... LANGRIDGE T\ LEVY.—It will be remembered by many of our readers that this cause was tried at the last Bristol assizes, and the plaintiff recovered damages to the amount of £ 400! In Michaelmas Term last, the defendant obtained a rule to ar- rest the judgment, on the groud that, the gun having been sold to Mr. Laogridge the elder, there was no privity of contract be. tween plaintiff and ...

... It is said that there is some likelihood that the fiat of bank. ruptcy issued against Madame Vestris will not be worked out and that steps will be taken before the Lord Chancellor to su' persede it. Prince Esterhazy's castle of Porchtenstein, near Oldenbourg in Austria, contains an armoury of 4,000 stand of arms, and a treasure composed of jewels of immense value. A statute of the house of ...

... 1. DntUi will get he Act been anticicipated. ^Hp'W following addition to the Sale of Freehold Estates at Aber- ^ML^avenny, OR the 13th of June, by Mr. Philipps, inserted in our first page, arrived too late to appear in its proper place ^H1 this week:—Also, Fifty Shares in the Blaenavon Iron and Coal Company Four Shares in the Brecon and Aberga- Venny Canal Company and Two Shares in the ...

... MY BROTHER'S GRAVE. This spot to me is very dear,- « Here rests the young, the loved, the brave Yet many, many a bitter tear I shed upon — My Brother's grave. Albert! the world will never know How much thy love I used to crave But on my cheek and palid brow Griefplainly tells, thou'rt in the grave. The tombstone marks thy dwelling here, Thy body now beneath this sod Sleeps, until summoned to ...

... The Allgemeine Zeitung contains the following state- ment, on the authority of a Captain Lefteri [n the island of Santorine the ground had been cleft near the 'own, and that part in which the town stood, together with the entire population, had suddenly sunk into the sea without leaving a trace of the dreadful disaster. ...

... A donation of f5 has been presented to the Merchant Sea- mens' Hospittt fond, at Cardiff, by a sailor's widow, through the Rev. J. M. Trahernt, of Coytrehene. ...

... THE *ftXl*CXPAZ.ZTV. His Majesty, in Council, has most graciously been pleased to accede to the prayer of the justices of the county of Brecon and has empowered them, in sessions assembled, to appoint Brecknock, Hay, Crickhowell, Builth, Talgarth, and Devyn. nock, polling-places for Breconshire. The armorial bearings of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort executed in London by our respected ...

... The following statement of the witness Pattison, with whom the prisoner resided whilst in Bristol, which could not be given in evidence at the trial, from the rule of Courts not to reccive evidence of any conversation that did not take place in the pre- sence and hearing of the person charged, supplies a link in the chain of evidence against the prisoner. STATEMENT. On the Thursday evening ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. TUESDAY, MAY 2.—PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.—Lord Dacre presented a petition from Gloucester praying for the abolition of the punishment of death. EDUCATION (IRELAND). The Bishop of Fietcr presented three petitions against the present national system in Ireland.—The Marquess of Lantdowne moved for some returns on this subject. CHURCH-RATES. Several petitions in favour of and against ...

... WEDNESDAY, MAY 4.—A new writ was ordered for West- minster. CHUUCH RATES. Ml-. D'Eyneourt presented a petition for the abolition of Church-rates, signed by 5700 persons, from the borough of Lambeth, who deemed it unjust to call on any of his Majesty's subject#, but particularly Dissenters, to support the establish- ment,, ..were three churches in the district aopnmmn- udiiug ou-iv ptisons, ...

... THE DUKE OF YORK.— lhe vice-chancellor has specially ap- pointed Friday next for the heaiing the cause of Taylor v. Run- dell, the question in which relates to the right of the executors of the late Duke of York to some valuable mines in North America, the decision of which is of great importance to the creditors of his royal highness. PoMPtrr.— Ihree skeletons have recently been discovered at ...

... Amidst a barbarous age, here learning found A refuge, holy tnen from court or camp, Heart-8Ute and weary of the world, sought out u 6 monastic solitude, 4 e ...