... TO CORRESPONDENTS. Lasso will perceive that other champions have entered the cited m 'S ^etter *s vu^Sar' abusive, and sopfa'sti- Sigma is quite right-the course he alludes to has been de- termined on. The price Jtf the MERLIN is this day, and henceforth, FOUR- PENCE HALFPENNY. The Ship ISAAC HICKS, advertised in our first page to sail for the United States on the 19th instant, will not sail ...

... 1:7 TO MAYFIELD MANOR. See::s—A turnpike road, with a hedge on each side, a beer- shop at every hundred yards, and a finger-post in the corner. Time—Peep-o'-day on the first of September. Dram. Pers.—I and my fiiend, Jack Manton.jutayed in full shooting costume, with Ponto, a favourite pointer, at our heels. Then The Flying Mercury stage-coach, with her cargo of men, women, and children, bags, ...

... THE ROOK. The following beautifully simple, and beautiful because simple, description of the habits of the Rook is from an excellent work on the feathered tribes of England, by Robert Nludie Every body knows the Rook the dark, the noisy, and sometimes the nest-plundering, or, in the early fields, the contribution-levying Rook; but still, notwithstanding, the cheerful, the orderly, the indus- ...

... SCHOOL OF THK ESTABLISHED ^HURCIJ. Up- wards of el2,000 having been subscribed for the purpose of erecting Schools at Liverpool, for the use of the poor, where the Scriptures would be freely taught as the standard of religious et ucation, the foundation-stone of the first School was laid on Mon- day se'nniglit, in Bond Street, at the north end of the town, by the Rev. J. Brooks, the Rector. A ...

... An Act of ParliaTuent has just passed which settles a disputed point in regard to bills of exchange, and which ought, therefore, to be known to men of business generally. The point alluded to is that respecting acceptors or referees for honour, in which DO uniform practice existed, some houses presenting the bills so marked on the day they became due, and the others the day after. It is now ...

... Six and Seven William IV, cap. 85. An Act for Marriages in England, 17 August, 1836. SIR,-Tlwre are great mistakes afloat relative to some of the new statutes, which you will be glad, I am persuaded, to rectify. Permit me then, to notice some of the provisions of the Act to amend the Law of Marriages, which is to come into operation after the 1st of March, 1837.- Martiis caelebs quid agam ca ...

... THE BALLOON ASCENT AT VAUX[iALL.- MR* GREEN 'S ACCOUNT. ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL, SEPT. 11, 1836. —The inflation of the balloon commenced 'at ten minutes past eleven, aud in the space of 12 minutes it possessed sufficient power to support itself. 36 men of the Lambeth division of police were then placed around, each takillg charge of one of the cords connected with the net work. In ahemt all ...

... Eyes are dim and red with weeping- Hearts are bursting for thy fall Let them weep !-the swords are sleeping That refused thy pitying call. All they could, thy spirits gave thee— All they could not, who will blame T They lived, they breath'd, they died to save thee, To revenge thy fallen fame Freedom !—Freedom !-to restore thee, Fought they as their fathers fought; Red offerings, as their ...

... This most interesting ceremony took place on Saturday last, and nothing could have been more auspicious than the whole proceeding. The day cleared up most beautifully, and at an early hour a lofty banner, with the good old-fashioned motto of Church and King, was seen on the site, floating in the breeze. Mr. Wyatt, the architect, Mr. Strawbridge, the contractor, and Mr. Lewis, the clerk of the ...

... An old officer on the retired list, living at Saintes, in the Charente Inérrieure a few days ago, fell into a lethargy, and was buried with military honours, under the conviction that life was extinct; but, awakened by the firing of the platoon over his grave, which took place before the coffin was covered with earth, he made himself heard by his cries, was taken out, and walked home arm in ...

... COMlMUNICATION BEI'\EIEN VAL]ES ANDI LI,,V jPOOL, cd Onl Wednesda ylast a ineeting was held at thle I Ia- a warden Ca-tie Ian, King's Ferry, of perso 1s interested inl thle ?? between the P'rincipality aed Liverpool, fur tim pumrpose oftdeterin inime to wi iclm of i-the Liverpool terries a pplication simould be made to I, Parliaiment for a, newv linc of road, in the Uesuill. sea- 1.sion. Thej ...

... (CHURCII OF ENGLAND SlCIOOLs ()n Monla v last, the ceremony of layioig the fouln- datioll stole ?? the Church of Ipsland North School C ?? place onl a ?? of ground oeppositO the Ship- th vivigln'a. bei Iliags, in on d-strecti. Ii order to giveci as much effect as yosibie to the cereiilolY. a pro- m cersioi was formed, consistiln (f tilh various charity- tli iclhol children of tih tow it and ...