewlett, a poor woman belonging to the Dixton poor-house, of very weak intellect and subject to epileptic fits, was seized with one of those fits during the absence of the people of the house, and fell into the fire. Her neck, chest, upper bowels, back, and arms, were so dread-, fullly burnt that her life was at first despaired of. Through the care, however, of Mr. ...

... PUBLIC ENTRY OF MR. HUNT INTO LONDON.-Monday was fixed on by his admirers to give Mr. H. Hunt, M.P., a public entry into the metropolis on his return from Pres- ton. It was arranged to meet him at 12 precisely, at the Painted Red Lion Inn, Islington-green; and at an early hour some hundreds of people, all evidently of the labouring classses, were collected together in the centre of the Green. ...

... Reply of Lord Cloncurry to a requisition of the anti-unionists, requesting that he would take the chair at a general meeting for the repeal of the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland, to be holden in Dublin. Maratimo, nine o'clock, Wednesday evening. January 5th, 1331. Gentlemen,-I am sorry I was from home when you called this morning. I should have been happy to state at ...