... TIlE MOUNTAIN DECAMERON. Th«se volumes contain natch Hint is clover anti original. They profess to embody in a series of Tales th, !)(;p¡¡ar habits, custom. superstitions, and modes of thinking of the Welsh.—• W e have no t;me for present analysis, and our extracts arc taken almost at random, and have reference rather to that which is inci- dentally sponcn, than to the staple commodity of ...

... THE BUItGLARY^AT CHIPSTEAD. Extraordin ar-V b1 Kssiojf of the Wounded Burglar. —Our readeis will remembsr that in Sepu-mber last the residence of Captain Ranker], at Chipstead, Surry, was attacked in tile ni^ht-time by a gang- of armed villains, and that ultimately one of them was shot by c,,¡.>,al:l Hallkell, bllt he contrived to ijet away, but was subsequently takeu intoeustody and ...

... ERRATA.-In the Bridgend Cottage cause, for Locus in giro-read Locus in quo. Our Compositor, like Virgil's serpent, has repeated this error three times. Tres gyros traxit. In the hurry of drawing up our eport of the Glamor- ganshire Assizes, the word latter was inserted for former, in the calise Reed v. Harris. The words printed were, the Learned Judge summed up, 1, Com- menting on the ...

... The atrocities of the Spanish war assume a deeper and bloodier character, and bear the' unequivocal shape of massacre. The ;ast accounts state that three hundred prisoners have been shot at once by the Carlists. The Chris- tinos, equally barbarous, have begun the indis- cribable horror of murdering women I The mother, and probably the three sisters of one of the Carlist Chieftains have been ...

... j-he revolutionary progress of Ireland con- tinues with unabated vigour. Every day gives a new impetus to Papist supremacy; the whole present occupation of Parliament being the relief, as it is termed, of Papists from all the old restraints upon doing their full pleasure. '€ refer our readers, for the details of the Irish Municipal Bill, to the columns of our last paper. The result of the ...

... AGRICULTURE. DISTRESS OF THE I-IAYMAKKRS.—It has been a heartrending sight during the past week to travel in the suburban parts of the metropolis, particularly on the northern roads, where hundreds of English and Irish mowers and haymakers, with their numerous families, are grouped about the roads in the most abject poverty. The severity and length of the winter, taiid the present precarious ...

... EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF TREASURE.— On Saturday morning se'nnight, between ten and eleven o'clock, as a poor aged woman, named Hutz, was engaged wading through the mud on the bank of the river on the east side of Waterloo-bridge, in search of pieces of coal, she turned up a tin box, about six inches in breadth and eight in length. She immediately broke it open, when out fell a bag which ...

... (Continued from our last Page.) HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. Last night, Lord PLUNK ETT presented a Bill for the Amendment of t ic Bankrupt Laws in Ireland; its objects being two-Cold-to consolidate the exist- ing Acts, and to assimilate the Jaw oil this subject. i Tr.e report of the Bill regarding the administration of justice in the West Indies was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be read a ...

... Jill who value their Health, and require, occa- sionally, a safe and qfflcacious Aperient, would do well to take SYDENHAM'S APERIENT ANTI- BILIOUS PILLS, a medicine of Jong-established reputation, and adapted to both sexes. They speed- ily remove the irritation anJ feverish state of the stomach correct the morbid condition of the liver, and other organs subservient to digestion promote healthy ...

... Sm, Having read in your last week's paper a letter, signed a Welsh Curatc, in which it is stated that the Member of a neighbouring borough owed the founda- tion of his fortunes to a Chancellor of Llandaff, who had obtained his worldly goods through the kindness of his Bishop, I beg to say, that the Chancellor alluded to, got a considerable fortune with his wife, (it is said, as much as X 10 ...

... SHIPWRECK OF THE HANNAH, AND HOR- RIBLE SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW. I We have been favoured by one of the survivors of this ill-fated vessel with a narrative of her loss in the Western Ocean, and the dreadful condition of the crew, one half of whorti perished. The Hannuh belonged to South Shields, and was the property of Mr Clough, of that port. She wa* an old vessel, of about 260 tons, and her ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. ft S'R ...