... We believe the Bill, to which a Supporter refers, has very little chance during this Session of Corn and Coercion. It is usually the case in public, affairs, to retain every shred of an abuse that can be saved from the hand of reformation. We regret being unable to make anything of the MS. of A Wye Borderer. Erin's Lament, shews generous and heart-home feeling expressed in very indifferent ...

... A meeting of sciipholders in this company, projected to con- struct a line from Llangynwyd to Margam, in South Wales, was held on Thursday, the 7th inst., at the London Tavern, to con- sider the bill in terms of the recent sessional ordeis. The meeting was very thinly attended; but the capital of jg200 000., scrip to the ex'ent of more than £IOO.UOO. was represented. Dr. Bowring. M.P., ...

... On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Town of Ramsgate public-house, Wapping, before Mr. Baker, on the body of a fine young woman, named Emmeline Fulltlove, aged twenty years, who was found in the river Thames, having committed suicide on Sunday. It appeared that the unfotlunate deceased had been married only three months to a man named Jonathan Fullilove, a compositor at the Queen's ...

... England is the land of club3. A club is the natural ex. ciescence of English life, as the gall-apple on the o^k. Intro- duced into other countries, the system hils been rarely known to flourish and you might as well expect a redly clubbish Freuch or Russian club, composed of native, as an authentic oak-apple grown on an elm or alder. No nation but the English is capable of the social solecism ...

... Another elopement in high life was the general theme of conversation on Monday at the west end of the metropolis. The parties are Lady Anna Elizabeth Mary Grenville, only daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham, and Mr. Gore Langton, grandson of Colonel William Gore Lan^toD, M.P. for East Somersetshire. Tne following are some particulars of this affair, as they havd been communicated to ...

... LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY, MAY 9.—The packet ship, New York, arrived in the Mersey this morning, bringing papers from New York to the 18th ult., one day later than those received in London, via Havre. The intelligence received is of the return of the Hon. Mr. SI id ell 10 the United States-the advance of the American army to the Rio Grande-the concentration of Mexican troops on the west bank of the ...

... Magistrates present—Joseph Latch (mayor) and E. Dowling, Esqrs. CAUGHT TAKING A MORNING DRAUGHT ON THE SLY. Joseph Jones was charged with stealing a quantity of beer, the property of W. W. Price, (f the Three Horse Shoes beer- house.—Pennimore, the active officer, said: While on duty near the canal bridge on Sunday morning, about half-past four, he saw the prisoner receive something from ...

... NAMES.—Emma is from the German, and signifies a nurse; Caroline, from the Latin, noble-minded; George, from the Greek, a farmer; Martha, from Hebrew, bitterness thebeauti- ful tbongh common name, Mary, is from Hebrew, and means a drop of salt water, a tear; Sophia, from Greek, wisdom; Susan, from Hebrew, n liilv Thomas, from Hebrew, a twin; and Ro- bert, from the German, famous in council. ...

... On Tuesday morning, last, a spectacle of this description-- accompanied by circumstances of special and exciting interest —took place from the ship-building premises of Messrs. Young and Cook, near the Rodney Parade, on the eastern bank of our noble river. The enterprising builders were determined, on laying down the keel of this ship,to equal, if not excel, anything of the kind that had ever ...

... The following letter lately appeared in the Cornwall Chro- nicle, a Van Dieman's Land paper :— Sir,—Having lately seen in the pages of your widely-circu- lated journal, an article, headed u Government Rewards. wherein you, with much truth, allude to the niggardly hand with which, in the present day, the services of the prisoner population more especially are rewarded, I cannot avoid troubling ...

... [jp E are glad to perceive that persons of activity ^d intelligence are bestirring themselves, for the pudable and important object of reviving and pre- living the once celebrated fisheries of this country. >-ylre have, for some years past, in our columns, j*ged perseverance and energy in this matter, con- vinced that incalculable loss was experienced by be public in a neglect of a source ...

... We understand that the petition to parliament from the inhabitants of Abergavenny, in favour of the Newport, Aber- gavenny, and Hereford Railroad, has already had nearly 500 signatures to it. On the 30th ult., the friends of education in Abergaveuny had a tea meeting in the Cwmreigyddion HaH.the profits of which are appropriated to the funds of the Girls' British School. Great credit is due to ...