... T is always a good sign when men pay attention to their own affairs, rather than leave them entirely in the hands of others and hence we were pleased to observe the circumstance of 8000 of that valuable body of men, the British tars, approaching the throne with a statement of their views and Wishes, though we could not agree with the con- clusions to which they had come. While there are taany ...

... FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The improvement in the position of the Bank of, England still continues to progress. The amount of bullion in its coffers by last Friday's return was £ 13,390,314., showing an increase over the preced- ing week of £213,502. The arrivals of specie are chiefly from Russia and the United States and until an altered state of the exchanges is ...

... On Monday last, the Monmouth Paving Commissioners ordered their inspectors to procure summonses upon several parties who had neglected to remove nuisances which had been complained of. We trust that this notice will have its effect upon other persons. A petition from the minister and congregation of the Inde pendent chapel, Monmouth, praying for the abolition of all political testrictions on ...

... NEVER wedding, ever wooing, Still a love-lorn heart pursuing: Kead you not the wrong you're doiug In my cheeks' pale hue All my life with sorrow strewing— Wed or cease to woo. Rivals banishod, bosoms plighted, Still our days are disunited Now the lamp of hope is lighted- Now half-quenched appears, Damp and wavering and benighted, Midst my sighs and tears. Charms you call your dearest blessing— ...

... HOUSE OF COMMONS. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11. Mr. Bruce and Sir R. Price were ordered to be taken into cut- tody by the Serjeant-at-arms, for not attending in their places to be sworn a members of the election committees to which they had been respectively appointed. A large number of petitions having been presented, the ad- journed debate on the second reading of the Jewish Disabilities Bill wm then ...

... Three soldiers, belonging to the 82nd regiment, were charged at the Merthyr Police Court, before William Thomas, J sq with robbery in a dwelling-house. Two of them were dis- charged, t ut one of them, named Simpson, against whom the evidence was more conclusive, was committed to take his trial at the next Quarter Sessions. THE STRIKE AT TKEDEGAR.— As we anticipated last week, the workmen of ...

... If in tlii9 world only, we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable,—Con. xv., 19. THOUGH the smile of the world but seldom reposes O'er the Christian's wild waste of sorrow and scorn; Tho' his path be not strewed, like the worldling's, with roses But its mazes are tangled with many a thorn: And though he hath griefs, to the world he reveaJs not The plagua of a heart over ...

... Foreign and Colonial Illtenigence AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 20.—The packet-ship Montezuma, Lowber, arrived at midnight from New York, with advices thence to the 1st instant, inclusive. The Wyoming, Miercken, which left Philadelphia on the 29th ult, also arrived in the Mersey yesterday. The advices by these ariivals ate not important, and tend rather to confirm the intelligence brought by the ...

... $Ai-arming FIRE.—Tlie greatest consternation w.is occa 0 sioned on the morning of Sunday last, among the congregation assembled lor worship at the parish church, by an alarm of fire. 0 We understand that shortly after the commencement of divine d Service, smoke and flames were seen issuing from the vest:y team an alarm was immediately given, and the terror occa 6 sioned may be more easily ...

... No bitter tears for thee be shed, Blossom of bdng seen and gone With flowers above we strew thy h i, 0, blest departed one! Whose all of life, a rosy ray, Blush'd into dawn, and pass'd away. -Bumtt's Christian Citizen. ...

... THE POPE'S RESCRIPT. (Correct translation.) ''The rumours th.M have for some months back been in cir- culation through the public journals of England, relative to the pursuit of political parties with which some ecclesiastics are carried away. and the abuse of some of the Irish churches, for transacting in them secular affairs, or aiding towards their transaction; and also regarding the ...

... In the evening of the 20th ult. a grand display took place on the Lake of iVeuwerslein, near Lsnwaideo, iu Holland, whIch was completely frozen over. The lashionabie persons of the town of both sexes, disguised and masked, were engaged in skating, whilst the lake was lighted up by the bleze of a thou- sand torches, and half a dozen bands of music performed dances, military airs, and grand ...