... 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 ...

... SPORTING BET.—A of the name of Bales who had arrived from London last week, and joined'a sporting party at Otter Caps Moors, betted a hundred sovereigns that he would kill lorty grouse in fifty shots, and won the wager, having bagged forty. two birds in fifty shots. ...

... The admirers of the Welsh language, within reach of Abergavenny, art; looking forward with interest to the award of the prizes at the next. Cy Ill- reigyddion we only wish Lord John kusseil (now that he is unoccupied as a Ministei) would attend it; he would have decisive evidence that tlw encouragement of the Welsh language in a country, thousands of whose inhabitants know no other, is not a ...

... THE CHURCH /,y WALES. TO THE EDITOR (IF TILE TIMES. Sir,-Thc Welsh will learn with indignation that so reasonable a boon as to have their Bishops selected from their own countrymen is denied them by a Par- liament pretending to be reformers in Church and State, and their aggravation will ]J0 greatly enhanced by discovering the flimsy pretexts on which it founds its objections to concede to ...

... 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 ...

... Another Electioll has furnished Lord Mel- bourne with another proof of the popularity of his Administration. The Brother of a Cabinet Minister has been defeated at Warwick, the boasted Whig Radical Borough of Warwick, by a son of the late Mr Canning—and all this too upon the most plain, manly and IInequivocal avowal of Conservative principles on the part of the victorious Candidate. Of the ...

... Travellers on the Danube will be glad to hear that there is now no quarantine to be performed by steamers at Galatz, and that the quarantine of Orsova is reduced to five days. GOOD ADVICE,-Dr. Wilson Philip, in his Treatise Oil Indigestion, says:—Although it is of consequence to the debilitated to go early to bed. there are few things more hurtful to them than re- maining in it too long. ...

... CLIFTON SUSPENSION BKIDGK.—The first ston? of this magnificent undertaking is to be laid this day, (Saturday, the 27tii inst.) being the closing day of the British Association. The ceremonial will be a most interesting one. An iron bar is to be carried from the summit of St. Vincent's rocks to the opposite heights and it is intended to carry a triumphal car across. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BUIDGE ...

... 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 ...

... We beg-to call the attention of our readers to a Letter, addressed to the Times, which will be found in another part of our paper. There has not been the shadow of an argument advanced against the necessity of an acquaintance with the Welsh Language by Welsh Bishops, which does not betray all utter ignorance of the deeply rooted habits and prepossessions of the Welsh People. If, aq it has been ...

... lltmorganníre. !is with, —— TC(L„ lt,e tnost sincere regret tli.it wo announce ™tu fkf Q» wig Ir Christopher Cole, a name that will pith fet>]retneril^Cre(' ^e county Glamorgan ftolv 'ns °f affection and respect. This melan- prjj Pn ^°°k place suddenly at his seat, Lnruday, kT a,Urissei»t, on Tuesday night last, very shortly Itned rhn with some friends who had. that day f 1 Sir Christopher ...

... As IT SHOULD BE-— divisjon of the ope- rative Conservative Association of Manchester, met to celebrate the formation of the Society on Monday. A more respectable body of men, to the amount of 400, were never congregated. Mr James Stuart, late editor of the Courier, has succeeded the late Robert Rickards, Esq., as Factory Commissioner. THE Shamatics OF A OF WAIC.Some hardened fellows will ...