... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... LORD SOMERVILLE AN AUSTRALIAN COLONIST. The mail from England, which arrived here in (says the Sydney Morning Herald), brought news of the accidental death of Lord Somer- ville. The title has thus descended to an Australian colo- nist, who returns to England by the next mail steamer. The present Lor I Somerville has been for some time a resident of Port Macquarie, where he has been engaged in ...

... vCR ¡VN CORRESPONDENT. [The remarks under this head are to be regarded as the ex- pression of independent opinion, from the pen of a gentleman in whom we have the greatest confidence, but for which wc nevertheless do not hold ourselves responsible.] Perhaps both great political parties in the two Houses of Parliament are glad that the heat and strife of debate have for a time ceased, and that ...

... A sense of justice and fair play compels us (Weekly Register) to make the following statement respecting the present treatment, to which at any rate a portion of the Fenian prisoners now in custody are subjected. And upon what we now say our readers may depend, as it comes from a most undoubted, although not an official, source. Whatever may have been the case elsewhere, the Fenian prisoners ...

... puhlisherl on Saturday morning, defend the Mayor of Cork in vehement terms. The News affirms that in h's person the last and mnst sacred vestige of popular liberty in Trela,d IS being struck down, and speaks of the Disability Bill as another of those invasions of popular rights which mat kin da > k reo pulsive line the course of British rule ii, Irehnd We -ce in words, It adds, ealbng :01' ...

... [The LitcA-!l Office at which the fortunate ticket, No. 114,079, the icinner of the First Prize, was sold, was the office of the PONTYPOOL FREE PRESS. Tickets for the next drawing, which will talee place on Wednesday, June 30th, are now ready, and may be had at this officei ...

... A letter from 'Rome gives some details of the loss of f-lie steamer AKboturci. between Marseilles and Civita Vecchia. Tl,e wl'itersay. I have just read the report of the captain of the Abbatucci, a oil the logs of his sil P. Atter having been run into by the .Norwegian col ie,, which, thom h it was a fo'-rgy night, had too lightsout, the captain of the Abbatiteci ordet-ed foiir men to man a ...

... The Times of India gives a good tiger story from the pen of Mr. Adam White, late of the Bombay Ordnance Depart- ment. Mr. White was in pursuit of a tiger that had killed a cow, and the story as told by the mighty hunter is this:— I had not proceeded far up the valley, and was stand- ing on the brink of the nullah into which he had been seen to retreat, peering about me, when I heard the low, ...