... 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 ...

... GLEANINGS On Count Zenobio, a very little man with a very large nose. As I was walking out one day Upon a certain plan, I met a nose upon the way, And after it a man I called upon the nose to stop, And when it had done so. The man soon afterwards came np, And made Zenobio. The just and constant mind, that perseveres Unblemished with false pleasures, never fears The bended threatnings of a ...

... It is difficult to regard the present condition of Europe without conceiving that some extra- ordinary and èxtensive change is approaching. We altogether reprobate the hazardous folly which in every trivial transaction of common life, affecls to discover the immediate working of Providence. But greater events and longer intervals give larger views. A palpable change in the Civil and Political ...

... Lord Lyndhurst's masterly speech at the close of the Session, published by Fraser, has reached a 26th edition. It ought to be, not only in the hand, but worn in the heart of hearts of every loyal man in the kingdom. Four import ant political dinners are announced to take place in this and the two following weeks in the north of England. On the 6th instant, the annual meeting and dinner of ...

... ittomnouthSfure. The contemplated marriage between C. W. Codring- ton, Esq., M.P and Lady Georgiana Somerset, second daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, will be solemnised on Tuesday next, at Badminton. Mr. Codrington arrived in Park-lane, on Monday, from Doddington- park, and left for Gloucestershire again on Wednesday last. At the Bristol Agricultural Society, on the 15th inst., the Committee ...

... THE SOLAR ECLIPSE.—A singularly beautiful appearance, says the Glasgow Herald, was exhibited by the telescopes at the instant of the completion of the ring The two horns or points ot the tineclipsed part of the sun had been gra- ,*} V aPProaching each other until tiieir distance had,become small. Instead, however, of con- tinuing to make this gradual approach, there seemed to issue from each ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (Continued from our last Page.) HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. The Entails (Scotland) Bill, after some conversa- tion, was read a second time. Lord DUNCANNON moved the third reading of the Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill. Lord ELLENBOROUGH suggested an alteration in the wording of the Oath, so as to require the parties taking it to swear that they did not belong to any Secret ...

... On entering the House of Commons on nesday night, after Lord Melbourne's trial had con- eluded, the Attorney General was loudly cheered by the Ministerial Benches! Oh! shame, where i* thy blush, HOYAL ASSENT.—'The Royal Assmt was give by commission, in the House of Lords, on Tuesday, to 39 public and private Bills, amongst which arc the follow ing:-rije Bishopric of Durham Bill; the ...

... There has been another trial, and another con- viction, of some fellow who has been what is called dispensing Morison's pills, and in the evidence adduced upon the trial, it was proved—such is the wonderful gullibility of the English, that people are found who, in spite of the deaths of various miserable victims, are induced to take forty, fifty, sixty-nay, a hundred of these detestable ...

... RAILWAY MEMORANDA. In America about 3,0:)0 miles of canal have been cll,)!-ii neted i,l Canada, 200; in Great Britain, 2.77 J; in France, 2,250. Iu American railroads, completed and in progress, the extent is about equal to the agurpegate of its canal communication. Vast as this extent is, we believe, that the railroad specu- lations in America genera'ly yield a profit. The Ontario Messenger ...

... PARfSH OF SWANSEA. A meeting of the rate payers, for the ejecting of officers, took place on Thursday, according to annual custom. The Rev. Doctor HEWSON in the Chair. Reference having been made to the parish accounts, rendered by the Guardian, and as to t ie expenditure of the last year, a little discussion took place between Messrs. R uttl-r, Walters, and Walker, as to the management ...

... Joftconsilvtff. BRECONSHIRE MICHAELMAS QUARTER SESSIONS. These Sessions were held at Brecon, on Tuesday, the 18th inst., before HUGH BOLD, Esquire, Chairman, And a very numerous Bench of Magistrates. Besides the Chairman, and Penry Williams, Esq., the Lord Lieutenant of the County, we observed the following Magistrates: JOhn Lloyll, Esq. Walter Mayhcry, Esq. Major Gwyune Hulford. The Rev. ...