... The following is an extract from an interesting letter written from Canada to the Committee of the Unemployed Operatives' Canadian Emigration Association, by a young man, named Pownall, who left Manchester in the month of May last along with several other operatives, forming what was called a pioneer band from the said society. The Com- mitte of the Unemployed Operatives' Canadian Emigra- tion ...

... The eccentric and out-speaking Manhattan,in his cor- respondence to the London Standard, takes up the war with France, which no one here believes likely at present to come off, and which the American Cabinet wishes to avoid. Except war, and preparing for war, no one, as will be seen, attends to anything going forward, if we set aside the con- tractors and market-riggers POOR DOG TRAY! As one ...

... It was reported a. short time ago that a man named Menzie, a shoemaker, had died from starvation, and that the parish authorities at ShoreditCih were to blame for their neglect of his case. The inquiry into his death, by the coroner, has been concluded, and the evidence proved that he had been repeatedly offered admission to the workhouse, and as often (refused; and that he was then allowed ...

... TOPICS OF THE WEEK. THE CONGRESS.—If it is true that the English Government has invited France to specify the pro- posed subjects of discussion, the Congress may not improbably be at an end. The Emperor cannot say that the retention by Austria of Venetia under an in- disputable legal title is to be called into question; and still less can he preclude himself beforehand from entering on one of ...

... THE NEWS BUDGET. D@ath and Marriage—A daughter of Dr. Wright, who is under sentence of death for the murder of Lieu- tenant Sanborn, at New York, has been, at his express desire, married in his cell to a young man to whom she had long been engaged. The doctor has had his coffin made after a peculiar pattern designed by himself— the top end is raised so as to form a chamber over the face ten ...

... FRIGHTFUL STARVATION OF A FAMILY. Another shocking case of death from starvation has taken place in the Fast-end of London. It appears that a respectable family, carrying on a school at No. 45 De Bean voir-s quar e, West Hackney, have been plunged into a state of the greatest destitution through the failure of the school, and that recently an execu- tion was put into the house and all the ...

... A case raising a point of some importance under the Salmon Fisheries' Act—Hopton v. the Rev.T.J.Thirlwall— was heard in the Court of Queen's Bench, on Wednesday last. It was a case stated by justices for the opinion of the Court. The defendant was found by a watcher of the Wye Fishery Association fishing with a rod and line in the river Ithon, Radnorshire. In the defendant's basket some ...

... On the 2nd September last, Matthew Henry Escott, a clerk in the employment of the North- amptonshire Banking Company, at Wellingborough, absconded, taking with him bank notes to the value of nearly £ 1,000. A reward of = £ 100 was offered for his apprehension, and further rewards of X25 for such information as would lead to his apprehension, and X75 on recovery of the money, or in proportion ...

... WE have authority for staging, says a Dublin paper, that there is not the slightest foundation for the rumour in circulation as to the intended resignation of the Right Honourable Mr. Justice Ball. FRANCE has made Spain an offer of troops in case rebellion should spread to Cuba. This is a friendly way of humiliating a Power. THE Court Journal, on the faith of a correspondent, says:— A vacancy ...

... Brougham v. Shakespeare.-A paragraph has been going the round of the papers, on the authority of the Athenceum, to the effect that Lord Brougham had told a member of the National Shakespeare Com- mittee that his opinion of the great poet was not high, and that he was an over-rated man. The Globe, how- ever, and other papers, officially contradict this state- ment. His lordship, it appears, ...

... THE ARTS, LITERATURE, &c. IT is intended to erect a chancel and stained-glass window in the parish church of Stillorgan, in memory of the late Archbishop of Dublin. The deceased pre- late resided in that parish for twenty-eight years. A GLASGOW paper announces for sale, by private bargain, the wonderful organ of James Watt, the illustrious inventor of steam, made by his own hands] for his own ...

... CORN EXCHANGE.—The question of supplying this town with a corn exchange has at length been determined upon. The members of the Town Council, at a meeting held on Monday last, came to the decision that a portion of the new market house should be appropriated for that pur- pose. A committee was formed, and other arrangements were suggested for the purpose of carrying out the impor- tant object. ...