... We lament to state that it is this week our painful duty to lay before our readers the details of a shocking murder which was committed in the town of Hexham on the afternoon of Tuesday last, the 12th instant, and which has created such a degree of excitement in the town and neighbourhood as has not been witnessed here for many years. The following are the particulars of this deplorable event, ...

... If, instead of a truculent and inflammatory ex- hortation to injustice by a judge upon the bench, the substance of Mr. Baron Gurney's charge* had, haply, been delivered by some wretched ministerial parliamentary back-some treasury slave, in whom the good things of place had engendered bile which required to be thrown off-we should probably have been amused by one or two things contained in it. ...

... On Thursday, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Baker, the coroner, and a jury of tradesmen, assembled at the Fountain Abbey Tavern, Praed-street, Paddington, for the purpose of inquiring into the. circumstances con. nected with the deaths of William Lovett, aged thirty. one, and Margaret. his wife, aged twenty-five years, both of whom were on the previous morning discovered in bed, with their throats out ...

... COURT Or QUEEN'S BENCH. BuRRIDGn s P. BETCxLAND.-This case was tried on Wednesday. Mr. Thesiger, Sir W, Follett, and Mr. Cockburn conducted the case for the plaintiff ; and the Attorney-General, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Wighitman that of the defendant. It was an action brought by the plain- tiff to recover compensation in damages for the injury he had sustained by reason of a libel published against ...

... MIDDLESEX ADJOORNED SESSIONS. Wednesday being the day appointed for hearing ap. peals, the Adjourned Sessions for the county of Middle.. sex were held at 'the Sessions' House, i'uClerkenwell, Mr. Sergeant Adams presiding. 'The only case of interest on the paper was the appeal of David Edward Williams, against an order of Mr. Hall, 'at the 'Hatton-. garden poice court, for an allowance to ...

... RBihard Hoppood, aged forty, a labouring man, was on Wednesday, indibted for stealing a piece of wood, value one penky, the property of John Walker, a farmer at Conlsden, in the lower part of the county. A policeman produced a piece of wood, wrapped up with great care in a piece of canvas, and laying it on the small desk attached to the witness-box, stated that it was given iato his possession ...

... The January sessions of the Central Criminal Court commenced on Monday morning at the Old Bailey, before the Lord _Mayor, Recorder, Mr. Sergeant Ara- bin, Alderman Johnson, and the usual civic authorities. The principal part of the Morning was occupied in swear.ing ill the grand and petty juries. Several gen- tienam were finid for non-attendance, among whollm was John Temple Leader, Esq., M.P. ...

... Th following extraordinary scene toolk place on Sa- turday last in tthe above court, There the Common Ser- geant presided:- At two o'clock the jury, as is customary, were allowed to retire for half an hour to procure refreshment, and one of them having exceeded his time by about ten mi- nutes, was ordered to be filled 5J.. the Court directing at the same time that a neow jury should be sworn. ...

... ILLEGAL ARREST OF CHARTISTS AT JBETHNAL- GREEN. At about nine o'clock, en Thursday night, an ad- journed meeting of Chartists was held at the Trades'- hail, Abbey-street, Bethnal-green, ?? for thc purpose of making known to the inhabitants of the metropolis the extraordinary and unprecedented state of misery, desti- tution, and despair to which the industrious classes at the present moment are ...

... On Tuesday evening, the friends of ' Trial by Jury, the: lia' dhii of .D JlA 'e .&.tlgd ther at Radley's Hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, 'to dele. brate the forty-fifth anniversary of the acquittal of Thomas Hardy, John Horne Tooke, John Thelwall, tind others from a charge of high ?? the Stewards, were Messrs. J. P. Burnal, J. Coppock, Henry B. Fearonl, Alex. Galloway, Gco. H. Heppell, H. ...

... _ WAK-RY,$ FR$S RB Use!) JW.pyx MIDDL!SEX2 I- ?? At i very nunerous meetingh f the magistrates of the county Iof Mddlese^, held , h Sessions' House, cierenwelc county business, on 'Thursday, irn&a.-.Adani hnthe chair, the report .of the ?? Wy brought up, fron which it,'appearo4 that 14gr, j~akl6E spent in an account for inquests. held byhi Ubetwveon the 16th of August and tile 19th of ...

... PO LI TICS. THE RURAL POLICE ACT. The magistrates are praying for the adoption of 'his act in all parts of the country. It just suits ihem, and we may expect to see a complete gens- jarmerie, before long, all over the kingdom. The Afatuated Whigs have been made cats.paws of in' Iis affair,'and at the nr&tgeineaal'.electidia;none: 1vii be foind to denouncet'he'ineasure more than, our. thorough ...