... . At the Western Assizes, a poor man is tried for attempted suicide. His son is killed in the Crimea, and, at the same time, his wife deserts him. The poor man's brain yields to the ca. lamity and the shame, and he seeks to drown himself: he was 'fortunately prevented, says the report; whereupon he is committed for trial by the sagacity and tenderness ef Hampshire justice; and after lying ...

... I TH GARDEN.-By K. GEAxd. SHASMh&BLE GARI)ENWO Cheops that have dens to 'a good deal of Dmisblef have al- ready vis.Ited us i ather sharply, and wflj have dftte many Very nicely laid pln.The rapid thaw of Sunday last5 sale nearly a creek of'alinost uextemipled severity. put the ground into a miserable state of awomY, spng rottenness; and bedsof small plants were woofy ydiasereed, many lplants ...

... . .. I ?? £¶- P-i The marshal minister of war has received the fol- lowing report from Marshal Velissier, dated Grand headquarters at Sebastopol, Dec. 11, 1855:- Monsieur la Mar6ohai,-You. have already learned, by my telegraphic despatch of the Stli instaot, the failure of the Ru~ssaos in the attack they attempted to make, during the morning of that day, on the outposts of D'Auteinarre's ...

... THEI BRITISH EXPEDITION. I The Timnem' correspondent fotrnishes an interesting account of the state et affairs in and around Sebastopol ,up to the 26th. He says, writing on the 24th:- Scarcely had the ink dried on the paper of my last letter before the weather, whica I had besnpraisingfor Us exf raordinary finenee3, suddenly civ-ged, and with a rnpidiuy of transition only known in tbe Crimea, ...

... THE WSH FIL[BUSTEBS IN AmEEIC If we ar to believe the report of the COMMiBMOiIM oi emigration in the eity of New York (says the Omr respondent of the Dalyi Mews, writing from that ct), Ahe Times has been ?? with a gimpee into the ture, and. mistaken a few hun&red disappointed Irish emigrants who have juet returned to their native country, deetitute and penniless for a formidable fili. baster ...

... Taii GAMALIRBS WVInaa DIALT WXITEE-A party of gamblers lest Edinburgh with the 10.15 morning train, and had succeeded iI enticing some savlors to play, and had won several sums of their money. On the arrival of the train at PcIment, the sailors found out what they were, and began to beat them, when the most active of the gamblers gave one of the sailors 31, and jumped out, followed by two of ...

... CARrON.WOU9E. I 00 a - .. ft fth. avmlin 00we; bblish a Dr c cmunt DI we Purum e w y O~eN of the residenee of the Duke of 0 D by cth nty of Killse The following psr e' furnished by the Preeman's Jou-nr.?'- the modtdisastrous and desructiventur,,, ach at e time traned to detrw the whie pd rface the Dake of Ieinster's manificent; anld 0 b amirea mansion at Cartsn, broke out at an i lk tour ...

... IUSU ^wA'v PASSAGE OF THIE INGOg' - ALA {thn of A0f The following ?? of the ?? V -- of the river Ingour by the turks fr the P is from the pen of the correspondent of the lbT. Turkish camp, banks of the lngoi,5ov. 6th' ' ing heard that the aant poste of the ar w camped within two heurs' nareh of the I rS e termined a week ago to lealve Shemserr^, w hb ) Pacha still retained his head.q frs, a ...

... ALLEGED STARVATION OF A WIE On Wednesday, a very lengtbyinvestigation was held before Mr. Wskleyj at the6 Dke of York, York-road, Rirg's.cross, to inquire into the cause of death of Mr Elizboth Thompson, aged forty-six, wife of .a com- Stor engaged on one of the morning papers, whose) deathit las been alleged was caused by a contlui Course of ill~treatment and starvation, Mr. James Taunton, ...

... LLOYD'S WEEKLY LONDON NEWSPAPER. VICTOR EMMANUEL AT HOMtE. The King of Sardinia has been receive I by his people at Turin with an ardour of loyalty and a depth of personal affection that are most signi- ficant of their estimation of the welcome award- ed to their sovereign by England. Of course, they are in a manner sensible of the courteous reception bestowed upon him by France; but, even ...

... I WNSTENTON AaAINST LIDDRIL AND OTRnnzS, AND iBRAI AGAINST LIDDSLL AND Oxnnaa.-The argu. ments In these cases, with regard to the church furni. ture used at St. Barnabas, Pimlico, and St, PatI'3, Knightsbridge, have already appeared in our journal. The Court of Consistory gave its decision on Wednesday. Dr. LuBhington, after a voluminous snmmning up, said ;- 1st. As to St. Paul's, that a ...

... THuE 1 LIS *LOCAL MAVAGELENT ACT. I The first busineqa under the new ietropolis LccbY. hesgmet act, that of forming parishes into wards, and the second businesj that of electing vestrymen in the did terent wards; having been very saccessilly managed, the third and projably the mostimportant business to betraus- aoted under the act staid next in rotation. On the 12th of December-a time so ...