... Impfrial viarliailtri'l. HOUTSE OF LORDS, 'Teur.DY, JmN. 31. IV Tkicir Lordlshi ps miet this day iry adjournensrt X ?? Fr-ilV irtv N ted T1he Ea)! ol' KINN U reetd r o ion at againlst tire Rleformn Bill, finns tire counity of 1'ertih. 'cTITHE( IN ttfitLAN). I Tlie :iarqrris oft LANISDOWNE, io tle. abhsence to or tris Noble. Frienrd thle Sec retar'y of Starte fo, the ilouir Dc rrtrrtnient, ...

... To PRESERVE ACORNS.-SO soon as gathered from the oak, place any quantity in a vessel filled with fresh water, and they will retain their juices without being subject to decay. THE NATIONAL DEBT.—If a man was employed to count the National Debt, supposing he reckoned 100 pieces every minute for 12 hours a day, it would take him 30 years to count it in so- vereigns-600 years to count it in ...

... EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR.—A gentleman, who is de- sirous of improving the condition of his poor neighbours, has purchased a quantity of land about ten miles from London. As soon as a poor man applies to him he sets him to work at digging, and advances him threepence on every perch he digs. He proposes to make him also an advance on every patch of ground he plants or sows, and on every wheel- ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,—You have very justly exposed and reprobated the indi- rect attacks which have been recently made on the great object of the hopes of the PEOPLE, by the malicious introduction into parliament of objects foreign thereto, now that the sin of bo- roughmongering is about to receive its death blow. In the bitter writhings of despair, ministers have ...

... THE CHOLERA IN LON DON .-On Monday last, ten cases of cholera were reported to the Board of Health, as having occurred at Rotherhithe, Limehouse, and Southwark. By ten o'clock on Tuesday morning, the number had increased to 14, with 7 deaths. Every endeavour is being made to check the progress of the disease. A system of superin- tendence of the different districts of the metropolis, by the ...

... CORN EXCHANDX, MARK LANE, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31.— There is but little business doing, and prices are nominally the same as on Monday best articles support the currency of that day, and inferior qualities are unsaleable. ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-I understand that the new act for improving the Mon- mouth district of roads was solicited by Mr. T. A. Vv illiams and Messrs. Powles & Tyler, of this town and I have heard some circumstances connected with the intervention of Messrs. Powles & Tyler, in what was properly the business of Mr. Williams, that demand public exposure and public ...

... jiltelli moincottr 'gellego I I ?? PLEASOANT TRAVILtaLso-NG-In Edinburgh resides Mr. C-, wlro is as lhuge, though not as witty, 4s' Falstalf. It is his custom when he travels to book two places, and thus secure half of the inside-of the coach to himself. HIe sent his servant thie other day to book him for Glasgow. The man re- turned with the foillowing pleasilig intelligence:- I've booked 'you ...

... We have been asked to state who are the candidates for the vacant Head Mastership of Wm. Jones's Charity School. God help us we are as ignorant as the child unborn. The pub- lic interests of this county are under the management of men, who, like moles, work in the dark, and set at defiance even the slightest conjecture at what may be their designs. Let them re- form with a good grace, or ...

... The weather of this month has been favourable to out-door husbandry, and to sheep and cattle, but has not been sufficiently cold or frosty to check the progress of the growing wheat, and other too forward branches of vegetation nor to destroy the wire worm, or any other devouring insect—whence these have injured the wheat plants and turnips in some parts of England. With the exception of the ...

... HATTON GARDEN.—A young man, of respectable appearance, was brought before Mr. Rogers and Mr. Serjeant Sellon, by the parish officers of St. Andrew's, Holborn, for the purpose of re- ceiving the magistrate's order to be admitted into a lunatic asylum. The prisoner entered the office with a dignified air, and while standing near the bar, a new police man, on passing by, hap- pened to touch him, ...

... DAILY REPURT OF CHOLEXWA. i ?? Cotllnii OfticcWbitehall, 3 o'clock, pm. . ?? ' - ~Feb. 17.I 3. LIMEHousE.--Retnaining at last report, 1; new cases I; dead, I; recovered, 1; remniaolg, 0; total csses firompommmencemost, 5;, total leatis, 4. AFLOAT IN R1vnR.-Remaining at last report, 2; new eases, 0; dead 0; recovered, 0; remaining 2; total cases from commniecemeolt, 2; total deatbs, 0. ...