... RWEST nARPTREE ASSOCZA.TON. On Monday last, the West Harptree Association for the Protection of Property, consisting of forty- four members, held its seventh anniversary at the Crown Inn, in that parish, when the general business of the society was transacted, and the report of the past year read. Since the last yearly neeting, four persons have been transported for 10 years, at the expense of ...

... 2Diabosical Plot against e umae 2,1fe at 2Ladstock.-TWelve ldves Lost. Friday morning, at 4 o'clock, one of the most awful ca- lamrities occurred at Badstocik Wells-way Pit, which it has been our melancholy duty to record, by which the lives of 12 lunoffending fellow creatures have been sacrificed. At about that hour the following individuals, namely: Richard Lang- ford, aged 44, Farnham ...

... 0 ) The first Quarterly Meeting of the DEUBY TowN COUNCI0, since the elections, was held on Saturday last: Se Is DOUGLAS Fox, Esq., Mayor, in the Chair. There were inj 3B present:- wi cc ALDERMEN as r- Barber. Jessopp. Strutt Joseph. mi Bent. Johnson. Strutt Edward. mn Forester. Sandals. Wright. oti Gamble. tk at COUNCILlOaS op of Bainbrigge. GisborneM. it 2d arton. Goodwin. Feet. u Po Cooper ...

... I ETY.MOLOGY OF THE NAMES OF COUtNTRIEs.-The foliow ing countries were named by the bhoenicians, the greatest cons mercial people in the world. These slames, in the Phoenician language, signify something characteristic of the places which they designate. Europe signifies a country of white complex ion-so named because the inhabitants there were of a lighter complexion than those of either ...

... TORY INSULTS TO THE QUEE1N. is At the Colston anniversary dinner at Bristol, V upon the toast of the Lord Licutenant of the couilty (Lord Segrave), the lion. F. I. 1. F Berkeley, Member for Bristol, in returning t thanks, took occasion to explain that his brother, the Lord Lieutenant, had becn obliged to abstain ht from attending clerical d(inners for charitable ob- jects, in consequenceor the ...

... 'aleboutan £Ate cryui. EDINBURGH. ThIURSDA Y, NeWEA J11BEER 14. To ConarspomirNTS..Providing the intendedl comn- munication of G. 'as not too lengthy For our colamnn; we tiight be indiuced to insert it on deliberation; but it must fall to G. himself to judge of lit other considera- ions involved. . A Want of space compels us to delay several commr.uniations, &c. TIlE DEAN OF FACULTY, AND THE ...

... THE NEW1PORT RIOTS. Newport, November 25. Thle first case entered was that of Thomas Lewel- lvn, who was placed before the Court on a charge of high treatson and sedition. Evidence was given to show, that the prisoner had acknowledged having been at a meeting on the 2d or November, at which Air Frost made a speech complaining of bnd Go- vernment, of tile excess of taxation, and the insufli- ...

... LoveIL AET COLINS. ,%e feel horror at the tretmnent these excellent m~en receive. The heartless brutality-to which they are sub- jected make us feelanmitigated disgust at the cruelties they suffer. The coarse dietary of the prison is all they, are allowed. They are refused the libeity Of spending even one sixpence daily in. the purchase bf'provisibn. Potatoes and some kind of watery' sops or ...

... RtEPRiMAND BY tORD ?? Or COt, TAORAo I MAJOR MACLEAN, CAPTAIN AINSLIE, AND; OTHER OFWFCERS. 1 I Horse Guards, Nov. 20, 2839, a STn-By Lord Hill's deaire, I have the honour to corn. .nunicate to you his lordship's sentiments and decision upon ea Cue which has lately occurred in the district under your r command, which has occasioned his lordship the utmost concern), and of which the following ...

... NEWS$0O. THE DAY. I ?? I The first step' towards' 'carrying into effect the great to measure for the reduction of postage has been made. We Lis refer with pleasure for the details to the treasury minute A which we publish in another column, and which announces br the agreeable istelligence that, preparatory to the full adop- On tion of Mr. Hill's plan, no letter under half an ounce an weight ...

... -E The City Grand Jury on yesterday, showed themselves strongly opposed to any reduction in the selarics of the tI grand jury cess collectors, which at pedsent are so exorhi. e tantly high. 'Mr. Callaghan moved that the per centage I which they all allowed should be reduced from 5 to 24, h but his motion was only supported' by his seconder Mr. a AM'Loughlin, c In the ?? Court, London, on ...

... FRANCE. I reg The Paris Papers of Sunday are nearly a blank, sup as far as domestic news is concerned, but private div Ca letters speculate anew upon certain Ministerial . cur modifications, by which the parliamentary abilities al' of M. Guizot and M. Theirs might be enlisted in the the service of Government. the The small army of observation kept up by the pid French Government on the ...