... COATES v. BARLOW.—Mr. Sergeant Wilde. Mr. Martiti, and Mr. Ogle, were counsel for the plaintiff; Sir F. PcUcck llnd Mr. V. Richards for the defendant. This was an action on a policy of insurance effected by the plaintiff for £7000, in an insurance-office established at the York and North of England Insurance-office. The following are the circumstances of the case :—Mr. Coates, the plaintiff, ...

... Gay were the scenes of Life with me, My prospects fair as budding Spring, When into rudest melody, I first awoke thy dulcet string, Sweet Harp of Love Rude were thy notes 'tis true, and wild, So rudely wild that few could praise, Enough for me, Palemon smiled, And Leila's lips approved thv lays, Sweet Harp of Love Changed are the scenes of Life with me— Low in the grave Palemon lies, And ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. ?7ie advertisement of iraters's Bankruptcy, which Wpeared in the- second column of the second page of last oaturi ay's Merlin, the second meeting should be the 30th, insteadrjt the 26th of Janu- ary next. Ess.,RATA,—In our first leader Irst iceek, in the 87th line from the top, for calumnies, read columns; and at the last line of the first column, for authority, rend ...

... When GRANDMAMA of the Morning Herald ceases to give utterance to the garrulous twaddle of old, but not in her case, respectable age, and comports herself in the dis- creet and sober manner befitting her years and increasing infirmities, we may be inclined to notice all she can say against Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Mr. BLEWITT; but while she raves in a manner that, in former days, would have richly ...

... I refused tn both candidates at the late eiecuon for these boroughs, i cannot withhold an expres- sion of my humble respect for the honest and manly conduct of our representative, who, with the spirit of a brave and deter- mined mind, has so signally denounced a gang of ingenious conspirators, that by illegal means and reckless of consequences would triple on the elective franchise of the ...

... FRIDAY, DEC. I5.-DuCHIES OF LANCASTER AND CORN- WALL.—The house went into committee upon the Civil List Bill. Mr. Harvey considered that this was the most appropriate time for bringing forward the motion of which he had given notice, That it be an instruction to the committee that due provision be made in the Civil List Bill for the protection of the right of Parliament to inquire into and to ...

... zsomeattc Keuis. The Postmaster General has ordered that all post towns shall be furnished with dated stamps, so that the place and day of putting letters into the post may be at all times known to the receiver. Sir Henry Meredith, Bart., is to be a commissioner at the Ecclesiastical Board in Ireland, in the place of Dr. Sadleir. Dr. Warneford, of Moreton, has liberally presented the sum of £ ...

... SIR CHARLES MORGAN, BART/s GRAXD ANNUAL CATTLE SHOW, AT COURT-Y-BELLA FARM, NEAR NEWPORT. This annual meeting was held on Tuesday last, the 19th in. stant, and has added another proof-if, indeed, any were now wanting—not only of the success which has attended the efforts of the venerable founder of what may be called a public insti- tution, but of the vast benefits which it is so well ...

... THURSDAY, DEC. 14.——MUMCIPAL OFFICERS' DECLARATION BILL.—The Marquess of Lansdowne moved the second reading of the Municipal Officers' Declaration Bill. He said that this bill, which had been brought up from the House of Commons, had for its object the relief of Quakers, Moravians, and Sepa- ratists, who were elected to fill municipal offices, from the ne- cessity of taking the form of ...

... WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20.—CIVIL LIST BILL,—Lord Mel- bourne moved the second reading cf this biii. Lord Brougham then rose and said he did not mean to op- pose the motion of his noble friend, but he would call the atten- tion of the house to the manner in which the bill had been framed, and in which it had been passed by the other house, for the purpose of your lordships ascertaining whether there ...

... ilEl^lLllllM|| Ketoport, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1837. The settlement of the Civil List has engaged the attention of the House of Commons in a manner commensurate with its importance and that due regard, both to the sterling interests of the people, and the dignity of the Crown, which should ever distinguish the great representative as- sembly of the empire. Anxious as we are for economy- ...

... LISBON, DEC. 12.—In consequence of the appearance of a pirate, under Spanish colours, in the Western Islands, the ministers have determined on sending out a sloop-of- war and one brig in that direction. Sailed the Tcrceira, Portuguese war steamer, with troops, on the 10th. Arrived the Braganza, Manchester, and Londonderry steamers, on the 10th; the two former from Cadiz and Gibraltar, the ...