... SHOCKING CRIME. The Levant Herald, of April 29, gives the following particu- lars of a shocking crime recently committed in Constanti- nople :— A Greek, resident in the Fanar, dreamt that a heap of treasure lay buried in the plain of Veli Effendi, beyond the Seven Towers, but that to discover it he must kill a child on the spot. Saying nothing to his wife, he pondered over the matter next ...

... WHITEWASHING EXTRAORDINARY.—A few days ago, a tradesman, while passing through one of our streets, came to a shop, outside which hung a placard White Lime for Sale. The lady proprietres stood at the door, and he asked after one of her relatives. Now, How's your has never been reckoned particularly offensive, though it may sometimes betoken an im- pression that the person addressed has not ...

... BREAKFAST. A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT. The Civil Service Gazette has the following inte- resting remarks :—There are very few sim- ple rticles of food which can boast so many valuable and important dietary properties as cocoa. While acting on the nerves as a gentle stimulant, it provides the body with some of the purest elements of nutrition, and at the same time corrects and invigorates the ...

... SUSPICION OF MURDER.—An inquest was held on Tuesday at the King's Arms inn, Pillgwenlly, on the body of Daniel Barrett, a young man who had been missing several weeks. The corpse had been found floating in the river Usk on Monday. Deceased s bro- ther stated that he believed he could produce evidence that death had. resulted from violence, and the inquiry was adjourned to Friday evening, a ...

... John Gould, aged 63, was charged with steal- ing wood at Cwmbran. He pleaded guilty. As he appeared to have borne a good charac- ter, the Bench said they would give him tho lightest sentence in their power, seven days' hard labour. ...

... LOCAL AND DISTRICT NEWS. OXFORT> INTELLIGENCE. On Thursday, the 20th inst., Ileibert Armitage James, Esq., of Panteg Rectory, was elected Fellow of St John's College, Oxford. CLUB DINNER.—On Whit Monday, the members of the Hanbury benefit society celebrated their anniversary, by dining together at the Market Tavern. An excel- lent dinner was provided by Mrs Powell, and was heartily enjoyed by ...

... A monument to the memory of the late Mr. Richard Oastler, the successful advocate of the Ten Houre' Bill, was inaugurated at Bradford last Saturday. Every factory district of Yorkshire and Lancashire was largely represented in the crowd of 100,000 well- dressed persons who filled the streets. A procession, composed of 30,000 persons, was formed and marched from the town to Peel Park, about a ...

... On Sunday afternoon Bishop Goss, of Liverpool, took the occasion of the consecration of a new bell bo address a large congregation at Preston on the Irish Church. He said he had been careful not to wound the susceptibilities of those who differed from ;hem in their faith, but he felt that something was lecessary to justify the attitude many Catholics took ipon that question. He referred to the ...

... HOME, FOREIGN, AND COLONIAL. SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN LONDON.—A shockirg outraaehas been committed in the neighbourhood of the Old Kent-road, London. At the house, No. 82, Trafalgar-road, there resides a lady named Peake, who is between seventy and eighty years of age. Between three and four o'clock on Monday afternoon two men entered the house, with a view to robbery, undoubtedly, and-whether from ...

... The Schumacker family in Paris will, no doubt, be remembered, with its law suits and criminal trials. The father, a cabman, suing the daughter, a woman of the delJJl monde who had become the Marquise d'Orvault, for alimony, and the son condemned to the Bagne, from which he subseouently escaped, for shooting at his sister to extort money from her. The parents have now just appeared again in ...

... BRITISH AND FOREIGN. A terrible hurricane has swept over the eastern part of the arondissement of Pau, rooting up trees, levelling the maize crops and vines, tearing off roofs, and spreading general consternation. The storm took the direction of the Hautes-Pyrcnees, rather increasing in violence as it went along. In the commune of Larreule the devastation is said to be extraordinary. An Act of ...

... THE BURG COLLIERY EXPLOSION. The opinion that the unfortunate miners in the Bury Colliery in Saxony were all immediately killed by the explosion proves incorrect. In the note book of the miner Bahr the following entry has been found:— This is the last place where we have taken refuge I have given up all hope, because the ventilation in the Sc^engottes fchfift and the Hoflnungs shaft has been ...