... BRUTAL MURDER AT DALSTON. Considerable excitement has been created in the neighbourhood of Dalston and Hackney by a rumour that a man named Charles Homerston had recently fallen a victim to a ruffianly attack, arising out of a feeling of revenge for having given a decision adverse to some parties in a gambling transaction. On Saturday afternoon Mr. John Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, opened ...

... SUDDEN DEATH AT CHRISTCHURCH, OXFORD. An inquest has been held at the above college, on the body of Charles B. Holloway, Eilq., gentleman commoner of that society, before the University coro- ner, Valentine Cox, Esq., and a mixed jury, composed of an equal number of senior members of Christ Church and matriculated citizens. His valet deposed to having lived with the deceased gentleman last ...

... CITY, Nov. 10.-The stock markets to-day are dull and in- active, speculation being restrained by uncertanty as to whether the rate of discount at the Bonk of England will be raised to 7 per cent on next Thursday. The funds are unaltered in price. Consols are now quoted 92 j to f, cum div., for msney. and 91| to i, ex div., for the account (Dec. 3). The official busi- ness report is as follows ...

... MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT.—On Tuesday last, Dr. Mark and his celebrated little men visited this town and gave two performances at the Beaufort Arms Assembly rooms, both of which were well attended, more especially the evening entertainment. The songs sung by the Juve- nile Sims Reeves were much admired, as also the one sung by the two little Jack Tars. The performance altogether was everything ...

... The following letter on this subject' has been addressed by Mr. Mechi to the editor of the Agri- cultural Gazette In the business affairs of this world we are not saved by faith, but rather by the want of it. A hundred instances in corroboration of this saying might be easily adduced in every walk of trade, com- merce, or manufacture. Take the daily transactions of our good old city as ...

... Spanish Punctilio.—The train with passengers from Bayonne, which should have arrived at Burgos at 7.30 last Friday morning, was delayed upwards of two hours by the following peculiar circumstance,:—When within four kilometres of Burgos the engine-driver perceived some object lying on the line. On stopping the train they discovered the body of some poor fellow who had been run over by the night ...

... To the above we add the following items of interest on the present Rusaomania, the Government, and other matters :— THE COLD SHOULDER'' GIVEN TO THE POLES There are vast numbers of Poles here. Of course they are supremely disgusted with the attentions be- stowed upon their old persecutors, the Russians. Some- thing must be done, and that right off. So to-night the Poles are to have a grand ...

... PONTNEWYNYDD WQRKS. Some weeks ago the announcement was made in the Free Press that negotiations were in progress with a view to the taking of Pontnewynydd works. We are exceedingly gratified to be enabled now to state that the affair has been brought to the most satisfactory issue, the works having been bought, and possession obtained, by a company who, we are asshred, have both the means and ...

... 'Twixt baker and miller, which pilfers our siller In scoundrelest sort, it's not easy to say, For each of those robbers and greedy food-jobbers The high price of bread OR the other will lay. But though one submits to 'em, meek as a Quaker, A toast and a sentiment both may go round, A health to King Pharaoh who hung up that baker, And blest be 'his dam' where that miller was drowned. ONE WHO ...

... the Liverpool Post) a woman named Barlow, between seventy and eighty- years of age, left Bury to go to America,, where she expected to see her aunt, who is ninety-eight years of age. Mrs. Barlow had never previously ridden in a railway carriage, nor had she ever seen a ship or the sea. When approaching Liverpool she stood up in the carriage, and appeared to be much interested with the masts of ...

... THE BLOCKADE OF THE MEXICAN COAST. It is notiifed in the London Gazette that Earl, Rus- sell, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received from her Majesty's vice- consul at Vera Cruz a notiifcation, addressed to him by the commander-in-chief of the French naval forces in the Gulf of Mexico, and dated the 5th of September, 1863; of the blockade by the French ...

... Our friend Manhattan appears hard pushed for news, he knows nothing about the war, he guesses a bit about politics, and he has collected together some nice little bits of scandal. We give the following extracts from his last letter:- A Publican and a Senator. Two hotel keepers are running for state senators -H. D. Clapp, of the Everett-house, well known to every Londoner who has been in this ...