... CONTEMPORARY PRESS. (From the Times.) A most pitiable person, who signs himself A late Assistant Commissioner of the frisli Poor Inquirv, has sadly put his foot into it by writing a letter with the same view as the Swiss had. The gist of this sin- gular specimen of stupidity is, that the Dublin Found- ling Hospital is closed, that parish assessments (for the support of foundlings) are ...

... LITE1L.Jil Y T,E A.H'HIf: l'i THE .lïi!:J!{ OF A YE,\lt 1:'01 SPAI:2 \(L. ...

... ,'i.'h,e fol¡owillg is the report of anoccnrrfnce I)Ile4rs t ...

... ,C pourier, an avowed oran of the present Uttf ni8tr;(Uoii, remarking on tbe murder of the process-server in Ireland, actually language. The people believe that >rof *re do'»g service to the religion they refusing to provide for tbe priests of to ^l0t4 which they conscientiously believe f^iL heretical—false— and established by I re*it^n ^0rce on the ruins of theit own—They ft>tj °nPrinciple! ...

... The young Queen of Portugal was married a week or two since, just as one Lord Chancellor has been substituted for three Lords Commis- sioners, and the wife of Sir John Campbell made a Peeress, preparatory to the opening of the Session. Love seems to have had as lit le to do with the one as with the other. The little Qlleen has never seen her litisl)aitd-tlie husband has neverseen the little ...

... VIGILANCE OF CANADIAN GE1- SE Whenever Tyou find them, and however remota from the haunts of man the place may he tticyire.,t all times so vigilant and suspicious, that it is ex- tremely rare to surprise them. In keenness of siliit and acuteness of hearing, they arc perhaps surpassed by no bird whatever. They act as sentinels towards each other; and during the hours at which hIe flock, reposes ...

... EXECUTION OF LAC UNA I RE AND A I-RIL (From the Gazette des Tribunaux of Sunday.) At nine o'clock on Friday night, Laceuaire was in- formed, at the prison of the Concier^erie, that he must rise from bed, in order to be transfrned to the Pis() of Biceii-e. ,r \V ...

... L.4 TES T JNTE L LIG ENCE. LONDON, T1IURSDW EVENING. Prince Ferdinand of Saxe Cobur»\ the intended husband of Donna Maria, has arrived at Liege. With the exception of this intelligence, and the fact that the Scheldt is covered with ice, so much as to impede the navigation of the river, we do not find anything in the Brussels papers of Tuesday. The report of its beiiitr the intention of Go- ...

... Lady Campbell's title is taken from the river Eden, in the county of Fife, on the banks of which Sir John Campbell (son of the Rev. Dr. Campbell, of Cupar) was born. Tile dale or strath of the Eden is famous for its beauty and fertility. MARRIAGE IN HIGH Lil--E.-Tlie of Lard Colchester with the Hon. Miss Law, daughter of the Dowager Lady Ellenborough, is to take place this month. THE ANNANDALE ...

... J An article in that incomparable Journal, the ^°ndon Standard, answers in its usual style of ^° ...

... At the meeting at Lloyd's, 301. were voted to the Rev. Mr Charles, Rector of the Island of Saintes, near Brest, and to three of the inhabitants, for saving the crew of the Belissima, from London to Leghorn. ARTIFICIAL PETRIFACTION OF ANIMALS.—A pamphlet has lately been published at Florence, professing to give an account of some strange dis- coveries by Girolamo Segato, (known by his maps of ...

... BFNEFICE%'CF OF Tilit f')UKE OF BEDFORD.— The following article of intelligence we find in yester- day's Northampton Herald, from the Bedford corres- pondent of that excellent hus: CLEBGY,— His grace the Duke of Bedford has written to the committee for the relief of the distressed Irish clergy, informing them that his Grace cannot consent to his name appearing on the list of subscribers for ...