... POPULATION RETURN —The following is literally a part of the return of a parish in Usk Upper, in the county of Monmouth, in which the officer supposes a great increase since 1821; but that fact does not appear on the face of it Question 15th Referring to the number of persons in 1821, to what cause do you attribute any remarkable difference in the number at present! Answer: To the partial ...

... Active preparations are now making iff Westminster Ab- bey for the approaching Coronation, the carpenters working 14 hours a day. From the circumstance of this pageant being confined to the Abbey, with the additional splendour attached by the Queen's presence, tickets are expected to be very scarce. Their Majesties are to be crowned on a plat- form raised 12 feet, and immediately between the ...

... The Catholic Bishops of Ireland, now assembled in annual Synod in Dublin, have agreed to two petitions-one about edu- cation, and the other in favour of poor-laws—to the two Houses of Parliament. The one upon education is to be presented by Mr. O'Connell in the commons.-Dublin Freeman's Journal. Thursday morning, as Luke Doyle, steward to C. Feather- stone, Esq. of Harding's-grove, was going ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PAHIS, JULY 18.-General Dubourg was arrested on the 14th of July, at five o'clock in the morning, in a medical establish- ment to which he had retired on account of his infirmities. He was still in bed when the summons was announced to him as suspected of a plot tending to overthrow the Government. Several other persons have been arrested on the same charge. The French ...

... The Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to consider Lord Worcester's petition against the return of Mr. Hall, after hearing counsel and witnesses on both sides, came, on Saturday last, to the following determination:- That by the by-laws and usage of the borough of Newport, the sons of freemen, and persons who married the daughters or the widows of freemen, have no right to be ...

... QUEEN ANNE'S FARTHING.—In eagerness to seize an apparent advantage, reason is often made subservient to most unreason- able expectations. Some years ago an auctioneer, to make him- self of notoriety, put up to sale what he called a Queen Anne's Farthing, and nominally sold it for upwards of five hundred pounds, which gave him an opportunity to make an attractive advertisement. This ...

... FRANCE. — Letters from Paris state that on the 16th instant the King opened the first session of his new parliament. That part of his speech which relates to Poland we deem worthy of notice, as it shews the feelings of the French government. The following are the King's words A sanguinary and furious conflict is prolonged in Poland.- This conflict excites the liveliest emotions in the heart of ...

... Borough, Monday, July 25.—In old hops little if anything has been doing since this day se'nnight, and the few transactions that have taken place in new ones (though to a very limited ex- tent, and few indeed) have been for the most part owing, we suppose, to the generally improved and very favourable appear- ance of the bine, at a depression of from 5s to 10s per cwt. Currency: East Kent, in ...

... ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 25.-From the accounts pub- lished in the Gazette respecting the propagation of the cho- lera iptheJEdaaj^e^^ particulars, that in the government of Minsk, from 31st March to 1st June, 2268 persons had been attacked, of whom 1246 had died, and 926 recovered. I he disease had also manifested itself in the circle of Drissa, government of Witepsk, where five persons were ...

... BRECONSHIRE—ELECTION OF CORONERS. A special county court was held at Brecon on Monday last, for the purpose of electing two coroners, in the room of Richard Pendrill, Esq. deceased, and Clement Ekin, Esq. resigned. The undersherifif, Thos. Lawrence, Esq. having stated the purpose for which the meeting was called, Samuel Church, Esq. of Frwdgreach, said-Before I proceed to propose a gentleman ...

... A supplement to last Friday's Gazette contains a pro- clamation dispensing with the services of certain persons usually engaged in the ceremonies of a coronation, the in- tention of his Majesty being to avoid unnecessary pomp and magnificence. At the King's Levee, on Wednesday se'nnight, Dr. Mey- rick, L.L.D., was presented to his Majesty, on his having completed the arrangement of the armour ...

... Land of the myrtle and the vine, The sunny citron-tree, With heart upon the waves I give My latest look to thee. Thy glorious scenes of vale and hill With joy I now resign, And seek a more congenial land, Where Freedom will be mine. Farewell! thou hast the iron sway Of bigots and of slaves, But mine shall be a chainless heart Upon the dark blue waves. For thee our sires have fought and died, ...