27 MAY 1871, page 3

Mr. E. W. Rook Has Been Found By The Coroner's

jury guilty of the so-called " Eltham murder" (the murder of Jane Maria Clon- sen, a former domestic servant in his father's house) ; i.e., 16 out of the 22 jurymen empanelled......

Sir Roderick Murchison Has Resigned The Presidency Of The...

'teographical Society, and Sir Henry Rawlinson has been elected his successor. Sir Roderick has been for thirty rare connected -with the society, and eighteen years its......

There Are Certain Days Defined In The Almanack As 'dog

days,' -during which, according to the popular superstition, stray dogs are universally supposed to be mad, simply because they have lost -their way, and all dogs found with......

And Yet That Is Not Enough. Mr. Ayrton Evidently Thinks

to redeem his lost popularity with the frequenters of the parks by justi- fying their insane terrors, and promises a further Bill, "intended to abate the nuisance which arises......

Console Were On Friday 98f To 98..

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A Girl Named Agnes Norman, A Nursemaid, Is Under Examina-

tion at the Lambeth police-court on a most extraordinary series of charges. The theory of the prosecution, which has been in- stituted on behalf of the Treasury, is that this......

The Registrar-general Has Issued A Kind Of Anticipatory...

London. Taking the usual census limit, a circle round Charing Cross with a radius of six miles, London had in 1861 a population of 2,803,989. In 1871 the population is......

The Truck Commissioners Have Presented Their Report, And...

147,000 persons are employed by firms who keep shops and insist in one way or another that their men shall deal at them, and who, as a rule, cheat the men in the price of the......

Dean Stanley Seems To Have Preached In Westminster Abbey,...

Sunday, a fine sermon on the death of Sir John Herschel, which we trust he will publish. He took for his text the Hebrew account of the origin of the heavens, and applied it to......