... 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 ...

... Another of Wellington's old companions in arms has just died in this city, after an illness of some duration. General Sir James Shaw Kennedy, K.C.B., expired on Tuesday, at his residence, 8, Circus, Bath. The deceased, who was born in 1788, was educated at the Royal Military College. In 1805 he entered the army as ensign in the 43rd Light Infantry, in which the late Sir Wil- liam Napier ...

... Ihe attendance of to-day was no larger than could be expected at this holiday season, and busemes^ was almost stirless. English wheat was he&for Mon- telflwT8' m toreign transactions were too ,?g tV^te„,any iteration. Spring corn was steady at Monday's rates. ...

... By the mail steamship Roman, Mr* Baines, the Zambesi traveller, has arrived at Plymouth from the Cape. The mai' just brought over announces the wreck in Table Bay of the barque Rubens from Liverpool. On her way home the mail steamer spoke with the ship Naturalist from Calcutta, which vessel had just picked up four men who had been wrecked in the Van Capellan of Liverpool. The four men were in ...

... G EN ERAL INTEIjLIG ENCE. FUNERAL OF A BEE. A correspondent of the Glasgow Herald says On Sunday morning I had the pleasure of witnessing a most interesting ceremony. Whilst walking with a friend in a girden near Falkirk, -'e observed two bees issuing from one of the hives, bearing betwixt them the b dy of a defunct comrade, with which they flew for ad-stance of ten yards. We followed them ...

... (Before the LORDS JUSTICES.) SYMONDS V. WILKES. This was an appeal from a decision of the Master of the Rolls, the object of which was to obtain payment of a debt out of the separate estate of a married woman. John Woods, the first husband of the defendant, Mrs. Wilkes, was a wine merchant at Cardiff, and keptap hotel there, called the c. Cardiff Arms. He died in 1856, having left all his ...

... WORKING MEN'S EXHIBITION.—The east of London has nwa working men's exhibition. It was opened on Monday by Sir John Shelley, with the ceremonies usual 011 such occa- sions. There were comparatively few persons present, and it appears from that and other circumstances that the supply of this kind of exhibition has for the present rather outrun the demand. The contents of the present exhibition ...

... The usual weekly meeting was held on Saturday. E. W. Ilayid Esq in the chair. There was also present the Mayor, Cle Revs. R. T. Tyler, A Jenner, and T H. Jones, Messrs. Alexander, Vachel, Cory, Jones, P. Bird, Williams, E. Evans, J. Evans, French, &c., &c. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The Master of the Workhouse reported that during the week there had been 71 ...