... A IORICSHIEE RAT.-A man, named Joseph Holmes, at Hunslet, near Leeds, last week, laid some poison in the cellar of the house in which he lived, for the purpose of destroying a rat. The bread and butter upon which the poison was laid vanished three times in succession, but the rat still remained. At length the rat was caught and killed by a very valuable terrier dog, the property of Mr. Holmes, ...

... The correspondent of the Daily News, writing from Caserta oa the 25th ult., says:- As I told you before, all leads me to believe that we are going to be attacked in a few hours. It may, how- ever, happen, as we fear, that the Piedmontese have already crossed the Neapolitan frontier, and should this news have reached Capua and Gaeta, it may teach pru- dence to the enemy. King Francis II. is stj ...

... TURNING THE TABLES.—The Opinion Na- tionals has the following paragraph:— lhere nas just appeared at Hanover, at the Court bookseller s, a new map of Europe, which is remarkable for the absence of the powerful State which bears m our day the name of France. It has pleased the German geographer to blot us out of the book of life of the nations. He generously gives to Belgium our northern ...

... The Courrier dlt Dimanche pretends to give some de- tails relative to the approaching visit of the Emperor Francis Joseph and other German princes to Warsaw. It may be observed that the Munich journals formally deny that the King of Bavaria is to proceed there:- It was an autograph letter from the Emperor Alex- ander, not a simple invitation, which the first-general of the Russian empire was ...

... BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Our readers will understand that we do not hold ourselves re- sponsible for our able correspondent's opinions. THE return of the real Londoners from the sea- side, the continent, the moors, the turnip-fields of Norfolk, and every other rural outpost in which it is the custom of the modern generation to disport or rest themselves soon after the ending of the season, ...

... MADKID, Oct. 17. On the arrival of the Queen at the Puerta del Sol at Madrid, &y°ung man armed with a small pistol attempted to shoot fjer Majesty. The pistol, however, missed fire. The young Han is believed to be insane. ...

... The introductory lecture on the opening of the winter classes ol King's College, London, was delivered on Friday evening by Professor Mariette, in the course of which he made the following remarks on the Volunteer movement For a twelvemonth past a great national movement has stirred up every village in England; the most peaceful people—mark, I do not say unmilitary—has become all at once the ...

... THE LAST OF THE ENTERPRISE. Her Ma- jesty's ship Enterprise, well known in connection with Arctic explorations, was towed into the Tyne on Monday by the steam-tug Victor, of London. The destination of the Enterprise is Inverness, there to wear out the re- mainder of her days as a coal hulk,. ...

... BANKRUPTS.—FRIDAY, OCT. 18. W. BAYXIIAH, Hounslow, Middlesex, grocer. C. DwELLty, Clarendon-terrace, Bow-road, Avheelwright. E. HOILE, St. Paul's-road, Bow-common, manufacturing chemist. W. H. HARRIS, Sydney-place, Commercial-road East, mantle manufacturer. P. DOYLE, Wapping-wall, sail maker. M. W. BOLTON, Waterloo-road, Surrey, commission agent. J. J. STEPHENSON, Crawford-street, Bryanstone ...

... DEATH OF A VETERAN.—There died at South Shields, on the 18th inst,, a man named William Hudson, 93 years of age, who was formerly a sergeant in the 52nd Regiment, and who was with Sir John Moore when that gallant officer was killed at Corunna. He took the spurs off Sir John affcr bill death, and was one of the six who buried hjm, • ..=., ...

... C. TUOK, Ely, Cambridgeshire, butcher. J. KNIGHT, j an., Barge-yard-chambers, Citv. scrivener. G. DRAKE, Globe Brewery, Stoke Newington, licensed brewer J. RUSSELL, Larkhall-lane, Clapham. job master. L. ANDREWS, Wells, Norfolk, grocer. A. PICKETT, Brighton, eoal merchant. R. MAYLIN, Blackfria.is-road, Southwark, tea dealer. G. E. AIINSBT, Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, boot and shoe ...

... itonoon. EXCITING SCULLERS' MATCH FOR £ 60.—A very exciting scullers' match came off on Tuesday, which was rendered doubly interesting from the fact of one of the competitors being John, the youngest of the two Mackinneys who have rowed at the Thames Regatta, and almost every town in the provinces. John Mackinney hails from Richmond, and his opponent, Joseph Wise, from Kew, the latter being ...