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his wife in the open street , and then attempted to commit suicide .- ——On the same day , a farmer named Henderson was shot in his bed while asleep , at Bramhall , near Manchester . His own son has been committed to Chester Gaol charged with the murder .

On the 1 st of October , a railway porter at the Derby Station , while buckling some trucks , fell upon the line , and was killed by the train passing over him .- On the same day , a woman was found murdered at Frome , and as her husband has absconded , there can be little doubt he put an end to her .- ——On the same day , a woman at Shepton Mallett nearly murdered her husband by stabbing him in the head with a dinner-knife . On the 2 nd , the establishment of Messrs . Routledge , the well-known publishers ,

was nearly consumed . — -Un the same day a man committed suicide at JDurreli s Hotel , London Bridge , a letter written by him and lying by the corpse directed it to be anatomically examined , as he had suffered from some internal complaint .- — - On the same day , a sailor fell from the rigging of a ship in the Commercial Docks , ' and received such injuries that he has since died of them . On the same day , another sailor was killed at Limehouse Road , by a block and sheaves falling upon his head .

On the 4 th , at Frome , a clergyman while preaching was shot in the face with a discharge of blood from a gun , fired by an idle fellow passing the church . The reverend gentleman was greatly stunned . On the 6 th , a mason was killed at the Bricklayers' Arms Station by the falling of the sheers , one of the legs of which struck him on the head , and smashed it against the wall .- -On the same day , at Woolwich , the captain of a militarytransport while getting on board was precipated twenty feet , and fractured his skull against a cross beam . On the 7 th , a woman , on account on account of a love quarrel , drowned herself in the Regent's Canal . ——On the same day , a man deliberately walked in front of a train at Bonder ' s End Station , and was , as a matter of course , mutilated and killed .

On the 7 th , 8 th , and 9 th , it blew a hurricane in the Channel and German Ocean , strewing the coast with wrecks . On the 8 th , a woman at Breston , in consequence of ill-treatment she received from her husband , threw herself and infant child into . the canal at Breston . They were taken out in a state of great exhaustion . On the 9 th , the boiler of one of the South Western Company ' s engines exploded at Basingstoke , killing both the driver and the stoker . On the same day , a man named Miller , on being ioked by a married couple named Brerder , at

Warleigh , in Somersetshire , with respect to the murder of the woman Bugsley at Leigh Woods , rushed upon them with a knife , and killed them , and then attempted to commit suicide . On the 9 th too , the butler of a gentleman residing at 5 , Hinde-street , Manchester-square , hanged himself in the kitchen of that house . — - — On the same day , a carpenter , at Ball ' s Pond , had a quarrel with a drunken wife , and cut her throat with a razor . On the morning of the day , two boys passing in a boat by Waterloo Bridge , discovered upon one of the abutments a carpet-bag , containing some of the mutilated and pickled bones of a man / supposed to have

been murdered either in a brothel or by foreign refugees . The whole thing is , however , still wrapt in mystery , and continues to fill the public mind with horror . On the 10 th , a large quantity of agricultural produce was consumed at Charlton on Otmoor , near Bicester , in consequence of children being allowed to play with lucifer matches in a barn where there was loose straw . On the 10 th , too , the dead body of a young woman , who is supposed to have committed suicide , was ine

picked up in the Regent ' s Canal , near Jlaggerstone . Km same aay , a collision took place between two passenger trains upon the Woolwich branch of the Eastern Counties line , by which several persons were more or less injured . On the 11 th , a party of men were surprised in the tunnel at Potter ' s Bar on the Great Northern Railway by two trains , one on each line , when , sad to relate . three out of the number were killed . YOL . III . 6 G

