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  2. The Tichborne Claimant in Newgate.

    AN evening London paper states that in conformity with the strict discipline observed towards prisoners in Newgate, the claimant, after the usual evening meal, retired to his ...

    Article : 866 words
  3. Miscellaneous Extracts.

    ON Tuesday afternoon, in the Assembly, Mr. Solomon asked the Treasurer if the Government had received any telegram from the Northern Territory. Tho Treasurer said he could not give the words of the ...

    Article : 909 words
  4. THE CHANGES OF ASSASSINATION.

    The record or attempted assassinations goes to show that it is rarely successful when even skilled men attempt the lives of great personages. In 1857 Pianori, who was subsequently guillotined, actually seized the ...

    Article : 324 words
  5. INDIA IN ALARM.

    Ever since the assassination of Lord Mayo disquiet ing rumours have prevailed more or less throughout the country. In the north-west provinces they have been especially numerous, and especially degrading. The ...

    Article : 531 words
  6. DOCTORS DECEIVED.

    The Lancet contains an elaborate and very amusing account of an impostor who has probably duped more doctors than any man living. He has been under the care of eleven hospital physicians and surgeons; and is ...

    Article : 256 words
  7. REMARKABLE SURGICAL CASE.

    About twelve months ago Jonn M'lachlan, police-sergeant in the eastern district of Glasgow, while pursuing, on a frosty night, n party he wished to apprehend, slipped, and fell on the grouud with considerable ...

    Article : 311 words
  8. A CURIOUS LIFE.

    An account given in a leading article of the New York Tribune of the career of a young man named Alexander who was shot in a street quarrel in Kentucky, vividly illustrates some phases of life in the Western States:— ...

    Article : 480 words
  9. FEARFUL ENCOUNTER WITH LIONS.

    A terrible accident happened on March 8, in the menagerie just opened near the railway station. A man of the name of Venturelli, from Reggio, Medena, was going his habitual round, and giving the public all the ...

    Article : 421 words
  10. BRAVERY REWARDED.

    A French soldior named Michel, belonging to the 6th Regiment of Cuirassiers, has, through an act of intoxication and insubordination, found himself suddenly exhibited to the world in the light of a hero. ...

    Article : 502 words
  11. A DUCHESS IMMURED IN A CONVENT.

    A Vienna correspondent writes that a short while ago the world was surprised with the intelligence that a member of the Imperial family had entered a nunnery under very peculiar circumstances. Here of course the ...

    Article : 564 words
  12. A RUNAWAY CAPTAIN.

    A most disgraceful act of barratry has just come to light, by which a firm in this city lias been made the sufferers. Three years ago, within a few days, a wellfound topsail schooner named the Jubilee left this port ...

    Article : 358 words
  13. SIXTY-FIVE MEN BLOWN FROM GUNS.

    Some of the Indian papers are commenting severely on the wholesale execution of sixty-five of the fanatical Kookas who were blown from guns immediately after the repression of their rising. The Times of India, ...

    Article : 686 words
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