25 SEPTEMBER 1869, page 3

A Very Extraordinary And Wholesale Murder—of A Lady And Her

'five children, the lady herself being with child, so that, in fact, seven lives were extinguished—took place in the immediate out- skirts of Paris, at a little place called......

Lord Overstone Raises Another Point. He Says By The Present

law a pound means so much weight in gold ; not merely so much value, and not only so, but so much weight stamped with a stamp making it current coin of the realm. It is not......

If It Were Possible, We Should Certainly Have A Run

just now on Insurance Companies. Another concern—the European Assurance Society—is threatened with a winding-up, and as the outstanding policies are said to be for over eight......

A Mr. H. Cheater, A Solicitor, 69 Years Of Age,

too old, we should think, for an expert climber, lost his life, on Wednesday week, in the attempt to take a dog up the Lyskamm, a moun- tain near Zermatt and next southwards to......

The Statement Made In Several Newspapers That Mrs. Stowe...

reply to the criticisms ou her story in the October number of Macmillan's Magazine is a mistake. We understand that she reserves her reply. The Guardian states, on what it deems......

There Has Been A Mysterious Disappearance In Scotland....

Justice Clerk (Mr. Patton) went to his estate in Glenal- mond, Perthshire, this day week, and on Monday morning went out before breakfast for a walk, and has not since been......

We Observe With Sincere Pleasure That Professor J. R. Seeley

has been appointed to the Regina Professorship of History in 'Cambridge, vacant by the resignation of Canon Kingsley. The remarkable articles on Roman Imperialism in Macmillan's......

Our Paupers Are Really Taking A High-handed Line With Their

superiors in the workhouse. They are beginning to claim, it seems, the right to excommunicate the master of the workhouse if, in their judgment, his private conduct is not that......

" Par " And Lord Overstone Have Both Replied To

Sir John Lubbock in the Times, on the theoretical point involved in the suggested diminution of the gold in the sovereign by way of a charge for mintage,—" Par" quite......

Consols Were On Friday Evening 92f To 92f.

......