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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 364, 5 April 1866, Page 3

The Merchants’ Exchange in Montreal has been totally destroyed by Ere. , , The Anglo-Persian Convention relative to the orerland telegraph to India has been signed, and is en route for England for ratification, A young lady of Berlin, who superintended the marriage trousseau of the Princess Alexandrina has received a military order—a decoration. Count Eulenberg (of the Otfc case) went on Saturday, under the escort of the Quartermaster of his regiment, to Ehrenbreitstein, to, spend his four months and a half's imprisonment. Thb Great Westebn Cakeiagb Woess.— Some uneasiness has prevailed in Oxford respecting the long delay in the execution of.the contract by the Great Western Board. This, however, has now been dispelled, the Company’s seal having just been affixed, and the Company, in the bill which they have given notice for next Session, seeks power for the purchase of farther land in the vicinity, so as to carry out the enlargement of tbs station which the works necessitate.—Times A Muedbbeb Selling His Bony fob Dissection, —The approaching execution of the two murderers, Fleming and Corbett, in this city, has led to a carious transaction. Fleming has actually sold his body for the sum of 50 dollars, to be dissected in on© of our medical colleges. Fleming was visited by a well-known physician, and asked .if he would sell He replied that-the money would do him no good, as he could not spend it. The doctor is reported to have made -the’ reply that he could buy a new suit of clothes to be hung in. On this ho yielded, and sold out his earthly habitation after the tenant shall have left it. It is understood that Corbett was not considered a fit subject to whom to make the offer, as ho still entertains some hope of obtaining a reprieve, and they had not the heart to dash- 4 his hope* to the ground so rudely.—Chicago Tribune.