... The launch of the new Piedmontese frigate, the Duke of Genoa, which took place at Genoa on Nov. S, in the presence of Count Cavour, was attended by a serious accident. The vessel struck against a wall which had been opened, but, as it appears, not sufficiently to make way for it. Several spectators were killed and grounded, the particulars are treating. ...

... At the London Mansion-house, during a pause in the business of the court on Saturday, Inspector Hamilton, the chief officer in the City of London detective police department, asked permission of Alderman Sir Francis Graham Moon, the presiding magistrate, to bring under the notice of the court a matter of public interest. The desired permission having been conceded, Mr. Hamilton, pointing to a ...

... On Monday evening Humphreys resumed a protracted investigation at the Bl.ac.Jt Ilorse Tavern, Kings!and-road, Shoroditch, respecting the death of John Watson, aged 63 years, who, it was alleged, had died from starvation and exposure; under the following circumstances. Considerable interest was manifested by a number of the influential inhabitants of the parish, Elizabeth Watson, a poverty ...

... CITY, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 21. It is understood that arrangements have just been concluded between the Bank of England and the Bank of France, whereby the former establishment places at the disposal of the latter £2,000,000 of gold, taking in return a like amount of silver. This stateme )t has produced rather a favourable effect in the Stock Exchange, as the transaction will for the time obviate ...

... On Sunday afternoon a tragedy of a fearful character occurred on board the American ship Jeremiah Thompson, Captain Blake, now in the Mersey, and about to proceed to New York. The crew joined the ship on Sunday morning, and among them was a foreigner, whose name is unknown at present, the victim of the brutality of the boatswain, named Keggan. Several times during the day Keggan was seen by ...

... THE number of the Correspontrantwhich has just appeared contains a long and abusive letter from M. de Montalembert to M. Cavour- You give, he says, to the heroes of Garibaldi the praises which I; eserve for the mercenaries of the immortal Pimodan. You are with Cialdini; I am with Lamoriciere. You are with Father Gavazzi; I am with the Bishops of Orleans, Poitiers, Tours, Nantes—with all ...

... Literary Gazette says A very interest- ing circumstance in connection with the composition of the opera of Robin Hood may be mentioned. Owing to the melancholy loss of sight under which Mr. Macfarren has laboured for some years, he was, of course, unable to place a single note of music upon paper. The whole was dictated note for note, and carefully taken down by Mrs. Macfarren from his ...

... 5T6e (Extam of 3?uncl)» JOHNNY'S LAST. Well said, Jobrny Russell. Thai latest despatch You have sent to Turin is exactly The Thing, And again, my dear Jobs, ycu come up to the scratch With a pluck that does credit to you and the Ring. All the Despots have spoken, you justly remark, Abusing King Victor for bloodshed and guile, So you can't suffer Europe to rest in the dark Regarding the views ...

... On Monday a mimerotplv-attended meeting of the Court of Lieutenancy of the City of London was held at the Guildhall, to receive a report from the deputation appointed to wait upon Mr. Sidney Herbert, the Secre- tary of State for War, to ascertain the views of Her Majesty a Government with rcspcct to the formation of the several additional volunteer riflo corps, for sanction- ing which ...

... GREAT TENANT-RIGHT MEETING AT HUD DERSFIELD.-Another of those exciting aggregate meet- ings of tenant-right owners, which have lately com- manded so much attention in Hudder,field, was held on Monday night, in the Gymnasium Hall. The admission was by ticket, furnished by the Tenant-Right Defence Association, and the spacious hall was crowded. F. R. Jones, jun., Esq., occupied the chair. The ...

... The following is a translation of Count Persigny's speech^ Mayor and Gentlemen,—I am quite sur £ tt^t. the wishes which have just been expressed for the continuance of peace will be received with lively satis- faction by the whole of the diplomatic body in London. I see the proof of it in that spirit of wisdom and of moderation which so happily exhibits itself in the conduct of the European ...

... When my Tuesday's letter left, the whole city was in a state of mad excitement, in consequence of a report that Capua had been taken. It seems to have been founded on a dispatch from a Sardinian consul to Count Cavour, and so implicit was the belief in it that, not- withstanding official contradiction of it communicated through your correspondent, the walls were placarded with the false ...