... This ia supposed to allude to two decoctions called port and sherry, and imagined by one earthly nation to partake of a vinous nature. + When our successful rival is ugly, the blow is doubly severe, crushing—we fall by bludgeon we who thought the keenest rapier might perchance thrust in vain. ...

... Present: S. Iggulden, Esq., (Mayor); and James Ronnie and W. Evans, Esqrs. ROBBERY. Mary Ann Ellis was charged with stealing, and John Waters was charged with receiving 5s. Gd., the property of Dix. Complainant said I went with the female prisoner to a house in George-street, to get a jug of beer and having drank it, I came out and leaned against the wall. The woman followed me out, and put ...

... IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY. The Earl of Malmesburv called the attention of the House to the critical state of affairs at Constantinople, and com- plained that the demands of the Russian mission under Prince Menschikoff, were quite at variance with the declar- ations of the Emperor of Russia, respecting his intention in sending thatlmission. In conclusion, he wished to know ...

... ENIGMA. My 1523 is a kind of relative. My 527 third person singu- lar of a verb. 1563 either provokes the appetite, or is the means of satisfying it. 24567, What we are all subject to. 27, a conjunction. 321, A term used by boys at play. 23, A preposition. 324.56 will hold together. 25, An exclama- tion. 45673 is useful when you go to 762. 423, A trap. 45623 and 5236 I hope you will never do. ...

... On Wednesday, Mr. Holland, deputed by the Govern- ment to visit Newport, among other towns, to aseertai11 the state of the existing burial grounds, attended at the Council Chamber, at eleven o'clock, and received reports from the various ministers of the town, as to the burial places attached to their several chapels. The Burial Board was represented on the occasion, by Messrs. Robert Gething ...

... ,S!ve^m?XE,OUT1ON OF MOBBS. h l '°Ua.'n °^. t'ie wretched man, Nathaniel Mobbs, li. y in! ?t,i'ty °f murdering his wife, took place ,:n0t Irer)/1111.1* at Newgate. Early on Sunday eve- i/thsHv,?? Persons assembled in front of the jail, ki'j 4 ere +i 1UK the state of the weather, they re- li't n'le whole of the night. By seven o'clock, ieai>rS?ns 'la(^ asseln^^e ...

... brynmawr- LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION.^ We are gra- tified to find that this institution is progressing favourably, and has had, comparatively speaking, a prosperous year. With the Duke of Beaufort, the High feherinot Monmouth- shire (Henry Bailey, Esq.), Sir Joseph Bailey, Bart., M.P., and J. F. Rowlands, Esq., its patrons, the institution could scarcely do other than prosper; ...

... SAMCELSON'S DIGGING MACHINE.— We have had the op portunity of witnessing the operation of this novel implement which has been noticed in the Times and the leading Loudon and provincial papers, and which has excited much interest' among the agricultuists. Mr. Samuelson's new digger has been tried this week, on various farms in the neighbourhood of Ban- bury; and on Thursday, on land in the ...

... ADVANCE NoTM.—The custom of giving advance notes to seamen in porta, is now undergoing considerable discussion at Liverpool, chiefly among American captains, with a view to the abandonment of the system on both sides the Atlantic.— The same matter has frequently been discussed in this port, where advance notes have sometimes been found productive of anything but satisfaction to the parties ...

... FLOWER GARDEN AND SHRUBBERY. The cultivation of annuals for garden decoration has, in some degree, given way to the more permanent class of bed- ding out greenhouse plants, the principal varieties of which have been noticed. Yet some of the former will always nnd a place in the best arranged gardens and a pretty general selection should at the same time be grown, for filling up vacancies, in ...

... _r!ghfc ? Lord John Russell was for &n eight shilling duty, till he found himself cresting the waves of public °Pl'iion, and then he spoke fearlessly-but still left te a greater statesman the accomplishment of a nation's that man should eat his daily bread untaxed and unburthened. No! It was on no question of refOlIll, that Lord Palmerston quitted the ministry- It Was the dreaded one of war ...

... LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) RUSSIA AND TURKEY. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY. The following is from a private despatch of the Wanderer :— On the 26th, the Russians commenced the construction of a bridge across the Danube at Giurgevo. VIENNA, Nov. 26. On the 14th instant, the city of Belgrade was on the point of being bombarded by the Turkish garrison of the fortress. ...