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London, England, 1852-06-26 00:00:00

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PRICES OP BULLION, PER oz.
Foreign Geld inbare £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

Now Dollars ••..•• 0 4 10%
Silverlo bars ........ 0 5 olt

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

EXPECTED OPENING OF THE STOUR VALLEY.—
Within a few days we think we may confidently
announce, on the authority of a letter from G. C. Glyn,
Esq , the chairman of the London and North-Western
Railway, to W. Warner, jun., Esq., Mayor of Wolver-
hampton, and from other sources, the Stour Valley Rail-
way will be opened to the public.— Worcester Chronicle.
SOMERSET MIDLAND.—The Royal assent was
given last Thursday to the Bill for the construction
of this railway. Messrs. Rigby, the contractors for
making the line, have already commenced taking their
plant to Glastonbury. The works will be commenced in
about six week's time.

SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD.--.The fencing is
now going on rapidly for several miles from Lud-
low. It may, therefore, be expected that in a short time
the cuttings and other operations will be continued, and
the line ere long be completed to Hereford.
THE MORAYSHIRE.—This undertaking has made
very rapid progress daring the past week. The
Great North-road was crossed about the beginning
of last week, and the remainder of the work will be
comparatively light, and speedily got through; 'so that
the anticipations of the directors, that the line will
be opened about the 10th or 12th of July, may probably
be realised.

ITALIAN.-It is stated, says the Patrie, that
the Roman Government has just conceded to a
French company the railway from Rome to Bologna
and Ancona. The works will, it is said, be very soon
commenced.

We are requested by Mr. Donald Nicoll, of the
Albany, to state that his name has been placarded
as a candidate for the City without his sanction.

NATIONAL PATENT STEAM FUEL COMPANY.—
Contracts for the supply of this company's fuel have been
tendered to the directors this week to a very large extent.
One foreign steam-packet company is desirous of being sup-
plied with 150,000 tons during the next three years. It has
been proved on board some of our largest steamers that this
fuel succeeds in getting up steam quicker than the best
South -Wales coal, and that it will neither clinker nor make
sluck, qualities which are duly appreciated on board ship.
ORIGIN OF CORONERS' INQUESTS.—The coroner's
inquest is said to have originated in the following manner :
—A gentlewoman in London having buried,six husbands,
found a suitor hardy enough to make her a wife once more.
For several months their happiness was mutual, a circum-
stance which seemed to pay no great compliment to her
former husbands, who had disgusted her, she said, with their
drunkenness and infidelity. With a view of ascertaining
the real character of his mate, the gentleman began to ab-
sent himself, and return at late hours in a state of apparent
intoxication. Reproaches at first, and menaces in succes-
sion, were the effects of this conduct. One evening, when
she thought him senseless or asleep, she unsewed a leaden
weight from a fold in her gown, and having melted it, ap-
proached her husband to pour it into his ear. Convinced of
her wickedness, the gentleman started up, seized her, and
having procured assistance, canfined her till morning, when
she was carried before a magistrate, and committed to pri-
son. The bodies of her six husbands were dug up, and as
marks of violence were discernible upon the whole of
them, she was brought to trial and convicted of murder.
To these circumstances we are indebted for a most useful
institution.

BLINDNESS IN PERSlA.—Blindness is very com-
mon in Persia. Six or eight blind men are often seen walk-
ing in a string, each with his right arm on the shoulder of
his percursor ; partly caused by ophthalmia produced by the
dust, and partly because the Schar has it in his power to in-
flict the punishment of pulling both or one of the eyes out.
It is stated in the Household Words, that " the great-grand-
father of the present Schar, Aga Mohammed, the founder of
the Kujur dynasty, had large basketfuls of the eyes of his
enemies presented to him after his accession to the throne!'

GRAIN INTO IRELAND.—It appears from a return
to Parliament printed on Wednesday, that there has been
an annual increase in the quantities of meal and flour im-
ported into Ireland from Great Britain in the last three
years. In 1849, of meal and flour the quantity was
338,650 cwt. ; in 1850, 347,233 cwt. ; and in 1851,
466,451 cwt. In corn and grain in the period there was a
decrease. In 1849, of corn land grain there were 616,157
quarters; in 1850, 508,859 quarters; and in 1851, 421,894
quarters.
AN OWNER WANTED.—We read the following
story in the Presse :—" There has been just found in the
neighbourhood of Annecy, in Savoy, an empty balloon,
lying on the ground. The car and all the cordage
were perfect, and there was every appearance of the
balloon having fallen solely from the gradual escape of
gas. At the bottom of the car were found a gentleman's
cloak and a lady's bonnet and shawl, and in the latter a very
handsome album was wrapped up. On the first leaf of the
album there was a pencil drawing of the panorama of the
mountains of the country, signed Eliza de R. There was
nothing to indicate the origin of this mysterious balloon.
From the direction of the wind, it is supposed that it came
from France, but beyond that all is a mystery."
A KNowniu YOUTH.—We once knew a boy who
said that he " liked a good rainy day—too rainy to go to
school, and just AVoAt play enough to go A glshing•"