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THE CANADAS. Article 1
ON THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE GRAND MASONIC TRIUNITY. Article 3
THE KADIRI ORDER OF EL TASAWUF IN ARABIA. Article 9
TIDINGS FROM THE CRAFT IN THE UNITED STATES Article 12
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX ARCHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Article 14
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 19
MASONIC INCIDENT. Article 22
THE MASONIC MIRROR. Article 23
METROPOLITAN Article 26
PROVINCIAL Article 34
ROYAL ARCH. Article 69
THE ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 72
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Article 73
MARK MASONRY. Article 73
SCOTLAND. Article 77
IRELAND Article 80
COLONIAL. Article 80
INDIA. Article 81
WEST INDIES Article 82
SUMMARY OE NEWS FOR OCTOBER Article 85
NOTICE. Article 91
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Summary Oe News Eor October

his wife in the open street , and then attempted to commit suicide .- ——On the same day , a farmer named Henderson was shot in his bed while asleep , at Bramhall , near Manchester . His own son has been committed to Chester Gaol charged with the murder .

On the 1 st of October , a railway porter at the Derby Station , while buckling some trucks , fell upon the line , and was killed by the train passing over him .- On the same day , a woman was found murdered at Frome , and as her husband has absconded , there can be little doubt he put an end to her .- ——On the same day , a woman at Shepton Mallett nearly murdered her husband by stabbing him in the head with a dinner-knife . On the 2 nd , the establishment of Messrs . Routledge , the well-known publishers ,

was nearly consumed . — -Un the same day a man committed suicide at JDurreli s Hotel , London Bridge , a letter written by him and lying by the corpse directed it to be anatomically examined , as he had suffered from some internal complaint .- — - On the same day , a sailor fell from the rigging of a ship in the Commercial Docks , ' and received such injuries that he has since died of them . On the same day , another sailor was killed at Limehouse Road , by a block and sheaves falling upon his head .

On the 4 th , at Frome , a clergyman while preaching was shot in the face with a discharge of blood from a gun , fired by an idle fellow passing the church . The reverend gentleman was greatly stunned . On the 6 th , a mason was killed at the Bricklayers' Arms Station by the falling of the sheers , one of the legs of which struck him on the head , and smashed it against the wall .- -On the same day , at Woolwich , the captain of a militarytransport while getting on board was precipated twenty feet , and fractured his skull against a cross beam . On the 7 th , a woman , on account on account of a love quarrel , drowned herself in the Regent's Canal . ——On the same day , a man deliberately walked in front of a train at Bonder ' s End Station , and was , as a matter of course , mutilated and killed .

On the 7 th , 8 th , and 9 th , it blew a hurricane in the Channel and German Ocean , strewing the coast with wrecks . On the 8 th , a woman at Breston , in consequence of ill-treatment she received from her husband , threw herself and infant child into . the canal at Breston . They were taken out in a state of great exhaustion . On the 9 th , the boiler of one of the South Western Company ' s engines exploded at Basingstoke , killing both the driver and the stoker . On the same day , a man named Miller , on being ioked by a married couple named Brerder , at

Warleigh , in Somersetshire , with respect to the murder of the woman Bugsley at Leigh Woods , rushed upon them with a knife , and killed them , and then attempted to commit suicide . On the 9 th too , the butler of a gentleman residing at 5 , Hinde-street , Manchester-square , hanged himself in the kitchen of that house . — - — On the same day , a carpenter , at Ball ' s Pond , had a quarrel with a drunken wife , and cut her throat with a razor . On the morning of the day , two boys passing in a boat by Waterloo Bridge , discovered upon one of the abutments a carpet-bag , containing some of the mutilated and pickled bones of a man / supposed to have

been murdered either in a brothel or by foreign refugees . The whole thing is , however , still wrapt in mystery , and continues to fill the public mind with horror . On the 10 th , a large quantity of agricultural produce was consumed at Charlton on Otmoor , near Bicester , in consequence of children being allowed to play with lucifer matches in a barn where there was loose straw . On the 10 th , too , the dead body of a young woman , who is supposed to have committed suicide , was ine

picked up in the Regent ' s Canal , near Jlaggerstone . Km same aay , a collision took place between two passenger trains upon the Woolwich branch of the Eastern Counties line , by which several persons were more or less injured . On the 11 th , a party of men were surprised in the tunnel at Potter ' s Bar on the Great Northern Railway by two trains , one on each line , when , sad to relate . three out of the number were killed . YOL . III . 6 G

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