... SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS — No. 129. i 14 .-C.Atid God said, 'Let there be lights in the firmament of Of all the ads- of the divine hand, next to the summoning of the universe into existence, this was the most stupendous. Imagination totally s nks before the attempt to conceive the terrific sublimity of this display, even within the boundaries of the solar system seen in its true velocities and ...

... The whole party hostile to the Constitution are in triumph on the defeat of Lord F. Eger- ton's motion. They have a good reason. The motion, the mover, and the supporters, were equally in the wrong. This comes or finesse ill leadership. The motion was, that since the Corporations were likely to be made instru- ments of popular usurpation, the best way was to abolish them altogether. The wisdom ...

... CHURCH REFORM.—Extract from the Second Report of the Commissioners on Church Reform, fnowiug tire present amount of the incomes of the larg-cr see- and the reduction which it is proposed to make in them:- Estimated In-] cottie accordiiii-, Future pro. Excess. Estimated In-] o the First Ke posed Income port. £ £ ranteii)tlrv 17.000 15,000 2.000 J,oudon 12,200 10.000 2.200 17.800 S.000 9 S00 ...

... CHIT CHAT. Mr Rhodes has commenced his survey of the River Severn between Gloucester and Worcester, with a view to ascertain the practicability of its improvement. A SECOND MILO.—The fol- lowing is an advertisement in a Bohart Town paper Fotind on a suspicious person, tico re- markably fine working blitiock.v.All the counsellors and attornies who appeared at the Crown bar in Waterford, on ...

... NEWSPAPER DI TY-—^ar as the duty can be lessened without dangerously depreciating. the cha- racter and tone of the public press, it will be reason- able and prudent to go, but not to the extent of letting in a flood of scurrilous and libellous publica- tions, which would poison the springs of popular feeling, and-undermine the foundations of all popular morality. The community has a right to ...

... CHIT CHAT. The Goldsmith's Company gave a banquet on the 9th inst. at their Hall, to which the Duke of Wellington, Sir IL Peel. &c. were invited.- George Brodie, Esq. Advocate, author of The History of the Briti Empire, from the Accession of Charles I. to the Restoration, is appointed Historiographer for Scotland, vice the late Dr Gil!ies.———The papers announce the death of Mr John Cupid, ...

... CARDIFF. FOREIGN ENTERED OUTWARDs.-The Juffrow Yuskey, Kramer, for Rotterdam; the Henry, Allen, for Alexandria. FORHIGN CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The Countess Wilton, Thomas, for Marseilles, the Elizc, Schu- mucker, for Bremen, and the Vintage, Williams, for Opoito, all with iron. COASTERS INWARDS.—The Robert, Clampit, aud the Jane, Davies, from Newport, the Providence, Monday, from Youghal, the Heury ...

... A general meeting assembled at the Free- Hall, to express the sympathy of this country withtne sufferers by the conflagration at New York, and to promote a subscription for their relief. ARRIVAL OF THE LADY JANE (WHALER) AT STROM.VESS.—The Lady Jane, of Shields, has, we are enabled to state, arrived at Stromness, after her long detention in the ice of the arctic regions. Thp p-ensure we should ...

... ntpcríal ^JarUamntt. HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY. Lord LYNDHURST presented a Bill to sim- plify the transfer of real property, and a Bill to amend the laws relative to executors and adminis- trators. Lord LANGDA I.E laid on the table a Bill ''to amend the Law relative to Wills. Lord ABERDEEN gave notice, that he would on Friday call the attention of Lord Melbourne to the state ot the wur in ...

... In justice to the memory of the late universally lamented Bishop of i^urham, and in compliance with the request of many of our Subscribers, we intend to reinsert the able memoir of the deceased Prelate from tltc Durham Advertiser, at length, in our next. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY. The House of Lords stands adjourned till Thursday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDX ESDAY. The Speaker entered the house at a few minuets to four o'clock, but there being only thirty-three mem bers present at that hour, the house was adjourned till Thursday. Prince Ferdinan I of Portugal, and suite, landed at Ramsgate yesterday, soon after noon, from H. M. steam-packet Ferret, ...

... EIIRATUNI-in the inscription for Voltaire's Statue, for Ignatus read SENATUS. ...