... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... INFORMATION OF INTRUSION. Before Mr Justice Patteson and a Special Jury. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. PARSONS ANO OTHERS. —This was an action to ascertain the right of the Crown to certain portions of land which had been encroached from the manor of Iseoed, in the county of Radnor, by a proceeding called an information of intrusion, and was in the nature of an action of eje. t- r ment by which the ...

... CHIT CHAT. LADY I-IEWLEY'S CARITIEs.-The late trus- tees of these bequests have resolved, as a forlorn hope, to appeal to the House of Lords, against the decision of the Ex-Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, and have given notice to the solicitor of the rela- tors accordingly. The final adjudication of this long-pending question is now therefore deferred to the next session of parliament.-Congi ...

... It is undoubtedly difficult to choose among the countless follies of Radicalism in its days of theory, or among the countless crimes in its days or practice. But perhaps one of the worst s, that they disgust all rational minds with the very idea of Liberty. When a Locke, taking the Charter of England from the ruins of the Constitutional Temple, delivers it again to the People, we can honor the ...

... bi 'k e-nfi,tn,'Ition will take place next month, in the ill of Hereford, beginning on the 5th, and end to L°, e'9th September. The Bishop has appointed jft u Monmouth on the first day, at two in the ^oon. Jj^!e.^uKe and Duchess of Beaufort, and the Lftd^orcestrr, accompanied by Lord and 0t) J Chesterfield, arrived at Troy House, Monmouth, ^UPIev°ninglast. His Grace and Lord Ches- Joso k ? ...

... MOON'S AGE. FULL MOON, Ai-o. 26, at 2 li^'Y Printed and Published by SANDFOBD of Hiiih-street, Morthyr Tydvil, ,tiy,i Glamorgan, at the Office, High-street. BjCat' t where Orders, Advertisements, Co are-reque.:ted-to be ad4r esseds j ...

... EXECUTION OF OLIVER, alias BUCKINGHAM JOE, FOR THE MURDER. OF MR MAY.-Thifi Cul- prit underwent the sentence of the law at Exeter, on Friday se'iuiight. A vast concourse of people were attracted to the place of execution. Oliver con- fessed himself guilty, though he declared that he had no intention of committing murder. He also repeated his declaration as to the innocence of Galley. Galley ...

... UretOnøttite. A W ■ PJE.—A pie, in the counties of Olamor- Bre con, is not restrained, as Johnson defines bit any crus^ baked with something under it, ls a assemblage of persons who are called to- ti»(> r b-V public invitation, (the Gwahawdd), where drjnu?r ^ee days are consumed in gossipping and U JS one °f these days be ng always a SUNDAY **hi | ln,P°ss'ble to describe the noise and riot ...

... POETRY- PAST AND PRESENT. I saw a little merry maiden, With laughing eye and sunny hair, And foot as free as mountain fairy, And heart and spirit light as air; And hand and fancy active ever, Devising, doing, strivingstill; Defcaté i oft—despairing never— Up springing strong in hope and will. I saw her bounding in her gladness, OIl aViid heath at dewy morn, Weaving a glistning wild-rose ...