... Highway Robbeiues—Several highway robberies accompanied with tiolence. have been committed in various parts of StafTord'hire and the neighbouring counties within the last fortnight. On the 16th inst , Mr. Joseph Dicken, of Colton Hall, was returning from ...

... Rappahannock in Calais harbour. Mr. Rumble was committed for trial, the court fixing his bail at £lOOO. Mr. Dickens Thacker ay's Last Work.—Charles Dickens, writing about Mr. Thackeray, in the February number of the “Cornhill Magazine,” says: the table I before ...

... Frances Eliiabeti), wife of Henry Burnett, Esq., of Higher Ardwick, Manchester, and daughter of John, and eldest sister of Charles, Dickens, Esq. the 3rd instant, at Hose Hill, Miss Shakespeare, daughter of the late Capt. Shakespeare, of this town. On the 3rd ...

... inhabitants of Coventry entertained Mr. Charles Dickens at a public dinner, at which they presented him with a valuable gold watch, of their own manufacture, bearing the following inscription: Presented to Charles \ Dickens, Esq., by his friends at Coventry ...

... mutilated that bis bowels gushed out, and every bone in his body was smashed. He has left a widow and large family. Mr. Charles Dickens has promised to read one or more of his Christmas works daring next Christmas week for the benefit of the Literary and ...

... scenery, illustrating with much effect the optical illusions, have been made, an the runs with much smoothnes ■. Next week Charles Dickens's Haunt©! M.*n’’ and j ** Man's Metamorphoses,” arc the pi- c advertised for performance. The atinoaoc ...

... Shaftesbury, the Earl of Wilton, the Bishop of Manchester, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. Bright, M.P., Mr. W. Brown, M.P., Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Charles Knight, &c. Sir John Potter occupied the chair, and after reading report giving a full ...

... Mill Inktitute.—On Tuesday evening, the Rev. Jeffery Worthington read very effectively the “ Christmas Carol of Mr. Charles Dickens, in the above Institute, when Richard Harwood, Esq., occupied the chair. At the conclusion of the reading hearty vote ...

... hi-'h as c«*uld possibly imagined. Mrs. time an natural woman. They thus censured the fi.ur then referred to the feign of Charles 11., when effect instead of the cause. They should hare censured coarseness and pioflgaey wen* prevalent in the nation, as ...

... will take place at the latter end of the ensuing mouth of September. The proposal, we hear, has been renewed to Mr. Charles Dickens for a tour of one year in the Australian colonies for the purpose of giving readings from his works ; and that this time ...

... Hornby. The Pontypool Magistrates hare decided that one who travels three miles by rail is a bonA fide” traveller. Mr. Charles Dickens presided at the 16th annual meeting df the London Newsvendors’ and Provident Institution, held at the Freemasons’ Tavern ...

... the fishmonger), knowing you deal planer yourself. M In bookseller’s aatalagu* appears the following article:— Memoirs of Charles I, with bead capitally eseeoted. The editor the Ohio Statesman asks the following q«t». : If fellow has nothing when h»* ...