... A musical gentleman, while performing, was lately arrested by two bailiffs, who requested him to join them in a trio. I should rather imagine, said the unfortunate gentleman, you wish for a catch f An American contemporary says that female costume is. per- haps, the most expensive result of the fall. No sooner had Eve bitten the apple, than she discovered that she wanted a dress; and that ...

... THE NEW REFORM BILLS. THE printing of the bills enables us to arrive at that understanding of their provisions which is an indis- pensable preliminary to their correct discussion. Taking first the measure for England, we find the new occupying franchise for boroughs is to be based, as we expected, upon a rateable value of jE5 that is, every tenement assessed to the poor rate at £ 5, will give ...

... THE SHAREHOLDERS IN THE MONMOUTH AND GLAMORGAN JOINT-STOCK BANK. [TO THE EDITOLL-1 DEAR SIR,—By means of your widely-circulated journal, through which you have done so much good in this serious matter, have the goodness to permit a fellow-citizen, who is Wholly unconnected with the above concern, to address a few words on the all-engrossing subject. As the dark clouds which a few weeks back ...

... NEWPORT CATTLE MARKET, WEDNESDAY. Beef 4jd to 5d per lb, Lamb 5Jd to 6d per lb. Veal od to 03d per lb. Bacon pigs, 6s Od to 7s per st. Mutton. od to oidperlb. Porkers, 7sOd to 7s Cd per st ...

... 1V0XDERLAND. MouRxruLLY listening to theyave's strange talk, And-marking with a sad and moistened eye The summer days sink down behind the sea- Sink down beneath the level brine, and fall Into the Hades of forgotten thingc- A mighty longing stealeth o'er the soul; As of a man who pineth to bshold His idol in another laaJ—if yet Her heart be treasured for him—if her eyes Have yet the old love ...

... [INSCRIBED TO MRS. J ] If God so wills, though now with pain they part, And both for weeks for one another mourn,— Fond youth he will to soothe her aching heart, And raise her hopes-in health again return. For, bydd dirion, boed dy donnau Heddyw'n ddiddig ar dy fronau, Fy mab, oh: mawr yw'm profedigaeth, Sy'n gadael gwlad ei enedigaeth Prudd ei lygaid, trwm ei galon, W rth ymadael a ...

... r> COURT OF CHANCERY. o ,f AN INDIAN CHIEF AND HIS INTEKPP.ETER. a t^ie court was fixed for Friday, to hear the i- eC) Lake v. Currie. The novelty of a full court usually r w a crowd, and conspicuous among the strangers who p fyi way towards the bar, was the gentleman so well ir ,ej.ab°ut town as Captain Acherley. The captain has for y tc1/116 ta^en under his protection a chief of one of the ...

... SUNDAY LESSONS. May 9th-4tb Sunday after Easter. Morning Lessons: Deut. 6. Matt. 7.-Evening Lessons Deut. 7, Romans 8. WEEKLY CALENDAR. Moon's 3ge-Last Qaar,, 10th day, lIh. 23m. afterooon. Sss:| *».. j 7 4 23 7 31 I morn. 6 58 128 8 4 21 5 7 32 0 2 7 51 129 9 4 10 7 34 I 0 53 8 57 130 10 4 18 7 36 1 32 10 5 131 11 4 10 | 7 37 2 2 11 14 132 12 4 15 5 7 30 2 25 0 22 133 13 4 13 ...

... (Before Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant-Judge, at the Guild- hall, Westminster.) THE BRIGHTON CARD. CHEATING CASF. The grand jury re. turned a true bill, containing nine counts, against Richard Sill, attorney, tor misdemeanour. It was pleferred by Henry Broome, and had relation to the charge of card-cheating at Brighton against John Broome and others. Upon the application of Mr. Parry, the Court ...

... ABERGAVENNY. TOWN H ALL,-Mow DAY. (Before the Hon. W. P. Rodney.) A. ROW AMONGST THE NAVVIES AT LLANVIHANGBL- CRUCORNEY. William Sweeny and James Lowry, two Irishmen, were charged by Mr. W. Thomas, landlord of the Holy Mountain inn, with creating a disturbance, and quarrelling in his hoose, yesterday- It appeared from Mr. Thomas's evidence, and that of others, that, in the afternoon, a large ...

... THE BIG MEETING AS DID COME—AND THE MANNERS AS DIDN'T. To my Cozien William, in Swansea, Glamorganshire. My DEAR BOY,—As i do owe you a letter, and as i must not be long in your debt of sich a thing, because as how i be now a man in the prime of life, I sends this few linds to you at once, without no more bother about than for me to rite 'em, the post to carry 'em, and you to read 'em. 1 be ...

... V\ HILE the stormy petrels of politics are uttering their disappointment at the tameness with which the session has opened, and the vaiious sections into which parties are divided, are finding in what minis- ters are doing or not doing, grounds of complaint, we have great pleasure in calling attention to at least one measure of substantial improvement—the Bill for the Relief of Suitors in the ...