... A correspondent, dating his letter for Saturday night, says,—a murder was committed upon our quay side, in the immediate neighbourhood of Tyne bridge, at an hour when it was crowded with people. The victim is a little old man named Patrick Rogers, and his murderers are John Dixon and Thomas Millar, ruffians only too well known to the police. Rogers had been in the habit of standing on Tyne ...

... Shakespeare's birthday was this year celebrated with great eclat at Ballarat gold diggings in Australia. Dr. Robert Phillimore has been appointed Queen's Advocate in the room of Sir John Harding, who recently lesigned. The boiling down of cattle has commenced again in Aus- tralia, in consequence of the superabundance of animal food. A soldier, just returned from India, was last week robbed of ...

... LONDON CATTLE MARKET. MONDAY. The importations of Ijvp cattle iml shpop. Ac., into the port of London from the Continent during the past week have been good. The Custom-house official return gives an entry of 1,529 oxen, 694 calves, 6,748 sheep, 420 pigs, and 16 horses, together making a total of 9,407 head, against 10,891 head at the same period last year 14,142 head in I860, 14,142 in 1859, ...

... AMERICA. GREAT DESPONDENCY IN NEW YORK. THE APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN M'CLELLAN. THE CONFEDERATES DEMANDING THE SURRENDER. OF BUTLER TO BE TRIED FOR MURDER. NEGROES TO BE EMPLOYED AS LABOURERS. DASHING ATTACK BY GEN. POPE. RIOT IN NEW ORLEANS. THE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY. (Per Kangaroo, by Telegraph from Roche's Point.) NEW YORK, July 19.—President Lincoln's ...

... (From the Athenceum). Among the Celtic races none deserve more careful considera- tion for their literature than the Welsh, as M. Kenan, himself a Breton, has shown with great ability in his essay, Sur la Poesie Celtique and his countryman, M. Hersart de Ville- marque, also has declared the same thing in the preface to his translation of the Poemes des Bardes Bretons, published in Paris in ...

... MISS EDWARDS, LIUEKIIA DOCK COTTAGE, HOT- WELL-ROAD, BRISTOL, who had been afflicted for leti ears with a most distressing case of Deafness, attended with an offensive discharge, and Polypi growing from the Membrana Tympani, the result ot Scarlatina, has had hei heai>ng per- fectly lestored, the growths removed, and discharge cured, under the treatment of Mr. S. E. SMITH, the AURAL SCRGEOX, ...

... MEETHYK AND BBICON RAILWAY.—ONE of the grand locomotives ibr this new line has reached Merthyr. It has no less than twelve wheels, and is ui' such gigantic proportions that the tunnel was found almost too small for it. The line will oj^en dirc ...

... SUBSTITUTE FOR SILVER.—The intrinsic value of silver being great, and the duty paid on all articles manufactured of 11, whether for domestic or ornamental purposes, high, it has long been felt that an efficient substitute for this metal, possessing the same purity of colour and beauty of appearance, Would be a desideratum to the public. Several years ago, Mr. Benson, of Cornhill, succeeded in ...

... DUBLIN, Monday, Aug. 25.-Richard Burke, convicted at the last assizes of the poisoning of his wife, was executed at a quarter past 11 to-day at Clonmel. The ground was kept by a large body of police and a detachnae, t of Hussars. From the respectable position formerly failed by the criminal, ,,reat illIerest fested m his execution. All the approaches to the gaol were crowded. Burke, contrary ...

... YORK RACES.—TUESDAY. The Great Yorkshire Stakes were won by Zetland. Bonny Breastknot second, and Piccador third. The Knaveamire Stakes were won by Costa, Barbadoes second. For the Queen's Plate, Caller Ou walked over. The Cup was won by Feu de Joie, Zetland second. The Colt Sapling Stakes were won by by Casterician, beating Stampedo. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. ST. LEGER. 7 to 2 against ...

... FASHIONABLE SWINDLERS AT BATH. On Monday a fashionably-dressed man, about 35 years of age, of good appearance, who gave his name as James Ftale, and a fine-looking young woman who said her name was Mary Ann Greenslede, were brought up in cus- tody before the Bath magistrates charged with having conspired together in obtaining goods to a considerable value from various tradesmen in that city ...

... GENERAL NEWS. TELEGRAPHIC.-At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Mediterranean Extension Telegraph Company, a dividend at the rate of eight per cent, per annum on the preference shares was declared, and a dividend of 4s. per share, or at the rate of four per cent. per snnura, free of income tax, oi the ordinary share capital, was also declared. ENORMOUS DEFALCATION AND FORGERY ...