... Under this title, Mr. Sydney Hodges, Secretary of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society, writes to the Times the following account of a horrible circumstance just brought to light in a village near Falmouth :— For some years past rumours have been current that the brother of a mason named Porter, living in comfortable circumstances, had been kept for many years in close confinement in a small ...

... DEATH FROM BURNING.—The poor old woman, Da vis, whose accident we recorded last week, died on Thursday last, from the injuries she sustained. VOLUNTEER SUPPER.-On Monday, Major King, for- merly Captain of the 6th Monmouthshire, entertained the members of the corps at supper, at the King's Head Hotel. There was a numerous company, above 75, and the evening was most pleasantly spent. CHRISTMAS ...

... At the Sunderland County Court last week a case was heard^ in which Robert Taylor claimed £ 50 as compensation for injuries he had received at the hands of a companion named John Atkinson. The men are both savsyers, working at Southwick. and residing in the adjoining viliage of Hylton. On the morning of Monday, the 29th of June last, they left their work about ten o'clock, and went into the ...

... ElHOC](INtt.' DEATH OF A SOLICITOR. [ Worcester lias been plunged into a state of regret by tidiags of the untimely deatS;of Mr. Jo.ah J ones, a solicitor of som-o standing, had for some | few-weeks beanyisited by a wry so vera iliiK^s, wKeh during the greater paxb: of its continuance seriously affected his brain, and reooen-d him qmteirresponsiMe. s for his actions., Under akilfel ti c ...

... Da Friday morning last a little boy of about seven years of age, nam^d Charles Dommett, was murdered by his father under verv lamemaVe circumstances. The murderer, who is a qui»t, ira fft-nsive-looking little man, ia fifty years of age. a d f om his youth has been in the employ of a firm of twine and line merchants. He is the father of six children, the eldest of whom has been ill for some ...

... Considerable excitement was created on Wednesday in the neighbourhood of Shadwell by a rumour that the body of a woman, shockingly mutilated, and apparently barbarously murdered, had been found at nine o'clock the previous evening in one of the basins of the London Docks, The facts appear to be theseBetween nine and ten o'clock on Tuesday night a looksman named Francis, in the employment of ...

... Manhattan says that four brothers .named Fish, have been drafted in New York, and out of Twenty-, seventh-street. Some people, he says, would call this a miraculous draft of fishes. Mr. W. Williams, M.P., presided lately at a. meeting at Walworth, for the establishment of a Working Men's Club in that locality. The hon gen- tleman strongly advocated the movement. Several other speakers ...

... Very soon after the offices of the Yorkshire Banking Company at Hull were opened on Friday for business, a youth in the employ of a mercantile firm in the town, presented a check for payment of X28 4s. The clerk who received the check asked the youth who had sent him, and the latter replied that a lady had asked him to get the check cashed for her, and she was waiting outside. Suspicion being ...

... EXCURSION TO POETISHEAD-—On Monday last, the steam packet Wye made a trip to Portishead, conveying about 100 persons from Chepstow and neighbourhood. Had the excursion been a month earlier, doubtless many more would have embraced the opportunity to make this very pleasant trip. The weather proved delightfully fine for the time of year, and all on board seemed to enjoy themselves exceedingly. ...

... An American letter from Fortress Monroe, dated January 4th, says In conversation with several of the officers and crew of the Monitor, I gathered the following narra- tive of the facts attending the loss of that noble little vessel and so many of her crew :—We left Fortress Monroe on Monday, the 29th of December, in tow of the steamer Rhode Island, with the Passaic in tow of the steamer State ...

... GENERAL BUTLER'S DEFENCE, Before leaving New Orleans General Butlsi put forward the following address to the inhabitants :— I shall speak in no bitterness, because I am not conscious of a single personal animosity. Commanding the army of the Gulf, I found you captured, but not surrendered; conquered, bat not orderly relieved from the presence of an army.. but incapable of taking care of ...

... THE COURT. THE Court still remains at Osborne; her Majesty- takes her usual walks and drives in the vicinity. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince .and tha Princess Louis of takes her usual walks and drives in the vicinity. Their Eoyal Highnesses the Prince .and tha Princess Louis of Hesse constantly accompany- her Majesty, together with the junior branches of the Royal family. THE marriage ...