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  2. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A SCOTCH GENTLEMAN IN LONDON.

    On Monday evening, Mr. Bedford, the Westminster coroner, held an inquest at St. James's Workhouse on the body of George Gordon Hope Johnston, 46 years of age, formerly & captain in ...

    Article : 616 words
  3. AMERICA.

    The President issued recently a proclamation declaring the degree of Maximilian blockading Matamoras by a French squadron to be in violation of the neutral rights of the United States, ...

    Article : 1,501 words
  4. SCENES IN THE GERMAN WAR.

    Some dreadful stories are told. An Austrian peasant of Prossnitz, in fear of the Prussians, placed his wife and children in a cellar, and built up the doorway. When the Prussians ...

    Article : 445 words
  5. BRAZIL.

    A change of Ministry hastaken place in Brazil. The new Ministry is composed as follows:— "Minister of Finance and President, Senator Zacarias; Minister of the Interior, Senator ...

    Article : 212 words
  6. CANADA.

    Before the Canadian Parliament was prorogued a vote of 134,000 dols, was passed for the purchase and maintenance of gunboats. Four boats have been chartered and iron-plated, armed with ...

    Article : 705 words
  7. SINGULAR CASE OF POISONING.

    Mr. John M. Corrie, living at Itchen Abbas, Hampshire, his wife, six daughters, and two sons, a governess, and nine servants, on the 4th July last partook of food (veal) prepared for ...

    Article : 340 words
  8. GREECE.

    The impression produced at Athens and in the provinces by the events now taken place in Crete is immense. Interior conflicts are set aside; partisans of all shades of opinion are ...

    Article : 145 words
  9. CHARGE OF EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT.

    At the London Mansion House last week, Joseph Halton, a well dressed man, was charged before Mr. Alderman Besley with embezzling money to the amount of £1270 odd. Mr. ...

    Article : 445 words
  10. FIRE AT ANTWERP.

    The fire which commenced at Antwerp on Friday week continued to rage for several days. The extent of property in buildings and merchandize consumed is roughly calculated at from ...

    Article : 290 words
  11. RUSSIA.

    Ata banquet given in Moscow by the American Legation on August 27, Mr. Fox proposed the following toast:—" Each time when danger has threatened Russia American sympathies ...

    Article : 654 words
  12. QUARRY ACCIDENT AT DALBEATTIE. FOUR MEN KILLED.

    On Tuesday, about one o'clock, an accident, made dreadful by the loss of four lives, occurred at Craignair Granite Quarry. A number of the workmen were employed quarrying blocks of ...

    Article : 266 words
  13. DINING ROOMS IN NEW YORK.

    We think it safe to say that within the last five years the dining saloons of the city have again doubled, and their patrons quadrupled. On Broadway, between Twentieth Street and ...

    Article : 404 words
  14. CANNIBALISM.

    The French war steamer Fulton, whilst cruising round New Caledonia, dispatched a boat into one of the rivers, out of sight of the ship, for some purpose, and the, boat not returning, ...

    Article : 502 words
  15. CASE OF IDENTITY.

    A curious question of identity recently came before Mr. Cooke, at the Worship-street policeoffice. Charlotte Amey aged thirty-one, a seamstress, was charged with stealing Edward ...

    Article : 217 words
  16. BREACH OF PROMISE AND SEDUCTION.

    At the Exeter Assizes, before Mr. Justice Byles, a case Capron v. Dening was heard. It waa an action to recover damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff was the ...

    Article : 434 words
  17. TURKEY.

    The insurrection of the Christian inhabitants of Crete against their Turkish oppressors is still in full activity, and the insurgents continue to fortify their positions in anticipation of attacks ...

    Article : 651 words
  18. FOOD AND MUSCULAR POWER.

    At the last meeting of the Royal Institution, Professor Frankland lectured on the source of muscular power, in which he advocated new views respecting the kind of food that supplies ...

    Article : 333 words
  19. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN THE VALE OF CLWYD.

    Great consternation prevailed last week in the upper part of the Vale of Clwyd, upon a report being spread of the murder by a young woman of an old man at Sarney, in the parish of ...

    Article : 505 words
  20. MEXICO.

    Intelligence from the city of Mexico, dated August 6, announces that the emperor had placed Michoachan, Taucitar, Tuxpan, Tulancingo, and Sea[?]allan under martial law. ...

    Article : 189 words
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