... An inquest was recently held at the Rabbits Inn, Ilford, before C. C. Lewis, Esq., coroner, touching the death of George PuncharQ, whose body was found in a coffin, thrown into the City of London Cemetery. The inquest had been adjourned in order that a post- mortem examination might be made of the body, and for the production of certain parties who had been accomplices in the affair. The facts ...

... MINCING-LANE, JUNE G.-Sugar.: There is still a Quiet market, bat business has been transacted in brown qualities at full urices. Refined dull of sale; prices unaltered. Coffee: 'The market is steady but not active. Tea: The trade are occupied with the samples of the parcels to be offered in public sale to-morrow, the demand privateiy in consequence is inactive. ...

... OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. THE war news from America appears all in favour of thes North. Sherman is advancing toward Richmond, and the last accounts stated that his forces were within twenty miles of that city, and it was anticipated that the Confederates would evacuate their capital without attempting to resist the powerful forces of the Federals. Poverty, dis- ease, and death, are said to be ...

... The will of Mr. Charles Cavendish Fulke Greville, of Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, was proved in the London Court on the 1st inst., by the executors, Mr. William Henry Greville (his brother), Captain the Hon. Francis Egerton, and Mr. Harvie Morton Far- quhar, of Braokley-house, Northamptonshire. The personalty was sworn under £ 25,000. The testator was the eldest son of Mr. Charles Greville, ...

... A romantic elopement, which in the hands of a master would furnish the foundation for a novel of Vae iirst order, recently took place at a little market town on the borders of Hampshire. The following particulars, which have been obtained from reliable •authority, will no doubt prove interesting :— It appears that in the town alluded to a young gentleman closely related to a Koyal personage ...

... TOTAL DESTRUCTION BY FIRE OF THE SURREY THEATRE. 'ThG Surrey Theatre, in the Blackfriars-road, the fa-voarite theatre on the south side- of the Thames, was on Monday night totally destroyed by fire under the £ aiIo;ving circumstanccs. At twenty ininutas-to :?12 o'clockthe last seene of tha pantomime of (Richard -• ...

... A dispatch from New York, dated June 24, states that the transport Kentucky, with 1,200 paroled Con- federate prisoners on board, struck a snag near Shreveport, on Red River, on the 9th, and sank in three minutes. Over 200 lives were lost. Galveston, Texas, the last seaport held by the Con- federates, was surrendered to General E. J. Davis by Kirby Smith on the 5th.. In conseqnence the Presi- ...

... A curious case came before Messrs. T. Colemore and A. Dixon, at the Erdington Police-court the other day. A lady of respectable appearance, aged thirty, who gave her name as Mrs. Young, was charged with stealing £ 80, the property of Maria Holloway. The prosecutrix is the mother of Mrs. Perrins, who is the wife of a brush manufacturer in Camden-town, Bir- mingham, but who resides in the ...

... Superstition.—An American paper states that just after noon on the Sunday prior to the assassina- tion, four large eagles appeared together over the dome of the Capitol at Washington, circling around the head of the statue of Liberty. It was taken at that time to be a good omen of the time coming, and yet so soon falsified by the nation being plunged m sorrow, and universal and sincere regret ...

... WEATHER DURING APRIL, 1865.-The weather was extraordinarily fine from the commencement to the close of the month, no less than twent,y-seven days being regis- tered as fine (without rain), and the rainfall only amounted to 0.69 inches. The temperature on many occasions was remarkably high, as was shewn by a thermometer in the shade on three different occasions rising to 79°, whilst in the sun ...

... SPORTS AND PASTIMES. + MR. HENDERSON, a. member of the Cavendish Angling Club, held at the King's Head Tavern, Mar- garet-street, Cavendish-square, in two days' fishing at Wootton Bassett, caught 1751b. weight of jack, the largest of which weighed 141b., one 121b., two lOlb. each, three 9 jlb. each, and three 8ilb. each. BREADALBANE and Broomielaw, the two Derby favourites, have been purchased ...

... AN UNRULY APPRENTICE SENT, TO PRISON. Charles Annay, a lad about 16 years of age, appren- ticed to Mr. Augustin Daws, of 16, Church-row, Old St. Pancras-road, was charged at the Clerkenwell Police-court, before Mr. Barker, with having unlaw- fully refused to obey the lawful commands of his master, arid stopping away from his work. Mr. Ricketts attended on behalf of the complainant, and in ...