... On Saturday an unfortunate female, of the lowest class, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having run away with a coat and waistcoat of a gentleman who was sta- ted to be the brother of a Member of Parliament. The facts were rather odd, as was the complainant himself, who is an elderly, stout, sad-looking?person, and who appeared in a coat and waistcoat which had evidentty been ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-The letter I addressed you under the signature of candor, though for some time unavoidably delayed, at length appeared in your columns, and seems to havi aiousad the bile of several of your readers no less than three doughty champions having appeared two under real, one under false rolouts, in the lists of controversy, or I sholild rather say of ...

... The following account of the severe earthquake in Chili last February is abridged from Professor Silliman's American Journal of Science — One of the most terrific and destructive convulsions with which this devoted country has ever been visited by, com- menced on the 20th February, 1835, occasioned by the irrup- tion of the volcano of Aupico, in about the latitude of Con. ception, and about ...

... 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 ...

... PORT OF NEWPORT.—List of Arrivals and Sailings for week ending the 29th of December. Inwards—The Stadt, Lingin, from Antwerp; Jeune^^ for, Leguillon and Michael Francois, Decormiel, Brest, in ballast; North Ash, Hornibrook, with wine Ann, Sully and New Felicity, Stevens, with iron Blessing. Duddridge; Unanimity, Rollins; and PrU^f Ferying, wit}i flour; Endeavour, Martin, with deals; J0^ Guize ...

... ,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- ...