... The New York correspondent of the Standard gives the following particulars of a frightful tragedy recently enacted in the state of New Jersey :— On the night of Feb. 25 the wife of a physician named Coriell was brutally murdered. Suspicion fell upon the one servant of the family, Bridget Durgan, whose conduct, both at the time of the discovery of the murder and afterwards, was of the most ...

... ^°nday ni&ht, Mr. Young, who is to command the Livingstone search expedition, reported that the steel boat is finished, and that he will leave England in the mail steamer on the 8th of this month for the Cape of Good Hope, whence he will proceed to the mouth of the ZambesL There the boat will be put together, and the party will go up the river to the Murchison Falls. Here the boat will be ...

... The inhabitants of Woburn-square, Bloomsbury, were annoyed during last week by largo numbers of the ragged and noisy population of St. Giles in quest of a ghost said to be a denizen of the square garden. So great and increasing has been the crowd that police have been told off for the special service of maintaining order and making the populace move on. The excitement appears to date from tho ...

... Kits. LONDON CORN MARKET.—MONDAY. Arrivals last week were unusually small. With a very short supply of wheat this morning, especially from Kent and Essex, factors held at Is. to 2s. more, this being a re- covery of last Monday's decline, though a return to genial weather caused a languid trade. Foreign sold freely, espe- cially Russian sorts, at an improvement of Is., though the market closed ...

... DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT.—This entertainment will come off on Friday week, June Till. Tickets are going rapidly, and a full honse is confidently predicted. HAY.—On Saturday last, the first crop of hay mown this year in this district, was that on the ground in front of the Union Workhouse. HORD'S THEATRE—This theatre continues to be very fairly supported. Several interesting dramas have already ...

... WENVOE. On Sunday week a funeral sermon on the late Rev. Alfred Jenner, the respected rector of this parish, was preached by the Rev. J. Evans, at this church. The Dying Christian was beautifully sung by the chcir, under the leadership of Mr. T. Richards; and several other suitable anthems. The first treble was sung by the Misses Miller, of the Wenvoe Arms, Jane Williams and Catherine ...

... THE TOWN MISSION AXD THE INFIRMARY.—We are requested to sta'e that the Town Mission only applied for permission to see the sick in the Cardiff Infirmary one hour per week, and not every day as stated in our second edition last week. LORD BUTE AT OXFORD.—The Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, has been receiving company last week at the College Lodge. The Bishop of Bangor and family have been ...

... On Friday, May 31, at the London Bail Court, before Mr. Justice Lush, a case of Stacey v. Firth and wife was tried. The plaintiff, Miss Stacey, is a milliner and dressmaker, carrying on business at Weston-super-Mare. The plaintiff's case was that Mrs. Firth, formerly Miss Fanny Sharland, resided with Mr. and Mrs. Wyndham Lewis, wealthy people ( residing at the Grove, Weston-super-Mare, and ...

... ORIGINAL, COliKliSPONDajNCE. ADDRESSED TO TIIB EDITOR. I'h.3 Editor is not re sponsible for the opinions of His SIR,—I used an illustration at yesterday's conference with reference to Mr. Fothergill, which, on calm reflection, I think was unnecessarily severe and irritating. I regret it and withdraw it. Yours, &c., June 2Gtli, 1807. CHAS. H. JAMES. WELSH NONCONFORMITY. SIR,—A Nonconformist ...

... A NEW POOR LAW CODE. T Mr. Hardy and Mr. Sciater-Booth have brough^ bill to make the Poor-law Board pt=Tl;utn;>nt, provide a number of changes in the law for the the poor. It appears that the board is only a institution, which has been renewed from time to ti111 whose existence terminates at the end of session, when it would have to be renewed Mr. Hardy now thinks that the value of the 3 has ...

... In the Divorce Court on Thursday, the case of Trim v. Trim was tried. This was a suit for a dissolution of marriage, sought by the wife on the ground of adultery and desertion of her hus- band. There was neither answer nor appearance on the part of the husband. Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. Searle (instructed by Messrs. Vizard, Crowder, and Co., solicitors, New Inn, Strand, solicitors to Mr. ...

... —i —— 1 OPENING OF A TOBACCO MANUFAC^ IN CARDIFF. f; t0r» Some months since we had the pleasure of ^t ing that the. Customs nvhorities had granted to (-1 the privilege of importing tobacco, which «lone of jPD quired to place this town on a level with other pOl, an import town. Every article which now can be mitted in'o any other port of the United Kingdom tor be imported into Cardiff on the ...