... Provincial EARNINGS OF A BEGGAR.—On the person of a cripple named Jos. Walker, just sentenced at the Dewsbury sessions to two months' imprisonment, for dog stealing, a pocket-book was found containing entries during forty days of the amount he had received in charity while pursuing his vocation. These sums amounted altogether to X9 14s. OJd., yielding him an average of 4s. lOd. a day. The ...

... JRarf^tg. LONDON, AUGUST 20. Demand falls off for Colonial Produce, and Stocks are large at present scarcely any variation in the value on acooant of the moderate parcels offering Russian Prod acts aotnmch m request, arid a fur Liter reduction for Tallow., lint rates about the same for Hemp and Linseed. Trade dull for Metals, and quotations receding for most articles. Purchases still large in ...

... THE MASSACRE AT DAMASCUS* It appears that the massacre at Damascus commend 1 in the afternoon of the 9th, and that before night 51 1 Christians had been killed. The first consulate attackl was that of Russia. The Russian and Greek conss took refuge with Abd-el-Kader. All the Catholic at > Greek churches and convents, as well as the. consulat,) 1 are burnt. The American vice-consul was wounded, ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT.—Tt is painful to relate that the lifeless body ot Mr. James Rees, miller, Trosnant, was discovered near the water wheel, in the mill, about ten o'clock, on Tuesday last. It is thought that, deceased had been attracted to the spot, to examine the wheels which he had just previously oiled, and that venturing too near the lesser wheel, he was dragged in, and crushed to death. Mr. ...

... THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. Earl GRANVILLE gave notice that he should ) move the suApeilsioii of the standing order precluding iite second reading of any bill at this period of thesewijur, in reference to the Savings Banks and Friendly SoCietjies ...

... G-reat has been occasioned in Lisbon by the xepog th;tt yellow iey-er broken out at Oporto. ...

... TtlE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS. FYTTE FIRST-FEBRUARY. IT was a score of blithesome Bills- Merrily came they in— And fair without, looked the gamesome rout, And neat as a new-made pin; Each would-be law, without a flaw, Or erasure-line within. 'Twas a sight to behold these Bills so boldj So blithe and debonnaire, As each took his place on the paper, Where room was still to spare, With the ...

... SlmHents ann COLLISION ON THE LANCASHIRE AND YORK- a SHIRE RAILWAY.—On Saturday afternoon, an accident o occurred on the line of the Lancashire and Yorkshire t Railway Company at Hebden-bridge Station, which, but e for one circumstance, would have been attended with t serious results. The one o'clock excursion train from r Manchester to Scarborough, consisting of seven carriages c filled with ...

... After repeated remands and numerous delays, Thrmas Winskw was brought up on Friday before Mr. Raffles, the stipenuiary magistrate, at the Police Court, on the charge of having caused the death of Mrs. Ann James, a boarding-house keeper in/ ui t liall-road. There were also charges against the prisoner having poisoned Mrs. Elizabeth Townsend, sister to Mrs. James, and William and Samuel ...

... Un (Saturday evening a crowded meeting of journey- men bakers was held at Sussex-hall, Leadenhall-street, for the purpose of receiving the report from the execu- tive of the Journeymen Bakers' Association of the result of the meeting of master bakers which took place on Tuesday last, at the London Tavern, respecting the demands of the men to have their hours of labour limited to twelve per day ...

... MYSTERIOUS CHILD MURDER NEAR, FROMEV The adjourned inquiry as to the circumstances attendant on the death of Francis Saville Kenjt,,a child under four years of ap;e, who was-murdere ...

... A MOTHER, TWO BROTHERS, AND A YOUNCFEMALE MURDERED. A constable on duty (David Luck, 13B P), about six otdock on Tuesday tno.rning, just prior to Ills losing hi-, beat, was called to N 0,1(1, Manor-place, 1 h-7 ...