... The career of Mr. Benjamin Higgs may serve to point a moral or adorn a tale, but immediately and practically it furnishes work for the lawyers as well as the detectives. Who are the rightful owners of the waifs and strays left behind by the runaway? The Guarantee Society entered the premises and sold a portion of the property but in the meantime execution on the Tedding- ton property had been ...

... PIT ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, a man named Jo- nas Gullocli, employed in one of our pits, was engaged ll1 scoring at the bottom of the shaft, when the bond de- scended upon him and his back was severely injured. ...

... The Times has a leader upon the above confession, in which the following remarks occur:— All doubts respecting the justice of his sentence must now be dlfmlsed. HI circumstantial confession agrees com- pletely with all his former and 1? oonrf-t—t even to minute particulars with the ascertained facts. He once asked a metropolitan constable, for example, whether in his first confession he ...

... The Paris public are taking great interest in a most virulent polemic which is raging between M. Anatole de la Forge and M. Emile de Girardin, whose paper, the Liberte, published, the other evening, the following epistle :— Sir,—Before replying in the Sitcle to your insults, 1 wish to know whether you still intend sheltering yourself behind the pretext of Carrel's death, so as never to give ...

... In the Court of Probate the cause of Blakeman v. Blakeman has been heard. The testator, John Blakeman, was an innkeeper at Stafford. He bad made several wills, leaving his property, which con- sisted of his inn and some land and cottages, to his wife. He was addicted to drinking, and when he was not sober he was very violent. In September, 1868, he assaulted his wife, and she took out a ...

... The intended attempt on the life of the Viceroy on the 2nd inst., which has hitherto been enveloped in such mystery, that great doubts have been thrown upon its reality, has now been proved to be an absolute fact. The following arc the most authentic facts of the case that have at present transpired. The theatre had been closed for days previously, thus giving the actors in the plot every ...

... On Iliggs's head Higgses accumulate. The chief clerk iu a well-known and hitherto flourishing cemetery company has mysteriously disappeared during the last few days, and his sudden exit has impelled another employe in the eaino company to follow thte example of his su- fierior officer. Simultaneously with the depar- ure of these individuals it has been discovered that the shareholders have ...

... Sir Roderick Murchison, in a letter to The Times, states tl1:\t lle is in posession of information which en- tirely contradicts the statement Lhat Dr. Livingstone lwd nived at Zanzibar in January. Sir Roderick hdS a letter from Dr. Kirk at Zanzibar, dated the 5th of March last, and no new of Dr, Livingstone had then been heard for a long time. Sir Roderick Murchison ands that he can now no ...

... We have much pleasure in re-publishing the following letter, and trust, by our doing so it may assist the object of the benevolent writer :— A girl named Caroline Hunt, aged twenty-six, a dressmaker by profession, is afflicted with a terrible and incurable malady (lupus of the lace.) She has ex- pended all her earnings and is unable any longer to support herself. For some years she has been ...

... A court-martial sat on Saturday morning in the Royal Barracks, Dublin, for the trial of Captain Neame, 2nd battalion 16th Regiment, who has been thirteen years in the service, on two charges—Firstly, scandalous conduct unbecoming an officer and gentle- man, in having, in the mess-room of Richmond Bar- racks, on the 20th of February last, in presence of brother officers, told Captain Norman ...

... ARCHBISHOP MANNING on EDUCATION. In the course of a sermon preached by Archbishop Manning last Sunday, at St. George's Cathedral, in London, on behalf of St. Mary's Orphanage, Green- wich, his grace said that every nation which rejected the name of God in education exposed itself to all the evils of intellectual error and of moral corruption and as an instance of that he might point to the ...

... THE POPE AND THE LOTTERY. A letter from Florence gives the following particulars of the drawing of a lucky number in a lottery, which unhappily are not only avowed to exist, but are under the especial pro- tection of the Government:— Thanks to Pius IX., lottery gamblers in Italy have just made a great hit. On Sunday last, the 11th of April, 18C9. Pius, ninth Pope of his name, celebrated the ...