... A very ingenious fraud has been perpetrated in Notting- ham within the last few days, by which Mr. George Street, a coel.dealer, ha been victianised, Mr. Street' wife, whose maiden name was Wheatley, has several relations in Amo- ica, her parenta and several of ber brothers having emi. ' grated to that country some twenty years ago, In January last, a letter was received, purporting to be from ...

... In [DI WEDNESDAY RNIG, AP 16.: ~,II Wz observe, from a table publihed In the ferca Wie 3 Weekly Repor, dated Havana, ?? 22, that; up to - I - S..-3 a-] the 15th ultimo, thirty-seven vessels had arrlved at ' that port , having rum the blockade from the various ex harbours of the Southern States since the beginning wi -ox the present year. Their Cargoes onsisted. amongst or other merchandisej of ...

... - I A few months ago we noticed the establihment of this rom large cooking affar. For the few months at the commence. ment tbe branches were limlted to fi'e, now thdy extend to sin no less than eteae,, andaresituated ae.follow:-146 Broomi- the law; 45 4Oyde Place, South Side; 98 and 100 King Street, rhe City; Miltln Arcade, Cowcaddens; 153 and 155 Saltmarket; nd' 201 Stobercs Street, Andereton ...

... LIES IN CHINA. - 7 _ ?? A letter from Pekin, in ?? Frieud of C7ina, dated Pekin, February 4, says:- W. began fires here on .. the 5th of November last, the popular' Gay Fawkes Dey in England, and during the quarter of a year that has sine transpired the weatber has been growing colder and colder 5 It is net improbable but the cold has already reached Its greatest excess,: and wthin a few ...

... I N GL AN D3. THE BurnsH M-ussru.M-Arrangemenit will be made at the British Museum duing the International Exhibition of a character still more attractive than those of I 851. The departments of Natural History and Antiquitlea, Instead of being open to the public on alternate days, will be open on every week-day but one, which wil be necessarily reserved for clelaing, and this day of cloing ...

... THE EDITOR'S TR&GEDY. (From the Spectator.) A strange and painful tragedy has j mat been recorded, . which should touch somewhat deeply aU literary men, Mr. Alexander Biralo, the subject of this tragedy, appears to ?? have been one of that class of provincial editors In whom the o possession of literary capacity inspires a deep pride and senase a of power. We by no means wish to attribute sach ...

... 11AMILTON-APRIL 7. ?? n - - T.. _. ?? 6XnW k.LAM1iIEUN-APRIL 1. GLAtcow YEOMANRY CAVALRY.-We learr that tse (ueea's Own Royal Regiment of Gla9goW Yeomanry Cavalry have received orders, through the Lord.LieateRatO of the County, for mustering at Hamilton on FridaY, 2d 1 ay next. The usual eight daya' permaneat drill exe!cil53 will be gone through; and it is expected that the revi5t, races. and ...

... sr OF APASSAGE TO NW ZEALAND pIA~R ~F (AICXLAND). PIAJ 0o A OF (AIUCKLAND). Br A GLASGOW PAUssGIQR ponti'a dfrom Satur&y's HerasZL) Batprday, August 24.-Roused this morning before san- rise by the mate ceiling out-A ship alongside. Al got p k d etoe the welcome ight. It wa a rse to get the sleepe up. There was a ship, however, at a considerable dleepe Some (Je up In a burry, i ah and ...

... GLABGOW ASYLUb FOR THE BLIND. The pupils Ia the Gisgow Asylum for the Blind were ye. berday subjected -to an educational examination in the Queen's Rooms. The pupils were seated on the plfm ad the friends of ?? institution ocsupled the galleries and ms of the hall-the chair beiug taken by theHon. the Lord Provostr After the mneeig had been opened with prayer, the examination was entered upon, ...

... SCOTCH FUNERALS IN THE OLDEN TI1%, ¢F ALA - 1 a _l L. amxv_ zr_ Ad To 11w Editer of the Glatow HeIaf, SE,-I noticed in the Heraldt of yesterday a letter ia re ference to a change in the mode of conducting funerals in the burgh of Sanquhar. This brings to my recollection that I have past me a letter addressed one hundred years azo by a respectable person in Dunfermline to his brother La Glasgow ...

... oMt. GLADSTONE IN MANCHESTER. JUJY. %XIJ=.VJ-VxA. *N ZLALXAX£ - On Tuesday moranln the Right Hois the Chanoellbr-of the Exebequr, lt. Gladstoe and their sequ; Sir James and Lady Wctt', 5le. ames watts, and MV. ad MJ. .J. ~Csr1ton, visited Aireaus, J. WhitWortu & Co.' works In Choritoa Street. Mi. Wh£worth accompanied the. pdrty through the mzanttctory, andexplained to M~r. Gladstone the ...

... D AFT-ER-N-O-ON E1DITION. 'HERALD OFFICE, Saturday, 3 P. u. BY BLECTA10C TLEGBRAPH. FOREIGN INiELLIGENOH, FRANCE. At the Agrlcultural Show st Polasr, the late PrInof Consorti 100 Guinea Gold Cup was won by M'Oaombis' Aberdeen Ox. It also taken the gold medal and two othr prima. Lady Piggott, and Messrs. Heath and Hambro,. Turner, Wallis, Stewart, and Stephen, Sit Thomas Connarde and Lord ...