... SUMMARY OF PASSING EVENTS. THE fruits of over-speculation continue to affect India in a remarkable manner. The last mails from the East bring intelligence from Bombay of a ruin- ous character. Failures, the papers say, take place every day, and mercantile men know not where it may end; few houses are considered safe, and commerce is crippled to such an extent that it appears quite in a chaotic ...

... The correspondent of the Morning Post, writing from Stockholm, says:- It was not difficalt to be foreseen that the trial of Pastor Lindbaok for the murders he had committed at Siibodal would not occupy much time after the quali- fied confession which had been made by him with re- gard to them, more especially when it is remembered that in this country the formalities of a trial are to a great ...

... To the Editor of the Free Press. SIR,—In your highly interesting account of the perpetual curacy of Trevethin in your paper of last Saturday there were a few errors in the account of the ecclesiastical divisions, which I hope you will permit me space at your earliest convenience to correct, otherwise they may per- haps be cited hereafter as authentic, and the errors be perpetuated. For brevity ...

... ínrrr5pnllÙrnn. WASHINGTON AND DAVIS. To the Editor of the Free Press. SIR,—In your paper of July 1 you have in- serted another letter of Cosmopolite's, quibbling at my former letters. It will take too much of your space to show the untruth of his state- ments. I advised him, if lie wrote again, to be careful of what lie wrote, so as not to be guilty of such absurd misstatements and yet, in ...

... All will receive with satisfaction the announcemellf that in consequence of the Reduction in Duty, Ho}Ï/I' man's Pure Teas are in all parts of the kingdom sold Eight-pence per pound cheaper. Their Agents' Chemists, Confectioners,$c.—in every town, arc coil, stantly receiving fresh supplies. The decided prefer^ given during the past quarter of a century to these patd fectly Pure Teas, will be ...

... The libel case, in which the Rev. Charles Jones is plaintiff and Lord Lifford defendant, was resumed on Tuesday morning in the Court of Common Pleas, Dublin, before Chief Justice Monahan. The libel was alleged to be contained in a memorial sent to the Bishop of Derry by the defendant, charging the plain- tiff with preaching erroneous doctrines, and thereby causing St. James's chapel of ease, ...

... A collision took place on Thursday, near the station of Berre, between the express train starting from Marseilles at half-past eleven in the morning and an omnibus train. Two passengers and two agents of the company were killed. The number of wounded is not exactly known. According to the information received, the cause of the accident was this In consequence of some repairs in course of ...

... The lesson I taught him he has executed. By the gods he has bettered my instruction. MR EDITOR,-Permit me through your columns to thank the numerous persons who called upon me and expressed their regret at the unexpected decision in my case. Allow me also to refer to the answers in cross and re-examination:— —I never kept a game bird-Not one of your birds ever fought mine. ■—I never had steel ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE ELECTION. The nomination took place on Tuesday Monmouth. The usual formalities having been gone through, the High Sheriff called upon any elector to nominate fit and proper persons to re present the county in the next Parliament. Mr J. E. W. Rolls, of Hendre, nominated Ir Octavius Morgan, and Mr Thos. Gratrex, banket seconded the nomination. Mr Bosanquet, of Dingestow, proposed ...

... FACTS AND FACETIAE. The strongest plume in wisdom's pinion is the memory of past folly. If you pursue good with labour, the labour passes away and the good remains. If your neighbour's offence is rank, don't le yours be rancour. No woman: should paint except she who has lost the power of blushing. Leisure is a very pleasant garment, but it is a very bad one for constant wear. Most ...

... j, '1! French paper) a really very fair account of the English ham 0?8, -^fter describing the scenes at Grantham, Notting- wh?'v,ii' ^C'» with an evident feeling of envy of a freedom' the » !?W8 the public to pull down a polling-booth—imagine at v°W there would be if any one took a liberty with an urn 0nl ar or m Calvados—La France goes on to say that it is rjy a storm which passes over the ...

... fortunate Mr. Moens, has appeared in the Tinzes:- My husband has now been two months in the hands of the brigands, and his restoration to me seems more hopeless- or, at least, more remote-than it did in the middle of M ay. I then thought he would either be at once released by the troops, or else set free on payment of a ransom. But it now seems that the soldiers cannot release him although ...