... On Thursday, the 31st ult., the members of the True Blue Benefit Society, established in March last, and amounting to 120, held their first dinner, in the club room at the house of Nicholas Hopkins, called the Salutation Inn, in the borough of Newport. The chair was taken by Wm. Williams, Esq., banker, who was supported on one side by Charles Morgan, Esq., of Ru- perra, and on the other by ...

... I am a sexagenarian, living among the hills of ancient Siluria, and have not been an inattentive observer of the great changes which are swelling, like a tide, around us. I have not been borne away upon its surface; nor shall it, if I can help it, run up my mountain. I am one of the school, contemptuously called the old, and I deem it right not to be silent, when I hear that school assailed ...

... London, Thursday Evening. On the return of the Cabinet Ministers who are at Woburn, there will be a succession of Cabinet Councils, at which several important questions will be discussed. It is understood that among them will be the English Church Reform Bill, the As- sessed Taxes, a revision of the laws affecting stamped and un- stamped publications, and the proposed reductions in the army. ...

... REMEMBER ME. Yes, dear one So the envied train Of those around thee homage pay But wilt thou never kindly deign To think of him that's far away 1 Thy form, thine eye, thine angel smile, For weary years I may not see But wilt thou not, sometimes, tly while, My sister dear, remember e • But not in fashion's briiiiant hall, Surrounded by tb- gay and fair, And thou, the freest of them all, Oh ...

... SPAIN. DEFEAT OF THE CARLIST CHIEF MERINo.-Saarsfield has at length come in contact with the rebels. The full particulars of the affair are not known but it appears cer- tain that, on the 14th instant, Merino, in attempting to cut off Saarsfield's communications, was attacked by the right wing of the Queen's army at Belgrado, and defeated, leaving 600 or 700 of his men prisoners. It is ...

... VERSES BY A TENANT OF THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. We may do what we like with our own. Old Soug. We may do what we like with our own- By Jove, that's the maxim for me How else should our liberties thrive 1 How else should a Briton be free ? There's a beggar come into my yard, In search of a crust or a bone. Let Pincher this moment be loos'd— We may do what we like with our own. Little Tommy has ...

... A curious correspondence has been just published in the Irish papers, arising out of the dismissal of a Colonel Blacker from the commission of the peace, an event which, under all the circumstances, supports the gratifying hope that the Government intend even-handed justice towards that long-oppressed country. The gallant Colonel ranked as a champion of the Orange faction-a party that has so ...

... I have been young, and wild, and gay, To all but beauty blind And sighed all night, and sung all day, To ladies stern or kind I've told my love in manly prose, I've written it in rhyme; And now I'm crowned with age's snows, The scent of yonder withered rose Recals that pleasant time. 0 then were hopes that chased my sleep And fears that made me thin And many subtile wiles and deep My proud ...

... Hampden will appear in our next publication. II Benevokis is unavoidably postponed. Lambda is quite wrong in his conjecture. 'The request of A Friend is one that we can rarely find time to grant; in this instance, however, we will acquiesce, and he shull hear from Us on Tuesday. ...

... EXPENSES OF THE LONDON MA YORALTY.-At a meeting of the Common Council, on Thursday, the Lord Mayor said the whole of his income from the city was £7550, while his expenditure was about £11,500, being about S4000 above the allowance for supporting the dignity of his office. On the 1st instant, Sir John Key appeared at Guildhall as a dispenser of justice The operation of the Reform Bill has made ...

... SrR,—In the course of the inquiries which took place on Mon- day last, before our town magistrates, relative to the charge of breaking Mrs. Lorimer's window, on the night of the 26th of October last, I believe it was very strongly insinuated, on the part of the defence, that Elizabeth Hoskins, the principal witness for the complainant, was influenced in giving her evidence, in expectation of ...

... BANKRUPTS.—James Elude, Mincing-lane, wine merchant.- Robert Johnston, Wapping-street, victualler.—Henry Robert Plaw, Modifoid-court, Fenchurch-street, merchant.—WDliam Huckel, Duke-street, Westminster, lodging-house keeper.— Margaret and John Bristow, Commercial-road, Stepney, engine makers.—Benjamin Watlock, Walcot, Somersetshire, lozenge maker.—James and John Cotter, Toxteth-park, ...