... HENRY, fifth Duke of Beaufort, K.G., Lord-Lieu- tenant of the counties of Monmouth and Brecon, &c., succeeded his father while in his minority, being born the 16th October, 1744. In 1766, he married Eliza- beth, daughter of Admiral Boscawen, son of Hugh, Viscount Falmouth, and by her had issue :— 1. Henry Charles, Marquess of Worcester. 2. Charles Henry. 3. Edward Henry. 4. Arthur John Henry. ...

... Lossing, the German philosopher, being remarkably absent-minded, knocked at his own door one evening, when the servant, looking out of the window, and not re- cognising him, said, ''The Professor is not at home. 011, very well, said Lossing, composedly walking away, I shall call another time. FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH.— For upwards of nine years, (writes Mr. Province, of Winchmore Hill, ...

... TREDEGAR. 5tb The Rock Petty Sessions stand adjourned to the April, in consequence of the assizes. arSe There is a very good police-station now in Cfa erection, at Tredegar, adjoining Superintendent s^, house. It is to be properly fitted up with cells* y ciently supplied with water, and all necessary rt^v.,1-y Ihe old building was badly ventilated, and in an unfit place for prisoners. Twenty ...

... ABERGAVENNY. CHICORY AND COFFEE. [TO THK EDITOR.] SlB,—In your paper of Friday last, under the above title, is the following advertisement :— Mr. John Harris Conway, of Cross'treet, Abergavenny, grocer, was prosecuted on the 15tb ult., for having sold«.s coffee, a mixture of chicory and coffee, without its being labelled, and has since paid a penalty of twenty poutidss By order of the Board of ...

... A DAUGHTER CHARGED WITH MAN- SLAUGHTER. An inquiry had been commenced last week at West- bury. near Wells, by J. W. Bennet, Esq., the deputy- coroner, relative to the death of Ann Stock, an aged woman, which, it was alleged, had been accelerated by treatment received from her daughter. It appeared, froP) the evidence, that the decease I, who was 82, lived with hef husband, who is bedridden, ...

... In Piccadilly, a street of palaces, are two lofty walls, as architectural, gloomy, and grand as walls can be made, hiding from the gaze of the profane, two edifices grander than the rest. They belong to different members of one family, and may any day lapse to one owner. A contem- porary lately assured us that, as a town mansion, one of these was without a rival on this side of the Alps; but, ...

... THE COMMAND OF THE BALTIC FLEET. Admiral Sir Charles Napier has been appointed,1:e jommand of the Baltic It is a safe Di-onhacy the ^blic at large will accept this fact as a new pr°?f ^Lres. government are earnest m their omioKit;™ Russian aggies »on. ^Cha.toNapierbaaeffltteSiSV of certain diques in the Navy-b«fc the bitterest opponents cannot leny that he is a man of action. But if he ha&Tory ...

... OK THE DEATH OF THE LATE CHARLES RODNEY MORGAN ESQUIRE. Lo Cambria mourns in tears for her son, For the graceful, the gay. and lighthearted In the bloom of his youth's high promise gone, Ere one joy from his heart had departed. He died, oh, he died in manhood's spring tide, Ere one ray from Hope's iris had faded, Ere sorrow or tears had dimmed his young years, Or one cloud had his destiny ...

... THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY. The Marquis of Londonderry is dead. It was not destined that a man who had seen so much active service during the last war should see the commencement of the hostilities in which England is at present involved. Lord Londonderry was among the now not very numerous survivors of our last great contest with continental Europe. He entered the army as an ensign in the ...

... LORD Chesterfield said, at the close of his life, I have recently read Solomon with a kind of sympathetic feeling. I have been as wicked and as vain, though not as wise as he' but now I am old enough to feel the trufh of his reflection—4 All in the world is vanity and vexation of spirit.' Goethe, the distinguished Gorman philosopher and poet, declared at the ago of 84, as the lights of time ...

... TREDEGAR. THE LATE ALDERMAN THOMPSON, M.P., &c., &c. [TO THE EDITOR.] Sm,-As-stated in the MERLIN, the remains of this gen- tleman werereruoved on Friday, the 17th, from Bedwellty House, Tredegar, to Underley Hall—their halting place previously to interment in the parish church of Kirkby Lonsdale, Westmoreland. The funeral took place on Tuesday, the .21st of March. On Sunday last, the 26th ...

... LODoN, THURSDAY. THE reminiscences of 1812 have been met by pointing to those of 1805, 1807, and even to the ever-memorable one of 1812 itself. If the Russian soldior responded to the call of his Emperor in 1812, did not the French warrior of Auster- litz, Friedland, and the Moskoa, show, by the defeat and humiliation of the Czar of those days, how nobly he did his duty to France and its ...