... AN AME RICAN FORTUNE-HUNTER. THE following narrative has been published in the American papers. It is dated from Genoa, where the two chief actors in I the transaction detailed, viz., likoff eand Vannaud, the courier of Miss Gamble, are now undergoing an imprisonment of fifteen months, to which they have been recently sentenced by the tri- bunal of the first instancet- This (Genoa) being the ...

... The first cargo of iron for the Egyptian railway, now'in course of construction under the euperintendence of Mr. Robert Ste- phenson, wee despatched from. Cardiff on the 26th ultimo. SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.-The ground has been broken In good earnest between Penty-park-mill and Hlaverfordwest. The Ifirst cutting is at; the'Rath-farm, nbout three miles from the lat- ter town. Mur. Condor is the ...

... lartiamutaurg atauitttrg§. HOUSE OF LORDS-'THURSDAY, MAY 20. Their Lordships sat at D o'clock. The Stamp Duty on Drafts Bill was read a third time and passed. Several other bills were advanced a stage, The Earl of Dasosy announced that important despatcehs had that morning been received from India, including Sir J. Outrara's recommendations in reference to the proclenation~in Oudo, which hod ...

... jlA ,A i _CU T1'I * * , ~ I ?? em'' rOPQ'1-4. of Russia, Fog~sho~ld Eur~wpetrmltj th'xerfatin i of i a epe yaoar' it isnt, probably, disposed to lesv e' -tofi waste these three hundred thousand square miles ofcies te~ the most favoured by heaven-of territory the most fertile pal -of coasts therioihest 'n roadateads and. ?? prohipe-, Sho logos the most odninlierelal--of strnits ...

... THE B AB I tA D. -~ A 'l~OY. -the SFxsodtxO=%.- which he~tadpfpr part linduced' yhy~sisown im- '~Jai litdn,'i teast inowid~,iantot lndrt,.hi~fd. th rtl~l IUitO ebejs sd- disitess the ?? of Mr. Bruce' at ihe timef wvhtitwe are about IIt to ntrdue temtote eadras th patte i vtoeotti history'-thc -fpils' Ig'k remarfskable incidents took Place.- lr trice siiiof; eottleh origin.' but' had for ...

... C4: -N - Iffl .: .- sATURPAY, vAiwur~ 2 0,'.1859.j It 'is asserted by the leaders of the present strike of the building trades in London that one of their chief motives of action is the declining condition of the work- ing classes as compared with their employers. The laboureti they say,'is being ground down day by day through the oppressive conduct of the rich, and trade is in so wretched a ...

... DIRECT EXETER, PLYMOUTH, AND DEVONPORT RAILWAY.- Thc expenses connected with the winding-up of this company's affairs have already exceeded the amount of the debts to be paid off. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICcSLow, AND DUI3LIN RAII.WA1. -The committee of dissentient shareholders in this company state in their last report that they have at length succeeded in obtaining a promise from the directors ...

... T.. R1AILWA&YS;-We are happy to perceive ?? the long- wished-for railway communication with the docks at Gloucester is about to be provided. The works wvill comprise the widening ., of the Gloucester and Berkeley canal at Lantony, to the extent a. of about 60 feet, and for a distance of about 360 yards, and the formation of a branch line, of a mile in length, from the docks to the main line at ...

... STRANDING OF, A VEaSEL AT! ROWNHAM. I n accident similar in its consequ .ences to that which befel thel Demerara in Nov. 1851 haippefied. on Monday morning, withpi aahfoitt distartie of, the same, spot, to tht ship Rea. -Mol~exq, ofl~Verpod.l- Thie'Refuge; whioh'wee twned pafttlyb ~hiirqaiialu,,and'.partly bky 'l essta;Vilsoel, of Liverpool. tvas lypil kudwfinu thitipdit all havoin made one, ...

... [Continuedfroln the Supplement.] SWITZERLAND. Accounts from Berne state that the Federal council unanimously refuses to comply with the demand of Prussia to set at liberty the Neafcbatel prisoners. The council de- clares, moreover, that it is ready to negotiate, and that it is willing to re-open, the relations of friendship and good neigh- bourhood with Prussia. Preparations are making that ...

... WRECK AlT JILEUE.,& LOSS OF NINETY-SIX LIVES. The Livierick Reporter contains the following melancholy ldetails:- Otte of the most disastrous shipwrecks we have ever had the painful duty of recording occurred in the Bay of Kilkec on Tues- dav night lnst. The Edmuensd, of London, sailed frotu the quays of himerick, with two hundred and sixteen souls onl board, on Friday last, and proceeded to ...

... STATE, AND prOSPCTS OF THE KANSAS g ST2T.EAND S~QUESjQTI,, .UV ?? i,11~(says the Otob) a An American wccoreipbliienl 'give KSI5Sg. qeoto.i ,,Pou sketoch of the octual Plositi; o ta'1 the Union. ,our correspondent -belontg~s 3Qt the party letesion of. slavery~ti'o that'iiirritorv, apd his iew ma toense eiatbentb coloulred by that opinion; but lie occupies a 16iiol) h rieshmpaoeordepionshis VT5 ...