... 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. ...

... MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT ISLE WORTH On Wednesday evening, about eight o'clock, as some men were at work on the banks of the stream at Isle- worth, they heard sereams as from s.female. On pro- eeading to the spot they found a man standing up with his throat cut in a ghastly manner. A short distance from the spot, in a garden path, they dis- covered the dead body of a woman, with her head ...

... The new Act of Parliament to amend the registra- tion of county voters has just been printed, and has immediate operation. It will effect several important alterations in the law of registration and as to the duties of revising barristers in the next revision of the lists of counties, cities, and boroughs. On or before the 10th June in every year the clerk of the peace is to deliver to the ...

... AN AWKWARD PREDICAMENT.—On Wednesday week, two lads, named Thomas Nicholas and John James, who were working at Mr. Vipond's colliery, started off on an underground expedition in search of fresh quarters. In the course of their travels they got into Messrs. Partridge tud Jones' works, at Cwmffrwd, and thence into another portion of Mr. Vipond's works, and here a serious mishap overtook them in ...

... The town and neighbourhood of PArsonstown was in an unusual state of excitement during the past week. Serious reports were in circulation respecting the mysterious disappearance of a woman named Hayes, the wife of the herd of Marlboro Berry, Esq., Cloneen, Hayes, when questioned about his wife, stated that at- about nine o'clock on the previous Monday evening, a man entered his house, at ...

... MINCING-LANE, JUNE 19.-Sugar: Business to a large extent, and rather higher rates were obtained to-day Mau- ritius, of brown quality, selling at 27s to 32s yellow and re- fining, 32s 6d to 34s 6d: grainy, 3 ts to 41s; Cuba Musca- vado, 29s to 34s; Porto Rico, 30s to 37s Havannah, brown, 29s 6d to 32s yellow, 32s 6d to 36s 6d; floretts 37s to 40s; white, 40s 6d to 42s 6d; Madras, native, 23s 6 ...

... Why does a piebald pony never pay toll ? Becasise his master pays it for him. Benefit of Competition —Pope, when he first saw Garrick act, observed, I am afraid that the young man will be spoiled, for be will have no competitor Telling Truth.An Irishman, whose father had been hanged, was accustomed to say of him, He died suddenly upon a platform at a large public meeting. A Smart Landlady ...

... Some Advertisements are held over in consequence of their reaching us at too late an hour. Our Monmouth Correspondent wishes to state that he inadvertently forwarded us last week incorrect particulars of the death of Mrs. John Powell, which made it appear that the person named had given birth to a son. The death, is properly announced in our obituary this week. Additional Pontypool Police ...

... The. following is an extract from the special cor- respondent of the Daily Telegraph, who has been sent over to Algeria to record the events connected with the Emperor's visit there. He says:- The hundred mayors, the five hundred members of the municipal councils, the prefects and sub-prefects, the intendants and directors, the chiefs of this and the chiefs of that who have been in due course ...

... Loss of Twenty-six Lives. One of the most lamentable and frightful colliery explosions that has ever happened in South Wales took place &.t the New Bedwelty pit, the property of the Tredegar Company, on Friday morning. The men went down as usual that morning, and everything ap- peared to go on right until about half-past ten o'clock, when the gas fired. Forbunately the explosion did not reach ...

... In the Court of Queen's Bench, oil Monday, the cause of Springett v. Balls was tried, and was an action, under Lord Campbell's Act, by the widow of a hop-sampler, who had been run oyer hy a Brixton omnibus, against the pro- prietorofit,foral)egednegligencc of his sermnt, the driver;— The lamentable accident occurred about six o'clock in the evening of November last at a spot in the Borough ...