... MOMOUTHSHmE EASTER SESSION 1 pii^ These sessions commenced on Monday morning last, 5, with a small amount of business entered on the PaP calendar containing only seven piisoners for trial, and °ne-«j( journed appeal—effects of the recent occurtence of the a which caused almost a total gaol delivery at Usk. The following gentlemen took their seats on the bench a' twelve o'clock S. BOSANQUET, ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MARCH 27. The following bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed Bristol and Birmingham, and Midland Railwt-ys St. Albans Luton, and Dunstable Railway; York I mprovtment • Harro- gate Waterworks Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dewsbury, Leeds, and Bradford Railway; North of Norfolk Railway* East Dereham and Norwich Railway; Glasgow Paisley and ...

... WHAT IS WAR? ««xsr •» rules of moral obligation and what is Z •' iTseel to us, that the public press woul.l greatly promote the well-being and advancement of the people, by entering thoroughly into the subject of war, in all its varied aspects. With this idea, we invite attention to the inquiry- What is war ? and a right answer to this question will, we ima- gine, throw much light upon ...

... OUR nlUNIBU8. METHOD or READING.—Every man should keep mioutes of what he lead*. Every circumstance of his studies should be re- corded—what books he has consulted—how much of them he has read—at what times—how often the same authors—and what opinions he formed of them at different periods of his life. Such an account would much illustrate 'he history of his mind. Wine is such a whetatone for ...

... THE frequency of a disordered state of the Digestive Organs, occurring in the people of this country, and the melancholy circumstances to which they give rise, are truthstoo often witnessed and painfully endured, to require here the symptoms to recognise the complaint. The numbers of authors who have elahoratclv written upen this insidious atfeetion, would take an industrious reader years to ...

... Review of the Corn Trade. By the official account just published, it appeals that 89,415 qrs. of wheat, and 1^2,890 cwt. of flour, were imported into Great Britain during the month ending 5th inst. and that duty was paid within the period named on 1,813 qts. of the former, and 21,775 cwb. of the latter article. The same statement gives stoeks in bond on the 5th March these were-of wheat, 1,138 ...

... HELLICAR V. JAMBS. This case was tried at the late Monmouth Assizes, before Mr. Baron Platt and a special jury, when a verdict was returned for the defendant on the second issue. Mr Whately now moved for a rule nisi, calling on the de- fendant to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and entered, for the plaintiff, with damages,.£70. It appeared the action was one of assumpsit on ...

... SPAIN. MADRID. APRIL 4.—RESIGNATION OF GENERAL NARVAE?— General Narvaez, after vain attempts to complete his Ministry decided, on the morning of the 4th, on giving in his reslgnalion. The Queen accepted it, and immediately summoned M. lsiuiitz for him to form a new cabinet. M. Isturitz at once placed him' self at the Queen's disposal. He was appointed President of the Council and Minister of ...

... These things are common enough lovers quarrel and separate, each demanding back all the letters and preseots that overpassed between them. Well, it is right, perhaps pride is satisfied, and no memorial remains to remind them of the past. It once hap- pened thus with a young girl, whom we shall call Isabel, poor Isabel It was a marvel bow she could ever quarrel with any one, and she never did ...

... FRESH doubts are being offered of the adequacy of the present administration to the great work they have taken in hand. Having once shewed a dis- position to give way to the powerful party of the monopolists, they will find it exceedingly difficult to escape the disgrace of ultimate defeat. The morning mists, observes a metropolitan contem- porary, which hung about the higher ranges of ...

... A SctNE IN A Cnuncn.—A young clergyman, who had been lately appointed lo officiate as curate in an unsophisticated parish in this neighbourhood, in the (!hwjr(,Ii of' vvhicii said parish, psalmody has long been exercised by the choir to the full satis- faction of the parishioners, shortly after Ills arrival intimated his intention of giving out the psalms himself. [-he clerk made a week ...

... Recreation is a se ond creation, when weariness has annilli- lated one's spirit. It is the breathing ol the soul, which other. wise would be stifled with continual business. Our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.— Slmhspeare. WaR !—We fiod the following in the Chicago Journal. It is a bona fide ...