... CONSIDERING the importance of the corn question, and the gross ignorance upon the subject which has so extensively prevailed, we can hardly com- plain of slowness and deliberation with respect to the measures which have come so startlingly upon the monopolist interests. But at the same time we must condemn the factious spirit which has been shewn in some quarters, and cannot but deeply regret ...

... I HE SUCCESSION OF RACES OF MEN.—Generation after gene- ration takes to itself the lorm ot a body, and forth issuing from Cimmerian night, on heaven's missions appears. What force and tire is in each tie expends!—one grinding in the mill of industry; one, hunter-like, climbing tiie giddy Alpine heights ef science; one madly dashed pieces on the rocks of strife, in war wiih his fellow and the ...

... In making their sixth Animal Report, the Monmouthshire Board of Education have yreat pleasure in stating that the other pouion ot the Diocese of Llandaff is about to unite with them tor furtherance of the important objects which they have in view, and that in future their plans and operations will assume a diocesan character, and be extend- ed over a wide sphere. This suggestion, which ...

... MARCH 25. Bristol and Birmingham railway, Bath line—peti- tion of George Byng, alleging the signature of Chas. Dyer to have been improperly affixed to the petition complaining of non-compliance with the standing orders, referred to the select committee on petitions for private bills. Resolution of standing orders committee That in the case of the Newport and Pilgwenlly Water Works petition, ...

... TEN YEARS AGO — —-That time is past, And all its aching joys are ;io\v no more, And all its diizy raptures! Not for this' y.iint I. nor mourn. nor murmur. Other gifts Have followeù for such loss. I would helieve Abu..dant recornp,mse. WOIlDSWORTH.. Tfih years ago—ten years ago, Life was to us a fairy scene And the keen blasts of worldly woe Had seared not then its pathway green. Youth and ...

... TRADE WITH NAPLES. WE are gratified to find that the monopolising and restrictive Government of Naples has made a con- siderable reduction in the duties upon various British goods. Thus the impost upon cotton yarns, silk goods, and goods mixed with silk, is reduced one-third upon cotton cloths, shirtings, &c., and upon printed cottons, one-half; and upon worsted and mixed cotton and worsted, ...

... INDIA. DEFEAT OF THE SIKIJS, WITH IMMENSE LOSS, All, TERMINATION OF THE WAR. (From the Morning Post.) TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES. Marseilles, March 29, 1846. On the 10th of February, the English army, commanded by Sir Hugh Gougb and by the Governor-General, attacked the Stkhs at Sebras (the tete de pont of the Sikh forces on this side of the Sutlej), and carried their position after four hours' ...

... Present—Joseph Latch, Esq., mayor, and T. Hawkins, T. Hughes, and E. Dowling, Esqrs. WANTON AND REVENGEFUL ASSAULT AT THE DOCK. Thomas Turk, late of Bristol, and now seamen's boarding- house keeper, &c., &c., in the neighbourhood of our dock, was charged with assaulting, on Monday last, William Naish, late shipping-master in this port.—Considerable interest was excited in this case, from the ...

... of ttte 0puimi5afn\ I have becn-aid ihe Opium Eater—every night of late trans- spurted into Asiatic scenes. I know not whether otheis share to my II/elings on this point; but I have often thought that if I wre compelled to fOlego Enland, and to live m China. and amoo Chinese manners and modes of life and scenery, I should go mad. 1 he causes of my horror lie deep, and some of them must he ...

... MONDAY, MARCH 31. I Sir J. Graham moved for leave to bring on his 010 the first reading of the Protection of Life (Ireland) Sir XV. Somerville moved a direct negative to the Sir J.Graham. After a long discussion, in which a number of took part, the house went to a division, when there tor the motion of Sir J. Graham— M Je8' 1^7.-—Noe«, 108.—Majority in favour ofit» er some further remarks the ...

... THE large majority in favor of the proposed reduction of the duties upon timber was highly satisfactory. When the Whig measure of 1841 was brought before the House, not only the ruin of our colonial timber trade, but even the most serious damage to our shipping interest was con- fidently predicted. Sir Robert Peel's plan of 1842 was hailed by a similar outcry, though, from the absence of party ...

... The Assizes for this county commenced on WedfiescLiy last. Mr. Baron Piatt reached the verge of the county, from whence he was conveyed in the carriage of the High Sheriff, Thomas Prothero, Esq., accompanied by a cortege, to the Shire Hall. to open the commission. Divine service was performed at St. Mary's Ceurch, in the afternoon on which occasion, the Sheriff's Chaplain, the Rev. George ...