... To be followed by an entirely now riay, never before VeK formed on any Stage, and adapted expressly for the preset occasion, by Mr. Morgan, of Tredegar, entitled A VISCOUNT FOR AN HOUR. Viscount Dorset Captain Pierrepont Mundy, R-A- Jeffreys Mr. Morgan, (of Tredegar-/ Sir Wm. Fitzpoodle Capt. B. Milman, (5th Fusiliers.; Roach The Hon. R. Bourke. Mr, Frederic Morgan- Baroness \Vestdean Miss ...

... TO MARUIRTT Dear '^rgsret, my thanks are due, For these sweet violets bath'd in dew How very fragrant, fresh, and fair, And dear to me these flowers aie, My oirthday gems and are not they A sweet boon for my natal day ? For friendship's shrine meet offering, Tlfese early blossoms of the spring ? Sweet as tue breath of sympathy, And free to all as charily. Like friends of oid, lo, now they come ...

... To- Tis what I have said to the summer, When the last sweet buds were blowing, And the bee was a wearied hummer— Iwishthou wert not going. Tis what 1 have said to the tide, When it ebbed in its musical flowing; Leaving pebble and weed by my side— I wish thou wert not going. ris whpt I have said to the sun, When the shadows of night were growing, And the sands of Mirth had rUD- O! I wish ...

... SCRAPS FROM PUNCH. REMARKS ON RUSSIAN CREDIT. The manufacturers of Russia are few, but her fabrica- tions are innumerable. We shall stand no chance with the Russians, if they shoot as well with the Minie rifle as they do with the long bow. Osten-Sacken's guns would be all Paixhans if his ball were commensurate with his bounce. The report of a Russian cannonade is something incre- dible. It is ...

... TEACK !—IH OX WHAT CONDITIONS? TEnsF. wlio pass through the offices of the Bank of England, and look into the faces of the annui- tants receiving their dividends, with a deduction of one shilling and twopence, income-tax, instead of pevenpence those who observe tb«* troubled look of the Antonios and Shylocks cn the Rialto, or the English merchants on 'Change, under the pressure of restraints 1 ...

... that time might be allowed for members to acquaint t .em- wives with the subject. He proposed to bring before the ward, apian f,r the alteration of the present sale of fees, M atrt,eTards submitted to the vestry, for approval. r* ,.aaD1 said he had prepared a resolution on the very ~™e -Jieot, and was about to introduce it, when Mr. Jones bnw'+i e had been engaged for some time in ...

... ? ^at the1^aS migbt expect Mr. Austin here shortly, parts of tVif» + ^°r S°V^ ca^ bis particular attention to those that he shrvni,?Wn .w required immediate drainage, and ■the drainao-a ^J1DU °U^ ^ow was proposed to carry out plan, aD i, en see if they could agree upon a general jThen lot ;+ w°ulddo for the entire drainage of the towjj. ;Sent to tKo vj3 ascei; a.led if the Board would give ...

... Eirths, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS. On the lith instant, at Newport, the wife'of the ftev. J. Rogers, Baptist minister, of a daughter. c On the 18th instant, at Palmyra Place, Newport, the lady of Win. Henry Brewer, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Thomas-street, Newport, the wife of Mr. Edmunds, grocer, of a. son. MARRIAGES. On the 15th instant, Mr. Augustus Bertram Cliam^ ...

... EXTRAORDINARY FREAK. At the Westminster Police-office, a quiet looking woman solicited the Magistrate's assistance under the following circumstances. Applicant complained -that her daughter, a girl of 17, had gone through the ceremony of marriage without being blessed with a husband. It was, of course, at the time of the nuptials, supposed that she was being united to one of the other sex, and ...

... THE New York Quarterly relates an anecdote of the late astronomer, which will be new to many. It seems that during the Bourbon regime, dissatisfied with his provincial glories as deputy from little Perpignan, he aspired to re- present Paris itself in the Legislative Chamber, and al- though thwarted in every direction by the Court and the officers of Government, he canvassed Paris and harangued ...

... in wi iw i I FOKEIGIJ INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. The first of the fancy balls so long announced, came off on Saturday ni„ht, at the Tuileries. It is described as be- ing very splendid. The Emperor appeared in the uniform of a Colonel of the company of the Garde du Corps, which is in course of organisation. The Empress wore the cos- tume of an Albanian lady,and looked remarkable well in it. Vely ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ] HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY, FEB. 17. KEFORMATORY SCHOOLS. Lords Brougham and Lyttelton and the Earl of Har- row by presented petitions in favour of these establish- mcnts. Lord Brougham especially urged the necessity of Government interference in establishing such schools. Earl Granville assured the noble and learned lord that the subject was under consideration by the ...