... ALLEGED BARBAROUS MURDER. A young man named William Curtis, steward on board the ship Martha Pope, which recently arrived in the West India Docks with a cargo of logwood, from Belize, Honduras, is rep ...

... LECTURE ON THE LAW OF I .STIORMS AND FORECASTING THE WEATaER. I An interesting paper on this inportant subject was read on Tuoesda lo te eqator ?? poles, aind h oa urn r Tuesay ust Th th Roal imttotonAlbion-street, by Capt. W. O'BuieNd 'of York. before the mnemoters of the ehull Literary and Philosophical Societp . The chair was occupied by the Rev II 't K RmP, H.A. (president of thes sciety) ...

... THE WORlKLNG CLASSES AND THE AMERICAN WAI. (Daily News.) It does not properly belong to any one or two classes of the community to maintain the honour and character of the British nation in the eyes of the world. But there is no class which may not aspire to do so when others make default. This duty the working classes of our great towns are now performing in a particular direction, to the ...

... I THE IHOLLOW-WARE MOULDERS, STRIKE. A meeting of the operatives employed in the hollow. ware trade was held on Wednesday evening last, at the Box Iron Inn, Hill Top. 4lr. Chumley (secretary), who was voted to the chair, expressed it as his determination, and that of the committee, still to carry out the strike, until they gained the object they had so long struggled for, and with a cheerful ...

... A dinner to the officers of the Walsall Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, given by the non-commissioned officers and privates, took place on Monday evening, in the Cuildhall Assembly Room, Walsall, which was taste- fully festooned with evergreens and flowers, and decorated with flags and banners. Quarter-master Newman occupied the chair; supported right and left by Captain Chawner and Captain Darwall ...

... IREFORMATORY TREITAIENr DEFENDED.I A valuable paper by Mr. Recorder HELL was read at the last meeting of tho Law Amendment Society, with the object of refuting certain erroneous views recently ex- pressed in regard to the reformatory treatment of cri. minals. Mainy journalists, Mr. HILL observes have exercised a most pernicious effoet ulpon public opinion by attacking tho reformatory ...

... ITHE INTENID VOLUNTXER REVIEW AT OXFORD; From our Coietspondtil. The intended review of rifle volunteers at Oxford, a notice of which has already appeared- in our columns, is fixed to take place on Port Meadow, in that city, on Wednesday, June 24th. An inflnential committee hs been formed under the presidency of the Majbr (Ald erumn Thomupsoni, consisting of the offiers of the Oxford- shire ...

... TO CORRESPONDBNTS. We eannet undertake to return comimunioetions of which we do not avail ourselves. Communmications should always be legibly written in ink, and on one eids qfothe paper only; length increases the diffculty of finding pspc for them. Whatever is intended for insertion ust- be authenticated by the name, and address of the writer, not necessarly for publication, but as a ...

... LATEST AN N TELEGRPHIC NEWS. STORM SIGNAL. At noon yesterday Admiral Fitzroy sent teleg 0005 to all the outports to hoist the warning signal of Approaching heavy gales. (BEUTER'S TELEGRAMS,] FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 1. The l!mperor received the diplomatlc corps and the ?? bodies of the State to-day. The Papal Nuncio congratulated his Majesty In the name of th diplomatic body. The Temp states that ...

... I - PREMERMENM AND APPOITMENS. Blanchrd. Rev. R. D. to the rectory of ddleoon-0. the-WolWs, Yorkshire. Cstwri fev. . fi ?? of Christ Chure, Oxford, ctothe recto o Anihoe Nortante. Cooke, 3 C kthtiie retot4 b Chesteton, Halite. Uoflett, Rev. W.,Mi4.A, to the chaplaincy of Morden Colze£Bla~kjsia '0£' ?? v tt binenunbencty of Exlhlaumm hfdotdWarwick: Daft- Rev. J., to be domestic chaplain to the ...

... THE DSTRESS FUND. The treasurers have again pleasure in acknow- ledin the weekly list of working men's, clerk's, an athe- employes subscriptions to the above Emplo. D. Chadwick anl Son (third month).;£13 14 0 Werehoueemea of the Corn Trae (sith wreek) ?? 13 1 4 Employd Thomas Vernon and Son (tenth week) U 1110 1 Prooeeds Coneert gfven by Alburth Choral Society, pecr Mr. John K~enda~ll ?? 1012 ...

... SHIPWRECK AND WONDERFUL IESCAPE. The brig Gipsy, James Dow, master, on her voyage from Shields for Barking, had proceeded as far as the South-west Reach, at the month of the Thames, when her further progress was stopped by the late heavy gale from the north-west. She rede it out from Thursday, December 18, till Saturday, when both cables parted, and she drove on to the Barrow Sand. the crew; ...