... mi n 7 COLOGNE, OCT. 28. The Cologne Gazette of to-day publishes a letter from its Berlin correspondent, which says The statement is confirmed that, in consequence of the communication of the notes forwarded by the great Powers to Frankfort, the majority of the German Governments have expressed their assent and wish that the matter be referred to the Diet. Austria is said to recommend Federal ...

... DESPERATE SUICIDE THROUGH RAIL- WAY EVICTION. On Thursday afternoon an inquiry was held before Dr. Lankester, coroner for Central Middlesex, at the Triumph, Skinner-street, Euston-road, on the body of William Gullett, aged forty-two, a fishmonger, carrying on business at No. 3, Bull-yard, Somers- town, who committed suicide in the most determined and frightful manner, consequent on being ...

... An affair ef a sensational nature is recorded in a Limerick paper. From the narrative it seems that a lady, the wife of a captain, and a native of fair Limerick, has positively horse-whipped or, more properly, parasoled, a military fellah in one of the public thoroughfares. If the account of provoca- tion given be correct, the lady only sarved him right. It appears, says the Dublin ...

... The official Staatsanzeiger of Berlin publishes the following:— The events which accompanied the presence of the Prince of Augnstenburg at Eckernforde have, as a matter of course, occasioned the serious attention of the Government of Schleswig to be directed towards the persons implicated in these proceed- ings. By accepting the ovations offered to him as sovereign, the prince arrogated to ...

... S POUTS AND PASTIMES. ON the Baliol grounds, Oxford, on Saturday after- nGlon, a 300 yard race came off for a presentation tankard. Mr. Nolan, St. John's, won by several yards; Mr. Morgan, Magdalen-hall, came in second; and Mr. Laing, Christohurch, third. ON the grounds at Beaufort-house, Walham-green, a. race for a quarter of a mile came off the other day between Mr. Guy Pym, of the War ...

... A RAMBLER'S JOTTINGS. THE all-engrossing subject in London last week was the Lord Mayor's inauguration and banquet. The newspapers have given details of the imposing ceremony, the procession, and the speeches, but perhaps a few words from an eye-witness of the exact particulars may be interesting to those who have not had the opportunity of ocular demon- stration. For the advantage of those ...

... In the course of a paper read a few days ago by Dr. Kelburne King, President of the Hull Literarv and Philosphical Society, before the members of that society, on The Recent Visit of the British Associa- tion to Birmingham, the doctor, in speaking of a visit which he and Dr. Richardson, of London, had made to Shakespeare's birthplace, at Stratford-on-Avon, nar- rated the following curious ...

... A Looker-on, in Ry lands' Iron Trade Circular, states that having some personal experience of petroleum, it| discovery, its raising, and its refining,5' he gladly accepted instructions to proceed to Flint- shire, for the purpose of examining into certain state- ments respecting the production of oil in Flintshire. Passing Cefn, he says, without stepping, although strongly tempted to ...

... The matter of Wilson's Trusts ex parte Shaw, came before Vice-Chancellor Wood, in London, on Saturday. The case, which came on upon a petition and cross petition, was of a most singular and somewhat romantic character, and involved the following circumstances :— Elizabeth Mary Hickson was the great niece of John Wilson, who, being a domiciled Englishman, made his will in the English form, ...

... ITonbcm Cmtspmliffli deem it right to state that we donot at all times identify wselves with our correspondent's opinions*] j r,ainent stands prorogued till the 23rd instant. It will then probably be again prorogued till the third week in January, then to meet for the dispatch of business. The swearing-in of the members and the choice of a. Speaker will occupy several days, so that the ...

... (From the Toronto Globe, Nov. 4.) We question whether anything so irredeemably ridi- culous as the Fenian conventions and congresses in the United States ever attracted so much attention. Day by day the proceedings of the convention, or such a summary as the leaders chose to furnish, come over the telegraph wires as though it were interesting news. Some men can hold conventions for objects ...

... BLAENAFON. CONCERT.—A concert of vocal and instrumental music, was given by Mr Wynne and company, of Cardiff, at the Town Hall on Saturday, with success. THE STORMY WEATHER here on Wednesday caused serious and considerable damage. A portion of the roof at the company's forge was blown off, by which one of the men working underneath had his collar bone broken. A number of large trees were blown ...