... THE MONET, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKETS has to a great extent, if not entirely, rec)vered its tone during the past seven days the easiness of the discount market and the plentiful supply of money occasioning this some- what unlooked-for buoyancy. It is rather surprising that the Bank directors did not reduce their minimum rate of discount at their meeting on the 30th ult., hut their failure to do ...

... T be correspondent of a contemporary dating from Buenos Ayres, September 29th, details a splendid victory for the constitutional party f the republic. Urquiza has been defeated with great loss, the affair being regarded as a complete triumph. The revolution of May, 1810, is ended, and for the fust time in history the Liberal party among the Argentine people is triumphant. The hasty dispatch ...

... The late Mr. T. S. Duncombe, M.P.—The following resolution was unanimously adopted at the adjourned special meeting of the London Political Union, held at Anderton's Hotel:—That this meeting has heard with deep regret of the sudden death of Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, M.P., and desires to record without delay its high sense of his long, courageous, and faithful public services—Ms devotion ...

... Neat.—'Tis not unfitting that a virtuous young lady should blush at her first presentation in society; The morning herself blushes when she first appears, unless she is under a cloud. Lord Brougham has left London for Cannes, in the south of France, where his lordship possesses abeauE tiful estate. j ...

... SHOCKING MURDER IN THE STRAND On Friday morning, between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, a horrible cas3 of murder occurred in Drury- court, Strand, London. It appears, from information obtained upon the spot, that No, 10, in Drury-court, a dingy thoroughfare leading from the side of St. Marys Church, in the Strand, up into Drury-lane, is occupied by a familv named R jeves, who tenanted the ...

... THAT IS not home where day by day, I wear the busy hours away; That is not home, where lonely r.igkt Prepares me for the toils of light- 'Tis hope and joy and memory give A home in which the heJrt can live. There are, who strangely love to roam And find in wildest haunts their home; And some-in halls of lordly state, Who, yet, are homeless, desolate. There is no home in halls of pride. They ...

... Before the horror and indignation awakened by the la.st reo )rd of military tragedies have had time to sub- side, while Sergeant-Major Kennedy's life still trembles in the balance, and at a time when it was thought the example made at Corfu would have ch eked the f rocity which now appears so unhappily prevalent in the army, the 0 imp of Aldershott has again been startled by a dreadful murder, ...

... At the Central Crimi al Court, on Wednesday, Vin- cent Collucei, 31, an Italian, described as an artist, was indicted for feloniously obtaining £ 2 ,u09 from a lady named Frederica Johnstone, by false pretences. Mr. Montagu Chaoiherg, in opening the case for the prosecution, said it appeared that tbe prisoner artist of very considerable talent, and in 1858 he resided at Broraptbn. He was very ...

... The great meeting of the Orpbéonistes in Paris, at which 8,000 voices were to sing, was held last week. This appears to have excited less sensation than the former gathering. It is rarely that a parish has to go begging for a rector but so difficult to comply with are the terms of the will of the late rector of Sevenoaks, he being also the patron of the living, that the trustees have not ...

... EXTEikOEDIIIASY COMMISSION OF LUNACY. A commission of lunacy began an investigation on Friday morning into a very remarkable case. The in- quiry was conducted with closed doors, but the facts of the case are said to be as follows:—About seven years ago,, William Frederick Windham, of Fellbrigg Hall, Norfolk, became, by the death of his father, a ward in Chancery, and heir to vast estates. The ...

... KLEPTOMANIA —WHAT IS IT ? There is now a very fashionable word in our police and criminal courts, termed kleptomania, which is made to bear a variety of constructions. Formerly, when it was first introduced by a learned counsel, it was intended to apply to ladies and gentlemen who had not a due sense of the principle of meum and tumn. It was urged that some persons were imbued by nature ...

... ANOTHER STORM ON THE NORTH- EAST COAST. GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.—ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN VESSELS OS SHORE. The violent storm which swept over the north-east coast with such fearful results,, on Saturday week, has been followed by .another, within. eight days, no less violent, and scarcely less disastrous in its effects. Along the line of coast running from the Humber to Fiam- bro' Head ...