The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1875-10-08 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

FRIGHTFUL TRAGEDY IN ITALY. The Paris correspondent of the London Tekgraph ! forwards the following details of the tragedy mentioned a few days ago by a correspondent at Rome : , The ghastly crime at Rome, of which I lately wrote, seems likely to have its mysteries cleared up almost as quickly as the Whitechapel affair. Your readers will remember that a woman% body was found in a ease at the railway station. It had been sent from Naples on the 15:11. At the station there are kept on the register the names of persons who fulfil the office of our Parcels Delivery Company. The police soon found which of them had despatched the case. He is a man who hangs about the station touting for such commissions. It came out at once that a porter had brought this box on a truck at eight o'clock in the morning. The commission agent intercepted' him, and agreed with %young manwalking alongside auto the price of o Irriage to Rome. The porter was easily found, and he could tell what house the ease had been taken from ; and then all the mystery was scattered. At the beginning of this month a young girl, of respectable position, only 17 rears old, ran away with a medical student who was 'following the lectures at Naples University. She took with her 21,000 francs. It appears certain that this girl is the victim, although surgeons at first believed the corpse to be that of a middle-aged woman. Possibly the student poisoned her, for the intestines have been taken out by a skilful hand. But some operation of the sort would be needful to fix the body in such a small case. The supposed murderer has not yet been arrested: but the police are very confident. He was I seen at Naples onli a day before the discovery. His age is twenty-three or twenty-four. But an evening paper alleges, from its own information, that the girl has been found. If the student be guilty of murder, it is not she who is the victim..  Count Mbitte-Bregentred, the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, died on the let instant from the effects of an operation. He was about fifty years of sge• The oil mill destroyed last weet by fire at Hammersmith occupied the site of Turner's house, where he , produced some of his finest pictures and many of the iriginal drawings for the Liber Studoriura." It was I to this place that his address, " West End, Upper Mall, Hammersmith," referred. -•  —.-...._._ ... The public debt of the United States, according to the monthly official returns published last week was decreased in September by 3,342,060 dole. The coin in the Treasury amounts to 67,833,000 dole., and the currency to 4,7.60,000 dole. Mr. Bristow has called in live millions of Five-Twenty Bonds of 1864—viz., 2,500,n00 dole, of registered and 2,300,000 dole. of Coupon Bonds. The interest on these ceases on the I le of January next.  Mr. F. H. Cowen, extracts from whose dramatic I cantata, "Joan of Are," were performed at Norwich, I has not been able to get ready -his sacred work, "The Deluge," which was to have been produced at Mr. , Robes i ' forthcoming musical meeting n Brighton: so the new cantata by Mr. John Francis Barnett, founded on the parable of "The Good Shepherd," will be brought out in place of Mr. Cowan's work. A "Study of Hamlet," by Mr. F. A. Marshall, will shortly be published. In this the character of Hamlet will be regarded from a new standpoint. The early life of Hamlet, the origin of the intrigue between Claudius and Gertrude, and other like matters, will be discussed; the character of Ophelia will be vindicated from the aspersions of Goethe and Gervinus, and the performances of Hamlet by Ernesto Rossi, Salsini, and Mr. Irsico w:Il be criticized.