... LORD STANLEY'S FAREWELL. Farewell to the cause where the dawn of my glory j r?se> an« connected the Whigs with my name l abandon them now, but the page of their story, At least all the blackest, is filled with my fame. lhave warred with the Tail, which vanquished me only When an impulse of temper betrays me too far; inave worked with the Dill y, which leaves me thus lonely, The last Tory ...

... MONDAY, AUGUST 8.—INDIA.—Lord Hatherton presented petition from Calcutta, in the East Indies, agreed to at the first public meeting ever held in that place. The petitioners complained, that by the act lately passed for the regulation of the affairs of the East India Company, the interests of the inhabitants of India, which it was intended to promote, had been altogether overlooked. The Common ...

... TUB&BAY, MAY 31.—Mr. Hope moved the Gloucester 'Watef Bill. Bill passed. IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM. The Attorney-General presented a petition signed in a few hours by 12,000 persons living in Edinburgh, praying the house to extend to the people of Ireland the same privileges enjoyed in municipal affairs by the people of England and Scotland. Mr. Robinson presented a petition from a meeting held ...

... WEDNESDAY, JULY 27.— The Lord Advocate brought up the Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway Bill, which was read a first time.—Chadwick's Estate Bill was passed. Mr. Robinson presented a petition from literary and scien- tific gentlemen, members of a Natural History Society in Worcester, praying that in any sale or. aproprialinn of the surplus or auplicate coins and other curiosities of the ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-Among the various subjects of contemplation that offer themselves to our notice there are but few of a more solemn character than that of a Bishop delivering his charge to his Clergy. And, whilst in the exercise of this most im- portant duty, the range of his address is not extended beyond the legitimate scope of pastoral superinlendance, the ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... One of our Contemporaries (the Cambrian) is prodigiously angry at the conduct of the House of Lords during the Session. We are not at all surprised at this result. On the con- trary, we think it the most natural thing in the world. We shall even go the whole length of wishing that the Lords fiatt given him still inow reason for being angry. At all events it is a sign that, their Lordships have ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...