... The overland mail from Bombay arrived on Friday, with dates to the 15th September; the following is the summary of the rail- way news:— Railways were proposed at each of the Presidencies, and with the greatest hopes of success. The utility of one from Bombay to Bengal will become manifest, from the fact that the mid. monthly mails of the 24th of July were conveyed in a steamer from Aden to ...

... OSWESTRY, DEC. 3.—It will be recollected that an old wo- man, named Susannah Rider (supposed to be a maniac), was taken into custody upon a charge of attempting to murder her own daughter, a delicate yeung woman, who was found in the cottage apparently dead, and mangled in a peculiar manner, which admitted of no description. The poor sufferer, who was placed under medical treatment, had so far ...

... To the Editor of the Monmouthshire Merlin LTsk, August 4th, 1845. SIB,—Will you allow me, through the medium of your valu- able paper, to call the attention of the authorities to the sub- ject of a most intolerable nuisance which is suffered to exist in this town, hoping that the same will speedily be put an end to. I have noticed, during my short stay here, that hordes of idle and foul ...

... ST. STEPHEN S ON A QUICKSAND I It seems that the New Houses of Parliament are built on a quicksand, which, says the account, has a tendency to change places, and shift itself. Considering how often the members shifted and changed places last session 011 the very same questions, we do not think a better foundation could have been selected lor them to deliberate upon. It would read lather ...

... APPALLING MURDER AT BETHNAL-GREEN. On Tuesday, an intense degree of excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, in consequence or a rumour that a young woman named Emma Whiter, twenty- one years of age, had been shot dead with a pistol bv a young man named Jame* Tapping, who had for a short time past been paying her his addresses and from an early hour in the morn- ing the ...

... A scheme, it appears, has been set on foot for the establish- ment of a 44 College of General Practitioners. Now, since diseases, very generally, are either imaginary, or such as would get well of themselves if let alone, one highly important branch of Genera I Practice is the treatment of cases which do not require iI, The Gtneral Practitioner, though not a Consulting Phyri- r ian, must ...

... Important KaHway Meeting at Brecon. The first, meeting, in this town, of the Directors of the Welsh Midland Railway, took place, on Saturday last, at the Castle Hotel. The board meeting was, of course, private but part of the business of the day was to lay befLre the landed proprietors of the county the various lines which had been ( xploreti from the town of Birmingham to and beyond Brecon, ...

... LOCAL NEWPORT CATTLE MARKET-WEDSESDAY, SEPT. 17,- Price per lb. to sink the offal. s. (1. s. d. Beasts 0 to 0 6 Sheep 0 0.. 0 6 0 6 0 6J Pigs (per score).. 8 0.. Sti The arrivals or oeasts irom ireiana, in acumon to cnoseirom the locality, caused the market to be well supplied with beef, a gi eat portion of which was of very superior quality. Butchers seemed reluctant to purchase at late ...

... HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, MAY 26. After the transaction of some business, principally confined to the presentation of petitions against the Maynooth grant, Lord Cottenham moved the second reading of the Ecclesias- tical Courts Consolidation bill. The noble lord, after explaining that this was not a new measure, called tne attention of the house to the multitude of these courts, and the anomalous ...

... PAGEANT AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—Oo April 26th a procession of the trousseau of Mehemed Ali Pacha to his betrothed bride, the Sultan's sister, took place here (Constantinople.) The pro- cession moved from Trophany, the residence of the Pacha, all through Pera, and along the banks of the Bosphorus. The crowds assembled, and the variety of Greek, Armenian, Turkish, and European costume, made the scene ...

... The beef trade, arising chiefly from the beasts coming to hand in much better condition than for some weeks past, was not quite so active as on Friday, though the currencies realised on Monday last were supported in every instance, and a good clearance was eftecled by the salesmen. ,tnr,N,OtIl0lkn,«St!' EsSeXdnd Cambridgeshire, we received 1,70° shorthorns Scots, and homebreds; from the ...

... FRIDAY, APRIL 11TH. The Earl of Powis gave notice that on Thursday se'nnight he should move the second reading of the Bill which he had introduced to repeal so much of the act of Parliament. aa related to the union of the isees of Bangor and St. Asaph. The Noble Earl also gave notice that, some day next week. he intended to put a question to Her Majesty's Govet-ii in ent re- lative to the ...