... THE thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain, While I look upward to thee. It would seem As if God poured thee from his hollow hand, And hung his bow upon thine awful front; And spoke in that low voice which seemed to him, Who dwelt in Patmos for his Saviour's sake, The sound of many waters; and hath bade Thy flood to chronicle the ages back, And notch His cent'ries in the eternal rocks ...

... The Duke of Wellington is not averse to a clause being intro. duced into the Mutiny Act for 1647, abolishing corporeal punishment in all the regimeo and depots serving in Great Britain and Ireland for one year; but that the troops serving in ihs colonies are not to get the benefit of this experiment. It is said that a stop will be put to drumming out,' and that Dolo. viously bad characters, ...

... OPENING OF THE Cf-IURCM OF THE tttfilACULM'K CONCZPi ION OF D.V.W., Of 1 ;nr ou il. shire. This beaytiftii church, sit a'cd o.n ail eminence above the town of Skenfrith, was sj'emnly dedicated 011 Tuesday last, by the Right Kevereud Dr. Brown, Bishop of Apollonia, V.A. of the Welsh assisted by a the clergy. Hitherto, the Catnoiics scaitpml over this part of the country, the remnants of ...

... EGYPT.—The popularity of Ibraham Pacha is, as we learn from Grand Cairo, on the increase. He has given proof of his great tolerance on two occasions lately. The great Rabbi of the Jews had died, and it was indispensable to do that honour in death, to the chief of a religion, which was his due. The fear lest some fanatics might disturb the ceremonies had caused an application for protection to ...

... COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON MRS. >d CUMMINS, LATE OF NE>YPORT. •E MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. The inquiry into the state of mind ot Mrs. Catherine Cum- mitis, which bad previously occupied two days, was resumed to- n day at the HornsTavern, Kennington, before Mr. Commissioner r' Barlow and a special jury. The adjournment from the previous !r Monday was Ranted to enable Mrs Cummins (who had not been ...

... ttainblfd in (Pljurrligtirtre. This is the p1ace where we may muse In sad reflection on the past, While, gathering truths for present use, We store pure wisdom for the last, APHR a man has walked through the diversified mazes of ys>st?s and pleasure, and with a strong appetile has tasted of moat of the tempting fruit which hung down within his reach on either aide, he begins to think that he ...

... TilE VACANCY ON THE 13ENCH.— The death of Mr. Justice Williams gives a valuable piece of legal preferment to the Whig government to bestow on their friends a't the bar. Neither the Attorney nor the Solicitor-General is very likoly to take i,, as they have a lucrative prartice in the courts, and are in the way of higher preferment. Probably some gentleman not in office will be elevated to the ...

... BEDWELTY, THURSDAY, SUPTKIVIBER 24. The lists of voters for the parishes o' Bedwas, Bedwelty, and Mynyddyslhvyn, were this day revised. No objections appeared to have been made for Bedwas. In Mynyddyslhvyn, the objections by Protectionists were 38 by Liberals, 3. In Bedwelty, by Protectionists, 17; Liberals, 9. Mr. T. M. Llewellin attended on behalf of the Liberal inte- rest, and Mr. H. J. ...

... TROTTIXG MATCH FOR FIFTY POI NDS A SIDF.—The lovers of trotting will have a treat at Cheltenham, on the (5th October next, when Burke, of trotting celebrity, will exhibit his horse against time, to do twelve miies and a half in three quarters of an hour. Mr. Hurlstoiie, of that town. is the bace, cr of time -against the horse and considerable sums of money are now pendi -.g the result. ...

... WOMAN'S PRIDE.—Figuratively speaking, a fine woman may be said to X L at forty. WANTS A PLACE.-The Wellington Statue. No objection to travel. A STRANGE SALE -We were rather shocked a few weeks since, at seeing a young lady in Kensington Gardens with the lollowin? label attached to her visite- No reasonable offer will A (A U DLEISM.-SocrEttes, the first victim of Curtain Lectures, upon being ...

... [Owing to the late arrival at our officc of the police business of Monday, we are obliged to omit it, together with a quantity of matter from other correspondents, who will not be persuaded to favour us at the earliest opportunity.] THURSDAY. Magistrates present—R. Reecc, F.S.A., mayor, Whitlock Nicholl, Esq., and ltcv. J. Evans. James Ellmorc was charged with assaulting John Bowes. ...

... In the Bristol District Court of Bankruptcy on Monday, Wm. Henry Smith, of Swausea, newspaper proprietor, and barrister- at-law, applied for his certificate, and was opposed by Mr. Law- rence, of London, on the part of a creditor. AN UNEXPECTED PROPOSAL.—One Sunday lately, as a clergy- man on the west coast was proceeding with his discourse, he was a good deal interrupted by a maniac who sat ...