and healthy, and confinement instead of being regarded with horror, is looked upon by many as an almost necessary re&gat iou from the gloating* of an extravagance produced by gains. --id gotten and ill spent. The external aspect of prisons ought to be such an would affect the se

| . HE PRINCESS AUGUSTA OF CAMBRIDGE.- ~The Confirmation of the Princess Augusta of Cam- bridge at the Chapel Royal, on Saturday week, wag a most interesting ceremony. Her Royal Highness, 4who will attain her eighteenth year in July next, 'was examined as to her religious knowle

I LONG BENTON AGRICULTURAL SHOW. This show took place yesterday at Long Benton, and notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, which was piercing cold, with occasional showers of hail, and which has occurred for the last few days, the number of the different kinds of stock w

- - On Monday, a public meeting of the inhabitant6 of Edinburghcalled by the Lord Provost, was held in thO Large Waterloo Room, to address her MgajextY IrI 5ip' port of the principles om which her Ministers have hither to conducted the admininstration of Ireland, As so00 af her

LORD NORMANBY'S FIRST DISPATCh, I Ai Colonial secretaryg, WM.w Governor pf ,qisaiefte] Downing-street, 28th Febrhttry, .830. Sir,-In addressing to you the first official commnuii- | cation since her Majesty has been pleased to confide to: me the seals of the Colonial Department,

I spirit of tbg VOW D jiJtrualo. I FGLoBE,.] The Tories-if we may be allowed lo judge of n- their feelings by tile language of their organs-are ili anything but satisfied with the position in which l to they are placed by the vote of tire House of Lords of on Thursday night. Whet

rrHiE CHRONICLE. Bangor, Tuesday,. April 2, ]839. Since our last publication advices have been received from tile United States per the packet ship England and the Livcerpol steamer, from which the peaceably-disposed may glean the gratifying intelligence that tile boundary foray

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. I .i M(I)MqxvmTo Ar ? I ORIGINAL AND sELSCTLU. THE END OF MARCH. Bir JOHN cLAE. Often, at early seasons, mild and fair Mfarch bids farewell, with garlands In her hair Of bezel tassels, woodbine's busby sproatl And sloe and wild-plum blossoms peeping out In thick-set knots of fl

MORECAMBE BAY.-FACTS RELATING THERETO WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION. To the Editor of the Preston Chronicle. SIR, The sea sand in Morecambe Bay is.so powerfully antiseptic, that timber even of the softer kinds has been known to remain embedded therein for a very long time without show