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Louis Kossuth left our shores, for the UniMd States, on Thursday. He arrived at Southampton from London a little before noon, the train by which he travelled having been delayed by snow and ice sm the rails. The Corporation of Southampton met him in state, and secompanied him to the American Consulate ; and afterwards they accompanied him on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Jupiter, which was placed at his disposal to carry him on board the United States steam- ship Humboldt, off Cowes. After a dt"ijeuner on board the Jupiter, there was some toast-giving, and M. Kossuth made a farewell speech of more than an hour's length ; recommending the cause of Hungary, and that of open diplomacy, to the friends he leaves behind him. The Humboldt, from Havre, did not arrive off Cowes till nine o'clock in the evening : she made scarcely any halt ; and before the Jupiter had got back to South- ampton, M. Kossuth was far down the Solent on hie way to the Western Republic.
A public meeting of electors and non-electors in Macclesfield, sum- moned last week by placard to meet Mr. John Williams, one of the bo- rough Members, in the Town-hall, was addressed by that gentleman. The meeting seems to have been composed of two hostile parties, under weavers named West and Cheetham, who respectively supported and op- posed Mr. Williams. The proceedings were such a continued scene of uproar, that for a moment the chairman, Mr. John Smith, abdicated ; and it was thought that the meeting had been dissolved. The platform was once or twice gained and lost by the main physical force of the contending factions. But Mr. Williams, by the display of great physical prowess and moral energy, retained his own position, at length got a hearing alike for his friends and foes, and in the end carried a motion of " confidence " in himself.
Another burglary with violence! Miss Morris lives at Weston Beggard in Herefordshire, near the high road, with many cottages near ; she has one man-servant. At three o'clock on Sunday morning, three men entered the house, ransacked the lower rooms, and then ascended to Miss Morris's bedroom : when she awoke and screamed, one thrust the bedclothes over her head, pressed on her chest, and threatened to murder her. They had their faces blackened, or wore crape over them ; one had a gun, and another a bludgeon. The noise aroused the servant ; but as he opened his door, the leader, a stalwart fellow, presented a gun, and completely cowed him. The house was rifled, and among ,other plunder carried off was a large and heavy piece of bacon. After the robbers had left the house it few mi- nutes, they returned, and fired the gun through an upper window—it was heavily chasg al. The neighbourhood was quickly alarmed, but the robbers got clear off The carrying away of the bacon, awl some other facts, have suggested that they were neighbours.
The two men who were arrested at Leominster for the burglary at Bur- ford turn out to be old hands at their trade. One is an escaped convict, having got away from Dartmoor Prison. A third charge of burglary has been brought against them. It would seem that Mr. Nicklin, who was wounded by the robbers, is still in danger.
Many burglaries were committed in the neighbourhood of Bradfield in Yorkshire, and the offender escaped 'detection for a considerable time. But lately a man, suspiciously laden, was seen to enter a wood ; he was tracked, and followed to a deserted coal-mine. In a chamber formed by the miners was found a store of articles of all kinds; and in the inner recesses of the mine the robber himself was at last found hidden. Many of the things in the chamber were at once recognized as stolen from neighbouring houses.
Last week, the Liverpool Courier gave is list of twenty "incendiary" fires in divers parts of the country; this week, it adds fourteen more.
The cab-drivers' strike at Liverpool has terminated. Above one-half of the employers have consented to the terms proposed by the men ; whilst in one or two instances 3s. a day has been given. Sonic of the large cabowners, however, firmly refused any alteration ; and the men, finding there was no probability of obtaining the advance of wages and the rest from Sabbath la- bour, have returned to their work.—Live./pool Mercury.
Three grocers of Northampton have been fined for having spurious tea in their possession : the tines in one case amount to. hundreds of pounds, with the alternative of a twelvemonth's imprisonment in default ; in the other two cases, the tradesmen will be sent to prison for six months if they do not pay their fines. Gainforth, who has been clerk for fourteen years in the Leeds Post-office, is in custody on a charge of stealing a letter containing 400/. in notes of the Yorkshire District Banking Company. Some of the notes were paid to a share-broker in Leeds, who paid them into the bank. Gainforth has specu- lated largely in railways. A woman has been committed for trial at Hull on a charge of bigamy.
A man died lately at Rhyl in Wales from hydrophobia, which did not make its appearance fbr a year after he had been bit by a mad dog. He'had declined to have the wound cauterized.
A poacher, placed in a train for Conveyance from Wolverhampton to Stafford, managed to free himself from a handcuff by which he was fas- tened to another prisoner, and leaped from the carriage when it was going at full speed. He was seen to be much hurt and bleeding ; but he contrived to get clear off notwithstanding. Mrs. Brigden, who farms land at Ilford, invited some customers to dine with her : after dinner there was a talk of shooting rabbits, and a loaded gun was produced. Mr. London handled the gun so awkwardly that it exploded, and Mrs. Brigden was shot in the leg. Amputation was necessary, and the poor woman died after the operation. At Ilawkwell, 'near Rochford, a gardener and his wife, a young couple, have been suffocated by burning charcoal in a bedroom to dry new plaster : in the morning their little daughter found them lifeless. A young man of Ware has been killed by a blow from one of the sails of a
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