... We invite the particular attention of our Readers to a valuable communication addressed to the Editor of the GUAKDIAN, by the Rev. W. D. CONYBEAKE, in which the celebrated Batteries of Mr Cross, of Somersetshire, are well described, and their eflect very clearly explained. ...

... ittomnouthSfure. The contemplated marriage between C. W. Codring- ton, Esq., M.P and Lady Georgiana Somerset, second daughter of the Duke of Beaufort, will be solemnised on Tuesday next, at Badminton. Mr. Codrington arrived in Park-lane, on Monday, from Doddington- park, and left for Gloucestershire again on Wednesday last. At the Bristol Agricultural Society, on the 15th inst., the Committee ...

... On his late Balloon Excursion from England to Nassau. In a pamphlet of fifty-two pages, Mr Mason has given us a glowing description of the late balloon expedition from England to Nassau, and it is truly a very interesting account. The only fault we have to find is that he has omitted to te!l us more. We should have liked to hear how the aeronauts enjoyed their supper or breakfast; what and ...

... NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE BLUG LIVERPOOL, IN DINGLE BAY. (From one of the crew.) The Bri Lircrpool, of Liverpool, 350tona burthen, Thomas Loudon, master, laden w.ith deal*, made the coast of Ireland in nineteen days from Miramichi. The thick weather, for three dayki previous to their making laud, prevented the taking of any observation, and when the crew made out the lights on the Skellig ...

... The New and beautiful Fast Going Steam Packet, LADY CHARLOTTE, Two Engines 30 Horse Power Each, H. T. PARFITT, Commander, Will Ply during the ensuing week, with Passengers and Goods, as follows:- FROM CARDIFF. Coach from Coach from DEC. Bridgend. Merthyr. i.3.ru FST)A-, fij morn.. 51. morn 4J morn 15..THURSDAY ..10 morn.. 7 morn 6 morn 17..SATURIJAV ..12i after.. 9J mnm 8I morn FROM BRISTOL. ...

... THE THREfi THIEVËS: (From the Times.) Let Englishmen talk of their brave Robin Hood, Let the Scotch to Rob Rov fill a can ut ould Ireland can show them a thief quite as good- She can show them her beautiful ]Dan! Hobin Itood, we all know, be could draw a long bow, Rob Roy's giant arm could prevail; BUl O'Cobnell's is longdr, and surer and stronger, For it's back'd by the length of his tail! ...

... FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER. WALKING DRESS.—Brown satin cloak, with velvet cape, tight sleeves of velvet, with loose hanging sleeves of satin over. Bonnet of cheery velvet, with plume of ostrich feathers placed low at the side. MORNING I)itFss.-Of green cashmere, the sleeves in three puffs, divided by broad bands, tight to the arm; cape paysanne; collaret of worked cambric, the hair arranged with ...

... OLD CHRISTMAS. From the first introduction of Christianity into these islands, the period of the Nativity seems to have been kept as a season of festival, and its observance recognised as 'a matter of state. The Wittenage- mots of our Saxon ancestors were ield uuder the solemn sanctions and beneficent infnences of the time; and the series of high festivities established by the Anglo-Saxon ...

... Mr (ii i you, s;iy to liiiii oil tii;it occasion? — Witness.—I asked him if he had brought the money wil l liiin. don't recollect that he macks me any answer, hat he took out his pocket-book, and me on the table, a blank stamp, re- quested me to write my name upo-i it, giving me the form— Accepted Charles II. Jenner. As I was signing' my name lie was drawing what I took to be a check, upon a ...

... 6IantorgattØf\trr. A The Nlirquis of Bute prosidt-(] at tije A,-rit-ultiiril 3SOciation, at Banbury, on Thursday last, when il!0us premiums were; distributed among the Agri- s 'tural labourers, as well as among the breeders of °c'i. and the improvers of implements of husbandry. p Our much respected countryman, Wm. Goodrich, ah?'' Energlyn, has succeeded to a very consider- j, e property at ...

... A BLOODY DEED.Hainlet. Mr UConnell has promised to write a letter to the people of Ireland, 44 it it were to be in his own blood. We like not these bloody documents. We know but of one deed which requires such a voucher- and that is when a man sells himself to but unwilling to write the name, we must suggest it by a parallel and illustrative compact:— Mephistopheles.—Why this excitemelit ? ...

... We have received a very well written letter, signed A Christian, (with the Cowbridge Postmark,) on the liberality of the soi d isant Reformers. It should be .sent to the Literary Pnilantnropists, who issue the Journal to which our correspondent alludes. W. T. on the Trostrey Mistletoe, and his notiies on birds and insccts, in our next. We cannot inset t the other communication, it being a ...