... At Caen, in Normandy, they have a public library still more extensive and magnificent than that at Tours, accessible to all persons, strangers as well as others. This library contains many valuable, authentic, and ancient works relating to events inter- esting to this country, as well as to France, treating of that period of history when the north and north-west part of that country belonged ...

... SIB,—I am sorry to be the cause of giving you any trouble on the present occasion, but knowing that your valuable paper is more in circulation in this quarter than any other Journ al, I beg a small space, should you think the matter worth noticing. At our late contest for the borough of Brecon, there were, on both sides, many small voters, £10-men. A few days ago some acting in- dividuals in ...

... SIR,—blacks.tooe, in his Commentaries on the laws of Eng- land, says— It is a high infringement on the liberties and privi- leges of the House of Commons, for any Lord of Parliament, or lord lieutenant of any county, to concern himself in the election of any member of Parliament. This, adds he, is passed at the commencement of every session. I wdsh, sir, to know if this is mere farce, ...

... On Monday last, at one o'clock, a numerous and highly re- spectable meeting was held of the Alderman, Common Council, and Livery of the city of London, pursuant to a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, and presented to the Lord Mayor in the course of the preceding week, the object of the re- quisitionists being to take into consideration the propriety of pe- titioning the Reformed ...

... The female costume of the present day is closely approximat- ing to that of the reign of Lous XIV. Waists appear to be in- creasing in length, and frequently form a point in front, after the fashion of our grandmothers. Thejupe, which is somewhat longer than heretofore, is exceedingly full, and plaited all round. Sometimes a bow of ribbon is placed at the point of the corsage. Many ladies have ...

... The agricultural inhabitants of Sussex have agreed to a me- morial to the Lords of the Treasury, representing that the most effectual mode of suppressing incendiarism would be the remis- sion of at least two-thirds of the duty of 3s per annum on every £ 100 of agricultural property insured against fire (levied under the authority of an act of the 55th George III.), thereby in- ducing ...

... (From Tait's Magazine.') HuRRAH the wind, the mighty wind, Like lion from his lair up sprung, Hath left his Arctic home behind, And off his slumbers flung While over lake and peaceful sea, With track of crested foam, sweeps he Hurrah the wind, the mighty wind, Hath o'er the deep his chariot driven, Whose waters, that in peace reclin'd, Uplash the roof of heaven Then on the cliff-bound shore ...

... FOREIGN. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.—The answer of the Kin? of the Netherlands to the proposals of France and England has been received. The terms in which it is conveyed are con- ciliatory; but it is evident that his Dutch Majesty wishes still to temporise, and is not sincere in his professions of anxiety to bring the matters in dispute to a speedy settle- ment. He proposes to treat with the Five ...

... The past week has been unfruitful of political events worthy of .engaging public attention. The accounts from Belgium and Holland warrant a con- fident anticipation that those two powers are about directing their attention to peace and industry, instead of again braving the vicissitudes of war. The pertinacity with which the Dutch King has-been so long actuated, appears to have at length ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE TO WIT. AT the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, holden at the Town Hall, in the town of Usk, in and for the said county, on Monday, the Second day ol January, in the second year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, and in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ...

... The length to which our report of the proceedings at Pontypool extended, last week, prevented our inserting the following outline of Mr. Hall's speech at the late Brecon Reform Dinner:- Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen,—I beg you will do me the favour of accepting my sincere thanks for the compliment you have just paid me, and for the invitat'ion you were so kind as to send me. I can only ascribe my ...

... COURT OF CHANCERY, THURSDAY.—THORNLEY V. BYRNE.— Sir E. Sugden opened the petition, which he represented as one beset with greater difficulties than perhaps ever came before a Court of Justice, and proved how often it was that the most hu- mane and kind intentions were lost on the objects of them. In the year 1816 Lord Crauford and Lindsey died, and by his will bequeathed a tract of land in ...