... Pisttllaiwras fnttflipre. CRIME IN CORSICA.—The Court of Assizes of Corsica has lately tried a man named Andreani, for four murders, committed under circumstances almost incredible. After serving some time in the army in Africa, he returned to his native village, and married a widow named Rossi, but as she was unfaithful to him he soon separated from her. He afterwards conceived a passidn for ...

... The riots at Tredegar on Tuesday appear to hava been of a serious character. The mob smashed the windows of the houses of Tory agents and those suspec- ted of having used any influence to obtain votes for the Tory candidates. The Blue public houses were gutted, but the mischief was over before the arrival of the military. A boy was killed between a wall and an omnibus. The town was quiet next ...

... Holborn branch of the Reform League was held at the Nag's Head, Leather-lane, to take into consideration the proceedings of the Hyde Park meeting Mr. Truscott occupied the chair. Mr. Osborne said they had met that night to take into serious consideration the proceedings of Mr, Finlen in Hyde Park. The branch had sent out a circular stating that Mr. Finlen had no connexion with any branch of ...

... THE BORDER EDITOR. The editor of the Owykee Avalanche, by way of describing his agreeable vocation, as conductor of a frontier paper, makes the following interesting reflections:— Oh, the felicity of editing a paper Charming, agreeable, in a horn Fascinating, attractive occupa- tion, but so difficult to appreciate. How nicely and smoothly one gets along without an onpleasant- ness For instance ...

... The following were the figures at the CLOSE OF TNR: Clifford, 231; Morgan, 131 Somerset, 122. At. Abersychan everything remained tolerably quiet up to about 8 o'clock, when a gang of ruffians, composed chiefly of young men and hobbledehoys, commenced an attack upon the housG of Mr Win. Richards, the White Hart Inn, battering in the lower windows, the shutters of which they tore down, thus ...

... THE LAST THING OUT IN THE TELEGRAPH WAY. A scheme has been originated, which has the approval of several leading scientific au- thorities, for establishing floating telegraph vessels, in the first place in the chaps of the channel between Scilly and Ushant, and sub- sequently at the southern entrance to Saint George's Channel, as well as off the northern and southern extremities of the Irish ...

... The following very interesting notes on the rapacious habits of bottle-noses, porpoises, seals, otters, coal-fish cod sea cats, and sea dogs, are written by A Fisherman who* dates from The East X euk of Fife. He says :— Mr. Drew, of Nairn, has, no doubt much to the satis- faction of the Nairn fishermen, endeavoured to move government on their behalf to clear the sea for ever of those monster ...

... To secure a preference, Horniman s Tea is selected from the spring a op, and impoited free from facing: powder -—tea distinctively strong and delicious is thus obtained. The public find this mode of supply so advantageous, that live million packets of Horniman's Tea are an- nually sold by 2,538 Agents those in this locality arc advertised in our columns. ...

... A STRANGE AFFAIR. An extraordinary story is told in the Liverpool papers. About ten o'clock on Saturday morning the body of a lady was found in a brickfield. The body « rn turned with the face downwards amidst the clay and water, and was so firmly imbedded that it was with difficulty ft could be got out. It was removed to the Liverpool deadhouse, where there were found upon it two bruises—one ...

... Before the Rev J. C. Llewellin STIRRING UP AT THE WORKHOUSE. Thomas Phillips was charged with disorder- ly conduct and with breaking windows at the Pontypool Union workhouse. Hartley Feather, master of the workhouse, deposed As one of our inmates was sick, I gave permission to the defendant to go out and convey the intelligence to the friends of the sick inmate. He returned iu a sober state. ...

... A communication from Cannes on the 18th inst states that the fine brushwood on the EsUrel (the mass of porphyritic mountains which rise between Cannes and Fréjos, or rather between Saint Raphael and Napaule) was then on fire. Separated by the valley of the Siagne from the Alpes-Maritimee, and even from the limestone mountains of Grasse, the Esterel, with its riven escarpments, covers an area ...

... It is a great mistake to kill owls, and, if one is troubled with mice, to attract a few ewls is a certain cure. Should a commodious cavity be excavated in an ash tree, in most districts a pair of owls will soon take up their quartei a therein. The short-eared owl often gets mistaken for a woodcock by cock-shooters, and a sportsman was rather taken in when he thought he had killed cocks right ...