... All excitement is relative, and the first ball to a debutante .is, perhaps, scarcely less exciting than the first battle of a young ensign, the first speech of a county member, or the first pro posal of a young gentleman in love, uncertain of success. In a beautifully-appointed dressing room, preparing for conquests, might be seen a youag lady and her French attendant, Adele, who, with all the ...

... INFIRMARY M1LEETING. f ITe anniversarv meeting of tile friends and sub. r scribers to the SalJop lnirinary took place on TIhuri- day last on which occasion a very numerous and e highly. respectable body of subsc;ilters fact the Viset. r Dunga.npion, tilt treasurer, at tile lnfirmary, aou pro- r ceetel ld lo ll) thenc with Ilite Worsbipiul tli M1ayor, t (\V. W. IIoav E4(j.) accompanied by a ...

... :XrRACT FITWM flUME'S IIISI'ORY Op JAMES THE SECOND. ?? ?? ?? L ...

... THE MAID OF THE OAK.—A girl twelve years of age, living at Lavergne, in the Aveyrors, climbing up a old oak tree to gather dried leaves, fell into the hollow of tiie irunk, and there remained till those called to her assistasce cut her out with their hatchets, in the course of which ope- ration she was slightly wounded in the leg. ROMANTIC CATASTROPHE. — The following story has been published ...

... LORD BHOUG I/ \]'S REPORTED DEATH. PhNKiin, THURSDAY EVENING.—1 havs just had the satss- laction of seeing Lord Brougham, who has returned to Brough- iiam, after his excursion to the Lakes, as well in health, and in is good spirits, as his best friends could wish. The cause of agitated London, is still involved in mystery. Mr. Shafto, whom I have also seen, is certainly not the author of the ...

... WHY DID YOU DIE t VERSES PROPOSED TO BE INTRODUCED IN THE NEXT HKPRE8BN- TATION OF THAT POPULAR FARCE. Oh! why did you die > Lord Brough'm, Lord Qrough'm I f At this time of all others, Lord Brough'm, Lord Brough'm When but just to sustain a new part you had learned, And you revelled in praise which you once would have spumed, When time ol its terrors had obloquy shorn, And you grew sleek and ...

... BANKRUPTS.— NT. Davis, Westerlram, Kent, innkeeper and pholsterer.—J. M. D. KlefFer, Southampton-street and Charles •trett, Covent Garden, also of Berkeley-street, Clerkenweil, ind of Fetter-lane, City, baker.—R. Archcr, now or late of Queen-street, Cheapside, wine merchaiit.1. Lasselle, now or die of Muscovy-court, Trinity-square, London, merchant. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE, OCT. 29. ...

... THE CHURCH MAGAZINE, TI( I LOBE NEWSPAPER, AND TVE WESLEYAN AIE- I THODISlS. . Frm the esleyan Methodist Mtagazine.) I 'a An occurrence has lately taken place to Whicls we y ousrelves, at first, attaclted no impoltance, and of a. which we should here have talken no notice, ltad not a- other circumstances combined with it, so as to present it it under a very altered character. Iommediately ...

... JOliN Lo(,K E.-This celebrated scholar was asked how lie contrived to accumulate such a mine of knowledge, so various and rich, yet so very extensive and deep. lie answered, th'J he attributed what little he knew, to not having been ashame to ask for information and to the rule he laid down, of co* versing with all descriptions of men, on those topics chiefly 'a formed their own peculiar ...

... [Continued the lust page, To Luc Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin. Sin,—H. Ddu has, in his last communication, opposing the alteration of the name of this town, presented Jour readers with a history of Plymouth, and its sister town Devenport, which, wilh d«ie deference, I assert to be most inaccurate, and even prejudicial to ihe interests of the latter place, lie has cited no authority for ...

... Amongst the numerous circumstances connected with the events of this week in our locality, which call for notice and animadversion, there is one to which we feel it a duty to devote a few words. With the Journalist, the redress of a public grievance, or the prevention of a recurrence of public injury, is a duty; the performance of which is impe- rative, however sutli notice or animadversion ...

... No trumpet was blown, as the gate they passed Nor banner flung over their fierce array; But they rode like the breath of the desert hlast Fleetly and silently passing away Yet many looked on that haughty man, Whose eye was the star of the fiery van. With frequent fasts his cheek was paled, And there sat a frown on his brow of p'ride And scorn oil his quivering lip prevailed, As he thought on ...