... CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-LONDON, DEo. 16. | (Before the COMMON-SEEJsrAT.) CONVICTION FOR MURDERING A WIFE. .enr j Horler, 24, was indiated for the wilful mur- der of his wife, Anne Horler. Anne Rogers said-I reside at Bath, and the prisoner married my daughter, the deceased, in June, 1851. Previously to the 15th Nov. last, I received a commu- nicatiori, in consequence of which I came to London, ...

... A SHORT time since a man named Grosours was brought before the Correctional Police, at Paris, for having picked a gentleman's pocket of his handkerchief in the Champs Elysee. Although aged only thirty, the pri- soner has passed not fewer than twelve years in jail, and on the day of the robbery he had only been re- leased an hour, when he was arrested. A policeman having declared-that he had ...

... NORTHERN CIRCUIT, YORK.-DEcEmOEt 21ST. CROWN COURT. .John Snipe, John Smnit, and Ann Smitih were in- dicted for the wilful murder of William Francis Maple- thorpe, at Hull, on the 21st May last; and Mfrary Ann Robhstson was charged with harbouring the male pri- soners, knowing them to have committed the murder. Mr. XW. asrf, Q.C., stated the case for the prosecu- tion, as it appeared in the ...

... i COURT OF QUEEN'S Bl'NCHl.-Dcnl.l, MONDAY. Lyeart v. feostce . The second trial of this case, in Which both plain- tiff and dcfendant are clergymen, the delrunidant being rector of Loughgilly, near :Mariletill, in the county Armnagh, and the cause of action being an alleged libel, was brought to a close to-day. The jury having- disagreed to their verdict were dis- charged, counsel for ...

... TiaE following are extracts frdm the Report of the re- suits of al inquiry made in Manchester, as to the Con- sumption of Smoke in that borough, presented to the Committee of the Leeds Improvement Society. We went first to the mill of Mr. Councillor Joseph Lamb, where'the engine 'is of 90 horse power, sup- plied by two boilers, one constructed by Mkessrs. W. & J. Galloway, of Manchester, and ...

... BELFAST POLICE COURT.-MONDAY. [Before W. S. TaACy, Esq., R.M.] CIIARGOC OF W.ATC STEALTNG. An old tinsmith, named IM'eisza, who has ham- miered and soldered about Ballimacarrett generations of long-forgotten pots and kettles, had tha misfortune to be charged, by a person, named Ambrose O'Neil, with stealing his watch. Complainant stated that-the watch had been sus- pended in his room when the ...

... BELFAST POLICE COU1RT-WLrD-mgDAY. [Before W. S. TRaCY, Esq., R.M., and Sir Wmr. G. JOHNSON. TIHE FOUR IHUNDRED POUNDS ROBBERY. The court was considerably thronged this morning by persons anxious to hear the conclusion of the inves- tigation of the charge preferred against three men, named Win. Jordan, Johns Teil, and James Leison (sus- pected of being connected with that class of extensive and ...

... COMIMSSION OF OYER AND TERMINER, DUBLIN. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF MURDER. IT being generally understood that the trial of Mr. William IKirwan, on the charge of being accessory to the death of his wife, at Ireland's Eye, in the month of September last, would take place this morning (Wed- nesday), a large concourse of persons beseiged the doors of the Court-house, Green Street, at an early hour, ...

... BELFAST POLICE COURT.-MoXnDAY. [Before W. S. Tlt.kcy, Esq., R.M.i There were only fourteen custody cases this morn- ing for disposal, several of which were not the result of drunkenness; a great fait this, remenibering the opinion several times pronounced by the Assistant Barrister, and often by Mr. Tracy, that the chiefeause of crime and immoralitv in the town and neighbour- hood was ...

... iLain. COURT OF CHANCERY.-DUBCLIN, Due. 9. EXTRAORDINARY WILL. Cooke v. 3Moorie. Mr. BLAxE, Q.C. (with whom were Messrs. Andrews, Q.C., and A. Close), opened the petition in this case, which was filed by the trustees of the marriage settle- meit of a Mrs. Burroughs, to compel the respondents to bring in a sun of £7,0, left to her by the will of her father (the late Mr. Janes Moore, postmaster, ...

... WE have hitherto carefully avoided commenting upon the case of the convict, Kirwan, now under sentence of execution for the murder of his wife on the Oth of September last. We have observed this course, not from any indifference with regard to the vindication of justice on the one side, or the fate of the wretched convict on the other; but simply because we felt it beyond our province to argue ...

... CI0AUGE OF DZUNILENNEII AOAINST A POLICEMAN. ON Monday last, the court was somewhat unusually largely attended, in consequence of it being understood that an investigation would be gone into of a charge of drunkenness preferred by John Thomson, Esq., J.P., of Low-wood, Belfast, against 'a mounted policeman, named Robert Haamiltou, attached to the Glenarmn police station, and orderly to Mr. ...