... CHURCH REFORM.—Extract from the Second Report of the Commissioners on Church Reform, fnowiug tire present amount of the incomes of the larg-cr see- and the reduction which it is proposed to make in them:- Estimated In-] cottie accordiiii-, Future pro. Excess. Estimated In-] o the First Ke posed Income port. £ £ ranteii)tlrv 17.000 15,000 2.000 J,oudon 12,200 10.000 2.200 17.800 S.000 9 S00 ...

... CHIT CHAT. Mr Rhodes has commenced his survey of the River Severn between Gloucester and Worcester, with a view to ascertain the practicability of its improvement. A SECOND MILO.—The fol- lowing is an advertisement in a Bohart Town paper Fotind on a suspicious person, tico re- markably fine working blitiock.v.All the counsellors and attornies who appeared at the Crown bar in Waterford, on ...

... NEWSPAPER DI TY-—^ar as the duty can be lessened without dangerously depreciating. the cha- racter and tone of the public press, it will be reason- able and prudent to go, but not to the extent of letting in a flood of scurrilous and libellous publica- tions, which would poison the springs of popular feeling, and-undermine the foundations of all popular morality. The community has a right to ...

... CHIT CHAT. The Goldsmith's Company gave a banquet on the 9th inst. at their Hall, to which the Duke of Wellington, Sir IL Peel. &c. were invited.- George Brodie, Esq. Advocate, author of The History of the Briti Empire, from the Accession of Charles I. to the Restoration, is appointed Historiographer for Scotland, vice the late Dr Gil!ies.———The papers announce the death of Mr John Cupid, ...

... If we were ever inclined to give the character of mob election in a single sentence, we should say that it has sent Mr v\ akley into Parlia- defy the art of description to go further. Nlr Wakley's evidence on his Insur- ance Trial, is still fresh in our memories, and is still substantially on the records of our Criminal Jurisprudence, and it fully accounts at once for this Legislator's wrath ...

... CARDIFF. FOREIGN ENTERED OUTWARDs.-The Juffrow Yuskey, Kramer, for Rotterdam; the Henry, Allen, for Alexandria. FORHIGN CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The Countess Wilton, Thomas, for Marseilles, the Elizc, Schu- mucker, for Bremen, and the Vintage, Williams, for Opoito, all with iron. COASTERS INWARDS.—The Robert, Clampit, aud the Jane, Davies, from Newport, the Providence, Monday, from Youghal, the Heury ...

... The New and beautiful Fast Going Steam Packet, LADY CHARLOTTE, Two Engines 30 Horse Power Each, H. T. PARFITT, Commander, Will Ply during the ensuing week, with Passengers and Goods, as follows:- FROM CARDIFF. Coach from Coach from DEC. Bridgend. Merthyr. i.3.ru FST)A-, fij morn.. 51. morn 4J morn 15..THURSDAY ..10 morn.. 7 morn 6 morn 17..SATURIJAV ..12i after.. 9J mnm 8I morn FROM BRISTOL. ...

... THE THREfi THIEVËS: (From the Times.) Let Englishmen talk of their brave Robin Hood, Let the Scotch to Rob Rov fill a can ut ould Ireland can show them a thief quite as good- She can show them her beautiful ]Dan! Hobin Itood, we all know, be could draw a long bow, Rob Roy's giant arm could prevail; BUl O'Cobnell's is longdr, and surer and stronger, For it's back'd by the length of his tail! ...

... FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. WALKING DRESS.—Brown satin cloak, with velvet cape, tight sleeves of velvet, with loose hanging sleeves of satin over. Bonnet of cheery velvet, with plume of ostrich feathers placed low at the side. MORNING I)itFss.-Of green cashmere, the sleeves in three puffs, divided by broad bands, tight to the arm; cape paysanne; collaret of worked cambric, the hair arranged with ...

... MAIDSTONE. — HOP ~LNTELLIGENCE. All the highly-cultivated grounds are making wonderful pro- gress, but some others, not in such good heart, are slightly infested with the flea, and the bine is less kindly; still, upon the whole, great improvement is perceptible. In one ground in Leeds, the bines have topped 22 feet poles, and many other grounds, al- though not so forward, are yet highly ...

... (From Mr Downes' Mountain-Decameron.) So late as the earlier part of the last century, that strange character of a stranger superstition, known by the name of The Sin-Eater, was not unknown in Wales. This was some desperate being, wno, (unless we suppose him an unbeliever)- being past redemption, lost to all hope of salvation, did for a slight reward, or to gratify the relatives of one lying ...

... Six and Seven William IV, cap. 85. An Act for Marriages in England, 17 August, 1836. SIR,-Tlwre are great mistakes afloat relative to some of the new statutes, which you will be glad, I am persuaded, to rectify. Permit me then, to notice some of the provisions of the Act to amend the Law of Marriages, which is to come into operation after the 1st of March, 1837.- Martiis caelebs quid agam ca ...