The Press.
London, England, 1855-08-04 00:00:00

3xcilltnts anb (Offnuto.

THE stage-coach travelling between Minsk and
Kalushin, in Russian Poland, was attacked on the
night of the 10th ultimo by a band of miscreants,
who first killed the horses, then murdered the driver
and five of the passengers, the sixth, a young lady,
contriving to effect her escape. Seven waggons
laden with corn happened to he passing at the time,
driven by Jews. These men were likewise murdered,
as was also a Jewish family of nine persons, who
inhabited a publichonse in the neighbourhood.
Magistrates, aides-de-camp of the viceroy, and a
strong detachment of mounted police, were sent in
all haste to the spot, and it was hoped that a clue to
the murderers would be very shortly found.
A SMART SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE occurred at
Lyons on the 25th ult., and occasioned some slight
damage to several houses. No. 35, in the Rue
Centrale, was cracked from the top to the bottom.
The bells of many houses rang, and servants ran to
the doors to answer them. While the shock lasted,
a noise was heard as of distant thunder, while the
sky, though somewhat clouded, showed no signs of •
storm. Letters from the provinces Ppeak of the
shock as having been felt distinctly at Strasburg,
Mulhouse, Metz, Grenoble, Besancon, Auxonne, and
Dijon, but no accident is reported in any of those
places. Earthquakes have been very frequent in
Italy and the extreme south of France within the
last twelvemonth, but this is the first time that
they have been heard of within that period so far
north.

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Sussex Wing, and to contain one hundred beds, as north. of Kents, 101 to 121; Sussex, 01 lOs to 111 as per mt.
soon as the requisite amount to complete the scheme Upwards 0(860 bale 4 have tome to hand this week from New
had been collected by the committee of the hospital. THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA has recently reduced Y"t•
COALS—den Main, 23.; Haswell, 235: Heugh
That amount having been got together, or nearly so, the charge for the conveyance of books and 21a ae ; South Hartlepool, 22a Od ; Tees, Os per ton. Itappites
accordingly the first stone of the new wing was pamphlets from station to station in India to the ate very limited.
laid on Monday with due solemnity. In the absence scale which is laid down in the royal warrant for 5 POTATOES—The supplies continue large, and the demand is
of' the Grand Master, the Earl of Zetland, and of the their conveyance from England to India, and teITIPCIROUTLIIIITTI47II tAITITE The general demand has
Deputy Grand Master, the Earl of Yarborough, the vice vend. Some further alleviation has now been been firm this week, and beef bas advanced 2d per tilbs. The
Grand Registrar of the order, Mr. Dohie, presided. conceded, inasmuch as the weight allowed for a !applies have been very moderate for the time
bof4ze
ltdar. Beef
so
All the Masonic forms usually observed on such oc- single newspaper which was 31 tolas, equivalent to from Is to 82 48; mett°l3' 82 ad t° 82
ltd;
2111
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veal, 44 ltd to be; pork, 3. Yd to tots per sto the
casions were carefully and effectively carried out, about 11 ounce has been increased to 4 tolas. offal*.
and in the evening the brethren assembled at the According to present arrangements, by the 7th of NFIAVOAI E AND LP.ADENHALL —_The4ae markets have
tton
Freemason's Tavern, to bring the ceremonies of the this month above 1,300 more artillerymen will havelid sttetasdylZ; fl°llobwat's—tgr toef'tirolnOld ;laveadal,tuts.l:l itom4su led:
occasion to a convivial close. left the shores of England for the Crimea. pork, 3s 8d to Is fld per I by ie esteem.
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