... the body of Thomas Pearce, the famed Shropshire giant, who died suddenly on Saturday night. The deceased, who was one of the tsllost and stoutest men in the country, has been upwards of thirty years conspicuous character wakes and fairs, where he haa exhibited himself a giant and shown his powers as a first class pugilist. Saturday last, accompanied by a number travelling showmen, he arrived ...

... applied for bis certificate. Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, eiplained that the bankrupt'a position was caused by his having lad the misfortune to be bequeathed a legacy. A friend—not a relative—left him by will two shares in the Koyal British Bank. The will was disputed by the testator'a relations, and Vice-Chancellor decided that they were entitled to the shares. The bankrupt appealed to ...

... INDIAN MUTINIES. ARRIVAL OF THE CAI.CtJTTA MAIL. THE C*WNPORR. An interesting narrative events is published the Calcutta Englishman select the folowing extracts :— v first attack. On the morning of the ult, General Windham ...

... INDIA. following; from Mi\ Acting Agral and Cnnaul General G'een, dated Corfu, 27'h fourp whs received at the Foreign Office on the -7ih September, p m :— Alexandria Sept. 23, 18 >8.—The steamer Bengal arrived at Sue* yesterday. She Calcutta mails Ax. The Nubia ha 1 ail accident to her machinery after she left Madras, and having reached Covlon. returned to Calcutta with hor passengers, &e ...

... • INDIA AND CIIIXA. The following telegram was received at the Foreign-office, from Acting Consul-General Green, Dec 14, IHSB, at 4 p.m.:— . Ai.exahdhia, Deo. 10, —The steamer Ganges arrived at Sue* from Bombay yesterday, with dates to the 25th of November. The Queen's Proclamation has given general satisfaction throughout Inilia. Oude the talookdars are tendering their submission, and ...

... imprisonment, Knitting cotton nightcaps. ...

... against i ine, although M. de I Theux and his friends, pretending that the wording of the address was contrary to Parliamentary usage and an insult to the minority, left the house in a huff. They have siace quietly resumed their seats. A paper in the Signal*, from the pen of Ferdinand Silas, gives an account of the earnings of persons eminent in musical art, from which we call the following ...

... THE INDIAN MUTINIES. MAIL FROM BOMBAY. Bombay, April !).—The capture of Lucknow (says the Jl*mbay Times) lias not been attended with such important advantages was at first anticipated, and the rebels, being driven out of tho city, but not entirely destroyed, arc now large in various parts of the country and will yet give much trouble before they aro utterly exterminated. Great results wcro ...

... A Mistakh.—lt is ineonsideiablo thing to have sent in the British Cabinet, even without the duties and responsibilities a department; and it certainly appears to us that no man ought to sit there in any capacity, or by any title, whose misfortune is be so little relished and approved the cation as the Marquia of Clanricarde. We say misfortune advisedly, because we are * 11 aware that as ...

... THE INDIAN MUTINIES. Ai.exaxdk 4.—The Calcutta and China mails leave to-day, with intelligence from Calcutta Ijc May; Mii'i-b, 10th; Ceylon, 14th; Hongkong, April 23rd; and ..laiiritias, Jlav 10th. Sir Hugh Rose defeated the rebels llalsirkooncth. about the 30tli April, killing too. They are milking another stand near Calpee. The Nana with all the cavalry in Harielly, wt,s living cross the ...

... Morley, and Charles Colcott called at the house of Mr. Newbold, tarmcr of Ryton, near Coventry, and stated that they had found the dead body of a man in the high road. Mr. Newbold went to the spot, and found that the body was that of a gamekeeper named Owen, in the service of Mr. Beech of Brandon. He had received a gun-shot wound in the neck, and had evidently fallen without struggle, as his ...

... INDIA AND CHINA. Tho Austrian Lloyds' have received following * Tkifrth, Oct. II —The steamer from Alexandria has arrived with da'es Bth September, and Hongkong Ith August. Tho movements of Genera' Roberts terminated in groat success On the August he overtook the rebels at a place Valhauiar, capturing four guns and all their ammunition, and killing the field. Tile rebels fled in all directions ...