... RUSSIAN ATROCITIES IN POLAND. The following terrible incidents are extracted from the Cracow correspondent of a, morning contemporary Two or three days since a Polish lady and gentleman who had not been able to escape across the frontier, though living close on it, were massacred in poll blood with their daughter. I myself; travelled as far as the barrier with a proprietor who lives at ...

... t DEATH IN A CELLAR. Dr. Lankester held an inquest, on Tuesday, at the board-room of the Hoi born Union, Little Gray's-inn-lane, on the body of Charlotte Nicholls, aged about 70, who was found dead in one of the cellar habitations in Veru- am-straet, Gray's-inn-lane. The evidence set forth that deceased lived in a cellar at No. 20, Yerulam-street, Gray's-inn-lane, and being poor, aged, and ...

... On Saturday, Dr. Lankester, coroner, held an inauest at the Middlesex Hospital, concerning the death of Lucy Redhead, aged 25, who had died in that institution from the alleged effects of a blow inflicted on her by a man named Philip Newbery England, a bill discounter and money lender, residing in the Polygon, Somers'-towri. MrR. Mary Ann King deposed that she was the mistress (,f deceased, ...

... A man named Rich has been committed for trial from Sheffield on a charge of killing a man in a pugilistic fight. The fight, according to the witnesses, was a fair one, but Rich forced it on the other man, who, after an encounter of an hour's.' duration, dropped on his second's knee, and died on the field. Two .Men Burnt at a Brick-kiln.—On Satur- day morning, about half-past three o'clock, a ...

... The will of Sir Culling E. Eardley, Bart., of Bedwell-park,' near Hatfield, Herts, was proved in the London Court by Hugh Culling Eardley Childers, Esq., M.P., and Godfrey Lushington, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn, Barrister-at-Law, the joint acting executors. The per- sonality was sworn under ...

... The recent summary dismissals of volunteers which have taken place in the Queen's, South Middlesex, and other corps, at the caprice of the commanding officer?, have induced the establishment of a Protection Asso- ciation amongst the volunteers themselves. The object of this association is, as their prospectus states, to protect volunteers against dismissal by the commanding officers of their ...

... T O W 3sT BY OUR I .ON DON CORRESPONDENT. Our vectdtrs will understand that we do not hold ou> selves responsible for our able correspondent's opinions. WHO was answerable for sending the father and mother of the Princess of Wales to an hotel? When, in the face of the parvenu Hotel Company, Mr. Breach built his Palace Hotel, people thought him silly; he has proved himself wise in his ...

... SHOCKING TRAGEDY ON BOARD A STEAMER. By the arrival of the Arsglo-J'rench Steam Ship Company's steamer Grimsby, Captain Wharton, which vessel has just entered the pert of Great Grimsby, we have particulars of a shocking tragedy that was enacted on board that vessel on her passage from Hamburg. It appears that the Grimsby left Hamburg on Friday evening last, in ballast, and also with several ...

... FIRE INSURANCE. The advantages offered by Fire Insurance are too prominent to require much comment. By the pay- ment of a small annual premium, indemnification from loss by fire may be secured, and the insurers placed beyond the possibility of sudden beggary. It has been calculated that property to the value of about £6,000,000 is annually destroyed in Great Britain and Ireland by fire, a fact ...

... The. Colliery Strike in Durham.—This strike continues without any indications of drawing to a close. The evictions also continue, and forty-five more families have been ejected from their homes at Oakenshaw. A meeting of the men on strike was held at Willington, but beyond the discussion of their grievance nothing was done. Fatal Accident on the South Eastern Railway.-A bill-sticker, named ...

... 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 ...