... CHIT CHAT. Observing, says a wit, some singular pilasters at Harrou gate, surmounted with the Lornua Ammonis, I ventured to ask the builder to what order they belonged ? Why, Sir, he replied, putting his hand to his head, the horns are a little order of my own. English cookery is by no means agreeable, as every body is obliged to bite and chew twice as much as in France, Italy, and Ger- many, ...

... Brecomihtte. BRECON SAVINGS BANK. Pursuant to an advertisement which appeared in a former OLABDIAV a meeting of the Trustees and •rf? t»Wa,So f'-1 at the Shire all, Brecon, on • 1 a*A t ■ Instan';> f°r the purpose of appoint- mgan Actuary u, the room of the late Mr Stephen Parry, who had filled the situation from the commence- ment of the institution to the time of his decease. HUGIl BOLD, ...

... It is an extraordinary fact, and no less lament- able, that in this town (Woodbridge) there ire marriageable females of the highest respectability from the blooming age of 22 to that period when a lady's age becomes a questionable point, with- out helpmates. There are also no less than 52 widows, who it would be unfair to presume are not desirous again to enlist under the banners of Hymen, ...

... Forcedgaiety used as a cloak for inward depression. Se'est thou, my friend, yon brook dance down the valley, And sine: blithe carols over broken rock And tiny waterfall, kissing every shrub And each gay flower it nurses in its pasage,- Where, think'st thou, is its source, this boun; It flows from forth a cavern, black all,, Sullen and sunless, like this Which others see in a fal glArfc of ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH. (Sitting in Banco.) At the sitting of the Court the following order was read, appointing the examiners of parties applying for admission to practice as attornies in the Courts of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer:— EASTER TERM, 1836. It is ordered that the several Masters and Pro- thonotaries, for the time being, of the Courts of King's Beuch, Common Pleas, and ...

... FOR EASTER DAY. Again the Lord 01 Hfe and Light Awakes the kindliqg ray, Unseals the eyelids Of th. IDona, And pours increasing day. 0, what a night was that which wrapt The heathen world in gloom! 0, what a sun which broke this day Triumphant from the tomb! The powers of darkness leagued in vain To bind our Lord in death He shook their kingdom when He fell, By his expiring breath. And now his ...

... SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRATIONS.-No. 132. JoBii. 4.— And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skill for Skin yea, ail that a man hath will he give for his life. The Arabs set the exploits of their chiefs in the dialogue form, like the Book of Job. The Cingalese often spend hours at night in reciting alternately the exploits of Budhu, and of their Ij-ods and Devils. I have been disturbed by them. This ...

... Mr O Connell are we never to have done with that most contemptible name, has been again arraigned before the House of Commons, and again acquitted, and henceforth it is to he a perfectly harmless if not a Patriotic act, for any man to walk the streets of London with the offer to sell a Borough to the first purchaser, as he would sell a poodle with a red string round its neck. We beg to offer, ...

... Nve m(Intiolled I;i,t %v,, k tli;it %v,- sli,)lil,i v Some account of the Rev. Mr Cmiybcnre's course of Ti leo, ogil-ii Lectures, of wbicii the second edition has just appeared. Tiiese lectures were originally de- livered at the new Institution, formed for purposes of general science in Bristol tliy were listened to with gre;it interest, and we may safely drnw the conclusion, tilat they were ...

... S'V1 send you a very old Englyn on our Moun- tain River, with a translation retaining the very peculiar metre of that ancient British Composition. Mae Taf yn afon rwvsgus, Mae Taf yn afreohis; ivr ^haf a ddygwys by wyd cant Mae 11 cerdded pant echrydus. Faffs torrent woe presages, Through chasms dread it rages; What count ess victims in its waves Have found their graves through ages Yours, ...

... G LE1\.yqlri'S1-S. Lw-v-f \vv, CAEUNtAI!VOXSII[RE. This alpine 1;1 ke was first made generally known from the asser- tion of Giraklus Cainbrensis, that it contained a singular kind of trout, perch, and eels, which an wanted the left eye. Few persons seem to have given credit to this account. Mr Edward Lloyd, however, says, that a Caernarvonshire fisherman told him, he had several times caught ...

... THE MAGAZINES.—NOT A BLOWIXG-UP. The Parliamentary vacation will enable us to fill up the space usually devofed to the pro- ceedings of the great Reformed, with matter which, if not equally important, we suspect will be more entertaining. Certainly nothing can be more common than the speeches of the Radical Commons- From *,Fi*as,,r-Iong doubting what to choose, where every thing is good, we ...