... BIRTHS. On Sunday, Dec. 22nd, at Llanvare Grange the lady of Wm. Hunter Little, Esq., of a daughter. Oil the 20th ult., at Bridgend, the wife of Rees Jenkins, Esq., solicitor, of a son. On the 12th ult., at Titley House, near Kington, the lady of the Rev. Wm. Jones Thomas, M.A., 01 a son. On the] lth utt., at Oakley Park, Lady Harriet Clive, of a daughter. MARRIED. At St. Woollos, by the Rev. ...

... THE COMPLAINT OF THE DYING YEAR. Reclining on a couch of fallen leaves, wrapped in a fleecy mantle, with withered limbs, hoarse voice, and snowy beard, appears a venerable old man. His pulse beats feebly; his breath becomes shorter; he exhibits every mark of approaching dissolution. This is old Eight Hundred and Thirty-uine; and as every class ofraadera must remember him a young man, as and ...

... IF TO LOVE THEE IN SILENCE. A BALLAD. STF to love thee in silence, in gloom, attdln sadness, Be love which has charms for a spirit like thine, >Oh! give to the world all thy Spring-time of gladness, For joy i. no lure to a passion like mine. I wish not, I aak not to share in the hour When thy soul hashes forth its most eloquent gleams; Give me but the moments when feeling has power And the ...

... W e need hardly inform our readers that the affairs Turkey have, during llie past week, been most amply di, cussed 111 all parts of (he kingdom, and that by thousands who care not one farthing either for the Grand Signor or Mehemet Ah. We last week noticed the Royal speech in France—the lioyalspeec 1 in Holland is much shorter, but more explicit and interesting. Noble and Mighty Lords In of ...

... COURT, FASHION, AND TABLE TALK. The most valuable of the crown jewels have been placed in the hands of the royal jewellers to be re-set. The Coburg, a Belgian paper, makes the following ob- servations upon the accomplishments of the Princes of Coburg in the fine arts :—The husband of the Queen of Portugal is a skilful engraver; our King is a capital violin player; Prince Albert is a ...

... MIN IIS G A IS \) KAI L\V A Y S. At.ARIVIING ACCIDENT, AND VVONUEIIFHI. I'ISESKRVATION.— Oil Tuesday, Ibe 2t)tli inst., five men elllerell II wille, at Grinu, i,1 Ihe vicinitv 01' HUJ\ton, where thev have been for some time regularly employed ill getting a kind of coarse spar, all article used for making paint, known amongst miners by the nnine ol C.auk, when a large quantity of earth fell ...

... TIMES OF HIGH WATER AT NEWPORT. HIGH WATER. DAYS. MORN. EN, EN. .JA;\lIAIIY. II. M. it. M. 5, Sunday 7 5 7 25 6, Monday 7 44 8 4 7, Tuesday 8 21 8 38 8, Wednesday 8 56 9 14 9, Thursday 9 ^2 9 51 10 12 10 31 10 52 II 14 ...

... BRISTOL & NKWPOIIT STEAM PACKETS, USK. AND Glamorgan, ARE INTENDED TO PLY DURING IHKENSU- XJL 1NG WEEK: From Bristol to Newport. From Newporl to Bristol. 6, Monday 7 £ morning 6, Monday-ll morning January. January. I' WV «Tmne 7' T«esday-7 morning o' m0rmng »• Wednesday—7 £ morning 9, Thursday-9 morning | ...

... TRIALS FOR BIGB TREASON. On Tuesday last, the day to which the Court adjourned on the 10th ult., for the trial of priaoners charged with HIGU TREASON, under the Special Commission, the influx of ttrangert into Monmouth was not as great as the public anticipated. The hotels were not crowded, and many parties who calculated on high remuneration for their lodgings, and held out for tempting ...

... LONDON MARKETS. CORN EXCHANCIK, MARk LANE, MONDAY, DECEMBER 30.-— Our supplies of W heal are small, and the condition being 1 • proved by the last few days of cold weather, our millers ha bought more freely, and the best samples of English WhealU1 have sold at an advance of Is. per quarter since this day week.J Other descriptions of English and Foreign Wheat fully support! late prices.— Flour ...

... NehjpovU SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1840. Our columns are so crowded with the proceedings of the Special Commission, that we have no room for com- ment on the public transactions of the week. One topic, however, we must briefly allude to Mr. ATWOOD has taken his farewell of Birmingham, and in a long address has touched upon many subjects, which, if space permitted, we would advert to seriatim. The ...

... DOMESTIC NEWS. Preparations are in progress in most gaols in the king- dom, to put them into a state of carrying into effect the provisions of the new Gaol Act, requiring the classification of prisoners before trial, and which came into operation on the 1st inst. On Saturday last in the Insolvent Debtor's Court, in the matter of Thomas William Edwards; Esq., an application was made that an ...