... Captain M. F. Maury will, if permitted to return | to the United States, assume professorship in the Virginia Military Institute. We read in the Melbourne Argus, May A curious instance of the manner in which natives of a country sometimes collect in group? in the settlement of a colony is exhibited at Albury, where some seventy or eighty families of Germans have lately arrived from different ...

... FULL PATICLLARS of tbiß most advaotaeeous money speculation, by Government, «dl be sent Free on application, enclosing a stamped directed envelope, to John Foster, Ksq,. 16 Northumberland Street, Strand, London, W.C. For one shilling only WATCHES ! WATCHES! SUPERSEDED One of lhe-H5 wonderful Newly-invented Pocket Time Keepers, with appendages ; warranted correct, will keep in going order for ...

... Shortly after twelve o'clock, on Saturday night last, murder was committed near St. Helens. The murdered man is Adam Mather, about years of age, and lives detached house Greenleach, about half a mile from Carr Mill, on the St. Helens Road. He was a man in easy circumstances, possessing good income from household property, but, to fill his time, worked at the Garswood Colliery, as fireman. It ...

... remarks in the Telegraph of the 13th, in reference to the costliness and dissipation connected with the fetes which affect Maidstone summer, are very seasonable. You understate the evila that result, as any one who has considered the bearing of these recurring festivities would be foremost in proving. It is to be hoped that some means will be influential in abating what has thus become a ...

... For the week endiug August 24 one fresh outbreak of cattle plague was reported in Britain, viz., in the county of Durham. One case of cattle plague was also reported. The diseased animal was killed, and one health}- one was slaughtered to prevent the spread of the disease. Advices received on Saturday from France indicate no material change in the price of wheat in that empire. The statements ...

... ftEVISW THE CORN TRADE DURING THE LAST WEEK. (From the Mark-Lane Express. > the past week has had a continuance of fine weather, Monday night gave us a storm of unusual violence and duration, which spent much of it is fury on the City, and occasioned some lose of life and great damage, and it is well it lasted but night, or much of the crops must have been lost. Harvest operations were for ...

... magistrates have inflicted a fine Sesnf 11 , a P° r k butcher in that town for making Ml f .P, ut ndmeat. Si\i tbat Mr - M'Donald, Secretary of the \h lt 's intends to stand for some mining district or v Xt e l ...

... First Division, except one who was above the age prescribed by the University, passed the Oxford Local Examination, 1806, and received Certificates accordingly;— J. Parry Allmand, Wrexham ■ —Latin, Scripture, French, Mathematics, Drawing A Music. 2nd Honour Percy J. L. Borland, Ruabon :—Latin, Scripture, Mathematics, and Drawing. Division. J. Pierce, Wrexham : —Latin, Scripture, and ...

... On Wedne«4ay a lecturer from Liverpool, whom the notorious Murphy brought with him to Birminghant*wisbfd to deliver, in the Tabernacle, a lecture antagonistic to ...

... Very few additional particulars have transpired regarding the murder of Adam Mather at Greenbeach, near St. Helens, on the night of Saturday week, though the police officials ha ...

... The St Helens police, under the direction of Superintendent Ludlam, are still prosecuting their inquiries with respect to the frightful murder at Greenleach, near St. Helens. So ...

... captain nnon i orew, which, ifc u> hoped, for the sake ofhnmanity, •re not true, at least greatly exaggerated As orew tell their that Franois Emanuel Cook, master of the b\rque Constance, sailing between Glasgow and the Coast of Africa, frequently flogged and maltreated Malcolm M'Kinnon, the cook and steward, that, evidently glad to be rid of the miserable life he wan dragging, he leaped ...