... HOW TO BE MISERABLE. Sit qt the window and look over the way to your neioh) our* excellent mansion, which he has recently built and paid for, and sigh out,O.thitlwasarich man Get angry with your neighbour, and think you have not got a friend in the world. Shed a tear or two, take a walk in the burial ground, continually saying to yourself, when shall I be buried here ? Sign a note for your ...

... If we were asked to point out, amongst the protective duties levied by European nations, the one which was most unsound in principle, or that which most checks social improvement, we should, in either case, point to the duty upon the importation of iron into France. Jroo is, under any circomstances, an unfit article for taxation. It is not only a raw material, and, as such, open to ail the ...

... THE IVORITES.—The societies known by this name in Mer- thyr, committed, on Monday morning last, a piece of unmiti- gated absurdity, of which, as men, and as Ivorites, they ought to be greatly ashamed. At about twelve o'clock we were woke up from our pensive occupation by most vociferous shouts in the street. Hip! hip! hurrah! wafted on the fainting wings of air, rapped quite uproariously at ...

... FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. MADRID, SEPT. 8. The Gazette of to-day has the following paragraph We are authorised to announce that the marriage ot her royal high- ness, Donna Maria Luisa Fernanda, with his royal highness Prince Antoine Maria Phillippe Louis d'OiIeans, Duke of Montpensier, has been stipulated and agreed on by his Excel- lency D'Fraccisco Xavier Isturitz, Fust ...

... Magistrate present—The Rev. G. W. Gabb. Lydia Mitchell was charged by Charles Lloyd, with stealing from his person, on the 9th instant, at Abergavcnny, five Bank of England £5. notes, nine sovereigns, two half-sovereigns, and a calico bag, his property.—It appeared that the gentleman had been lured into a conversation with the syren at the bar, who meanwhile eased him of his cash. The case was ...

... Good night! Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, That I could say Good night till it be morrow. Good night!— the stars are shining, love, In the blue vauhfd sky; The moons looks bright behind the grove, The winds on the mountain sigh The last faint beams of a summer day Melt soft in the twilight gleam away The silvery mists o'er the old woods play, Charming the sight; The sounds are ...

... THE LATE MAJOR FITZROY SOMERSET.—Shortly after the arrival of the dispatches announcing the victories of Moodkee and Ferozeshah, the public were informed that the officers of Grenadier Guards were about to erect a. cenotaph to the me- mory of their departed companion in arms, Major Fitzry Somerset, (son of Lord E. Somerset, military secretary to the Duke of Wellington), who nobly fell at the ...

... ,-| y r If TO A mass of interesting lo'cai intelligence from all the neighbour- ing towns, much of which might have bfeen sent 'as on Wed- nesday evening, instead of on Thursday, which would haye insured insertion, is now postponed till next week. We hope this will occasion our correspondents who desire to see their communications in print, to favour us at the earliest opportu- nity, rather ...

... Price per lb. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d. 0 5 to 0 6 0 6 0 6. 0 6 0 7 9 0 10 0 There being but few arrivals of stock from Ireland, our market this week was rather small; however a large number of sheep appeared, and, as usual, those fit for the stalls met ready customers, and a clearance was nearly eilected. Good beasts were scarce, and hardly any graziers were offered. Calves were few in ...

... FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1846. POOR LAW REFORM. IN giving some opinion as to what ought to be done with respect to the future administration of the poor law, we do not intend to be dogmatical upon a subject which has perplexed even greaA statesmen; but rather to throw out, by way of suggestion, a few ideas produced by a dispassionate view of the working of the system, as proved by established ...

... STEAM SHIP GREAT BRITAIN,-Liuerpnol, Tuesday.—The noble steam ship Great Britain, Captain Hosken, sailed for New York, at eleven o'clock this morning. She carries out 110 less than one hundred and eighty live passengers, the largest number that ever sailed for America by steam she has also a large cargo of goods. ...

... The harvest may be considered as concluded, little grain of any description now remaining in the fields, even in the mo.t backward parts of the kingdom. As yet but few estimates of the result have been offered, public attention having been so much taken up with the potatoe disease and its probable consequences, as to cast into the shade all other matters. Judging from what we have hitherto ...