... EPIGRAM. To a Great Beauty. Believe me, my corpulent fair, I love your fat cheeks and full face; Oh! my heart!-your eyes kindle love there, And I sink in your melting embrace. The poor buzzing fly does the same, While yet inexperiene'd and callow; First burns his bright wings in the flame, And then-tumbles into the tallow! IMPROMPTU. oil some Church Bells alternately ringing for a Marriage, ...

... TO CORRESPONDENTS. We have to return thanks to our correspondents generally, for the very numerous communications and offers of support which we have received. Our gratitude to some, however, is considerably diminished by the labour we have had in de- ciphering what, we presume, they would term writing, and we were preparing a serious and angry expostulation on the subject, when we happened to ...

... GENERAL INTELLIGENCE, %mns. Farliament it is-expected will be prorogued the second week in June, as the only business which remains to be dis- posed oi this Session is the proposed plan for improving the Police of the Metropolis. A considerable part of the time of the Members has been consumed receiving number- less petitions for and against Catholic Emancipation, and in the prolonged debates ...

... ;A' ADDRESS. r '«& » Custom seems to require that, on the publication of this ■; f bur first number, we should gi ve some account of our prin- I eiples, and of the course we intend to adopt in regard to i the future conduct of the Paper. Having already sufficiently explained these matters in our printed Prospectus, we deem í it unnecessary on the present occasion to comply with that J usage. ...

... Jamaica Papers to the beginning of April have arrived. They bring a report from the Havannah that war was on the eve of taking place, or had actually commenced, between the United States and the Republic of Mexico. ST. PETERSBURGH, April 20.—The Minister and Officers of the Imperial Legation at Teheran have been murdered, and satisfaction has been demanded by Russia for the out- rage. There is ...

... Advices from Stockholm, dated the 8th, received by the Hamburgh steam-boat, furnish the most deplorable details of the mischief occasioned by the inundation of the rivers in the southern provinces of Sweden. The cities of Calmar and Carlscrona, and the surrounding country, appear to have been the principal scenes of destruction, the former city being at present in a complete state of blockade, ...

... In consequence of the division of the preceding night Mr.' O'Connell was called in and required by the Speaker to take the oath of supremacy, upon which Mr. O'Connell asked to see the oath. It was handed to him by the clerk. Mr. O'Connell (after a very short pause) said, I see in this oath one assertion as to a matter of fact which I know is not true, and see in it another assertion as to a ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS, Friday, May, 15. No discussion of any importance took place. ...

... BERKELEY PEERAGE. Most of our readers will probably recollect that in the course of last summer Colonel Berkeley preferred a petition to the House of Lords, claiming a seat in that house, not as Earl of Berkeley, a Peer of the Realm, but as possessor of the Barony or Baronial feud of Berkeley Castle-devised to him by the will of Frederick Augustus, late Earl of Berkeley. This day Mr. ...

... DOVER, May 14.—Arrived from Calais the French steam packet Due de Bourdeaux, with the Duke of Orleans and his son the Duke of Chartresi These distinguished visitors landed under a salute from the western heights, and having devoted some hours to an inspection of the castle and for- tifications, have just proceeded, under a second salute, to- wards London. It is understood to be their intention ...

... MONMOUTH, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1829. Most assuredly, if there ever was a period, which particularly tailed for the exercise of the duties of the Journalist, that period is the present. In every one of the several departments, into which the varied existence of man, with reference. to its great leading relations, may be classed and divided, the present, and still more the approaching future, are ...

... ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c. Fall of Rock near Nottingham.—It may be recollected that a short time ago a tremendous fall of rock took place in Narrow Marsh, Nottingham, and a number of houses were destroyed in consequence. A similar event, we are sorry to say, occurred early on Sunday morning, last, in the beautiful Hermitage of Sneinton. Between two and three in the morning an alarm was given by ...