A Stringent Law For The Abolition Of Slavery Is To
be brought into the Portuguese Cortes. That is good, but if the King will hang the first colonial governor who breaks it that will be better. Even Southern slavery was endurable......
At The Last Exeter Assizes Mary Jane Harris And Charlotte
Winsor, residing near Torquay, were tried on a charge of murder- ing an infant child of the latter, but the jury were unable to agree, and were discharged. On the 28th July......
There Is A Mr. G. M. Hicks- Somewhere In Bloomsbury,
who, we take it, is about as sensible, kindly, and practical a philanthro- pist as exists in England. This gentleman and his wife have organized iu Woburn Buildings, Clare......
There Is To Be A Grand Contest At The Half-yearly
meeting of the Great Eastern Railway on the 21th inst. Captain Jervis, the deputy-chairman, intends to call for a committee of inquiry into the conduct of his colleagues, the......
The Sprague Case Has Ended In A Verdict Of Acquittal.
Mr. Sprague, surgeon, of Ashburton, was, it will be remembered, accused of poisoning his wife, her mother, and his father-in-law, by putting belladonna into a pie. It was proved......
A Convict Named Jarvis Was On Tuesday Tried At Croydon
on the charge of stabbing a Scripture-raabr. The man, wh seem e d quiet and intelligent, and who is vary ill, but who has %33 3 I a life of- convictions, made a remarkable......
Prince Arthur Has Been "inaugurating" Another Memorial To...
Consort at Tenby. It is a marble statue 8ft. 9in. in height, placed upon a pedestal of 18ft., made of the grey marble of the locality. The Prince, who is just fifteen years and......
The Special Correspondent Of The Times Has Convinced...
careful inquiry that the stories of the treatment of the Northern prisoners by the South were true. He has seen and conversed with victims of the South, and believes that in the......
Of All The Southern States Virginia Appears Least...
submit either to re-union or emancipation. A majority in her new Legislature are Secessionists, and the judge of the Civil Court, Alexandria, has recently refused to receive the......
A Great Battle Has Been Fought On The Parana, The
grand South l American river, commonly called in England, from the name of its 'estuary, the Plate. Lopez, the Dictator of Paraguay, moved by events related in another column,......