... needle for many years, being now disabled by rheumatism and general ill health. Mr. Charles Knight, the publisher, and Mr. John Forster, the biographer of Goldsmith and Dickens, were kind friends to them, and the latter on two occasions obtained a small grant ...

... were expected, and special constables were being sworn in. DESPERATE GAROTTE AND HIGHWAY ROBBERY UPON A GOVERNMENT OFFICER. A mnost daring garotte acid highway robbery upon a Government oflicial has just taken place at Belper, a small market town, seven ...

... Black Friday, 1866. It was in t] the merry month of May in that year that I was stay- ing for a few days at the Archduke Charles Hotel, in the Rhinthuer Strasse, Vienna, on my way to the Tyrol e to join Garibaldi. There came rushing up to me one ; mnorning ...

... already an- nounced that Mr. Dickens will visit Leeds at the end of the present mouth, and we are now able to stats that his readings will consist on one evening of Barboe Brothers and the Boy at Mugby, from Mr. Dickens's latest Christmas number. STEALING ...

... Ladbrole I Grovt.road, in October last. The accused is said to be suspected of complicity in the Hatton Garden Post- office robbery._._i SixcE he addressed his supporters in London towards the close of last year, the M.ARQUIS OF HARTiNGTON has taken no part ...

... clauses of the Midland Company's Extension into London Bill were settled in ommittee on Thursday. It is said that Mr. Charles Dickens has the Roupell forgery ease in hand for a serial work. Au order in Council directs the form in which the prayer for the ...

... proposed Tehuan- tepec Canal Company.' '-Ecosloeist, TEE MONTHLIES I'.D THE LATE CHARLES DicERSome.-As might be expected, most of the magazines have an In Memoriame on Charles Dickens. That in Macmsillaic is by a writer whom there is not much diffli culty in ...

... comicerned in the jewellery robbery at Carlisle sta- tion The charges preferred were stealing one gold watch asd fourteen gold wedding rings, the property of the Carlisle Citadel Station Committee, but only the watch robbery was gone into. Mr. Wannop, ...

... assistant of Mr. Charles Dickens, that gentleman and Mr. Wilkie Collins had sent in their resignations as members of the club. We are happy to be able to Pay, upon authority, that, although there were, alas, grounds for the report, Messrs. Dickens and Collins ...

... Wheatley Balme, of Dote-wall, Esq. William Froggatt Bethel], of Rise, Esq. John Walbanke Childers, of Cantley,Esq. 51 Thomaus Charles Chohneley, of Brandaby, Esq. ti William Joseph Coltman, of Nabrurn, Esq. M William Edward Forster, of Wharfeside, Esq. 51 ...

... gratifying. His progra mme was well calculated' to please. The firet part comprised three selections from Shakspeare, The I!Robbery of Gadshill1 (Henry IV., part I); 'The Battle of Aginceurt ' -(Henry V.); and the amusing scene a: efollowing the' hattle ...

... the office. INDECENT COINDCT ON THE HIOHWAY.-YeSter- day, at the Wakefield Couart-housc, two lads named Thomas Ganley and Charles Kaye, were charged with racing on the turnpike road betweenk Wakefield and Loeds, on the 27th unt. Mr. Gill, solicitor, who ...