... On Sunday morning, a murder of a very atrocious character was perpetrated near St Helens. The victim was a man between 55 and 60 years of age, named Adam Mather, a collier, residing with his wife and son in a cottage in a lonely spot known as Greenleach, St Helen's district On Saturday night the old man and wife went to bed at the usual hour, and the son not having then returned home, the back ...

... FOREIGN In the Austrian Parliament, the principles of re- hciout liberty make progress. It is proposed to ?? civil marriages, to emancipate schools from ti e control -- c Church, aud to make all re_m. ns equal in the eye of the law. In the peugj code it is proposed to abolish corporal punish- meet a-d working malefactors in chains. Constantinople telegram states that Omar j _c_i» bas reported ...

... WANDERINGS OF A TRAMP IN THE PROVINCES. Tramp sends for publication the following interesting account of his wanderings in the provinces : — I am a clerk, with three children and a wife, destitute, having had very little employment for many months. After trying all means of getting something to do in London, I started six weeks since into the country to look for work, willing to take ...

... THE FATAL ATTEMPT TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC IN A SMALL BOAT. Detailed intelligence has now been received of the loss of the boat, smaller than the Red, White, and Blue, while on a voyage from Baltimore to Paris, via Havre. The schooner Mary Blake, of Brixham, from Antigua, has arrived in the Thames with Andrew Armstrong, a seaman, on board, the only survivor of the crew of a small schooner-rigged ...

... The accounts from Australia by the present mail irdicate that the supply of wheat and flour in all the colonies will be unusually great. Already, in the period between the Ist of January and the 18 th of May, the exports from Port Adelaide to England had amounted to 87,621 quarters of wheat and 512 tons of flour, and larger quantities would be shipped in the event of any upward movement in ...

... MONDA F.— Before Jambs Weight and GoD»_r HxATsTCora, Esqrs. George Heaps, chair maker, 25, Chesterfield, was charged with obstructing the highway and assaulting Police-constable Briggs in the execution of his duty, on Sunday. — Fined £1 and costs, or 21 days. Edward Waterhouse, farmer, Brampton, was charged with using threatening language to Charles Jones, ironmonger, Chesterfield, on the 22nd ...

... magistrates have inflicted a fine Sesnf 11 , a P° r k butcher in that town for making Ml f .P, ut ndmeat. Si\i tbat Mr - M'Donald, Secretary of the \h lt 's intends to stand for some mining district or v Xt e l ...

... SHOCKING TRAGEDIES AT ST. HELENS. On Saturday, about midnight, a most atrocious murder and an attempted murder and robbery were committed near St. Helens. The scene of the ?? is an old de- tached cottage (with only three rooms, which are on the ground floor) amongst a group of about eight houses at Greenleach, about half a ?? from Carr MUI Dam, and is a very isolated district. The murdered man ...

... Saturday, this somewhat remarkable case, which On oa J\ £}— , e8 adjourned, was fully gone into ?? Jlted at the BakeweU Town HaU, the ma- -2f present being W. Longsdon, Esq., Capt. Fox, Darwin, Esq , M.D. The defendant is a young ** most respectably connected, named John Francis ■*£ an d the charge against him was for maliciously A unlawfully wounding John Hattersley, at Hather- *° . on the i ...