... OTHER INDORSEMENTS AND OPINIONS. That there is some foundation for this rumour is more than probable. The Mrtnckestrw Examiner, thus quoting the city article of Daily News, says: Some of the accounts from trustworthy quarters in Paris express a confident belief that the Emperor of the French contem- plates jecognising the Confederate States of the SOUl h. His object, it is affirme l, will be ...

... THE TABEBNACLE.—The Anniversary sermons were preached at thi$plape of worship, in English and Welsh, by the Revs. Timothy Davies, Bassaleg, and George Thomas, Usk, on Sunday last. The congre- gations were somewhat numerous, and the collections liberally responded to. THE WtSLEYAN CHAPEL.—The Rev: John Vanes, of Gloucester, and the Rev. Doctor Thomas, of Pont- y-pool, preached the anniversary ...

... DREADFUL OCCURRENCE. The town of Harwich and the adjoining village of Dovercourt has been the scene of unusual excitement in consequence of a dreadful accident, resulting in the suffocation of four persons (two women, one man, and a child) and the narrow escape of a fifth person. Within a short distance of the village of Dovercourt are exten- sive cement works carried on by Mr. J. Pattrick, a ...

... FABMnm. THE weafher, has been, favourable for neld labour generally, and, as the iiarvest may be. said to be com- pleted, the farmers are carrying on the usual autumnal operations of preparing the land for wheat-sowing. As compared with -lasts year the■ weather is in every respect such as will forward the process; in 1860 the extreme wet not only retarded the sowing generally, but in many ...

... THE WAR IN AMERICA. The American advices are by the royal mail steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, which arrived at Liverpool late on Monday night with advices from New York to the 25th ult., and 5,806 dollars in specie. The North Star had arrived at New York with 953,340 dollars in specie, from Aspinwall. By the Anglo-Saxon, via Lon- donderry, under date New York, Sept. 27, we learn that ...

... PONTYPOOL. THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE CAPEL HANBURY LEIGH, ESQUIRE. A meeting of the inhabitants was held on Friday week, at the Town Hall, to decide upon what measures they would adopt under the distressing circumstances. Mr. C. It. Williams was called to the chair, and having spoken at considerable length on the manifold virtues that adorned the late Lord Lieutenant, and of the amiability of ...

... THE WESTMINSTER MURDER. William Malony, labourer, was indicted at the Central Criminal Court, for the murder of Mary, bis wife.—Mr. Clark, for the prosecution, said. the question for the jury in this case would be whether it was a case of suicide by the deceased or of murder by the prisoner; and one of the witnesses, named Saunders, would depose that he actually saw the prisoner commit the ...

... THE CONFESSION OF A MURDER TEN' YEARS AGK). FROME, TUESDAY. At noon to-day, Joseph Seer, the self-accused mur- derer of Sarah Watts, at the Woodlands, near this town, in September, 1851, was brought up for re-examination. Long before the arrival of the prisoner groups lined the road to the station, and the court-room was filled quite an hour before noon. The prisoner was brought from Shepton ...

... DOUBLE MURDER AT THE CAPE. The Cape of Good Hope papers bring intelligence of a frightful tragedy which took place at the village of Tul bagh. A coloured man, named Andries Patis, called at the house of Mr. J. C. Botma, who resided on some property belonging to the Independent Dutch Reformed Church, and had charge of a water-mill, also the pro- perty of the Church. It appears that Mr. Botma, ...

... TUESDAY, OCTOBV.II 1.5. W. Hirst, Golcsr, Huddersfield. Yorkshire, woofleii manufac- turer.—F Ormond, Leicester, cattle jobber.—G- F. Raifleh, Hog- gin-lane, Wood-street, City warehouseman.—E. Nicholson, Corn- hill, stock and share broker.—G. Hadlev, Birmingham, whole- sale and retail fruiterer.—W. Lar^e, Tunstall, Staffordshfae, grocer and tea dealer.—F. B. ParUidgo and H. E Iwards, KVig'-i ...

... REPTILE VORACITY. The boa constrictor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, resolving at last to follow the example of its English brother, has swallowed its blanket. It appears that the boa, which is a very fine specimen, nearly lift, long, had eaten a large rabbit on the 22nd of August, and that a similar meal generally is sufficient for several days; on this occasion, however, we ...

... It appears that the fourth session of the Inter- national Philanthropic Congress is to be held in London next year, on the occasion of the Great Exhibition. Many distinguished noblemen and gentlemen have ex- pressed their concurrence. Daring Escape from Doncaster Gaol.-An escape of a daring character was effected by a prisoner from the borough gaol a few days ago. Joseph Boyd and Thomas Hanson ...