... THE BALLOON ASCENT AT VAUX[iALL.- MR* GREEN 'S ACCOUNT. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL, SEPT. 11, 1836. —The inflation of the balloon commenced 'at ten minutes past eleven, aud in the space of 12 minutes it possessed sufficient power to support itself. 36 men of the Lambeth division of police were then placed around, each takillg charge of one of the cords connected with the net work. In ahemt all ...

... POETRY WOI A V. If oace on feeble woman's head The sin of Man's transgression fell, A brighter page may now be read, And of her faith and virtue tell. The first reproach—the early scorn, A pitying Saviour put away, Incarnate God of her was born, And on her virgin bosom lay. Without a home to rest his head That Man of Sorrow was her guest; Her tender nature soothed and fed, When bis own siuful ...

... ,C pourier, an avowed oran of the present Uttf ni8tr;(Uoii, remarking on tbe murder of the process-server in Ireland, actually language. The people believe that >rof *re do'»g service to the religion they refusing to provide for tbe priests of to ^l0t4 which they conscientiously believe f^iL heretical—false— and established by I re*it^n ^0rce on the ruins of theit own—They ft>tj °nPrinciple! ...

... The young Queen of Portugal was married a week or two since, just as one Lord Chancellor has been substituted for three Lords Commis- sioners, and the wife of Sir John Campbell made a Peeress, preparatory to the opening of the Session. Love seems to have had as lit le to do with the one as with the other. The little Qlleen has never seen her litisl)aitd-tlie husband has neverseen the little ...

... CARDIFF. FOREIGN REPORTED INWARDS.—The Cateviena, Nyrnan, from Guernsey, in ballast; and the Fortuna, Bulow, from Memel, with deals, staves, and lath- wood. FOREIGN ENTERED OUTWARDs.-The Sonne, Holst, and the Anna, Loets, for Hamburg. FOREIGN CLEARED OUTWARi)s.-The Mary Ann, Child, for Newcastle, Uuited States, with iron and passengers; the Beer and Wingyett, Bee, for An- cona, and the Eulione ...

... SOCIETY fOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIM,u.a.-On Friday week, this Society held its annual meeting in the large room in the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen Street, The meeting was one of the most numerous and respectable which has oc- cured since the formation of the Society, and the greatest interest appeared to be taken in the objects and proceedings of the Committee. The Earl of ...

... THE IRISH TUTOR AND HIS SCHOOL. We ought to have sooner noticed what we con- sider decidedly the happiest effort of the comic talent of H. B. The sketch is called The Irish Tutor, and represents the Irish Master of the English Cabinet as a burly pedagogue in one of his mifder moods. His little'' school is arrayed in solemn order in the front of the desk, at which sits the Schoolmaster at ...

... OLD CHRISTMAS. From the first introduction of Christianity into these islands, the period of the Nativity seems to have been kept as a season of festival, and its observance recognised as 'a matter of state. The Wittenage- mots of our Saxon ancestors were ield uuder the solemn sanctions and beneficent infnences of the time; and the series of high festivities established by the Anglo-Saxon ...

... 13cecongiurc. BRECONSIIIRE MIDSUMMER QUARTER SESSIONS. These Sessions were held 011 Tuesday and Wednes- day last, before Hugh Bold, Esq. Chairman, and a very numerous bench of Magistrates, among whom we noticed Penry Williams, Esq. the Lord Lieutenant for tile county. There was not one parish appeal tried. The trials of the following appeals were respited until the next Sessions, viz:—- ...

... ,'i.'h,e fol¡owillg is the report of anoccnrrfnce I)Ile4rs t ...

... Extract of a letter from a British Officer in Spain, dated Heights of Armitza, 71h July, 1836 The Minden, 74, Captain Sharpe, C.B. which brought out various necessaries, being about to return to England immediately, with Lietft. Langlay, wounded, Capt. Mallock, and Lieuts. Chambers and Branch, sick, and such marines as have been wounded, 1 give you what news is stirring, although it be but ...

... Mr (ii i you, s;iy to liiiii oil tii;it occasion? — Witness.—I asked him if he had brought the money wil l liiin. don't recollect that he macks me any answer, hat he took out his pocket-book, and me on the table, a blank stamp, re- quested me to write my name upo-i it, giving me the form— Accepted Charles II. Jenner. As I was signing' my name lie was drawing what I took to be a check, upon a ...