From a report agreed to by the House of Representatives, Massachusetts, we derive the following information. The report sets out with stating that under the phonetic system " children evince a much greater attachment to their books and learn with comparative ease." It then proce

The same rules hold good amongst the poor as amongst the nobility with regard to the choice of brides. No young man can marry out of the immediate range of his relations, so long as there arc any single girls in the family ; and a deviation from this rule is so fiercely resented

One of the most important and interesting subjects of the present day is undoubtedly that of emigration. It is interesting to olw.rvo from what unexpected elements unp,:pc,,Led results of the utmost importance follow. Who could have imagined that the potato disease should have,

ATKINSON V. BALDWIN.—This was an action for seduction, and was tried before the Chief Baron and a special jury. The plaintiff was Mr. Atkinson, solicitor, of Peterborough; the defendant, Mr. Barry Baldwin, formerly member for Totnes. The allegations were, that Mr. Baldwin had ta

Up tc our market this week, coastwise, the receipts of English wheat have exceeded 3,000 quarters, but those by land carriage and sample have been very moderate. The show of wheat of home produce on offer today was seasonably good. As the attendance of both town and country mill

very limited and of middling quality. Most of the beasts on offer were disposed of at about last week's quotations. With sheep we were tolerably well supplied ; the general quality was good at last week's prices. Prime small calves sold at last Monday's quotations ; otherwise th

s d. Benjamin E. Winthrop, Esq., . . 0 0 Collections on the General Thanksgiving Day .. 263 6 10 The Mayor The 13... v. John Prickle . . . . 50 0 0 •Williarn II Pd.:,11, Esq. . . . .............. ~. 25 0 0 Ed.ward Knocker, Esq. 25 0 0 Wages for Thanksgiving Day (Mr. Poole's work

On Monday evoning at 7 o'clock, a jury were empannelled befo - re G. T. Thompson, Esq., Coroner tor the Borough, at the Flying Hot se Inn, to investigate the eirennistance, attending the death of Thomas Frazer, aged years. who died suddenly on the morning of the previous day. 'I

the public a report of the menacing debate in the American Senate on the relations between Great Britain and the United States, brought to this bane an ample antidote in the report of the speeches made at the dinner given by the American Chamber of Commerce, at Liverpool, to the