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... GENERAL NEWS. Madame Parepa Rosa, apparently, is winning golden opinions in more forms than one during ber American tour. Some of the oritioisms of her performances are trulv droll; as, for instance, one from the New York Daily Tribune, where the writer, sneaking of her ap pearance as Zerlinain Fra Diavolo, says, it might be supposed she would be rather a full pattern. For the Chaucer ...
... In May will appear the Of anew ...
... In a recent interesting lecture to the Social Science Associa- tion Dr. Letheby. analyst to the ca-p-ration of the City of London mentioned that water is put into milk, lard or dripping into butter, chicory into coffee, and black tea is 'faced with black lead;' the green is also'ajot up' with mineral0, powdered gypsum, and Prussian blue. Hence the public have a great desire to purchase ...
... THE DIVISION ON MR. GLADSTONE'S MOTION. The Times says :—Mr. Disraeli will not die easy. Nobody can be surprised at this, since intobody expected he would suffer himself to be snuffed out by a single adverse division. Early on Friday night he warned the House of Commons of the coarse he intended to pursue, and his stieech at the olose of the debate breathed the frankest spirit of defiance. The ...
... It requires upwards of 2,000 policemen to keep ordet in New York. Two men, named Jones and Scott, have been sen- tenced to six months' hard labour at Manchester for stealing 401bs. of quicksilver. The Post-offioe department, having now to carry offioial correspondence without charging the postage to the several Government offices, have given an es- timalA of the qnantitv for the vear. ...
... At an early hour on Sunday morning a woman named Charlotte Macready, a native of Glasgow, 35 years of age, was found murdered in a room in a baok yard in Thomas street, Barnsley. It appears that the deceased had cohabited for four or five years with Harrison, a stonemason, and rented a miserable hovel, the only furniture being a bedstead, on which was some straw, a chair, table, and a stool. ...
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... On Tuesday evening some considera.ble excitement was caused in the neighbourhood of Bute-street, by a rumour that a Mr. Cohu, a photographer of that street, had committed suicide. Mr. Cohu was a highly respectable person, and had been an inhabitant of Bute-road for some years. Latterly he had mani- fested signs of insanity, and acting on medical advice, a certificate had been obtained to ...
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... AttheStalybridge Borough Court, on Monday, the Rev. Joseph Daley, one of the priests of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Chapel, Stalybridge, was charged with having, on the 8th instant, unlawfully and mc- liciously wounded Robert Beeley. Mr. Ernest Jones appeared for the prosecutor, and Mr. Jordan for the defendant.—Mr. Jones said the proceeding was taken under the 24th and 25th Vie. c. 97. After ...
... Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli arrived in town on Saturday from Hughenden Manor. During the past week 38 wrecks have been reported, making for the present year, 702. Blind Tom is now eclipsed by the latest musical sensation in New York State. A young woman of Batavia plays two airs with her right hand, one with her left, and sines a fourth aimultarLQauals The French performances WIS very shortly be ...
... SAFETY OF DR. LiviNGSTONE.—We are happy to an- nounce that the safety of Dr. Livingstone is now a certainty. Letters were on Wednesday received in London from the great traveller himself through his old friend Dr. Kirk, via Zanzibar. He is not only safe, but well, and speaks of having had a most prosperous journey. BETHEL CHAPEL. On Sunday last the Rev. W. Davies preached his farewell sermon ...