... Jamais Numa sansKgeric. N'eut triomphè days l'ltalie Ni Mahomet sans tin pigeon Racine mcltra dam l'histoire Que sans la sage Ahintcnon Le grand Louis serit sans gloire. Madame de Maintenon, whos ...

... Accounts last night reached our offico, announcing the cheering success of Mr. Blewiu's canvnss in Monmouth. Mr. Wall's name was accidentally omitted in the list of the Reform Committee last week. MONMOUTH AND GLAMORGAN BANJC.—The first half- yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held on Monday, the 6th of February, instant, at the King's Head Inn, in the town of ...

... 1 I FSDAY,FEB.7.— Mr. U. Bowles, the member for Evesham, took the oaths and his seat. A vast number of petitions were presented against Church- rates. Captain Dundas presented a petition from Bristol, praying for the abolition of taxes on soap. A similar petition was pre- sented from Glasgow, by Lord W. Bentinck. In answer to a question from Sir George Sinclair, Lord Mor- peth said that ht 6> ...

... La consfance n'est bonne que pour des ridicules.— CharJcs Marivaux was the btau-ideal of la jeun« France. He had made the campaign of the Morea, r.nii returned to 1 ans with a Turkish dressing-gown, a bundle of cherry-stick tubes, half-a-dozen embroidered hnmlkevchiefs, a pair of Greek s ippers, and a superb Levantine heard. This was reputation sufficient in 1829, and accordingly Charles ...

... The roads in the north of Italy are still in a dangerous and alm°st impassible state, from the quantity of snow which has lera m/i >e. *a,e.ninR aspect of the av9*anches. The cho- lera is qmte at an end at Naples. ...

... LONDON, TfiUKSDAY EVBNINO. The whole of the Paris papeis have been received. Their clients are unimportant. From the Spanish frontier there are several communications in which Carlism is represented as re- duced to the lowest ebb of wretchedness. The contraband trade is stopped at last for want of money. The Cartists have no cakli, and the contrabandists know their customers too well to give ...

... FRNNRV.—Ferney, icplele wilh so many IGCOIlections, h« been sold by auction. This estate in Ihe bands of the new pro] prietor, who has more taste for trade than literature, is lo W turned into a beet-root-sugar manufactory. The little chapei which hore the inscription, Deo eiexit Voltaire, is about t. be converted into a baru or a stable. ] TEN-HOUR SYSTFM.—The workmen of New YOlk, Boston] ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. By accounts from Lisbon, to the 24th ult., we learn that tin preliminary opening of the Cortes took place 011 the 18th, un- attended by any sign of the disturbances which had so confi- dently anticipated. There was a very full attendance of Depu- ties, and much anxiety was manifested, to hear Senhor 1)assm Manuel's justification of the conduct pursued by Ministers ...

... KELATED J: HIS WIDOW. Madame Talma (now Countess de Clialut) is no less distin- guished for her literary than her histrionic talents..She made her debut, as Mademoiselle Y anhove, at the Comeclie Franfaise 17 i?' an^ s^e. continued to be a ^popular favourite on the rrench stage until her retirement in'1816. Previously to her union with Talma, which took place in 1802, Mademoiselle Vauhove had ...

... Lord Lovat, to whom his Majesty has been pleased to re- store the ancient title of his family, which was forfeited when the famous Lord Lovat was beheaded in 1746, married the Hon. Charlotte Jerningham, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of the present Lord Stafford. It is a curious coinci- dence to remark that, by the maternal side, he is lineally de- scended from Lord Kenmure, who ...

... LONOON, THURSDAY F.VI NINO. The speculators in the Spanish securities are on the qui expecting almost every hour an express, with an account of the attack by General Evans, which, according to information received this morning from San Sebastian, was to take place on the 12th ov J3th instant. The following is a letter from San Sebastian of the 10th of February on which reliance may be placed ...

... Mr. Ellice, M.P., after sojourning at Paris durin the au. tu :nn and part of the winter, has ariived at General Balfour's is Carlton-terrace, to attend his Parliamentary duties. The Hon. Mrs. Norton accompanies her relations, Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley Sheridan, in their visit to the French metropolis. His Majesty has conferred on Lieut.-Col. Crowder, half-pay Royal Welsh Fusileers, the military ...