... A petition to the House of Commons from the Magistrates and inhabitants of Gloucester shire has received a great number of signatures, submitting that the administration of criminal Justice would be much improved if the trial of offenders of the lighter degrees of crime were transferred from the Assizes and Quarter Sessions to the jurisdiction of Magistrates in their local districts. The ...

... FRANKFORT, FEB. 16-—A proclamation has been i sued to-day, for opening the trade between the city of Frankfort and the States composing the German Commercial Union, so far as is possible, in the interval that will elapse before the intercourse will be entirely free. The Coblentz Paper contains the account of an extraordinary natural phenomenon, born in that neighbourhood, of a male child with ...

... SRRV.CII TIV TLIEGGAR 0F QUXLITY. After t/it manner of Mr Alexander Popes Lines by a Lady of Quality. Fluttering spread thy purple pinions, tieutle Cupid, round my heart, I am slave in thy dominions Nature must give way to Art, &c, Mr Speaker, my opinions- Could I act so base a part? In his Majesty's dominions, Never beat a purer heart. Ireland once was fair and blooming Why should Parsons ...

... insert^6* °f Deaths, Marriages, and Births, will not be kno Unlc ...

... SITTING OF SUNDAY, JANUARY 31. At a quarter past 12 o'clock the five prisoners, Ficschi. Morey, Pepin, Boireau, and Bescher, were introduced with the same cermony as on the preced ing day. The only difference was, that Fieschi, instead of being placed first Oil the prisoners' bench, was led to the centre seat, which he occupied with the same cavalier air so remark- able at the former sitting. ...

... LOVDON, THURSDAY EVENIn'G' V' fa Marin, the person who was tried at the murder of Miss Bethell, by poisoning ber UplofC peculiarly attrocious circumstances, was found guilty than innocent by the Petty Jury, a'|)(], wards claimed, according to tiie laws of the to be tried by the Grand Jury, which returlluillJ verdict, to the astonishment of every one, of of homicide only. He has been ...

... THK RI' PF..LKii'S C. JMl'LAIST. (For the Merthyr Guardian.) ForccdfomhotneandaU its treasures, Ireland's coast I left for'.orn, To support Lor Melbourne's measures O'er the Irish Channel borne Men in Lngland bought ard sold me, i'ai,i n)y price ill I)aitry old, Votes are never to Still in thought as free as ever, are England's rights, 1 ask, s, Nle from iny delights to sever, Me to ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. Si R,-As one of the best public organs of commu- nication in the Principality, I beg leave to address you 011 a subject of tiie greatest importance. I en- tertained the hope that the observations recently addressed bv vou, and by others of your contempo- raries to tiled liferent Members of Parliament would have rendered my task unnecessary; but in t.ns, ...

... FEARFUL CHASM, AND GOOD NERVES. Washington County, lirginia. The chasm of this glen is so sudden and deep, and the precipice so steep, that the eye swims as it pierces the shadowy gorge be>ow. A I itici- dent is said to have occurred here a few years since. There is a carernous recess about the face of the precipice, (the height of which is above 30J feet,) and some bold adventurer determined ...

... GLEANINGS TURNIP FLY.—Amongst the papers recently read at the meetings of the Entomological society, was one communicated by Mr Lc lveux, containing a series of observations upon the ravages of the turnip fly, (Ilaltica Nemorum,)'t\\ an account of its preparatory states. The great damage annually committed by this tillv enemy of the agriculturist, induced the Don- caster agricultural society ...

... THE EARL OF ORlORD AND THE TOWN COUNCIL OF GREAT YARMOUTH. Our readers may probably have remarked the announcement by the town council of this borough that they had removed the Ear! of Orford from his oliice of High Steward. On his Lordship's atten- tion being called to the circumstance he addressed the following letter to VVilliarn Barth, Esq. the newly chosen inkiyor: •' VYolterton, .lan. 26 ...

... (H oin ins i-oniifXIOII was lo t>e so near ami ? L\- his face has never been seen by any '•a ',as l,otar)Peare(' at Election—he as HeVer set his foot within the county or tIle try. For all matters of personal conference e> might as well Heel ihe Cham of Tartars'- f0 f',r'he fund alliance of the parties—now I r *1|*> purity of the transaction. The first stipu- ^,|0 is money and the first ...