... BROWN SHERRY,—Perhaps, says the writer of some letters from Spain in the Inquisitor, you may not be aware that the brown Sherry is mixed with boiled wine, that the pure is the pale Sherry, and that what is called amontillado is one butt of the same year and vineyard, which attains to a greater degree of perfection solely by the chance process of fermentation. The brown Sherry is, indeed, ...

... ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HI:HAHD LONG, ESQ, LONGFIFLD.—On Wednesday evening last, as Mr. was on his return home fiom Cashed, where he had beeP tending his magisterial duties at the Petit Sessions, and just arrived ,at his avenue gate, he was pounced three armed assassins, who discharged lhe contents of '■ muskets at hiUl, but providentially without effect. His vant, who satcin the gig with him, ...

... ROSS STEEPLE CHASE. The admirers of this bold and animating sport, assembled in great numbers at Ross on Tuesday last,ond enjoyed a field-day of extraordinary interest. The spirited manner in which the steeple chase of last year was got up and conducted by the men of Ross, excited the most favourable anticipations for this occasion, and many leading characters in the sporting world, from ...

... THURSDAY, FEB. 18.—Sir W.Geary, brought in abill for a railroad between Greenwich and Gravesend-read a first time. HORSHAM JAIL. Lord G. Lennox presented a petition from the nobility, gentry, &c., of Sussex, for discontinuing the use ofHolSham Jail. Dr. Bowring complained of a report in the Morning Post, misrepresenting the manner in which some observations of his on the preceding evening had ...

... • ■■ -1 v j. To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Mtrtm. The magic of the mintl.—BYRON. Sm,-In reply to Leocaedius's worthy epistle bn the subject of a Mechanics' Institute, pardon me copying your very trite motto, since, at this moment, nothing so applicable occurs to my memory. As a Pontypoolian, I feel called upon to redeem roysell and fellow-townsmen from the odium which he seems to fling ...

... CAPT. AKERMAN.—On the breaking out of the war, (after the short peace) in 1803, Captain Akerman was returning from Newfoundland to Poole, when he was taken by a French privateer off Portland, nearly in sight of his native place (Burton Bradstock.) On nearing the French coast, as the prize-master was overhauling the ship's papers, he observed a master mason's certificate, dated the 10th of ...

... i. t. Metes*. BANK OF EXC^ANTI.—Downing-street, July 28.— Quarterty average of the weekly liabilities and assets of theBank or England, from May '3 to July 2G, 1836, in- clusive, published pursuant to the Act 3 and 4 William IV., cap. S3. -LIAEILTTRI S. AIITLIS. Securities £ 28,415.000 Deposits 14,495,000 Bullion 6,926.000 £ 32,435,000 £ 35,241,000 The President of the Board of Trad-e has ...

... BRISTOL, AUG. 22.-During yesterday and Saturday the city has been rapidly filling, and is at this moment the per- £ --seatof philosophy. The Bristol people, particularly the softer portion, have all on the full gaze, to see what tind of creature a philosopher was, and I really believe that every stranger, whether he was a duke or an Irish pig-d river, has been deemed to be some learned, person ...

... An inquest *as held do Wednesday last, at the S'wah Inn, Tenbury, on tbe bo^ly of Richard Mjpp, of Boraston, near that t^vn, wb« on Monday evening 1^, in a state of intoxi- cation, dropped down dead. He was by trade a sawyer, aiiH had been emploved in his occupation on the Monday by a gentleman in Tenbury, who had liberally supplied him with cider during the day. The deceased left his employ ...

... PRICE v. THE MONMOUTH TURNPIKE COMMISSIONERS. On Moaday last, a Jury was summoned at theTown-Halb at Monmouth, for the purpose of assessing what amount should be awarded to Joseph Price, Esq., (as a Trustee of the Monmouth Charity School for the education cfcijdren of poor parents,) for certain damage which wtfwid necessarily be done by the Turnpike Commissioners on the property of the ...

... THE EMBARKATION. YET one moment gaze around us, For, when we are far away, On the the things that now surround us How will Memory delay With a thousand feelings haunted, Will the river re-appear; By the inmost heart enchanted To the inmost heart how dear! Far behind the city sweeping Seems another world than ours On the lovely river sleeping, In the lovely moonlit hours. Dim and vague her ...

... It is yet undecided whether the approaching marriage of the lovely and accomplished Miss Emily Bagot, with the Earl of Winchilsea, will lake place at Brighton or in Paris. I he beautiful fiancce is at present at the French capital, on a visit to her friend the Lady Mary Fox but it is currently believed that her nuptials will be celebrated at the Pavilion, as it is known Miss Bagot is an ...