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EPITOME OF NEWS. The National Assembly of Greece and the people generally have received the resolution of the Ionian Par- liament in favour of union with Greece with great enthusiasm. A part of the property of King Otho and of Queen Amelie of Greece has (says the Ost Deutsche Post) arrived at Venice from Athens. The most valuable articles, particularly the ^foeen'S jewels and the King's private library,, still remain in the^ palace at Athens. The Duke of Athole has not been out of doors I since the day after her Majesty's visit. The Duchess of Athole is in constant attendance upon the Duke at Blair Castle, her watching being only shared in and relieved by his grace's relative, Miss Macgregor, assisted by a professional nurse. The latest news from Breslau is to the effect that a workman employed in the factory of a Mr. Evans, a British subject, has been shot by the Russians in the factory yard, for making grenades. The factory is to remain closed tiil Mr. Evans has paid a fine of 15,000 roubles. It is said that horses are cheaper in England, that is, in the midland counties, than they have been for several years past. The Lord Mayor of Dublin continues his strenuous eflorts to assist free emigration. A schooner named the Charlotte, of Bideford, was wrecked the other day near Kilcoole, on the Wicklow coast. As there is no lifeboat in that vicinity, it was impossible to render any assistance to her crew, although their signals of distress were perceived, and they were all lost. The Band of the Commissionaires having finished their open air promenade concerts at the Cambridge inclssure, St James's-park, are now performing every evening at the Agricultural-hail, Islington, where, in addition to the band of the corps, Schmuck, the master, has er gaged the services of several professional singers. At Dromeliby, in Clare, some Irishmen, while dlgging, came upon an Irish" gintieman "-or, perhaps, a King —in his cofSn, nine feet long; so we are told. Doubtless a young Fingal. Intelligence has been received of a very serious collision in the Channel between the French ship Zaide Celine, Roussel, from Cardiff for Rochefort, and the James of Fowey. The latter vessel foundered almos immediately, and the captain and two men are reported to have perished. The Zaide Celine succeeded in putting into Falmouth. The Crawley court-martial is to take place at Chelsea Hospital, in all probability in November next. As little delay as possible is contemplated on the part of (he autho- rities, as the expense is likely to make rather a formidable item in this year's accounts. £50,000 has already been mentioned as the probable cost of this trial. A post-office functionary has just been sen- tenced, by the Supreme Court ef Yibcrg, is Russian Finland, to be hanged for stealing a letter containing a sum of 1,600 roubles. The Turkish Budget is about to be balanced by one of the simplest and most thoroughly characteristic of performances. The pay of all civil and military employes for four of the months due is to be sequestrated by the State, in order to adjust the accounts. An Algerian journal, La Miiidja, announces that a project, which it styles" gigantic," is at the present moment under consideration. "It is proposed," says that jour- nal, "to buUd dams across the water-courses which comedown from the Atlas, in order to form reservoirs for the purpose of irrigating all the plain of the Mitidja. The annual review of the Manchester and other Lancashire volunteer corps was held at Heaton-park, the seat of the, Earl of Wiiton, on Saturday. Since the commencement of the volunteer movement few reviews on so extended a scale, and in which the evolutions were of so intricate a nature, have passed off mere successfully. Colonel M',Murdo was entertained at a banquet in the evening. An American clock is exhibited at the Mary- land Institute, Baltimore, the work of a man named Morrill, which runs eight days, strikes the quarter-hours on four different bells of varioas sounds, gives the alarm to awaken the master, lights a lamp, lights a fire in the stove, rings a bell in the ser- vant's chamber, who arises in the presence of all, looks around cpon the audience a few moments, and then draws the curtain to dress. The National Government of Poland has brought the insurgent chief Sokolowski before a court-martial, on a charge of having abused his authority, aad has sentenced him to be shot. The Kurds in the neighbourhood of Damascus have attacked the Turkish troops and, it is stated, killed a hundred of them. In celebration of the day when Holland freed herself, fifty years ago, from French rale, two monuments will be erected at the Hague and at Scheveningen, where William I. landed. Besides these, there are to be founded a kind of Pantheon and a Schod of Trade in memory of the great event at Amster- dam. At the distribution of prizes to the Ports- mouth Rifles, the corps being drawn up in three sides of a square, the Major-Commandant called upon Private W. G. Chambers (the Mayor of Portsmouth) to distribute the prizes. 0bedient to the word of command his worship stepped from the ranks, and having retired for a few minutes re-appeared in his municipal robes and gold chain of office, and presented the prizes to his successful comrades amidst loud cheers. It is stated that Mr. Edward Mackenzie, of Fawley-court, has remitted to Mr. W. F. Low, of Wimpole- street, a cheque for £ 14,000, for the British Orphan Asylum at Slough, the amount invested in the house and grounds recently purchased by Mr. Low for that institution. The following handbill is being circulated in Coventry:—" £ 50 Reward.