... London, Wednesday Afternoon. This being the Ist of May, no business was trans* acted in the stock exohange. The transfer offices at the of England are also closed to-day for striking the half-yearly balance. The railway calls for the month of May amount to £1,869,000. [by electric telegraph.J Paris Bourse, Wednesday.—[Router's Telc- Sam.j-3 35 p.m.: The bourse has been buoyant. closed very ...

... Perhaps no more striking indication of the progress of art in this oountry, and of the increasing cultivation of a taste for it, oould be found than in the oontrast whioh edifices devoted to religious purposes erected at the present day present to those of the last and the beginning of the present oentury. Then, it would seem, people not only advocated and insisted upon the simplest forms of ...

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... Early Saturday morning, > man named Willi.- Foster apparently about year, age, residing r*rr. trade * oollier, but who for some time psot followed the oocupation making fishing nets. by Sergeant Rowland, of St. wife murder hie wire, Allen Foster, at Parr. It appears that tbe prl- ' Wh ° h ave children, r7 amlo ...

... Yesterday, Mr. H. Lowndes the appointment of juuior honorary surgeon to. Northern I Hospital. Yesterday, Edward Hynw, , ihinn. fell from i the rig in* the ship Geo ava, lying in the I falgar Dock, and fnstained fracture the was taken to the Nortl Hospital, and under surgical treatment well. Ordkr of tub Lirctb*ant of the County Palatine Lahcastck. Her Majesty, by warrant under hf r sign manual ...

... FOOT RACE BETWEEN JACKSON AND The contest between W. Jack on, the American Deer, and Deerfcot, the North American lied Indian, over a distance of four mile*, for a stake of £50, came off yesterday afternoon, at Old 8.-ompton. the word Off, they bounded away at a good pace, D.urfeot with a flight load, which he maintained till the finish of the third lap, when Jackson put on a terrific spurt, ...

... SOUTHERN DIVISION OF LANCASHIRE. CUOWN COURT. BEFORE MR. BARON CIIANNELL. WEDNESDAY, DI MEMBER 18. THE CHILD MURDER Naucy Armfield, who wag convijted od Wednesday las: of the murder of & infant Droylusden and sentenced to if been respited. MANSLAUGHTET . AT LIVERPOOL. Jobn Scully, who found guilty yesterday of the m*nslanghter of Ma r Kelly, Liverpool, on the 17th of September was sentenced ...

... The Receiver of Wrecks this port has forwarded to the Board of Trade a report of the olrcumstanoe* attending the total locs of the ship Juniata, outward bound from this port for Baltimore, resulting from oolllslon with the ship Joseph Fish, also from this port, bound for Key West, which took plaoe off the Irish ooast on the morning of the Instant. The report the sworn deposition of Captain ...

... There is not more offensive or contemptible form of the lovo of paradox thaw eagerness to tha: gome particularly iniquity or cruelty is strictly legal and logical. there actually an priori preaump- in favour the technic* correctness f a judicial decision involving practical cols-. - which cannot be without horror. Thiy take for jnuituU that the rules of law are a-surd and immoral, and th ...

... FAMILY HISTORY OK THB KRNTB.* MR. PARENTAGE, *o. The father of the murdered child wu the sen a *arpet manufacturer, who for many yean carried bnsinaei in OarpentorVhalL London-wall, and had retired from It some or 18 yean nil death. This gentleman had married Mia Seville (of Essex family, well known in Ooiebester, in that oounty), of whom nothing remarked beyond the fact of the rapectahOity of ...

... at Waterloo. *l »7«r's r.jkilf ('.irst ia the mouth fri»e). llcyal Ir.ititu.tion ilust unt, - Open dally (flri- iliird \loud.»y the frue). Varviiszi Gallery Ana'oajy, t'aradiao-'Jtruet, Z;>oloi{ical Garden*, West Derby-road Blontfln. Lon 'on, Clay tou-stiuare Concert every evening. -N»-w Draiua Bawn. v ( 1 KaifaeJe, the Score'; ...

... [Br ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC TELEORATH3.] HOUSE LORD 3. FRIDAY, MAY 3. Their lordship* met five o'clock. PRIVATE BILLS. Tho Tiverton Roads Bill, Oldham and Ripponden Road* Bill, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (brandies Shawforth, &o.) Bill, Lanoashire and Yorkshire Railway (extension Settle) Bill were read a second time. The Wivenloe and Brightlings«a Railway Bill, North British and Peebles ...