... Strange Proceedings Among the applications to Mr. Dayman, at the Wandsworth Police-court on Friday, was one by a respectable-looking woman, who stated that she lived in the New-road, Battersea, and that her lodgers had lost a child, which the parish had refused to bury. The- child had been dead eight days, and the body was in a shocking condition. Applicant had a family of six. children, and ...

... Gardening Operations for the Week. Bedding plants struck in the open ground must be potted forthwith; in all cases a poor sandy soil and plenty of drainage must be used, especially if the plants are to be kept in pits or other places where they will be exposed to a low temperature during hard weather. Take up all choice plants now that it is intended to keep through the winter, and pot them if ...

... An inquiry was held by Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, at the Earl Vincent Tavern, Philpot-street, Commercial-road, on Wednesday, respecting the death, uader very painful circumstances, of Miss Lucretia Jeffreys, aged twenty-four years, the daughter of a well-known paper manufacturer. The jury proceeded to No. 5, Stcnor-street, Philpot- street, to view the body of the deceased. The family ...

... SPORTS AND PASTIMES. A SALMON was caught this week at Montrose which deserves an obituary notice, as it was a monster unparalleled. It weighed 501bs., was 53 inches long, and 29 inches in girth. It was odd no one thought of it as a fit Royal present. IT is now generally admitted that many of the ladies who are followers of old Izaak Walton are quite as expert in salmon fishing as their lords, ...

... TERRIBLE CONFLAGRATION IN LIN- COLNSHIRE. Nearly Half a Village Burnt. About ton o'clock on Friday morning a fire, attended with most disastrous results, broke out at Sillingham, near Tatterahall. It was first discovered at the corner of the main street leading to Lincoln, on the roof of a thatched hovel, in a -yard belonging to a man named William Scott, wood dealer. The wind at the time was ...

... Verdict ot Wilful Murder. The inquiry before the coroner into the death of Oathsriiie' Gailivsr was resumed on Thursday after- noon, at Holt Fleet. It will be remembered that the deceased was house- keeper to an old man named Batler, the keeper of the Holt Fleet lock on the River Severn, five miles from Worcester; that on the night of the 13th August they auarrelled; that a noise like the ...

... THREE PEESOSS were drowned whilst bathing at Bude, Cornwall, on Thursday last. Mr. John Prout, grocer, of outon, Devon, and his son, and Mr. Loundes, of Totues. They were carried out of their depth by a ground-swell. ...

... On Tuesday the Times had a leader on a portion of the Registrar General's Report., on the subject of Poisoning, in which they remark To what extent the administration of poison causes death or disease in England is not even approximately known. Such is the disagreeable intimation with which the Medical Officer of the Privy Council intro- duces a section of his present Report. If we could be ...

... OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. POLITICS are at low water just now, and not even all the extra-parliamentary utterances put together can produce any political excitement. Earl Russell is at Balmoral, where he will have plenty of oppor- tunity of conversing with her Majesty on a topic on which both the Queen and her Foreign Secretary must feel great interest—the Dano-German negotia- tions for peace. ...

... Man go AMOCTAU 62mmuf i MEDI 14,1861. Y M11AE y Pwyllgor Detholedig a appwyntiwyd gan Dp y Cyffredin i Nvneyd yruchwiliad i'r dull goreu i I : , 1~ .l. ?? - ?? mftwrinn wedi drfua chadw carthion 'cin trfyd aron ed dyfod i'r peoderfyniadl, ar ol eistedd am dri oils a d holi lliaws o aystion, Did yn unig y gilid eu def- g nyddio i ffrvy-tihloni y tir, ond y gellid gwvneyd elivI ~~jf mawr o ...

... PROPOSED GAS WonKs.-- A meeting was held in the Town Hall, on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of promoting the establishment of Gas Works in the popu- lar and attractive. watering place, Towyn., From the prospectus handed round to the parties attending, we gather that the scheme has been originated by stralngers, Mr. Jamiles, Soli6itdr, of Wellington, Salop, appearing in tls inutdresttof ...

... WARDENS' ASSOCIATION FOR THEE DIOCESE OF BANGOR. A most important meeting was held ini the Chapter B eorm)n Monday week, for the purpose of taking into 0oideratioa the expediency of fotrming at Bangor (1) ?? of the London Churchw'ardens' Association end (2), a Local Church Association. The Very Reverend Deanof Bangor who had convened the meeting, e been voted to the chair and prayers having ...