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Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 



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Dr. Maclaino, the translator of Mosheim. At her 

 seat, near Torpoint, 80, Lady Graves, relict ot the 

 late Admiral Lord Graves. 



WALES. 



The corporation of Carmarthen has voted an 

 exhibition to one of the pupils of the Free Gram- 

 mar School in that town, during his stay at St. 

 David's College, and has complimented the Bishop 

 of St. David's with the nomination. May this 

 liheral example be followed by the other corpora- 

 tions and counties of the patriotic principality. 



The opening of St. David's College took place 

 on St. David's Day: but in consequence of the 

 unavoidable absence of the Bishop, it was not ac- 

 companied with any public ceremony. The solem- 

 nities are therefore to take place in the course of 

 the summer; forty students sat down to dinner in 

 the College hall, after having beeen examined by 

 the Principal and Professor. A public dinner was 

 also given at the Black Lion, upon the occasion, 

 when, after the usual loyal toasts, the pious me- 

 mory of St. David, &c., the healths of the Prin- 

 cipal, Vice- Principal, and Pro r essors of the Col- 

 lege, were given, who returned thanks. 



At the celebration of St. David's Day at Bre- 

 con, being the fourth anniversary of the Cymrei- 

 gyddion, the Rev. T. Price entertained his fellow- 

 subjects of the principality with the gratifying in- 

 formation, that two or three years ago he had the 

 honour of setting on foot among them a collec- 

 tion, for the purpose of translating the Scrip- 

 tures into the Armorican language. At that 

 time there were many who doubted the prac- 

 ticability of the object, and asked where a trans- 

 lator could be found, &c.? But while such per- 

 sons were doubting and hesitating, the work was 

 commenced and actually accomplished ; and in the 

 course of the last month the translation of the 

 New Testament was concluded in the language of 

 Armorica, and was in progress through the press ; 

 and, as an assurance of this fact, he had now in 

 his possession the first sheets of the work, which 

 had been forwarded to him for the purpose of 

 examining the translation, and he was then oc- 

 cupied in collating it with the original Greek. 



The inhabitants of Carnarvon are obtaining an 

 act for improving and lighting that town, an i for 

 supplying it with water. 



Died.'} At her seat, near Conway, Mrs. F. Mos- 

 tyn, sister of the late Sir Roger Mostyn, M.P. for 

 Flint, and aunt to Lady Ohampneys. At Kinner- 

 ton Lodge. Flint, Mrs. Richards, sister of the late 

 Lord Chief Baron. At Swansea. 74, J. Hadwin, 

 esq. At Monmouth, 84, Mrs. E. Phillpotts. 



SCOTLAND. 



A change so unexpected has occurred in the 

 weather, that in a measure supersedes every other 

 topic here (Edinburgh). At a period when we were 

 looking daily for the genial showers of spring, 

 winter has returned with a severity unexampled 

 since the memorable storm of 1823. On Friday 

 last, a strong piercing gale from the north, bring- 

 ing along with it showers of sleet, gave pr sage of 

 the impending change. Early on Saturday, snow 

 hegan to fall, at first in minute flakes, but gra- 

 dually thickening till it assumed the appearance of 

 what our farmers call " a feeding storm." The 

 wind, which had subsided during the preceding 

 night, again began to blow from the north-east, 

 and, before evening, the streets were so choked 

 with snow, as to be almost impassable. Carriages 



of almost every description gave over plying the 

 few hackney-coaches seen in the streets required 

 four horses to draw them, and no bribe was suffi- 

 cient to tempt the owners to venture beyond the 

 limits of the town. The snow continued to fall, 

 without intermission, till Sunday noon, when the 

 clouds cleared away. At this period, the snow 

 wreaths, in several of the streets, were drifted 

 nearly as high as the balustrades of the areas. 

 The churches were comparatively deserted, and 

 few people were visible out of doors throughtthe 

 day; indeed, the avalanches momentarily falling 

 from the roofs of the houses, rendered it perilous 

 to venture abroad. To increase the monotonous 

 aspect of the city, all the public clocks had stopped 

 during the night, the sno r which drifted on their 

 dials having arrested the pointers. Edinburgh 

 Observer. 



The storm seems to have extended very gene- 

 rally over Scotland, but its severity appears to have 

 been greatest in the southern lowland districts. 

 South of a line drawn from Alnwick to Gretna 

 Green there seems to be no snow worth mention- 

 ing ; but North of this line and to the westward, 

 as far as the shores of the Irish Channel, the quan- 

 tity fallen has been exceedingly great. Nothing 

 like it has occurred in Ayrshire during the last 

 thirty years. The accounts from the western coast 

 are very distressing, and we fear that we shall hear 

 of much loss of sheep in the Highlands, both in the 

 north nnd in the south of Scotland. On the Cowal 

 coast, we hear that several sheep farmers have 

 met with severe losses. One farmer dug out 150 

 dead sheep in one place. 



At the first annual dinner of the Edinburgh 

 Theatrical Fund, recently held, Sir Walter 

 Scott was in the chair; Lord Meadowbank, in 

 proposing the health of Sir Walter Scott, made 

 some very intelligible allusions to him as the 

 author of the Waverley Novels. Sir Walter, 

 in returning thanks, said that "the merits of 

 these works, if they had any, and their faults, 

 were entirely imputable to himself. Except quo- 

 tations, there was not a single word that was 

 not derived from himself, or suggested in the 

 course of his reading." 



IRELAND. 



Great damage, with extensive loss of life, has 

 been sustained during the late gales among the 

 shipping along the eastern coast of Ireland : ont 

 of ten vessels gone down, the crews of three only 

 were saved. 



As a spTimen of the feeling of this country 

 with regard to the failure in the House of Com- 

 mons of the motion for the Emancipation of the 

 Catholics, we annex one of the resolutions entered 

 into with enthusiasm by a most numerous, influen- 

 tial, and powerful meeting, that has just been held 

 in the county of Clare " Resolved, that we owe 

 to ourselves, our country, and our religion, to de- 

 clare that, unsubdued by disappointment, and un- 

 checked by unmerited defeat, we will persevere in 

 petitioning the Legislature, until we obtain com- 

 plete, unconditional, and unqualified emancipa- 

 tion." It was likewise resolved to petition His 

 Majesty, prayinsr, " that he would graciously re- 

 commend to his Parliament to grant the Catholics 

 of Ireland their just and inalienable rights, to pre- 

 vent the probable effects of civil and religious dis- 

 cord in this unhappy country." 



