... THE IRON MOUNTAIN. Mr Featherstonehough, in his report upon the mineral and geological character of certain parts ot \!issouri and Arkan-» ...

... GLEANINGS. CLUBS.—Clubs as far as niv observation Ooe, are favourable to economy of time. There is a fixed place to g-o to, every tiling is served with compara- tive expedition, and it is not customary to remain long at table. Tiiey are favourable to temperance. It seems that when people can freely please them- selves, and when they have an opportunity of living simply, excess is seldom ...

... QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY -111 honor of her Ma- jesty's Birthday all the vessels in the Glamorganshire Canal, and Cardiff Roadstead, had their colours hoisted, and at one o'clock a Royal Salute, of 21 guns, was fired at the Sea Lock, and answered by tlle vessels in the Roads. NEWBRIDGE CHTIRCH -W,- understand that land, on both sides the Taff, has been offered, in the handsomest manner, for the ...

... 2 KINGS, V. I S. -I' When I bow myself down in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing. Rimmon WRS the God of the Syrian.sup- posed by Scaliger to be Jupiter Tonans. Naainan hoped he might, without offence to the Divine Majesty, whom alone he resolved to worship, keep the great office he had under the King his master, and consequelltly bow himself when he went with him ...

... 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 ...

... MANSFfELD.—An excellent plan for the detection of horse stealers has been adopted at Mansfield; if a horse is stolen from thence, infor- mation will be immediately given to the members of the association, who will instantly scour the country for at least 30 miles around Mansfield, This is an example which we hope will be followed throughout the kingdom.-Derbyshire Courier. DREADFUL ...

... An Act of ParliaTuent has just passed which settles a disputed point in regard to bills of exchange, and which ought, therefore, to be known to men of business generally. The point alluded to is that respecting acceptors or referees for honour, in which DO uniform practice existed, some houses presenting the bills so marked on the day they became due, and the others the day after. It is now ...

... P Per r*lCe' w'c'1 seems destined to exhibit a picture of the crimes of llepublican- fttt just reinforced the moral by a renewed to murder its King. Louis Philippe ^Cen 8',ot at t',e ^ace *'ay» 'n the s'°f his family, surrounded by guards, and i'6 w'10^e» under every circumstance that 'he d°l|bt from the guilty reality of ^j.^tra,,saction. A ruffiin, of the name of ea» a merchant's clerk or ...

... SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—On Thursday last, as William Evan, a Pembrokeshire labouter, was walking up the Pennydarran inclined plane, by the side of the tram waggon, the wheel en- tangled in his trowsers, and he was dragged under the car- riage— his leg was broken in two places, and was amputated the same evening by Mr. Russell.—Merthyr Guardian. GRATIFYING TESTIMONIAL.— I he firemen employed at the ...

... To the Editor III the Monmouthshire Merlin. SIR,-I am sorry to find, that I am obliged to trouble you once more. The subject has been protracted to an undue length, and any interest that your readers may have taken in it, must be nearly exhausted. It still appears to me that Scrutator does not comprehend the position I have taken. It is not one of attack on the Voluntary System, but of reply ...

... ALTERATIONS IN TIIE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Several Members of Parliament and other persons attended in the House of Commons on Friday last, to try the effect of certain alterations in the interior, made under the su- perintendence of Dr. Reid, of Edinburgh, for the pur- pose of improving the ventilation and facilitating the distinct conveyance of spoken language to the ear. A detachment of 420 ...

... (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 ...