... A Boy Hamlet, a lad aged 14. has recently been amusing the natives at the New York Lyceum. He does not appear to have been very favourably received, and the mildest thing said about him by the critics is, that he may be half a woman in disguise. -Figaro, ...

... LIEUT. CAMERON AND THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, spe- cially convened in St. James's Hall, wasbeld on Tuesday, when Lieut. Cameron read an account of his Afriean exploration. The Duke of Edinburgh presided, and the hall was crowded with a fashionable company, large numbers being unable to gain ad m Stance. The Duke, in introducing Lieut. Cameron, ...

... ALEXANDRIA, April 8.—It is oftiekily announced to- day, that the payment of all bonds and cheques falling j due in April and May will be postponed for three months, and that the holders will be credited with interest at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. ALEXANDRIA, April 9.—A noisy manifestation was made to-dav at the Bourse, and in front of all the con- sulates by some holders of Egyptian ...

... ctrrilRpkXBLK COLLISION ON THE (^REAx1 lisc NORTHERN RAILWAY it-VIE PERSONS KILLEP: INJURED. -d die t d sadly Istal efidoa took place on ich.^eat Northern Rai'*ay on Saturday afternoon, of > Manchester express, leaving Kings Cross Station, it ttdon, at 2.45, rlla Into a goods train which was °f f^ng at the' /rlesey siding, five miles north of juggge train was being shunted across I tc'down ...

... Magistrates T. GRATREX, Esq., Chairman; W. S. CARTWRIGHT, Esq,, F. J. HALL, Esq., and J. FIR. BANK, Esq.] Henry Jones was charged with breaking open the loor of the house of his brother, George Jones, at the Defn, Bassalleg.-Defendant did not appear.—The lecessary witnesses were not present, and the case was idjourned. STRAY DONKEYS.—John Waters, whose wife ap- )eared, was ordered to pay 5s. ...

... PHILADELPHIA, April 7.—The House of Representa- tives has passed the bill already passed by the Senate reducing the President's salary to 62,1,000 after March, 1877. Secretary C h arid ler, Attorney- Genei-al Pierrepoiit, and General Babcock have given evidence before the committee on the disclosures made by Detective Bell. Much of his story they deny, but Babcock admits paying him money. All ...

... WILLS AND BEQUESTS. The will, dated Feb. 26, 1874, of Mr. John Forster, late of Palace gate House, Kensington, who died on Feb. 1 last, was proved on the 22nd ult. by the Right Hon. Lord Lytton, Joseph William Chitty, Q.C., and the Rev. Whitwell Elwin, the executors, the personal estate being sworn under £ 30,000. The testator be- queaths to Thomas Carlyle the gold repeater watch bequeathed to ...

... The result of the Saturday and Sunday hospital collections was made known last week. There is an increase of £300 in the amount available for distribu- tion among the medical charities, the total being S9600, against E9300 last year. The largest participators in the division of the fund are the Liverpool Royal In- firmary, which receives £2H76, and the Northern and Southern Hospitals, to each ...

... ROME, April 9.—General Garibaldi, in accepting a donation of one hundred thousand hre from the nation and the King, states that it will enable him to co-ope- rate in the Tiber improvement worts. ROMK, April 10 (Night).—The Rev. Henry Wasse, chaplain of the Knglish Church here, asks the Voce della. J'rrita for the names of the two Anglican clergy- men,, dressed exactly I ke Romish priests, and ...

... On Saturday, in Essex street, Islington, London. Hannah Thompson, a prostitute, was stabbed and beaten by a man unknown. Patti is to sing at, Co vent, Garden ten nights at least during the season, at ^00 guineas a night, and she is to have 100 guineas for each Floral Hall concert. The new iron Clyde-built, ship, the Zamora, sailed from Queenstown on the 21st inst. for Brisb?ine Queensland, ...

... 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 Bathampton and Hingley accidents in June and November last year. The company paid JE420 into court. At the same court the friends of a little girl named Langhland, who had her ...

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