... 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 ...

... Late on Wednesday night, Lfaiie Kennedy, a sergeant- major of the 3rd battalion Military Train, was shat by a. private of the same corps, named John Nicholas. On the same evening, an amateur performance of White- bait at Greenwich, in which the performers were non-commissioned officers and privates, took place at the camp theatre. Sergeant-Major Kennedy was acting stage-manager; Nicholas was ...

... THE great feature of the MONEY, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKETS, is, undoubtedly, the vast influx of new pro- jects daily thrust before the public. In the numerous and varied list of candidates for public favour, every description of project-including boat and ship-building, schemes of finance, and the working out popular, mechanical, and manufacturing contrivances or inven- tions—make their ...

... On Saturday, being Lord Mayor's day, conformably -with a custom which has obtained for more than 6QO years, Alderman Cubitt went in state from Guildhall to Westminster, to be presented to the Barons of the Ex- chequer on his election, for the second time in succession, as Lord Mayor of London. The day, which was as sunny' and genial as ore ifl Midsummer, attracted an enormibus crowd to see ...

... GARIBALDI ON ITALIAN POLICY- The Monarchia Nazionale of Nov. 7 says:— General Turr has announced to the Central Com- mittee, in the name of Garibaldi, that it is the firm in- tention of the latter not to provoke any movement in favour of Rome and Venice, and that his sole wish is that every means may be employed to promote the armament of the nation. Garibaldi also recommends concord among all ...

... We were unable, owing to a pressure of matter, last week, to give more than a brief notice of the above lecture which must be our excuse (if any be needed) for recurring to the subject. At the commencement of the lecture, the learned sen- tleman observed that he had on a former occasion read an essay in that room, upon the leading principles of the Bri- tish Constitution; his object being to ...

... This was an appeal from a decision of the County Court Judge at Rochdale, tried last week at the Court of Exchequer. The plaintiff issued a plaint in detenue for a pianoforte belonging to his wife before her marriage wilhhim. When the case was called on and Mrs. Maden was put into the witness-box she was interrogated by the opposing advocate as to her religious belief. This course was objected ...

... The subject of the blockade in the United States is one which must seriously occupy men's minds for some tim, to come, for upon this depends the welfare or the ruin ol thousands of our population. Questions of vast import- ance are comprised within this subject. No doubt it is the law that a neutral ship, by breaking an effective blockade, renders itself liable to capture and condemnation; but ...

... SPEECH OF M. RATAZZI. AT the dinner which took place in Paris, Nov. 10, in honour of Signor Ratazzi, M. Gueroult, editor of the' Opinion Nationale, proposed The independence, unity, and liberty of Italy; M. Peyrat, editor of the Prease, The health of Garibaldi, and M. Havin, political director of the Siècle, Th'e health of Signor Ratazzi, the Chevalier Nigra (the Italian minister), and Gene ...

... THERE has been increased animation in the stock and share markets since last week, and the tendency is up- wards. The abundance of money, and the pacific speech of the American Minister at the Lord Mayor's dinner, are producing some effect, and statements have been put forward with the object of showing that up to the present time the country at large has benefited, in a commercial sense, by ...

... OUR MISCELLANY. Freedom of Opinion.—If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.—J. S. Mills, On Liberty. Time.—In the diary of Lady Mary Keyes, sister to the celebrated Lady Jane Grey, the following ...