... LOGIC AT BRECON.—Tin; partisan of a certain candidate, irate at some depreciating observations made respecting his friend, said very pompously, I'd have you to know, Sir, that he is a Major and a man of consequence. The other replied in the language of the Schools. Concetto Major em, nego consequent iam. The Lord Chanceller has been [(leased to appoint Mr Arthur Richard Gabell, of ...

... The dinner took place on Friday January 13th, in a pavilion erected for the express purpose, on the east sideof Buchanan Street,and the following description, which we copy from the Glasgow Herald of Friday, will afford our readers some idea of the plan upon which it has been arranged Last nig'lt we had the pleasure of seeing this magnificent Hall lighted up, the tables being covered and ...

... We advise those who relish lun. to read the Pickwick, in the last page of this day's paper it is a graud receipt for getting a watcli out of a tight fob. ()'CO,NNI.L F,)R EVER.— I have not the least doubt that they (the laical and clerical leaders of agnation in Ireland) have done more to 'disturb and weaken' the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland, and its legitiaiate (iisciplitieatid authority ...

... ftlonmoittuglitre. MONMOUTHSHIRE BOROUGHS.—On Monday last, Mr Hall issued a placard addressed to his constituents, stating, that in consequence of the repeated recurring expense of his elections, he should retire at the next. dissolution, and invites the electors to choose a man of his own opinions. On Wednesday last a meeting was convened by Mr Frost, the Mayor, (Returning Officer at the ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE GAZETTE & GUARDIAN. SIR,-l read in Rees's 44 Welsh Saints that Colman was a Saint who flourished in Ireland about A.D. 520. Llangolinan and Capel Colman, both in Pembrokeshire, arc dedicated to him, but it is not known whether he had any personal connexion with that county. He is sometimes called Colman the elder, to distinguish him from another Colman, the third Bishop ...

... THE INFLUENZA.—We regret to sav, from all the information we have been able to obtain upou the subject, that this disorder does not appear to be upon the decrease. Mr Justice Littledale, Mr Baron Our- ney, and Mr Justice Bosanquet, are unable to attend their respective courts in consequence of labouring under this disorder. Air M. D. Hill, Mr Serjeant Wilde, and Mr Crowder, arc incapable of ...

... AND COUNTER-MINE.—The Carlist miners had wrought beneath one of the convent for- tresses which defeuded the city of Bilboa. A voung Gallician recruit, a sentinel of the Queen's army heard the sound of their mattocks, ai d a counter- mine was started by the Christinos. The two parties were thus like moles working towards each other in the earth, and at length, after several days, the end of the ...

... An acquaintance of Sheridan, mentioning to him the ill success of a late tragedy, which was full of mythology, and tiresome allusions to Pagan deities, he answered from Oronoko, His own gods damn him.It has been computed that, during the late stormy weather, no less than 20,000 quarters of foreign grain and pulse, bound to the port of London, have been either destroyed, or so much damaged as ...

... ATROCIOUS MURDElt IN RATCLlFFE-WGtl- WAY, I ON DON. On Tuesday se'ningai, a atrocious murder was committed in Ratcliffe-highway, which has caused the greatest excitement ia that ne ghbour- hood, and given rise to a vadet). ofstratlge rumours, which have uo foundation in fact.-Tije individual who has fallen by the knife of a most deliberate and cold-blooded assassin, is Mr Holliday Ready, who ...

... The Conservatives of the western division of the county of Kent on Tuesday last, held their first annual dinner at Maidstone, when about 600 of the leading noblemen and gentry residing in and connected with the county sat (town to a sumptuous repast, which was served up in the large room at the Corn- Exchange. Tne roo.n was decorated with numerous banners rearing devices and inscriptions ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE VIAZIITTE AND GUARDIAN. Sitt,-Soni-e persons having, of late, demurred to pay the Church Rate, which has been truly described by a powerful writer in your coiumns, to be 44 the oldest and most uninterrupted taxation known in the kingdom not a tax upon persons, but upoapropcrty, I beg, for the information of those who may have been influenced by the disaffected or the ...

... The Speeches of Sir Robert Peel, at Glasgow, will be found in our paper of this day. We earnestly commend them to the serious perusal and deep meditation of men of all parties. Of that delivered to the Students of the University, no praise can be too great; it combined the best qualities of eloquence, with the soundest lessons of practical wisdom, and enforced, in language as chaste as the ...