... Between seven and eight this the tants of Clapham and the neighbourhood were thrown into a state of excitement and consternation by a report which was circulated, that a double murder had been committed in one of the courts in the immediate vieinity of White A man of the name of Weston, 2 jobbing gardener, murdered his wife and child by cutting their throats. Upon entering the house of the ...

... LATEST MARKETS. &c. (By Electric Telegraph.) j NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—Oct. 6. The show of wheat from the country was small, but in im- proved condition, and sold readily at while for a superior sample of south the prices of last week, country new, 46s. was obtained. The demand for old English ish and foreign was somewhat better, and quotations were unaltered. Barley was in slow request, but ...

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... THE BERMONDS MURDER. E-EXAMINATION OF MANNING AND HIS WIFE. At the Southwark Police Court on Thursday, the anxiety manifested throughout the whole of the proceedings of the case of the Mannings, so far from having abated, appeared to have increased. As on the former occasions large crowds were collected in the front and rear of the court, and the in- terior was closely, but, owing to the ...

... SRIP NEWS. Arrived in the Clyde, on Monday, the Eliza 25,Wyeof Kincardine, from Cronstniat; sailed 31sRt nt, withi a cargo of hemlo for Greenock and Glatsgotv. L~eft ?? and the Hope. bothi for Clyde, to sail about the 10th lost. Spoke no vessels. On AMondermiorning the bri0, Competitor, of Kincordine, ?? Fotheringham, rmaster, from fiart-lepooDI for Cronstad;, ?? coals, was driven on shore ...

... (Fronm the Times.) The Revenue returns continue to indicate an increase in the trade and general expenditure of the country. It is sufficient to say that they entirely confirmt the anricipa- tious on which our present financial arrangements are I founded, and prove that we have not gone beyond our depth in the surrender and mitigation of taxes. The document, of course, requires some degree of ...

... The ?? nmavybederived from the general table of the commerce of France in the vear 1848, just published by the Custom House administration. They shlow how dearlv the working classes have to pav for the lnxurj of revolutions and the enjoyment of revolutionary gtvernzment. How many privations, bow much distress of all sorts, dn these long columns of figures reveal? The general commerce of France ...

... THEATRE ROYAL—FAREWELL ADDRESS On Monday evening our enterprising manager, Mr Murray, took his benefit, it being the last night of the season. The house was, as it invariably is when Mr Murray makes his appeal, crowded in every part. The performances commenced with the first part of King Henry IV. in which Mr Murray gave his admirable and striking representation ot Sir John Falstaff, and Mr ...

... LEITH CuloLera.—We are glad to state, that this mysterious dis- ease, bafiling all the skill of professional men, is much on the decline. Several deaths in bad localities took place last week ; one melancholy case occurred in a more healthy situation of the town—a fine young man, second mate of one of the Lon- don home on Monday with the premonitary symptoms upon him. On Tuesday, with some ...

... > eed Thursday was a grand day for the folk of Wantage. That town is the birth-place of King Alfred—and Thursday was the 1000th anniversary of the birth-day of that monarch, and it was resolved by a body of gentlemen, cultivators of Anglo- Saxon literatare and proud of their Anglo-Saxon race, to ce- lebrate the auspicious occasion by a festival or jubilee. The town presented, as if by magic, ...

... TUESDAY, SEPT. 25. The only stake to be run for at Kelso this year (says Kelso Chronicle) was a produce stake entered into three years ago, when our race meetings formed the attraction for It was known sporting gentlemen of any place in Scotland. previously that there would be a walk over, and consequently and the whole did not occupy more than ten minutes :— the attendance of persons at the ...

... HE QUARTER’S REVENUE (From the London Observer.) The retvrns of the quarter’s revenue will be made up to Wednesday evening next, the 10th inst. We believe the re- sult will be most satisfactory. There will be a small increase on the gross revenue for the quarter over the corresponding quarter of last year; and on the year a similarly satisfactory result. The Customs will show an actual ...