... 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 Bristol warehouses of Messrs. Pickford and Co., the well-known carriers, were broken into on Wednesday night, and robbed in a manner which denotes considerable audacity and unfortunately leaves no clue to the detection of the thief. The place was locked up at half-past nine p.m., and all was supposed to be safe. But some person or persons must have been concealed on the premises, and the ...

... THH NEW GiRLa* SCEfOOL. the laying of tho foundation stone of this building, on Thursday sennight, which was recorded in our last impression, Sir Thomas Phillips, as he was about to perform the ceremony, made the following remarks, which, owing to the lateness of the arrival of the report, we could not; find space for last week;—Ladies and gentlemen,—I feel very sensibly the distinction of ...

... Dagbladet (Copenhagen, Ministerial).—The mourn- iul dispatch announcing the sickness of Lord Palmer. ston was soon followed by the news of his death.. His life will ever influence England's history; and although very different opinions will be passed on him, on one point all will agree-viz., his patriotism. Hig country was ever the object of his care, and his hand protected his countrymen in ...

... AGRICULTURE. Hints on the Management of the Poultry-yard. Let us suppose the adult birds scattered after their morning meal over the farm-yard and adjacent ground in search of insect food, shed corn, &c. The poultry- house should now be swept, the dung collected into its appointed receptacle, the eggs taken from the nest- those intended for setting marked, those intended for market put into a ...