... A most respectable person, named M'Donald, residing at Glasgow, having recently disappeared in a very mysterious manner, various reports have been circulated and the feelings of the inhabitants have been, since the occurrence, in a state of the most painful excitement. The following disclosure, how- ever, has removed much of the doubt which existed on the sub- ject, and it is now reduced ...

... The Administrative Council of Rapperswyl, in the canton of St. Gall, has given a proof of its religious tolerance, in giving up a chapel which had till then served for the Roman Catholic form of worship to the the town. CVRIOUS DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT PIISCE-GOOUS AND MA- NUFACTURED STUFFS.—It is more than a thousand years since Theodolphus, Bishop of Orleans, gave to Notre Dame du Puy en Velay a ...

... RING, joyous chords ring out again! A swifter still, and a wilder strain! They are here—the fair lace and the careless heart, And stars shall wane ere the mirthful part. But I met a dimly mournful glance, In a sudden turn of the flying dance I heard the tone of a heavy sigh, In a pause of the thrilling melody! And it is not well that woe should breathe On the bright spring-flowers of the ...

... CRIMINAL INFORMATION.—Sir Wm. Follett said he was in- structed to apply to the Court for a rule, calling upon the Mayor and several of the Town Council of Bridgwater to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against them, under the following circumstances :-In Easter Term, 1836, the Court granted a rule against three of the Town Coun- cil, named Champion, Bate, and Claike, ...

... :f)tpping NEWPORT. List of Arrivalli and Sailings for the week ending the 30th ot November. Don, Toole, from Quebec, with timber, deals, ^c., for Messrs. Sionehouse and Co. Princess Royal, Morgan; William and Sally, Jenkins; Looe, Govier; New- port Trader, Jackson; Rose, Langmaid Edward Prothero. Edmonds; Hope, Burdge Elizabeth and Sarah, Jenkins with corn and Hour. Hobert, Driscoll, with 60 ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. If Caer IW5 been received, and is under consideration. ...

... FOITSE OF LORDS, iwOi\DAT; DEC. ii.—Lord UroushaK printed ?. petition on the subject of Negro Slavery, and took occasion to urge on Government the necessity of laying before the house the returns of the distribution of that portion of the £ 20,000,000 which had been given away, before any siepa were taken for the distribu- tion of the remainder.—Adjourned. ...

... A curious case, according to the Franconian Mercury, has been lately brought before a magistrate at Vienna. A young person, baptized and educated as a girl, has demanded a youn>' woman in marriage, alleging that an error of sex has existed, and requiting to be publicly recognised as a man. The medi- cal men, who have been consulted in this matter, have as- certained that the person in question ...

... A PROFITABLE BEATING.—Our readers can scarcely have forgotten the bastinado given last year to an English gentleman, Mr. Churchill, at Constantinople. Lord Ponsonby interfered with some spirit on the occasion, and the Turkish minister made his peace by offering Mr. Churchill a mercantile privilege to export a certain quantity of oil duty free. This privilege Mr. Churchill is said to have sold ...

... TUESDAY, DEc. 19— I.md Brougham presented a petition from Benjamin Barton, of T-largcw, complaining of the ruffer- ing: he had endured under the present state of the law of im- prisonment for debt. Tho petitioner stated that while he le- sided at Glasgow he was induced to discount bills io the amount of £;3600, and the person for whom he had discounted them ran away, and came to London, where ...

... By the Iberia steamer, arrived at Falmouth, we have received accounts from Lisbon to the 29th ult. The pa- pers contain little, except the discussions in the Cortes relative to the modification of the Constitution of 1820.— The debates on this subject are, however, now concluded, and the code is to be printed and published forthwith. Fears were entertained that the Lisbon Volunteers, who are ...

... Miss Burdett Coutts made her entre in fashionable life on Sunday last, in the Parks, in the late Duchess of St. Alban's landau and four greys, with outriders. TEDIOUS SONI;S.—A musician, in giving notice of an intended concert at Cleveland, Ohio, says, A variety of other songs mav be expected, too tedious to mention. The following is a specimen of the advance of intellect, which we copy from ...