... FIFTH OF NOVE>IHEI!Last Monday a numerous and respectable congregation attended at our church, when the prayers were read in a very impressive man- ner bv the newlv-nppointed Assistant Curate, the Rev. Jotiq LLOYD, After the service, the congrega- tilln waited ill tlwir pews, in expectation of a sermon: but %v,,i-e (lisi p[)oitit,,(I. We hope next year to find it otherwise; and that either a ...

... THE QUEEN v MNQT Sir WM. Follett this day showed cause against a rule being made absolute for a mandamus, commanding Mr. Frost to pay ,0- idhvTr/0^th\borf°°«h Hf Newport0, ceitain rents re- llL /°,I /?n0'vn as the Corporation Wharf, and contended, the rents belonopd tr. ,i u j received bv Mr. Frost at THE JL °'D ,R€(E'NED. AFND WFRE '/Mr ftnnM »U ecluesl a meetiog of freemen, if the rut h ...

... LLANTORFEN ABBEY. Agreeably to the promise made in our last, to a CON- STANT READER, we resume our extracts from Mr. BLEW. ITT'S unpublished poem. We must, in fairness to the author, after our former harsh criticism, say, that we have become more and more impressed with a favourable opi- nion of hisjuvenile production, from a studied and, there- fore, most attentive perusal. The last lines we ...

... STUPENDOUS STEAM SHIP. — Messrs Curling and Young, of Limehouse, who built tiie British Queen, have a steain vessel now upou the stocks of 2000 tons bnrden, being JOI) more than that of the noble ship just named. The model has been materially varied; for, though not so long, she will be much wider. SURVEYORS OF STEAM-VESSELS.—At the meeting held at Sunderland last week a memorial was adopted, ...

... THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. Manj erroneous statements have lately appeared, i respecting the expense and state attending the proper and dignified discharge of the office of its president. The society meets, with a short vaca- tion at Easter and another at Christmas, every ...

... (ORIGINAL AND SELECT.) IMPORTANT STATISTICAL FACTS.—Some time since Mr. W. R. Gregg was examined before a Select Committee of the House of Commons on manufactures, commerce, and shipping; and the following is a summary of his evidence :—He had person- ally examined the cotton mills in Austiia, Hungary, and Na- ples, and had procured minute information regarding those in Switzerland, the Tyrol, ...

... SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. NEW PO RT. VESSELS ARRIVED AT THIS PORT, From the loth instant, to the 231-d instant, inclusive. Nov. 22 Mary Muir (176), Wylie, from Bristol, to load for Constantinople. Union (254) Wrightson, from Cardiff, to load for London and Sunderland. Nov 23: Flore, Lesson from Rouen. La Societe, Lenagard, from Havre St. Marie, Quedo St. Isabelle, Danfiesna from Rouen La Rosalie ...

... THE BISHOP OF DURHAM, in a letter to Arch- deacon Thorp, has made precisely the defence we anticipated, for having subscribed for two copies of the forthcoming volume of sermons by Mr Turner, the Socinian Minister, at Newcastle- upon-Tyne. I beg you to understand, his Lordship says, that I gave my name on this occasion iu courtesy to an eminent person, for whom, setting aside his religious ...

... COMMUTATION OF TITHES. The following circular has been issued by the Tithe Commissioners:— Tithe Commission, Oct. 31, 1S3S. Rev. Sir,-It has been determined to select and carry through the courts, at the public expense, one case in which the law of rating tithes, as laid down in the case of 'The King v. Jodrell' mav be re-con- sidered and finally settled by the Court of Queen's Bench. I send ...

... We understand the following advertisement has been sent out to the United States by the Livel*- pool, for insertion in the American papers, from a ...

... In the course of the past week we have received various communications on the subject of these alter- of them both sensi,:e Rnd useful. Of the whole at present we shall only say, that we have endeavoured to give them our best consideration. But it is with particular satisfaction we announce, that we are authorized to say that the parts of the plan on which we originally commented, which met ...

... TilE CHARTISTS-—V correspondent writ's I was present at the meeting on Saturday even- ing, and was much amused by a little incident that occurred, and which shows ihe intelligence of the would-be framers ot a new constitution. At that portion of Mr O'Connor's speech where he was holding forth against placelnen and pen- Sioliel-S a dii-t V-Iookiii, f(,Ilo- at my side bravoed lIlost lustily.. ...