... On reading an account of a certain Rev. Agitator on a late Post Prandial occasion The lawless Priest, that Scott's invention drew At cup or quarrel-feast or, brawl—the first, ,i Here stands revealed to every gamer's view- i,o owns it's Clerk of Copmanhurst! Thou mayest call me, answered the hermit, the Clerk of Copmanhuist for so 1 am termed in these parts--they add, it ia true, the epithet ...

... CHOICE OF A HOUSE. Many persons, who have not had much experience in the choice of a house, are captivated with the exterior; and are more influenced by its picturesque effect, than by any property in the dwelling connected with habitableness. One person is an admirer of the Gothic; without considering that, unless the number of windows in such a house is greater than in a build- ing in the ...

... [FROM AN ADDRESS ON TEMPERANCE, BY DR. CHANNINC.] The primary cause of intemperance is in the intemperate themselves in their moral weakness and irresolution; in the voluntary surrender of themselves to temptation. Still society, by increasing temptation and diminishing men's power to re- sist, becomes responsible for all wide spread vices, and is bound to put forth all its energy for their ...

... QUAUTV AVD ECONOMY OF COAL.—The qualities of coal are almost as various as are the depths and thickness of the mines from which it is procured. The most imperfect and least bitu- minous is what is called the ban or bone coal, which is open in texture, more or less earthy, and splinters into inegular longi- tudinal fragments. This coal is applied to the purpose of heat- ing coal or other common ...

... ORIGINAL CHARADE. (No. XIII.) Sparkling and clear my fi ...

... ROBBERY AND SUPPOSED MURDER^— On Thursday morning se'nnight, the body of an elderly man was dis- covered jn a pond of water, called Crowther's-dam, near Hope-hill StockporL He was found standing erect, his feet bemg fastened In the mud his hat, which on me 'u\e omy means which led fo tlie diseoyery of tbe body. It was conveyed to tbe Victoria Arms, a public-house close by, and medical aid ...

... ACCIDENT..—As a funeral was taking place this morlling at SI. Pauls Church, Portland-squaie, the coachman of one of the mourning coaches Inning left the caniage for a few!JUinutes 10 assist inplacill.g the pall, some urchin drove a hoop against the tegs of the horses, which set them off at full gallpp across tbe square, where ihey carne in contact with the iron-railing which guards the area ...

... LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LONDON. THVHSDAY EVENING. Madrid Journals to the £ >'h inst., inclusive have been received this morniflg. Tliey rontain no iatelligence ofatty interest.— Thu Cabinet continued 1.0 hold together, though nt-iiher sup- ported by the eOlhuslasmof the army nor people. No account had reached the capital of the victoiies of Espartero after his junction with Oraa at Darof a. The ...

... The quantity of sheep and lambs' wool imported into the Unitt-d Kingdom in the year 1836 :-Foreign, 64,239,977lbs produce of the Istes of (Juernsey. Jersey, and Man, 32,4131bs total, (54,272,3,901bs. Litst week, at Halton, nenr Lancaster, a young gentleman shot a large pike that was basking in the river Lune. It weighed upwards of twenty. pounds^—Manchester Guardian. The Duke of Saxe ...

... RESULT OF CUTTING DOWN VOKESTS.—A M. DevezChabriol, in a memoir treating of the effects arising from the extirpation of forests, cites several historical documents, all tending to establish the fact that the temperature of the country is not only lowered iy the taking away Of the trees, but that streams dry up, and rain ceases to fall- M„ Boussingault confirms these by several instances, where ...

... CAUSE OF THE CELEBRITY BANK. It has never been satisfactorily accounted for (at least in print) how Couttsfs banking-house, in the Strand, attained the eminence it did over all other metropolitan establishments of the same kind during the latter part of the last and the begin* ning of the present century nor, we believe, has it ever been publicly explained how it was that the late chief ...

... POOR SIR FRANCIS BUllDETT!—THE FADED ENGLISH GENTLEMAN. AIR— The Fine Old English Gentleman. I sing a melancholy chant of a strange old addled pate, Of a faded English gentleman who has a large estate, .«■ Who once all Torv principles with vigour used to rate; jtf But^now he twaddles with his tongue, and hobbles in his gait» « Does this faded English gentleman, who changes like Th* Tivrts. ...