... EXECUTION OF CHAS. NORMINGTON I FOR MURDER NEAR LEEDS; Charles Xormitgton, donvicted at the early age of eighteen of the murder of Mr. Richard Broughto0 t Harehills, near Leeds, on the 6th of August, (n Saturda expiated his crime on the scaffold erected behind York astle. The brutal and daring character of the unit sinder, and the proximity of its occurrence to our owE town, have impresred the ...

... ALLEGBD BRUTAL. BDFR ON THI , HIGH SEAS. _ 9 1X - Iwtl V-s11 nr~xt. OnMnday, at the Police-court, EH11l, a 0eila d, youth, named Wilhielin Sorensen, aged eighteen, appearedl elbefore the Stipsndiary, and with the assistance of tho in- terpreter, made the following declaration :-He said he wee a seaman on hoard the Dutch schooner Maria. The 80booDIM '.left Malta for Hamburg, Hamburg for Trieste ...

... The sessions opened on Tuesday last at Wake- field. The Hon. EDwIN LASCELLES, presided, and in open- ing tbe business said in looking over the calendar he noticed c a conaiderabie decrease in the number for trial. For the ( last ten years the average bad been 60, wherese in the pre- ! sent instance it was only 23. But the larger number in-I eluded those who were now unmmarily convicted before ...

... CHARGE OF MURDERING SIX COLOURED 3S the SAILORS. g the The first and second mates of the American barque the Anna, of New York, have been brought this week before the Magistrates of the Isle of Wight, on the information of John Thomas and Abraham Rook, seamen, on a charge of ttee having murdered John Turtle and other set men, during the oted voyage from Legona. to England. The information was ...

... YORKSHIRE INSOLVENT DEBTORS'l ?? COURit'P. Ix YORK CASTLE, MONDAY, ?? 23. al (Beforo D. R. BLAIE,;, Esq., Deputy-Judge) we I UNOPPOSED CASES.-Tbe Under-nallied iutlolvents dir 'were unopposed, nd his Honor deemed them entitled to ri receive the benefit of the Act, and they were discharged P am- forthwith ?? Davison, Ingleby Cross wc c Iti near Thirk, jortrneymnan joiner; Joseph Crabtree, Leedr ...

... IBRADFORRD COUNTY COURT, JAN. 20- BOTTOMLE'( v. THE BRADFORD GAS-LIGHT cn !ON- COMPANY.-AN EXPLOSION, pzor ting .Thiswas a jury case, in which the ?? mr,e ,, in Botteonley, of Clayton Heights, overlooker, sought to re- ev coal co~ver compensation from the delendants, the Bradford Gae. int the Lih oipnfor loss and damages he had sustained by conti V., reason fthe ny.egligence of the company's ...

... I I hlen de, CHEL AISFORD INSOLVE NT DEBTORS' COURT. and Cox- IN THE MATTER OF Jo1IN BAGSIOAW. wh( ,1 a This insolvent, late member of Parliament for exe Hierwich, appeared on bis application to be discharged under I orse. the act, and bie case occupied the attention of the court mu; and from the aittingr until nearly seven o'clock in the evening. ta if 00 Mr. George Taylor appeared as counsel ...

... n-Ana- ?? ?? A- A r On Monday afternoon, about one o'clock, Thomas Williams, one of the workmen of Messrs. Houghton and thSmith, timber merchants, who rent premises in the space adjoining the Canada Dlock, discovered in a cartway the as body of a man, in a pool of muddy water, and found that death had been caused by a frightful wound on the throat, n which nearly severed the head from the body ...

... CRIM[NAL APPEAL BILL. YEsTERDAY the hubject of an appeal in criminal cases was brought before the House of Commons on!t the motion for the second reading of Mr. MCIMAnoN's Bill. The -advantages of the proposed change are I clear and the anomaly of the present system is obvious. Though there is little analogy between civil and 1 criminal cases, yet the right of appeal in civil cases does ...

... S to, he no lar in ug on es. led siy. Of ks. HeI go. aid Vag in she I no iuot led 'be Lobl -it. 'on I ire' his 'cii ice 3te nd Lob te. ted hc- 1e~d ,ht ACCIDENTAL Dri&TI AT SFDBERaE.-An inonnest was held on the 1st instant, before Thorras Brown, El.,, coroner, SkiptoD, at Ur. George Taylor's, Sedbergb, on the body of a railway labourer, named James Aeliton, aged eixty-four years. Deceased was ...

... Another wife murder has been committed at Coventry. The murderer, who also put an end to his own existence, was a butcher, and his name was Henry Fawson. Some fourteen or fifteen years ago he married the woman whom he has now deprived of life. Shortly after their marriage it appears they separated, certain circumstances having come to the husband's knowledge which caused him to suspect his ...

... COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR B'AIRNSLEY. TWELVE PERSONS KILLED. In the Mcrcuery of Thursday we briefly reported the occurrence or another of those fatal explosions of fire- damp vwhich have of late years given so painful a notoriety to the South Yorkshire coal district, and which, unfor- i tunately, never fail to leave behind them so manys traces of desolation and distress. The particulars which ...