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... ONE THOUSAND POUNDS PER ANNUM FOR ONE POUND. The Press says the above announcement is one of the many offers which adventurous advertisers make to the unwary. Any persons who may be desirous of becoming possessed of the above-named annual in- come are requested to make an immediate application, enclosing a stamped directed envelope, to a person who calls himself an Esquire, and lives in a ...
... Extraordinary Longevity.-In the obituary of the Times of b 3. turd ay the deaths are recorded of live ladies and one gentleman whose united ages amounted to years, giving an average of .-sactly 87 years ana six monuhs to each. The ladies' were respectively 80, 85, 87, 92, and 94 years e:v.?h the gsntJemaa was 87 yeara of age. ...
... TRB MAIDEN'S BO WEB. A LEGEND OF THE CIMUY. Htl, G-adarn, who led the Cymry from the summer- lasd, Deffrob&ni, to the Britain, divided the nation into tribes, which were again united into one monarchy by P/ydain; but at his death the vereignty was divided bat-vresn his three sons; the portion of Aamyn cf Troy being all that territory lying between tho Severn and the Iri-h Sea. This Aumyn ...
... .EPITOME OF NEWS. The Government Contract for Rum.âThe following is the result of the tenders for the above contractHenry White and Co., 25,600 gallons T. Lowndes and Co., 15,000 gallons; Ruck, Fenwick, and Co., 11,000 gallons. Total, 51,600 gallons. Fatal Shipping Disasters.-A telegram from Sb. Anne's Head, Milford Haven, says that during Saturday night seven vessels were stranded on the ...
... Dr. Lankester held an inquest on Tacaday afternoon at the Gower Arms, Gower-street, on the body of Julia. Levy, who committed suicide by jumping from tbe second-floor window of No. 37, Alfred-place, Bedford- square. The unfortunate deceased wail suffering from a disease of the uterus, which excited her ^t fea » fully at times, and afterwaras ie^t her enaralj ^Mrf Field, solicitor, appeared on ...
... On Thursday morning her Majesty the Queen accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise, left Windsor Castle, on a visit to the metropolis. The object of her Majesty's coming to London was to visit and inspeot the Albert National Memorial in Hyde- park. Her Majesty returned to Windsor the same day. ...
... In a dozen chapters of Mr. Gould's new work the author treats, and, if we may take his word for it, disposes of, or demolishes, various traditionary stories, touching the truth or falsehood of some of which the world had come to a sensible decision before he was bern. The subjects which he brings before us are the Wandering Jew, Prester John, the Divining Rod, the Seven Sleepers, William Tell, ...
... AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 11, Evening. President 1 Johnson received an enthusiastic re- ception at St. Louis. He made a long speech, declaring that the Orleans riots were plotted in radical congressional caucuses, and announced his intention of adopting a course of determined opposi- tion to the radicals in all respects. At Indianopolis so many groans and hisses came from the crowd, and such ...
... FICTITIOUS CHEQUES. Mr. Charles Collins, a person respectably connected, and a member of a volunteer corps, who has been in custody for sometime on a, charge of obtaining money by false pretenoes on fictitious cheques, and William Allen, who has just been apprehended on a similar charge, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, at the Lambeth Police-court on Tuesday, for final exami- nation. ...
... THE GREAT EASTERN. Presentation of an Address to Captain Anderson. A deputation from the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, accompanied by a number of influential merchants, went on board the Great Eastern on Thursday, and presented Captain Anderson and his officers with the following address, The President and Council of the Chamber of Commerce beg to convey to you, on behalf of the entire ...
... An alarming accident occurred to an express train on Thursday night at Euxton curve, a few miles from Preston, whereby several passengers were, severely shaken and more or less injured. The express from London had, it appears, proceeded en its journey all right as far as Euxton, when at the basis of a heavy embankment, and while travelling at top speed, it ran into a bank engine. The collision ...
... j Double Suicide.—An kiqueatwas held on Tuesday | onthe bodies of Mr. Henry Matthews, farmer, of Colaton Raleigh, near Exeter, and one'of hia sons named Ellis. | The father committed suicide by drowning himself in | a stream about half a mile from his house on Monday. | Unhappy family differences, in which he had been j much abused and ill treated by his own sons, were con- sidered to have ...