... Til V nSDA Y, Ma IICII 9.—(Continued jrom Melbourne said he had listened with great respect to the right rev. prelate (Archbishop of Canterbury) with the greatest at- tention, but he was compelled also to say with deep concern and sorrow, for he differed altogether from his opinion upon the measure at present before the other House of Parliament. That measure was, in his opinion, called for by ...

... FRIDAY IO.-Numerous petitions were presented on the leading subject of Church-rates. Mr. Duncomhe brought in his bill for the repeal of so much of the Reform Act as made the payment of rates a necessary qualification of voters in boroughs.—The bill was read a first time and the second reading fixed for the 10th of April. Mr. Sergeant Jackson asked the noble Lord (Morpeth) whe- ther he had ...

... To the Editor of the Monmoutlis/iire Merlin. II A cause of common errors is the cicduHty of men, that is, an casie assent to what is obtruded, or a believing at first ear what is delivered by others. This is a weakness in the understanding, without examf nation assenting unto things, which, from their nature and causes, earry no persuasion whereby men often swallow falsities for truths, ...

... THURSDAY, MAIIOH 9.— Lard Howick brought up the report of the commission appointed to inquire into thecivil department of the army establishment. Lord Ashley gave notice that on Friday, the 16th instant, he should move tllat an hnmble address be presented to Ihe Crowu, piaying his Majesty to be graciously pleased to give directions that the provisions of the Act for regulating factories be ...

... A TAIMHIING LOTHARIO.—Mas. V. MISTER Rf)- NINS.— The plaintiff was a very knowing-looking widow, not so handsome as the Widow Wadmam, to whom uncle Toby made his advances, hut equally skilled in the art of attack and de.. fence, and having, wilhal (as the evidence proved) a heart alive to all new impiessions. On the other hand, defendant was what Lady Morgan calls a Sunday beau, his person ...

... On Wednesday last, the sale of the valuable collections and compilations relating to Herefordshire, including eleven large 8vo. vols, entirely MSS., the properly of the late Thos. Bird, Esq., F.A.S. took place at his former residence in this city.— The collection of the various rare and valuable documents, in- cluding those of Hill, Roberts, Clarke, Allen, and others, with portraits, views, ...

... CHURCH-RATES.—The following gentlemen voted in the Majority (273)B. Hall, W. A. Williams, J.J. Guest, Sir R. Price, J. H. Vman, Hon. F. Berkeley, Hon.XI. Berkeley, R. Biddulph, L. W. Dilwyn, C. J. K. Tynte, C. R. M. Tal- bot, W.O. Stanley (Anglesea), Poulett Scrope, Hon. E. Mos- tyn'(Flintshire), W. Gore Langtoo, G. R. Robinson (Wor- cester), Sir .T. Williams (Carmarthenshire), and Gen. Palmer ...

... THE; PRINCIPALITY. We regret to siatethat the«iiussey, of Swansea. Mapphant, maslfer, fanndered in Carnarvon Bay on the 23d ult. She sailed frum Youghail on the 22d laden with corn, for Liver- pool, and on the 23d, by a sudden squall, upset, and was seen to go down by some trauling boat* in the bay. One of her buoys and two or three oars, with the name Hussey painted thereon, have been since ...

... ORIGINAL CHARADES.—(No. IV.) Inscribed on Ocean's billowy crest, You read my first;—nor only there, « See heaven's bright bow its name attest, t And every dew-drop glistening fair. ( Go seek my second where the gay, ) In social cards amusement find i And, though the game you ne'er did play, 1 Its name perchance you'll call to mind. As a famed spot where war hath been, Enshrined in glorious ...

... MONDAY, MAIICH 13.—A great number of petitions were presenteed for and and against the abolition of Church-rates. 7he Bishop of Bath and Wells piesented a petition against the abolition from the city of Bath, signed, as be stated, by all the respectable inhabitants.—Lord Holland presented a petition for the aholltion, also from Bath, signed by many of the re- spectable inhabitants, but not by ...

... ANSWER TO CHARADE, No. 3. Your first is neither U (you) nor I, But it attends us with a sigh Your sccond, if I don't mistake, j ] Both yoit and I together make If I am right your first is 0 then, Which with your second makes an OMEN. S. ...

... HOUSE,OF LORDS. TUESDAY, MARCH 14.—Petitions for sr:d dgrficst rCpr al of Church-rates were presented amongst the latter was one bj a right reverend prelate, from Welshpool—it was stated by the bishop to whom the petition was intrusted that it was signed by many of.the most respectable Dissenters in the parish, and also by a Roman Catholic. The Bishop iif Lhmdnf presented pStitifns from ...