... A ROMANTIC STORY. An affair has just been tried before the Seine Assize Court that recalls the plots of some of George Sand's early publications. The principal actor in it was in- dicted for murder, but the jurymen, who were all deeply interested in him ...

... Victoria. This cannot in the first instance be accomplished without the aid of the mother country. This aid, granted bat for a short period, would, I am satisfied, so add to the population and so develops the resources of Vancouver’s Island and British Columbia ...

... defendant, against whom neither of game had been allow defendant to be sworn the Renct rh and hear a very different story from that of Hi!l’s. a short review of the case and its merits, Mr. | a te the Bench to dismiss the charge found the case end feed him IC ...

... which were com- menced yesterday, will be in the Early English style of architecture. The building, which will be of one story only, will be 68 feet long by 'Si in width. There will be a large school-room capable of accommodating 360 scholars, and two ...

... o sjitution, on the Ilea of the School. The attendame wen very fair, and the Vitae occupied the their. The TVlAlliell the story of through where he it off on the toren, ocinsion in the fertile Talley between the Lobs on p ee sessed by the children of ...

... The continuation of I1~r Trollope's and Mirs Beecher Stowe's stories will ad Interest many readers, end they serve to complete a XCdf Dnumber. OrMnpfe Bar for January opens with a new story from ftt pen of the editor, Mr George Augustus Sala. It is a&3y ...

... called Onse. Thorp, in the Parishes of Poeklington and Miliington, in the said East-Riding of the County of York, within a short distance of the market town of Pocklington, at which town there is a station on the Market Weighton branch of the North-Eastern ...

... to us for the general of wants of the country. The Imports of the year, with he the exception of Wheat, were considerably short of of those of 1860, as will be seen by the tables annexed; the business passing has been less remunerative than rk usutl, ...

... by step, and they had entered no protest against their decisions. Many ward meetings had been held, and they were sometimes short for subjects at those places, yet, they had not entered any opinion against the scheme. On the other hand, the council bad ...

... held up, The original motion was therefore awried. THEr LEADENHALL.SQUARE IMPROVE31EtNT. Our readers will remember, that a short time ago, apon the motion of Mr Dowsing, the board agreed to purchase Leadenhall-square. The resolution passed on that occasion ...

... never was known to exist aforetime, sunshine being the only atmosphere in which the human butterfly was supposed float. In short, “the fragile women'of 1 America” will soon exist only in the acid journal of some English' traveller, who will, of course ...

... exercised, especially this winter, a prejudicial effect upon trade. Still though most of the mills in Lancashire are working short time, and the stock of cotton is gradually falling shorter and shorter, there has as yet been none of that wide-spread distress ...