... On Thursday night the inhabitants of the neighbour- hood of Union-street, Aldershot, were thrown into a state of excitement by the rumour that a woman had been murdered by her husband in a passage between High- street and Union-street. It appears that on the night named a man named William Bartlett, a plasterer, from Exeter, arrived at Aldershot for the purpose of finding out his wife, Frances ...

... THE WAR, IN AMERICA. The Cunard steamer Canada, from Boston on iho, 11th and Halifax on the 13th Nov., has just arrived. The New York papers indulge in san- guine expectations of the future. We give the iafiOwing extracts:- General Meade's Advance. The Washington correspondent of the New York World, writing on the 10th, says:— It is rumoured that a considerable Union force started or is about ...

... ADDRESS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERN- MENT OF WARSAW TO THE FRENCH NATION. The subjoined address to the French nation has just been issued by the National Government of Warsaw:— For a long time past Europe contemplated, with a feeling of melancholy regret, Poland fallen from her former power, and looked upon a body from which the soul appeared to have departed. To sadness succeeded forgetfulness, ...

... The following dispatch, addressed to her Majesty's ambassador at St. Petersburg, is published in the London Gazette, dated from the Foreign-office My Lord,—Baron Brunnow has communicated to me a dispatch from Prince Gortschakoff, dated August 26 (September 7), in reply to my dispatch to your Excellency, No. 178, of the 11th ultimo, of which you were instructed to give a copy to his Excellency ...

... LEADENHALL.—Hides.—Prices 56Ibs to 641bs, 2fd to 3d:- 64ibs to 721bs, 3d to 3 jd; 721bs to 80lbs, 3d to 4d SOlos tc ftSltml 3Jd to 4Jd; 881bs to SSlbs, 4^d to 5d; 9Glbs to 1041bs, 4 £ d to 5.}d; 1041bs to 1121bs, 5d to Gd. borse hiaes, 10s to 12s. Caif skins, light, 2s 6d to 4s; full, 7s. BERMONDSEY.—Sheep skins, polled, 9s to 123 half breds, 6s 9d to 7s 9d; downs, 6s to 7s. ...

... SCENE AT A PRIZE FIGHT. A New York paper has the following extraordinary account of a scene that occurred around a pugilistic ring. The writer says :—A prize fight lately came off between Tom Daly.and Billy M'Grath, at the Washoe race track, Virginia. After fourteen rounds had been fought, a blow was struck which was voted foul, which resulted in the following scene:— Harry Lazarus had been ...

... From St. Petersburg we learn of a fresh step to- wards intimacy between that Court and the Italian kingdom. Some time since the King of Brockhara had captured some Lombard travellers in the far East, gone there in. quest of silkworm eggs, and that the Sultan had in vain interfered for their liberation. The Czar has taken up their case, and pressing orders have been issued to the. Governor of ...

... Iron and Wire Works at Tin tern, together with some other literaly notices, shall appear in our next. ...

... The long vacation (says the Observer of Sunday) is at an end, and to-morrow the courts open for the dispatch of business. Those who owed money three months ago, and deferred payment because it could not be enforced during the holidays, now find it ad- visable to cash up, and those who for the past three months have treated their creditors with supercilious- ness and contempt, now find it ...

... RUSSIAN RULE IN POLAND. The Government of Augustow has now been defi- nitively united to Lithuania, and General Mouravieff has begun to style himself Chief of the countries of Lithuania and Augustow. Preparations are being made for the incorporation of the remainder of the kingdom of Poland with the Russian Empire, by dis- missing all the Polish employes in the kingdom, and replacing them ...

... WORCESTER, DEAN FOREST, AND MONMOUTH RAIL- WAY COMPANY.—The first ordinary general meeting of this company was held at its offices, Furegate-street Wor- cester, on Tuesday, Joseph Robinson, Esq., in the chair. The business was purely of a formal nature. There was a goodly attendance of shareholders, who elected a board of directors which was formed of six gentlemen from South Wales-A. Darby, J ...

... Under the names of Gusher and Slasher the London Review has a very good article on extravagant writing, from which we select the following illustrations of the styles of each:— For the composition of such articles [as those by Gusher] are necessary the following ingredients :-A thoroughly perverted taste, and an ear assailable by no amount of cacophony, a contempt for the pure well of ...