... SHAKSPERE'S BIRTH-DAY AND Robjt I 0~~~ * The annual festivities in celebration of the Birth-day of the hsad of Avon took plane in his native town en the 24th elI, baq there was little pnblic demonstration. Says a peal of hllo ,fr the tower above tepoet's lost resting-plane, and a bannter q, reol ahovo the Shakspere-holl. everything wan quiet adnpe The meeting of the members of the Shaokoperian ...

... FOE'LUGN INTELLIGENCE * hetetnoe f h ?? I.Thec~netg o ?? are of no political interest what- oever. Mlont of their lotnditng article,4,refer to Et pending discuisionl in) I the Chatnber of Deputies en a propositions ?? Incr introd ucing a uniform postage, of ltwenty cunlimes, onl single lea. toes thaeuiihaut France. Although advocated by tile majority of the joureele,, lo. Gamiut anod his ...

... Lord Clarendon has been appointed the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, vice Lord Besborough deceased. THE CROPS OF WHEAT in this part of the country (owing to the late genial rains and warmer weather) are greatly improved the early sown spring corn has also at present a very healthy appearance.— Welshman. LOVE-LETTER INK.—SomeYankee has invented a new kind of ink, catled the love-letter ink. It ...

... CHURCH MISSIONS. On the evening of Monday last the Annual and General Meeting of the Cardiff Auxiliary of the Church Missionary Society was held in the Town-hall, Cardiff, upon which occasion the chair was taken by THE VENERABLE, THE ARCHDEACON OF LLANDAFF. who was supported by the presence of a numerous and influential body of clergy, as well as by a great many of the gentry, tradesmen, and ...

... SUNDERLAI'D POLICE. Saftisday, Mop ?? Joseph Brown, ?? and R. Carr,Esq'.-James Carter, coaster of the ehip leamc of this port, was summoned for not delivering to Francis Hazlorsan, a seamen, his reghter ticket on the eoueple- tion of the voyage. Delfudant alleged that the coII- plainlant having left the ressel at Peterheatd, bafore the termination of his service, the register ticket was ...

... On Monday evening, the Chancellor of the I Exchequer, in order to relieve the present monetary pressure, proposed ?? persons paying up, previous to The ;8th of June, any portion of the instalqnits of the public loan. on the (lay subsequent to the day of pay- mnent, should recerve discount, at a given rate, calculated ftom the day of payment, and made up to the period the instalment ?? due; if ...

... UNIVEiRSI'TY AND) ECCLESIASTICAL. I i The Rev. Chancellor litiikes is spoken of as the I view Bishop of Nlanchester. At St. Bees there are, it is stated, about thirty ex dissenting preachers, all studying for the church Mi- dnitry. tc A s ollege is to be established in North Wales, ! and is to be called thre Powlis College, as a testimonisl to the Earl of Powis. We understand that the Rev. ...

... -. ^Mel SATURDAY, MAY 29,1847. me the C full t O'CONNORVILLE. are fro The first grand result of the Land Plan has been fro .practicaly shadowed forth. The first members of a ma class new to modern times-a class to which the bef ancestors of our factory slaves and labouriig serfs bue belonged before Monopoly had wrested the soil from au [ their grasp,-a class of small landholders, of inde. th ...

... ottropolitan Entellignite. -- ?? ?? ACeCDENTS, OFOHNCBS, ICTC. FanoHrTUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT TO A POSTILION IN OxFOaD-STURETT.- An accident of a most frightful cha- racter attended with fatal consequences, ocourred to apostilion namned John Mitchell, aged thirty-one, lately livingien Margaret-stret, Cavend ish-squarewho was proceecding along Oxford-street with a couple of horses, when the one ...

... t LOO ON 511I PICTURE, AND ON THIS I er lajesty and Prince DZAT FRHOM STAXVA id Albert, accompanied by the TION.-OU Saturday an in Y, Prince of Leiningen, ho- ?? was held before P. F to nuured the Royal Italian Curry, Esq., Borough co, or Opera.hiouqe with their pre- roner, on the body of Luki rseace on Wednesday even- Brothers, a child of eight be Ig. Her Majesty appeared years, who lived in ...

... A o_ ic E ?? ?? ~ ~breadi, iG us Waggon, wb ?? ?? them half filled. t yonx5nTtI'z. om teef ?? BRAMh,.,-rn.FACToar GiRtaii.-Tbe cmitefre i ( imroving the conaitionl of the factory girls of Brad- muentl dtdhe yford have fitted 'lip the first of their intended IOd* trates assem miebhouses. Should'the trialiprove sucepsfnl othersI Utignary iwill be prepared. The house in situated in Timble- ...

... DIVISION ox THS FACTORIES BILL.. D | OUli OF COMMONS, MonDAY, MAT S. i Order for Third Rlsiding recmd; motion made, and ques. I tion proposed.- That the bill be now, read a third - time :-Amendmn~ft proposed, to leave out the word s rnow, and at the end of the question to add the s words rupont this day six ?? put, r That the word ' now' stand part of the question. The house divided-Ayes ...