... BRUTAL ATTEMPT TO MURDER A FEMALE BY BURGLARS. On Monday morning the neighbourhood of Islington was greatly excited by an announcement that a female servant, named Mary Ann Redkison, had been brutally murdered by burglars. From inquiries made on the spot it appears that on Sunday night Mr. G. Higgins, a butcher, carrying on business at 47, Chapel-street, Islington, went out with his family, to ...

... M, Baudemont, a gentleman who has made the rearing of c-ittic his peculiar study, last week communicated a paper to the Academy of Sciences, on the relation which exists between the development of the thorax and the general condition of the animal. In France, England, and Germany, various opinions have been expressed, which are all reducible to the following proposition The development of the ...

... CREAM OF PUNCH. WIT IN THE MESS-ROOM.— Why, I am sure, said a big-mout.bed, braggadocious Captain, after the second bottle, at the capture of Delhi, that I must have looted at least—ay, at least-a bagfull of diamonds. Ay, I see, a regular sack of carats, said a promising young Ensign, who, before joining, had learnt to be witty by associating with several stockbrokers. AN IMPERIAL ENRAGED ...

... OBEAM 'OF PUFGE ■/ RULE SLAVICYtl,]A. THE XATIOX/IL KYJIX OF THE OOXFEDTKATED STATES. (Music Copyright in America) When first the South to fury fanned, Arose and broke the Union's chain, This was the Charter, the Charter of the land, And Mr. Davis sang the strain Rule Slaveownia, Slaveownia rules, and raves Christians ever, ever, ever have had slaves. The Northerns; not so blest as thee, At ...

... QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 7. The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived off this port at 9 p.m., landed all mails except those for Liverpool, and proceeded at 9.20 p.m. She brings 44 passengers. She experienced easterly winds all across the Atlantic. The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald states that the Cabinet was considering the question of evacuating Fort ...

... MONDAY, APRIL 8. THE KOSSUTH NOTES.-In the House of Com- mons, in answer to Mr. T. Duncombe, Sir G. C. Lewis said that no instructions had been given by Sir R. Mayne or himself to obtain information with regard to the notes which had been in course of manufacture by Messrs. Day for M. Kossuth; and he must decline to state any- thing further in reference to the obtaining of one of the notes by ...

... FmDAY, APRII. 5. R. G. DEAST, Trig-wharf, Upper Thames-street, lead, glass, and colour merchant. R SCOTT and W. T. SCOTT, Southampton, tailors. T. D. CARTER, Blue Anchor-yard, Coleman-street, City livery stable keeper. W. S. RHODES, Milton-next Gravesend, Kent, licensed victualler. C. ORMOM), Hemington, Northamptonshire, buyer and letter of thrashing machines for hire, and corn thrasher. G. T. ...

... BANKRUPTCY BILL.—The committee on this bill was postponed to May 3. CHEAP RAILWAY FARES.-The Earl of SHAFTES- BURY presented a petition from the corporation of the City of London, praying that all railway companies whose lines entered the City should be required to run cheap trains daily, with a view to the accommodation of the working classes, who would be driven from their dwell- ings by the ...

... Mr. J. G, Adair, the landlord who has evicted the tenantry in Donegal, has published a defence of his conduct, in the form of a reply to a letter which had been sent to him from the parish priest and the rector ...

... CORNISH GRANITE, — The pedestal for tha equestrian statue of the late King Carlo Alberto has been shiop^d at Falmsuth in the Trifle of the Isles, for Genoa, jn route fur Turin. This magnificent specimen of natu're ruM of art, is the produce of the parish of Mabe, and consists of three courses of polished fine gric granite, the bottom and top forming rich, but boldly-moulded, base and cornice, ...

... AnoLier of those short lines of street tramways, ex- tending from the west front of Westminster Abbey to about a mile down the new Victoria-street, Pimlico, was opened on Monday for trafiie. This line, with that from the Marble-arch along the Bayswater-road, are the only trams yet completed, and even these only extend about a mile in length. The next to be opened is one from IlacV ney to ...

... TUESDAY, APRIL 9. DENMARK AND HOLSTE IN.-In answer to the Earl of Ellenborough, Lord 1V ODE HOUSE corrected a statement made by him on a former evening in reference to the dispute between Denmark and Holstein. He had not intended to say that the Danish Government had submitted the entire budget of the kingdom to the Diet of Holstein, but only that part of it which referred to Holstein itself. ...