... One of our Contemporaries (the Cambrian) is prodigiously angry at the conduct of the House of Lords during the Session. We are not at all surprised at this result. On the con- trary, we think it the most natural thing in the world. We shall even go the whole length of wishing that the Lords fiatt given him still inow reason for being angry. At all events it is a sign that, their Lordships have ...

... I hold in possession at present a hair-ball being one of two, weighing1 half an ounce each were lately found in the stomuch of a calf a few months o!d. It may be some advantage to farmers and cattle-breeders to know that the like may he frequently produced by the ca!f licking its skin, co lecting it niouihful of its hair, and swallowing it, the action of the stomach compacting and moulding the ...

... 'i'.lii SCO tiSll .UO:s i\ .j„Y .•.i-i.i.i-.Zi.i^. II. Sttiart and --Co. GlangoiH. YvTe have been exceedingly pleased wi'h the |)er;is;il of a now Magazine—the corns;) MONTHLY—the third number of which has sent to tIS. Ii is a periodical distinguished by more variety than any other we coulu name, interesting fo the nierchnnt, the scholar, and the man of business, nor t'eg- lectiug that lighter ...

... 2 KINGS, V. I S. -I' When I bow myself down in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon thy servant in this thing. Rimmon WRS the God of the Syrian.sup- posed by Scaliger to be Jupiter Tonans. Naainan hoped he might, without offence to the Divine Majesty, whom alone he resolved to worship, keep the great office he had under the King his master, and consequelltly bow himself when he went with him ...

... fttomuoutftShttc. MONMOUTHSHIRE SUMMER ASSIZES. a&ffk Judoes) the Hon. Sir J. Littledale, Knight, >ntn ^0,K S'r J- Pattoson, Knight, were escorted Monmouth on Saturday afternoon, by the High th°r^' **eor?e Rooke, Esq., and immediately opened qCommission. jy J1 Sunday morning, their Lordships attended c I,e Service at St. Mary's Church; on which oc- the Rev. Mr Langley preached a very imprcs- j ...

... A sharp discussion took place on-the second read- itig of the Trinity (North Leith) Harbour Bill, which terminated in the rejection of the measure hya majority of 30*10 29. in answer to a question, Lord J. RUSSfcXL intimated that Government might p.ossibly appoint a commission, or adopt some other mode of securing what were called the reforms in ihe Scottish Universities, intended to have been ...

... SCRIPTURE ILLUSTRA TIONS.—Mo. 154. MARK iv., SI, 32.— It is like a grain of mustard seed, which when it is sown in the earth is less than all the seeds, but becometh greater than all berb,4, &c.11 The least may also be translated one of the last, and so 9mall that it was proverbially used to signify a very little thing. The Talmud mentions a mustard tree so large that a man might with ease ...

... A curious piece of antiqnity has lately been discovered in the churchyard of Hem I Hempstead. In digging a vault for a young lady of the name of Warren, the sexton, when he had excavated the earth about four feet belcv the surtaceof the ground, struck his spade against something solid, which, upon inspection, he found to be a targe wrought stone, which proved to be the lid of a coffin, and ...

... MERTHYR TYDVIL, SATURDAY, August 20, 1836. Parliament will be prorogued this day. We are sadly tempted by the last syllable of the word, to perpetrate a pun but we forbear. The question is not as it used to be, what has Par- liament done; our congratulations are rather offered to the Country on the mischief which has been prevented. All honour to the House of Lords. Inslllted-threatelled, and ...

... Mr Rice called Lord Lyndhurst's intimation that the Government might take off the whole of the Stamp Duty a falsedrag— the scent of 11 PM-herring to draw off the hounds. But what was this humbug of privilege but a falsedrag-eh, Mr Red herring Who put the ministerial hounds on a false scent by the red-herring of privilege, when the real game was the registration clauses ? Answer us that, ...

... rV c will not insert anonymous or unpaid communi- cations of marriages. EUUATUM.—IN the Advertisement of the Subscrip- tions to the Newbridge Church, in our last, C400 was stated to have been subscribed by the INCORPORATED SOCIETY, it should have been £ 300 additional—thefirst subscription of having ])oen advertised in a previous number. A he total will stand thus 18 10. ...

... AWfL'L THUND&R STORM.-We. are not aware that this island (Man) was ever visited by so severe a storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, as on Wednesday evening last. It commenced about six o'clock, and continued till nearly twelve. At Laxey, five miners, named John Henry, James Robinson, Isaac Moore, James Henry, and John Kelly (the first having large families, and Moore a wife and child) met ...