... JOHN xiv, 1.L— Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, tLat will I do. A kind and affectionate fafTier, whose son had arrived at an age which rendered it necessary for him to pre- pare for the business of life, concluded to send him from home. Their mutual attachment was strong, and each looked upon the separation with regret, yet.they knew it to be for the best—the hour of separation ar- rives ...

... At Gloucester races on Wednesday the Glou- cester stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 30 added, was won by Mr. Thorne's Harry, beating Mr. Day's Boy Blue, iiud Mr. Peel's Changeling the Berkeley stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 sovs. added, was won by Mr. J. Day's Boy Blue, beating Mr. Berkeley's Sinbad the Beaufort stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 sovs. added, was won by Mr. J. Day's Liston, beating ...

... MERTHYR BOROUGH CHARTER COMMITTEE. At a meeting of several gentlemen assembled at the Castle Inn, Merthyr Tydvil, September 1833, directly interested in the prosperity of the town of Merthyr, it was deemed expedient to call a meeting on the 4th day of October, 1833, to take into con- sideration and carry into effect the undermentioned objects:— L To form a committee to be called the 11 Merthyr ...

... We have had so frequent grounds of complaint of I R R E- GULARITY IN THE DELIVERY OF NEWSPAPERS which on enquiry we find were duly sent tons, and we cannot suppose our own to be a singular case in this respect, that we intend il. our future numbers to give a list of such papers as have not regularly come to hand in the previous week. have reason to know that thefault does not rest with the ...

... The Canalization of Great Britain has, in fact, been accomplished within the memory of man; for there still lives one of the original proprietors and chief promoters of the Sankey Canal Navigation—the first artificial water way in this island 1 mean Nicholas Ashton, Esq. of Woolton, near Liverpool, now at the advanced age of upwards of 90 years. This canalized brook conveys the coal from the ...

... HORRID MURDER. WANTAGE, Saturday, Aug. 3t.-This mornii between six and seven o'clock, a murder of the m it horrid kind was discovered at the White Hal t public house in this town. A liWe boy, son-in-law of Ann yuPin, landlady of the White Hart, came down stairs, and was about to open the window shutters, when he discovered his mother lying on the floor with her head severed from her body- The ...

... Si'EECH il-lC)ii o U-il. BY Miss F. Mr. G-b-tt atk^ to bring in very soon A bill to abolish the Sun and the Moon. The honourable member proceeded to state Some arguments us'd in a former debute, On the subject of Smecures, Taxes, Vexations, he Army and Navy, and Old Corporations: The Heavenly Bod.es, llke those upon Earth, \xr ee^ Corrupt from the day of their birth, w.th reck,ess profusion ...

... The following extract of a letter, written by an ar- tisan from Leeds, who had emigrated to Sydney, gives a very indifferent picture of that place Rcnts arc uncommonly high; a house such as I could get at Leeds for 5t a year would here let for -¿Vt.. The place I now occupy with my fanlily has two rooms, six yards by three, is so low that you can only stand upright in the part where the door is ...

... ORDINATION AT LAMPETER. At a General Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of St. David's, at the Chapel ofSt. David's College, in Lampeter, on Sunday, the 1st inst., the following geutleman were ordained aud licensed as under PRIRsTS. William Wheeler Webb Bowen, B. A. Minister of Cam rose, Pembrokeshire. Edward Thomas Lewis, B. A., Curate of Newcastle- Emlyn. David Williams, B. A. Curate of ...

... AN EXPENSIVE CRUIZE. Oil a Tablet in the Strad ling ceiuetry ofst. Donat's, Church, Glamorganshire, is the following in- scription — Sir Harry Stradling went on a pilgrimage to lem and received the order of the Sepulchre there, as his father, Sir Edward Stradling, the 3rd of that name— as did also his grandfather, Sir William Stradling, who died in the island of Cyprus, on his way home, the ...

... Mr. Manners Sutton, we rejoice to say, has been honoured by the appointment to the degree of a Civil Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, by his grateful Sovereign. The favour was, we have heard, and readily believe it, the spontaneous suggestion of his lajesty, and communicated to Mr. Manners Sutton in a most complimentary letter addressed to that gentleman by Lord Grey, upon the King's com- ...

... HEREFORD CORPOI',A-ri ON. -Tile enquiry into the affairs or the Corporation of Hereford terminated on Thursday, having- occupied two days. Whatever may have been objected to the Body on political grounds,it is an act of justice to acknowledge that the Public statement of their accounts was mostcomplele and tlatÏfdactory-even the principal opponent of the corporation stated that he had no ...