... engaged for some time in investigating a most remarkable charge of conspiracy to obtain money under false pretences. Hie accused were two Germans, named Victor and Fordon, and it would appear that Victor went to the Prussian Em- bassy and offered for a certain sum to reveal the particulars of a plot to assassinate the King of Prussia. The person who was to do this atrocious deed was a ...

... TREMENDOUS GALE IN SCOTLAND. (From the Scotsman of January 25.) Edinburgh, and indeed a great part of Scotland, was visited yesterday (Friday) by a hurricane that has resulted in melancholy loss of life, in the destruction of much pro- perty, and in a series of accidents which rarely, if ever, have aceompanied a gale of wind in this country. The gale came on suddenly, and almost the only sign ...

... Leave well alone. We do not get Tea re- latively so cheap and good as this in England, said a British visitant whilst quaffing the pure infusion in a Mandarin's verandah.— No, replied the Chinese merchant, we piake you up sorts pretty to look at, then ioreign mer- chant much pleased. 2vow, this is a fact, for the colouring of the leaf for English supply is done to enable the Chinese Tea ...

... PASSING EVENTS, RUMOURS. &c. The seven prisoners, William and Timothy Desmond, Nicholas English, John O'Keefe, James ONeill Michael Barrett, and Anne Justice, who stood remanded on the e large of wilful murder of the persons killed by the i terkenwell explosion, were again placed at the bar for final > xamination at Bow-street police-court on Tuesday morning, iid were formally committed for ...

... HAS AMERICA A QUARREL WITH ENGLAND ? —The New York Tribune of February 7, in an editorial article entitled Have we a quarrel with England ? answers that question in the negative. Iteays, Eng. land's recognition of belligerent rights' is mere moon- shine. It says further, we have as yet seen no evidence of wanton interference with peaceable Americans. The arrest of Mr. Train was invited and ...

... the year 1841 the quantity of tobacco cleared for consumption in the United Kingdom amounted to but 13J oz. per head of population. In the year 1865 it amounted to 21 oz. per head. Twenty yean ago nobody with any pretensions to the character of a gentleman would have been seen smoking in the streets; nowadays, everybody smokes when and where he pleases, save in his wife's drawing-room and at ...

... United States Miuister to Great Britain. The President has also issued an order removing Mr. Stanton from the post of Secretary for War, but Mr. Stanton refused to surrender the oilice, and appealed against the President's order to the Senate. Thereupon the Senate declared the order to be illegal, and Congress referred the matter to the Reconstruc- tion Commitee. To the latter body was also ...

... COLONEL BURKE on the CLERKEN- WELL EXPLOSION. It is said that the prisoner Burke having been in- formed of what was said about him in connexion with this explosion, writes to his solicitors on the matter as follows I have been informed that one of the warders of the House of Detention, in his evidence, stated that I stopped and moved out of the ring while tt exercise, and pretended to take a ...

... It is said that General M'Clellan has a claim to a share in thc Danda and Kirwee prize-money. He has proved himse jJto be the nearest of kin, and, consequently, heir to Miss Alicia Campbell, who inherited from her brother, the late Lord I'iydo, a portion ot the Banda itnd Kirwee prize- money. t; .1 father was cousin ycrman to the late Lurd CipJe. These cilCuUl3talln-s ought to give additional ...

... The severe sentence pronounced upon Messrs. Pigott and Sullivan will? it is hoped, give a. salutary check to the spread of seditious publications (writes The Times' Dublin correspondent). In requiring them to enter into bail for two years at the termination of their respective terms of imprisonment, the judges have rendered the punishment more st.ringent, adopted the best precaution against ...

... tection of the rights of American naturalized citizens when abroad grows apace, and the demand among the people that those rights shall rest upon some well-understood basis is almost universal. Both American parties are fully com- mitted to this, and it is one oi the very few doctrines upon which they have agreed in sentiment since 1S60. The popular meetings to advocate the doctrine continue, ...

... At the Central Criminal Court in London, on on- day t Sir Gideon Culling Eardley, Bart., thirty-one, was placed at the bar, to take his trial for feloniously intermarrying with Mary Elizabeth Allen, at the dis- trict Ohurch of St. George's, Hanover-square, London, his wife, Emily Florence Magee, to whom he had been previously married at New York, in the United States of America, being alive. ...