... ONE HONEST TORY.-A day or two before the news arrived in Edinburgh of the fate of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords, a respectable lady called upon her baker in street, and inquired for her account. The Master of the Rolls replied there was no hurry, he would wait till the usual time of payment. She insisted, telling him, that if the bill did not pass she was afraid that all the Tories ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE CHILD'S LAMENT FOR SUMMER. WHERE is the glorious Summer gone Why hath it pass'd away, With many a sweet and thrilling tone, That came but yesterday ? I hear not now the wild bird's song, Hinging through wood and dell But the wind sweeps mournfully along, Like summer's sad farewell. Nor lingers there one flowret bright, To meet my anxious view- The streams have lost their golden light, The ...

... We shall be glad to make public A. B.'s recipe for the cure of plague or pestilence. A correspondent, under the title of Veritas, complains of the prac- tice adopted by the Monmouth gossips, of stopping at the door- ways and avenues of our churches and chapels, after the con- clusion of divine service, for the purpose of greeting each other, -to the great annoyance of their more humble ...

... MONMOUTH COUNTY REFORM MEETING. We gave the introductory particulars of this meeting in our last. The following gentlemen, who were not present, have de- sired us to make it known that their absence was not occasioned by any reaction in their minds, nor by any lukewarmness in the great cause, but by reason of illness or of private business that would admit of no excuse or delay:—George Lewis, ...

... A proclamation (of which the following is a copy) on the subject of Political Unions has been published in the Gazette. It will be seen that while the Government are determined to give to the people their just rights, they are resolved to enforce the laws which guarrantee the maintenance of public order:- WILLIAM R.—WTiereas certain of our subjects in different parts of our kingdom have ...

... FOREIGN NEWS. A dreadful crime has been committed in Greece. Count Capo d'lstrias has fallen the victim of assassination. The following are the particulars;—Napoli Oct. 8. This morn- ing as the President was going according to custom to at- tend the service at the church, two men who were waiting at the door assassinated him, one firing a pistol at his head, and the other stabbing him in the ...

... A FALSE ALAitm.-A person, walking in Regent-street, had an epileptic attack, on Wednesday; he was taken into a shop close by, at the instance of the Solicitor-General, who was passing at the moment, and Mr. Arnott, of New Bur- lington-street, was sent for, by whom the nature of the attack was at once pointed out. Nevertheless the circumstance got wind, and was magnified into a case of cholera ...

... BLACK LEAD MINES OF SHATTER FELL-About seventy years ago, a person who possessed a part of the mountain contiguous to the mines determined to obtain a share of this rich mineral. Here, with great labour, he sunk a shaft, which he carried dia- gonally till he entered the mines, and with secret joy he conti- nued his depredations for some time undiscovered. At length his fraud was detected, and ...

... INCENDIARY FIRES.-A rick of hay and an outhouse, the property of Mr Lennard, of Potterne, near Devizes. A cattle shed, Mith calves' house attached, situate at Forth- ampton, Gloucestershire, the property of the Hon. Philip Cocks. A straw rick, belonging to Mr. Tuckey, of Strat- ton, near Swindon. A barn, the property of Mr. Bradford, and a hayrick, belonging to Mr. Goddard, of Swindon. A barn ...

... The poor Tories are daily expressing fears for the ruin of their order, from the impending Reform which they feel must come. As an order cannot well be ruined without ruining the members of it, we are bound, in Christian charity, to consider what is to become of the most eminent individuals who have lately struggled so desperately to maintain it. We fear that long practice has prevented many ...