... The anniversary festival of the Ross Royal Victoria British School was held at Birch House, the seat of Kedgwin Hoskins, Esq. M.P., on Wednesday, the 27ih instant, where a large number of the children educated in these excellent schools were regale!1 by the worthy member with the good old English fare of roast beef and plum pudding. The youthful party with tlwr teachers, Bnd accompanied hy ...

... ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE MR. E* DRUMMOND, PRIVATE SECRETARY TO SIR H. PEEL. On Friday, at half-past lour o'clock, the western districts of the metropolis were thrown into the highest state of consterna- tion and alarm, by the rfeport of a rhoat determined and extra- ordinary attempt to assassinate Mr. E. Drummond, the private secretary to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Baronet. It appears ...

... FRAGMENT ON THE BURIAL OF MAGINN. .• I. THE dead bells were toiling, The thunders were rolling; • The big clouds were clashing, t The fierce lightning flashing In mirth, But yet Rem the heaven • The aun not driven. Its beatt>s glitter'd o'er him, Assent we bore him To earth. h, II. ,The sunlight so splendid, With thunder thus blended, The red eyes of lightning The atmosphere bright'ning. i ...

... CARN AR VON, a The dinner party at thc Sportsman IHotel, on| t'Tuesday, conisisted of about forty gentleiicell. 'liC :1 (ileIrt consisted of turtle, venison, gsln i (thc two latter supplied by the Lordl Lieutenialit and sthe Holl. Colonel Douglas Punnant) a'(d Iother good things. The dessert, our informant adds, I was unexeeptionacble, and so were the Wines. ['the sulbjoined Report lias been ...

... A Co. denotes a Company, As ev^'ry one must allow, But a A un doth shun all company, Because of her convent vow. A Drum doih call a company, At its sound they quickly come; V> bile the W hole will puzzle a company. W ith a Cn.—/mi, — drum. ...

... Arrivals and Sailings for the Week ending the llth ARRIVED 00f True Bess, Jones. Whitehaven; Elizabeth, Leade^beP' Nanteos, Griffiths, ditto Elizabeth, Adaroson, ditto Kelly, ditto; Elizabeth, Quinton, ditto; Emeraia^toifr Barrow, iron ore.—Eleanor, Thomas, Penarth; Sw1 > pjua Bristol; Friends, Beer, ditto; Rhondda, Fryer, Pearson, ditto; Lady Selina, Carter, ditto; SwiK. ditto; Dinas, Pearson ...

... MR. JOIl\I.> X(,AIN 15 0111. J Vll._ l..n -x.^s Mr. Arthur James .JIollhs ill rep to tl:C L ly renonistrance of tile t dltitetl Rcctol c\.e i- flog, confesscs that lie ?? not t , Clergy of -North Wales with hteosid , words ! words ! s l 1un5', K Rnowles' play, exclaills ltio alidldc M about to plunge the knit ,c ilL) her bj.Olii I niceer saw YOU lnt ' ' Iii all joxy lie. WVell-since tile ...

... ?? To i/ie Editor ofthic North Milecs Chronicle. atE Mr. E ~ot'oi,--Having read aI passlige in your pa- iml per this inelik, recommending, ivy for the purpoec of ¶ keeping out, wet and daimpnco~s from hiouses. I have JO no Iloutlt it may be at heiry good thing for any one that li' would havo the patience to wrait for its cgr owth h ut fld as seine would not coitoidei it very orm ?? Ioltuitll ...

... 10w '1(1 INViesT £O 11)10 SiX'IeXVNC (Jet ilto ill olllmIilliS, Ililcilg first takco CaiIiv to! In t ,oi l ( r mnliev ill vo .1 r1lc(licule or ?? poc(t. Talk freeiv to tile geiitleiiell Onl (-1th qille IoU, 0111 Lw thle tille itc)l reiecih tihe lslol, you ill hod thait e; V peilill ' Y' Ioul ?? milcl hulls ?? Iet TlleVSl li without 'ot(1 ?? ill( il up 111 lly OI1ther forall tlsn i tl,,t 0t' ...

... ARMNIAll 011' , I I I i;! 0 N I.; a I I A ?? D ?? I A I I ? . ENDD, AND CIIIN,?. 'Ne copy the f,)I1mvilw, flolli a S,:Coild 14Ll;tillit of tile V, 11111&.?hvd at it Int- hum. tll?s IlItTil- lie ladilla mail to the let of Ducellile(n. lin., ?LIILI We 11ILVe letlur?z mal papers Io thtit kl Ito. 'I'lle ?? Whidl tll(.'V ?? ?? )I'll, ?? lilt excitilkg i1alulk is Still highly ill ?? as tendilt ...

... THESE CEH-RONICLE. Thesday, January 3, 1843. ADDRESS. The old year died: his eye was dim, His palsied head was grey; The world had had its part in him, And so he pass'd away. for Wave follows wave in thle long swell of nd the ocean, so generation succeeds generation in- in the troubled sea of life, gliding onwards the to the great ocean of eternity. In the words of of the meek Job, my ...

... ChIINX. AND TIHE CIIINESE. (IProetmised getractse front the ipiili.s/hte Letters q/ Major0 Rlobierts, 9I8h JlReyt. Some general retnails onl China and the Chinese -'The musquitoes in this coun1trv art diiadful, in place is free from thent, and without mntch care inld ?? clirtains, to lie downi to rest, is to lie doilwn to, bt: Lotolented. . .i The geioeral aspert of Clhinia is plcasing to ...