... The London lelcgraph, referring to the practice of dog-poisoning now extensively prevailing in London, writes:—Fortunately there is, as probably this tor- turer of unoffending dumb creatures is not aware, a statute which exactly meets his case. By an Act passed in the reign of George IV, any one who unlaw- fully kills, maims, or wounds any dog, bird, beasr, or other animal, not being cattle, ...

... BURGLARY AT PENLLERGARE HOUSE. -On Satur- day, at the Petty Sessions for the hundred of Swansea, held at the Guild-hall, Swansea, (before Messrs J. Trevillian Jenkin and J. C. Richardson, Jun.), Lawrence Byrne, an Irishman, was charged with burglariously entering Pecllergare House, the residence of Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn, J.P., and stealing therefrom certain articles. Mr. J. T. D. Llewelyn, J.P ...

... CO-r OF CA\ ivS EMISSION. An estimate was issued last week for £ 2200 to de- fray the expenses ot 31 r. Cavc's mission to Egypt. ACTIONS AGAINST THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. At Bristol Assizes last week, eight hundred pounds were awarded to Mr. Cooke, late traveller for a London floorcloth firm, against the Great Western Railway Company, as compensation for injuries sustained by him in ...

... THE REBELLION AGAINST TURKEY, The Times, in a lengthy and elaborate article upon the failure, up to the present, of the efforts to bring about a peaceable issue of the Herzegovina struggle, Bays The insurgents have never actually refused to listen, nor do they in terms reject accommodation, They observe moral and diplomatic conventionalities, They consider the offers of the Turks, admit them ...

... The Empress of Brazil has presented the Queen of England with a dress the equal of which has never been seen. It is woven of spiders' webs, and is, as may be imagined, a work of art as tegards quality and ber.ty. The handsomest silk dress cannot compare •with it. A SPEAKING MACHINE.—The Press was two days back convoked to hear, at the Grand Hotel, a piece of mechanism imitating the human voice ...

... Sone the les* deplorable because in the most limited sense accidental, the catastrophe whlCn has cost thirty human lives at Aberdeen »e.re1/ »„Proo{ tbat water will drown. All tins cruel, sacrifice of men, i ill v»«q been simply due to the women and chUdren has. h & sheep ,i .e lolly o p bl [ re each other, and to save a danger in order to ge^beto^ )oo,.h;irdi. JZ Tthose who did not fear bee ...

... VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAIMS'i THE CAPTAIN OF THE ERANCONIA. At the Old Bailey, London. last week, the jury, after half an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of guilty against the captain of the Franconia but sentence was postponed until after the decision of the Court. of Appeal on the question of jurisdiction. ...

... At the Leeds borough sessions the Inland Revenue Board has appealed against a decision given by Mr. Bruce, the Leeds stipendiary magistrate. A traveller and agent of Messrs. Dunville and Co., the distillers, had been summoned for selling spirits without a licence, and Mr. Bruce held that under the 30th and 31st Vic. a bona-fide traveller or agent needed no licence. The Recorder (Mr. Maule, Q.C ...

... The Standard, referring to the grant bestowed by Italy upon Garibaldi, says:—Four thousand a year is a thumping sum in Italy, and a tenth of it would amply suffice for all Garibaldi's personal wants. Gossip, perhaps, will allege that his desire.to obtain a decree o divorce against a lady who was literally, as in the old comedy, a wife for a day,' has more to do- with this recent display of ...

... The dispute between Messrs. Gardiner and Marsh and the quarrymen at their Farleigh quarries has been amicably arranged, and the men resumed work on Tuesday morning. In 1849 Prince Torveni advanced 200,000f. to a Neapolitan on a diamond so large and limpid and piercing in the polish of its many facets that none but the keenest connoisseur could distinguish it from the famous Regent. At the ...

... PARIS, April 8 (Evening).—The Messnger de Paris of this evening, ia an article on the Egyptian financial question, sxys :— That England and France, isolated from each other, can bring about no definite result. The best combination would be for the two Govern- ments to take sotiit- step in concert. From a financial point of view intervention on the part of England would be entirely to our ...

... CARELESS VACCINA^ Notices have been sent to all the metropt provincial hospitals that the attention of he c ...