-The above reward will be paid to any person who will produce The Great Liberal Party,' last heard of in Coventry, at four o'clock on Thursday, Oct. 8, 1863. Application to be made to Serjeant Gloom." The Jesuits recently opened a new church at Amsterdam, under which they had fifty subterranean cells con- structed. The police, having been informed of this fact, applied to the reverend fathers for an explanation, and were told that the cells were solely intended for storing prorisions-an answer which appears to have been considered satisfaclory, as no further steps have been taken in the matter. At a foundry in Preston four men were in imminent danger the other day by the breaking of a travelling crane and the fall of the heavy material wh'oh two men were engaged in hoisting. The three labourers who were working the crane fell to the ground and were severely hurt, whilst the fourth, who was on the ground, was near,y crushed to death by a part of the casting failing on him. The Gloucestershire Agricultural Society, who, this year, held their annual cattie show at Cirencester, contemplate selecting Cheltenham as their place of meeting for 1864. As the deputy-sheriff in a western court was rapping to secure the silence of two men who were talking, one of the men rose and said to the Judge, May it please your honour, it is impossible for gentlemen to converse if that man is allowed to make such a noise." The inhabitants of the village of Radstock cele- brated the gathering of a splendid harvest by a festival, to which was added a flower-show and an exhibition of babies. The stud for the use of Prince Alfred during his stay in Edinburgh, consisting of ten horses and four car- riages, have been shipped from London on board the General Steam Navigation Company's steamer, Princess Roval, for Granton. The Duke of Hamilton will this month enter on his studies at Christ Church, Oxford. His brother, Lord Charles Hamilton, is expected to go to the same university next year. The Prince of Prussia is by trade a printer. According to ancient usage in Prussia, all the Princes of the Royal fami'y must learn a trade. The Prince Frederick William learned the trade of a compositor, at the office of Mr. Hauel, at Berlin. Some idea of the extent of orchard ground in Devonshire may be gathered from the fact that the South-Western Company's railway cat through one hundred orchards. A tree has recently been cut down in Cali- fornia, the circumference of which was 90 feet, and its height 325 feet. The bark was in some places 4 feet thick. The tree contained 250,000 feet of solid timber. Its age was 3,100 years. The wood was sound and solid. An eminent Parsee merchant firm in the City of London has presented a sum of jE2,000 to the Royal National Lifeboat Association, through its chairman, Thomas Baring, Esq,, M.P to enable it to form a lifeboat establishment on the English coast, and permanently to uphold it. Margate jetty is to be increased in length 300 feet, which will reduce the length of sea-sickness by that amount of d'stance, and bring in a new field of operations for girls and boys fishing for crabs, with fish inside. The Royal yacht Alberta, which has been built expressly for her Majesty's CDnvenience in crossing between the mainland aid her marine residence at Osbome, Isle of Wight, has just been launched. A letter from Southampton, dated Oct. 11th, says.-—"We had very severe storms of thunder and lightning during the whole of last night. Since the earthquake the weather has been remarkably warm. Nearly all the rivers in the south of England have overflowed during the week. The atmosphere has been unusually hnmid. and the damp so pene- trating that wheat, which was properly housed, was found so damp as to cause some difficulty in grinding it for market." A number of poachers waited on one of the Drogheda. solicitors, and offered to supply him with two fine hares weekly, on condition that he would,defend them in any case which might be brought against them during the season, in a law court, for the breaches of the game laws. It is un- necessary to say that the legal gentleman came to no such terms with them. Notice has been formally given by the Lord Chamberlain that the State Apartments of Windsor Castle will be closed on and after Wednesday, the 14th inst., until further notice. The estates of Inches and Dellmore, Inveraess- shire, were exposed to public sale in Dowells and Lyons's-rooms, at the upset price of £80,000, and after a fpiiited competition were secured for the trustees of the late Alexander Baird, Esq., of Ury, at £ 63,000. The estate of Nether Blainslie, in the parish of Melrose, was sold at the upset price of £7,000, and is said to have been purchased by George Dalzel, Esq., for Lord Lauder- dale's trustees, It may be remembered that a pugilistic en- counter, arising apparently out of a, public-house brawl, took place last week in Manchester, in which one of the combatants was killed. The inquest on the body has just 'been held, at which some witnesses of the fight attended. The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter." agaijist the .surviving combatant., The Earl of Mount Edgcumbe recently enter- tained the 16th Devon Volunteer Rifles on his estate, after a drill which was cut short by the incessant rain. His lordship is about to leave England for several months for the benefit of the, countess's health, and on this occasion took leave in an accept- able manner of the corps w'ho have"had the privilege of being under his 'command. The loss of the screw steamer Zealand, of Hull, with her captain (William Lewis) and six 01 her crew, appears now by the continued absence cf any tidings of the ship or her crew to be all but certain. The whole ofthefteet of the Royal Mail Com- pany is about to be surveyed by the Admiralty, in consequence of the commencement shortly of a new mail contract. About two hundred of the Nonconformist emi- grants for Albertland, NewZealanc1, have just sailed in the John Duncan. They form the seventh party which has gone out to Albertland. The Lords of the Committee of Council on Educa- tion have decided that the new Art Training Schools, in the South Kensington Museum, for male and female classes, shall be open for the inspection of the public every Saturday, from two till nine r.m. Adiaissioa free, through the museum.

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