... have introduced to us with an exactness that will probably disabuse us of many a preconceived idea. Melancholy but Romantic Story.—One of those melancholy events which Illustrate the truth of the observation that facts are stranger than fiction has just ...

... However, having expended all my ammunition could not attract the attention of those in the vessel, and so, to make a long story short, 1 wandered about until day light when had the extreme satisfaction of finding had passed ner about four mifcs. In proceeding ...

... not to be settled without fighting, the sooner it comes to that point the better. We place no reliance, of course, on the story of Omer Pasha having already crossed the Danube and beaten the Russians. It will scarcely be credited out of our own good town ...

... —Last week we stated that Messrs. Bass, of this town, had communicated with their agent at Rotterdam and got a reply in the short space of three hours and a halt. This was, of course, the work of the electric telegraph. Now let us see what the railways ...

... up in the street ar wv. William's sround stories of all the houses so far. wn-office, and completely filled up the Farther down the street, where the houses are so low, the inmates were driven ‘o the attie story. From two o'clock until day-brea* peo: were ...

... is still farther in- increased at the busy sight of bullock teams, horse drays, and pedestrians moving about. He sees, in short, a large busy town, presenting many new features to his observation, in all of which he feels, at the moment, much interested ...

... place near tbclioguc. with 10,000 inhabitants, had surprised a large village, and had killed and wounded good many people. A story told of a rebel who, having killed an Imperialist soldier, dressed himself in his coat, to which lie had added some buttons ...

... called of God's providence to it. In every part of the world the story of Uncle Tom had awakened sympathy for the poor American slave, and consequently, iu every port of the world the story of his wrongs had been denied, and it had been asserted tliat it ...

... e allunce of another of LeouoM s children with the young Ring of Portugal, whose lather is a Coburg already. In short, it is the old story of this time two years over again or rather a postscript thereto, and with an additional string in its tail. Austria ...

... ploughed ont through the means of my own heifer. On calling as usual, | found Mr. Ellice with a long face, and, to cut the story short, he did not at this stormy and trying cra relish a quarrel with the Times. A peace was patched up with Mr. Buxton, my p ...

... while thus engaged, his foreman asked hiin to lower a shovel, which he endeavoured to do by means of a rope. Finding it too short to reach the pavement, he stepped over parapet on the top of the wall on to a portion of the building which projects about ...

... News from California to the 7th ult., had been re- ] ceived at New Orleans, via. the Ramsay route, through Mexico, in the short period of eighteen* days from San Francisco. The non-reception of the Calil'ornian mails of the Ist now accounted for by the ...