... OUR MISCELLANY. A Lambeth Fortune-teller. In visiting in poor neighbourhoods you meet occasionally with very strange characters. One of these, a. fortune- teller, shall beintroàllced to the reader. It was with difficulty that we obtained admission to her presence. She was sitting up in bed, with her long grey hair falling in great disorder over her shoulders, a, board placed in her lap was ...

... An inquest has been held upon the body of Charles Spen, a sweep, living in Ludlow, who met his death under the following singular cirClumstances :-A few days ago the deceased, in company with a fellow- sweep named Maund, was engaged in sweeping a kitchen chimney in the house of a person named Hodnet. The fireplace waa one of the old-fashioned, roomy kind, and the deceased was standing before ...

... lOUR CITY ARTICLE. DECIDED ease prevailed during the week in the discount market, ? the supply of money being superabundant, and large amounts being vainly offered. The rate for good bills was 31 to 4 per cent., but comparatively few were to be met with, owing, as it would appear, to the extent to which trade has suffered from the recent financial pros- tration. Under these circumstances, ...

... Daring the whole of Wednesday and the early part of Thursday morning a tremendous gale of wind and rain from the west north-west swept the Ramsgate coast, causing a quantity of shipping to seek refuge in the harbour and other roadsteads. About nine vS* clock on Thursday morning a large vessel and a steam-tug were discovered lying on the Goodwin Sands in a very critical position. The new life- ...

... The Cattle Plague Regulations—At Wolverhampton Police-court, on Wednesday, before Mr. Isaac Spooner, the stipendiary magistrate, many as five cattle dealers were charged with offence.. against the Cattle Plague Orders. The worst of tbe\ cases was one in which William Darlington, a large cattle dealer living in the town, and who does a con- siderable business with the London markeb, was fined ...

... AMERICA, NEW YORK, August 3, Evening Several members ot the Free State Convention at Orleans have been arre&ted and indicted before the grand jury. Numerous blacks hare been arrested, and arma and ammunuioa have been fosrid concealed in tho house of a ne,vL0. 'Ifce fiacUcals and their oo- BWS rs etL«Wa ;a from Savannah state that ilT attack upon Cbili. 11:1 another (JJY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) ...

... THE HIGHWAY BOARD. extraordinary meet- ing of this B i ird was held in the Board-room, at the Union Workhouse, on Friday, the 10th inst., pre- sent Mr. Thomas Watkins (in the chair), Crawshay Baiiev, jun., Esq., and James Charles Hill, Esq., ex-offielo, and seven elected waywardens. The Clerk explained the object of the meeting and pro- duced an order from the Chairman of a vestry meet- ing at ...

... The Constitutionnel of the 3rd of July an article signed by M. Boniface. wilh the ob^eot as stated by the writer, of tranquillismg the pubhc1 mind and placing the policy of the Emperor in a better France had no reason,he continues. herself with the passions that demanded war but she cannot on the other hand remain unconcerned if a crpat atrusele commences, and be lnainerent to L results. The ...

... Laudanum and. Alcohol.—An inquest was held ill Broad-street, Bloomsbnry, the other day, on the body of Elizabeth Dixey, 50 years of age. Deceased died at her lodgings, from the effects-of laudanum, which with alcoholic drinks she was in the habit of taking, as she said, to drown her sorrow for the deser- tion of her husband, and his cohabitation with another woman. The immediate cause of death ...

... I saw Bumble Dives, smooth, oily, and fat, In a glossy black coat, and a shiny black hat, With a belly well lined, and a fair double chm- AU so soft none had guessed at the hardnesa within. None had guessed that 'neath shirt-front BO fair and full-blown, In the place ot a heart B amble buttoned a stone: Till at Guardians' meetings the paupers felt floored To say which was the stone-yard and ...

... On Friday, Cuthbert Roddam Carr, the man in custody charged, upon his own confession, with hav. ing murdered Sarah Melvin, a girl Beven years of age, at Carr's Hill, near Gateshead, on the 13th of April last, was brought before the borough magistrates. The deceased, it will be remembered, was found dead on a road leading from Filling to Sheriff-hill, whither her parents had gone the same day. ...

... On Saturday afternoon his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Commai-i der- in- Chief, re- viewed in Hyde-park a. force of about 15,(JOO volunteers, which was composed chiefly of metropolitan corps, but included also a few battalions from the country. An erroneous impression had got abroad that the Prince and Princess of Wales would be present, and this circumstance, added to the ...