... The French Government has at length made up its mind to speak to the French public about the case of Glover v. Billault and Persigny, and the following semi-official article, signed Boniface, appears in the Constitutwnnel About ten years ago Serjeant Glover became proprietor of the Morning Chronicle, and edited that journal in a spirit favourable to the policy of France. Some years later, ...

... Elizabeth Lydia Brown, scarcely seventeen years of agp, and at the time of the alleged offence residing with her parents, persons of urquestionable respectability, in Rotherfield-street, Islington, was finally examined at Worship-street Police-court, on Saturday, on the fol- lowing cbarges ;-Suspicion of having caused the death of her illegitimate male infant and of caicealing the birth. The ...

... We read in the Galignani that the general subject of conversation in Paris during thepa3t week was an attack of which M. de Villemessartt has been the object, at his own residence, on the part of a member of the Legisla- tive Body. The motive of this act of violence was the following article in the Figaro, on the projected marriage between M. Edmond About and the daughter of M dne. De- nain, ...

... Very little reliable news has baen received from the qeat of the Polish insurrection. In the Government or district of Lublin, to the east, and bordering Yolnyma, the movement seems to have been least successful during recent encounters. Ttiere can be little doubt that if the rebellion is not assuming larger proportions in any one place, it has of late broken out in several new and unex- ...

... There is nothing in the sensation novels to exceed a real case of romantic crime that Clme before the Dublin Police magistrates last week. Joseph Harcourt, a respectably-dressed person, about thirty years of age, described as a tutor, was brought up in the custody of Inspectors Daly and Smith, charged with having incited two men to murder a gentleman of property, residing near Newry, in the ...

... An action was brought in the Nisi Prius Court, York, for a breach of- promise of marriage. The plaintiff was Miss Alice Green, and the defendant Mr. Joseph Tetley. He is a woolstapler at Bradford, and is about fifty years of age. The plaintiff is about forty-four, and for some years she had obtained her livelihood as a dressmaker. in 1858 she assisted her brother-in-law, Mr. Chesterman, who ...

... USK. ROGER EDWARDS'S CHARITY. At a meeting of the Trustees of this charity, held on Saturday, the 14th inst.—present: 1. Nicholl, Esq. (chair- man), Rev. A. Williams, Rev.W. Price, T. Falconer, Esq., W. H. Nicholl, Esq., and D. E. Partridge, Esq.—it was resolved:— That the consideration of the alterations and repairs necessary to be made in the Grammar School buildings be brought before the ...

... A very interesting letter from a correspondent at Mel- bourne, dated January 26, on the present state and future prospects of Australia, appeared in the columns of a morning contemporary. We extract the following:— Until within the last fortnight, which has brought us two or three refreshing rains, we have been suffering from the very severest drought the colony has known for many yeara. An ...

... LEADENHALL, MARCH 13.-Hides.-Prices; 5(31bs to 2td to 2fd 611bs to 721bs. 2f d to 3d 721bs to 801bs, 3ft to 801bs to 881bs, 3d to 4d; 8SLs to 961bs, 3 £ d to 4J. Horse hktes 8s 6d to 10s 6d. Calf skins, light, 2s to 3s 8d full, 6s. BERMONDSEY, MARCH 13.— Kenta and half-breds, 9sto ItJ Downs, 7s to 9s. ...

... Lieutenant Lefroy, commanding her Majesty's ship Investigator, in his ascent of the river Niger, an enter- prise undertaken with a view to communicate with Dr. Baikie, has succeeded in reaching a higher point of that river than had hitherto been attained by a ship of war. On the 2nd of September he commenced the ascent. The current was strong, and some of the inhabitants of the banks were ...

... I think that through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts ot men arewldeued by the process of the suns. Thus said the poet-laureate, while contemplating the mighty inventions brought to our view at the {ate International Exhibition of 1862 and to whose .eyes is this truth not apparent ? It has been said there is nothing new under the snn, and probably many modern inventions ...

... Mr. Coleman, writing to the Agricultural Gazette, gives the following information on this subject:—At a time like the present, he says, when the breeding of sheep is likely to produce a better return than corn- growing, it becomes an important question to consider whether we cannot improve our system, so as upon the same food to grow a greater quantity of stock. There has been very marked ...