... KILLED BY A TOBACCO PIPE. At the Liverpool Assises, Michael Burn, was charged with the manslaughter of Thomaa Daniels, Wigan, on the 9th October. On the night in question the deceased left pnblic-house in Wigan about twelve o'clock. The prisoner and some other men were standing in the street. The deceased went towards them, and said something to tbem, when one of them, who was stated to be the ...

... RELIC OF THE ROYAL CHARTER. A piece of the Royal Charter has been exhibited in the Underwriters'-rooms, Liverpool, consisting of a plate,, about }-inch thick, cracked across, and in the centre was the half of a solid ingot of gold, about three inches square, crushed into the plate, the other half apparently having gone through the iron when broken off the pressure. The word Bank was very ...

... many large towns suitable arrangements have been made at this season of charity and benevolence to provide the necessitous poor with assistance, and in the midst of the severe weather which has now set in, we are tempted to ask, 44 Why are the Derby Soup Kitchens closed ? w At this bitter time the scantily clothed and scantily fed poor demand some consideration at the hands of their wealthier ...

... SCARSDALE V. VERNON. In the Vice-Chancellor's Court, on Monday, special case was stated, in pursuance of the act passed to diminish the delay of proceedings in Chancery, and its object was to obtain the opinion of the Court upon the true construction of the will of the first Lord Scarsdale, who died in the year 1637, and also as to the effect deed of settlement executed by him as the first ...

... Government, inch * nature as defy the utmost powers of existing ordnance, and which will be capable of throwing with accuracy seven hundred explosive sheila per hoar into any dockyard time mile* distance.—Obterve. ...

... PREFERMENTS AMD APPOINTMENTS. Rev. Hugh Allen to the Rectory of St. George-the-Mnrtyr, Southwark ; Rev. William Cadman, M. A., to the Rectory of Holy Trinity, St. Marylebone; Rev. Thomas Holwell Cole, M.A., to the Curacy of Frittenden, Kent; Rev. Richard Collins. M.A., to the Rectory of St. Siviour, Leeds; Rev. Gerrard A. Crookshank, 8.A., to the Curacy of St. Paul, Covent Garden; Rev. Godwin ...

... most extraordinary tricki at Derby next Monday and Toetday morninga and evening». M. Phillipe doe* 20 of Frikell'a great tricki on theae occasions* He perfonaed before the Court at the marriage of the Priaceaa Royal and recired a anperbgold box from Her Majeaty, which will b« exhibited at each performance. We hare bad none to compare witb him in Derby for many a jut. At thii featire icaton ...

... At meetin? of the above association, held in the Schoolrooms, at Braclsford, on Monday, the 12th fast., about one hundred persons sat down, at half-past four o'clock, excellent tea, provided by Mr. Crawford ; after which an ad. journment was made to the Boy»'School-room. There wu a splendid 14 Christmas tire, which was kindly lent by W. Cox, Esq., and beautifully decorated with fancy articles ...

... In reference to an article under the above head, which appeared in the Mercury a fortnight ago, 44 A Lover Truth writes.— * John Shaw was born at Wollaton, and his father, William Shaw, resided there. I fancy John enlisted into the Guards during their residence there. Wm. Shaw, the father, and family afterwards went to reside Cossall, where the father and mother died, After that, another son, ...

... will be ready by lie latter end of next month. The keel of the Royal Alfred, 91 guns, is being laid down ; and the Dryad frigate, 51 guns, will be commenced immediately, on an improved principle. Mr. John Meek, farmer, of Borrowby, near Think, has just thrashed out his off growing crops, and he finds that the produce of one newly-drained field, of very inferior quality, was 42 bushels per acre ...

... Back of Newfoundland she was so disabled that ber Captain, Wilmot, resolved to put back for repairs. Ber rudder was damaged so as to be almost useless. She put into Cork, and her rudder being temporarily secured, she steamed off for Plymouth. •' On Wednesday week accordingly she steamed out, but during the night was exposed to the fury of the gale which, amounting almost to a hurricane, then ...

... The village of Crock, near Durham, was visited on Wednesday afternoon with a storm of snow and wind of unusual violence. About five o'clock, J. F. Adarason. a farmer, proceeded on his return journey to his home, a distance of between seven and eight miles, to Quebec, near Esh Loud. Just afterwards, he was killed by a train of 18 empty coal waggons, engine, and tender passing over his neck, ...