... 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 ...

... THE CRoPs.-The hay harvest has nearly drawn to a close in this county. The complaints are general as to the shortness of the crop, but the highly- favourable weather for its gathering, and consequently diminished expense, have compensated in some measure for the deficiency of the produce. It is said that the shortness of keep (consequent on the hot weather and the want of rdn) has already ...

... There was a Railway it the Assenlhly Rooms, Cheltenham, a few days since, in which the opponents of the Swindon met in full force. Mr Rov entered into a full and satisfactory statement of what had taken place in Parliament, and it was pretty manifest, tiiat a Bill for a more dtrcct line of raiiroad from Cheltenham to the Metropolis, would speedily be submitted to Parliament. The Chancellor of ...

... NUMBERS XX., V. 12.— And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, because ye believed me not. Here interpreters have been much troubled to find what it was for which God was offended at Moses and Aaron for though the text tells us expressly it was for their unbelief, whereby they gilve great scandal, and did not sanctify him as they did formerly before the Israelites, yet it doth not clearly ...

... The Conservatives, of Bristol assembled at the Merchants' Hall, on Thursday, for the purpose of testifying their respect for Thomas Daniel, Esq. late' the senior Alderman of this city, whose eminent services to the best interests of the Constitution in Church and State, as well as those of his native city, for a long series of years, have earned for him a dis- tinction which no man can hope to ...

... POET K, 1l SONNETS BY THE SKKTCHER.—(Blackwood.) THE STEAM VESSEL. Old II Oilier says that the Phoenciau hark The aim and purpose of it:' owner knows, And self-moved to ail parts and havens goeR; Nor sJccrM nor tack'd, as arrow to its mark, Cover'd with cloud and vapour; so the lark Str,light to Heaven's gate soars upward, and then thro.vs Herself unheeding through the vapours dark, That ...

... The most honourable kiss, both to the giver and receiver, was that impressed by Queen Margaret of France upon the lips of the ugliest man in the kingdom, Alain Chartier, whom she found one day asleep- I do not kiss the man, said she to her astonished court, btit the lips that have uttered so many charming things. Ah! says the nar- rator, it was worth while to be a poet in those days. ...

... CONTEMPORARY^ PRESS. (From the Standard.) -Mr O'Council dined at Rochester yesterday: \ve cou?d wish him to d|»e in every' to\^n 0f Tllc man himself is an antidote to confidence or respect; but be still is more useful as an attractive centre for whatever is odious, eo;iteinf)tib!e, or mis- chievous. There is no process ol del«:at;jon by which the state of British society ...

... The difficulty of pleasing every body at once is proverbial. The Bill of one ,of the Cemetery Companies gives the latest illustration. The Directors, on the principle of pleasing every body, marked two portions of their ground, one for Consecration, in which the Members of the Established Church were to be laid, and one left to be unconsecrated, where the Dissenters were to be interred if they ...

... fhoujjl. 'ould 15 a, subject requiring mature reflection, ^0,ne us as Journalists living in a dis- ttf I°re ^'le Welsh is unquestionably the language of 9r^c 'W'ljority, to he silent on the late motion te^Por erv,s '•> the House of Commons. Two con- op* one on either side of us, have taken Wefg if T'6Ws ^e effect likely to be produced of ^'wl it ions of this motion to become the law the ejf ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Reader'' is strong-but not too strong ;-wc will at- tend to his comtnunicatwn next week. ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS-THURSDAY. The Hoyal Assent was given by Commission to sundry Public and Private Bills. The Excise Licenses (Ireland) Bill was read a second time—to be considered in Committee on Tuesday next. On the presentation of the report of the Pri- soners otirwcl Bd, a short discussion arose, Lord VVHARNCLll11E in particular objecting to the Bill that it would obstruct rather than promote ...