... IWELLINGTON AND NAPOLEON-A PARALLEL. The wars of revolutionary France commenced near the field of Waterloo, where they terminated. France, with a population nursed in anarchy, blood, and infidelity, became as it were a vial of wrath poured out over the face of civilised Europe. Her legions were commanded by a vaunting leader, supported by upstart satellites, whose objects seem 'to have been ...

... THE REFORM ACT.-WHIGS v. TORIES. y. The simple-minded amongst the Reformers, as well as R the timid and the time-serving, who would fiain recun- he cile private interests with public duty, are apt, the one rr- class to believe, and the other to say, that there is some- Er. thing in the specious but most unfounded assertion, that by it matters not whether we have al Liberal or a Tory id, ...

... i 3:RSTOL TOWN-COUNCZL. WEeNESDAY, May 6th, 1840. 1 The usual Quarterly Meeting of the Council was held a this day. t The Town-clerk having read the minutes of the former s meeting, t The MAYoR briefly announced the heads of the subjects to s be taken into consideration, and in so doing said, in order to facilitate the'proceedings, and to meet the convenience of members, it had been determined ...

... SATURDAY, AYr 9, .1840. TO THE READER. t Dry, fold, and cut your paper previous to perusing it. We earnestly request our: Advertising Friends to forward their communications as early on the Friday as possible; our arrangements will, thereby, be greatly facilitated. LORD STANLEY'S Irish, and Lord John Russell's English, Registration' Bills are very characteristic of the motives and impulses ...

... YORL MINSTERL. We gave in our last a very full account of the-de- structive conflagration at York Minster. We give the following additional particulars from the Leeds Times: To give some idea of the magnitude of this splendid eccle. siastical edifice, we may state, it is supposed that a work of equal extent could not be completed, in the present day, for two millions of money, nor in less time ...

... JtZ~iAstULE NATUHAL ClURiOSITY.-A very singular and ,efect Oak tree, in a fossil state, bas been recently discovered a 5 ad pit at calcot (Tilehurst), near the Bath-road. Vari- aus braches have, during the last two months, been dug out dlose to the spot where the tree was found, and about ten days ago the labourers employed there brought the above singular ?? to light; it was only about four ...

... WEEKLY SUM ARY OF FOREIGN HISTORY. plate JOVRNALS mention that official reports from the .TlEe cntain very unsatisfactory news as to the temper of pr~,eopces 1trovs,; il g still somewhat dear and scarce. the jpjeaieeo~ 1rnonlcCs the arrival of the Princess Victoria d Sexeateb or Gotha, the affianced bride of the Duke de of SttiS at St. Cloud, accompanied by her father (the Duke Ferinand) a and ...

... UOUSE OF? COMMONS -WDNEStDA, WsMAT 2?. X k.ontinuedfrom ye.eterday'8 Free7rmanr.) BRITISH GUIANA. Mr. W. GLADSTONE wished to ask the noble lord I whether he had instructed the Guvernor of British Guiana to insist upon the adoption ofa new civil list, being a large I increase on the former civil list; and whether he bad not, in a despatch to the governor, stated that the advance of money on the ...

... (From our owion Correspondent.) FRANCE. If the French were in that state in which people quar- rel for ideas, and in which men draw their swords for banners or for names, the restoration of Napoleon's bones might prove the signal for serious discord. But as I-luO says Ore ne croi plus en France, on reve. Attachments to principles or names have become of that vague and poetic kind which ...

... I - . . . .At a recent meeting-of the .-oyal Society of Edinburgh, amoqgst ;her interesting paperw read was one b. ;aidime, Esq., on 'earth- quakes felt in 66cotlan4 during.the Wmer and winter of 1839.,, .For thesuzbjbi)ed.asmmary of this document we .are, in'debted tq .i Scottish Standard. Mr. Mime s;tethat the sho-ks wvere flrst Perceikedon tbe nd of Octioberand had continuedwith haid'a ...

... MARRIAGE OF TFIE DUKE OF NENtouns.-On Monda) lhe nP„'i !nn 1S I10^1 H'ghness the Duke of Ne tnours, sec o t e King of the French, with the Princess Coburg, first cousif) t'0 her Ma. iVatS^cToud. and' Were -^ebrated^ith great H^ROyaprin?p78 Prince A,ber'. accompanied by the Hereditary Prince Ernest, is expected to vis t Newmarket on Tuesday next, when the 2,000 Guineas Stakes are to be run for ...

... KEEP IN YOXIK DOGS.—We are~i?la(l to find that our woitliy chief magistrate has piomptly adopted precautionary measures, against tlio peiil of canine madness in this town. Ihe Mayor of Newport has t;iven ley ii notice, that under the local Act 7th of Geo. IV the owner of any dog found at large during the term such notice is in force, is subject to a penalty not exceeding 40s. BATHING. The ...