... - -- tot _ * CONFESSION OF A MUPRDER IN HIS YOUTH. PAISLEY, Thursday. Id To-day the execution of John Thomson, lately b se convicted of the murder, by poisoning with prusaic acid, of in a girl, named Agnes Montgomery, a millworker, in Eagle- Pi re sham (a village about ten miles south of Glasgow). and the at murder of another person, took place in Paisley. From the C id heartless manner in ...

... ATTEMPT TO EXCITE MU*TINY , IN THE 9VI REGIMENT, AT SUNDERLAND. At the police office, Sonderland, on Christmas-day, before G. S. Rauson, Esq., mayor, Thomas Johnson, 5 alias William Barker, described as an American seaman, was charged by Mr Gifford (superintendent of police, with writing a letter on Wednesday, December 23, to the soldiers of the 9th, Regiment, stationed in the bar- r racks at ...

... It has been already stated that the. execution of the culprit has, by an order of the Secretary of State, been postponed from Monday next until the 8th of February; and, from the fresh lacts that have come to light, and the other circumstances connected with the case, which is altogether one of an unusual character, there appears very good ground for believing that the capital panish- tineut ...

... I | Id - THURSDAY, JAN. 28. r.j Id IN RE SwiRE, BLIRS, SWIRBB ANfD WITTON, COX- etRACTOR, BIRDEN, NEAR SCIPTON.-This was a last examination meeting, bat, the bankrupts not having filed their balance-sheet, Mr. Barret epplied for an adjournment,; a He stated that the balance-sheet had been prepared by an l t- accountant, but had not been filed in consequence of the d bankrupts having no money ...

... THE MURDER OF DETECTIVE OFFICER THLAIN. CONVICTION OF TaE MURDERER, YESTERDAY. c MYesterday, at the Central Criminal Court, Lsudon, before Mr. Baron Martin and Mr. Justice Willis, Christian Sattler, t aged thirty-seven, a Bavarian, described as a surveyor, was indicted, remanded from last session', for the wilful murder of Charles Tbain, one of the city detectives, on board the a Caledonia ...

... . The Christmlta Quiarter FeassonS for the West t Riding, adjourned from Knartuilhorougl5 onl Monday, were reaunmed oat the followinot niorisssg at \Vsolcetsibl, before a I fall benich, of magistrates, of whom thle Hlon. B. Laiecellee, 2MY.., wae chairman. Oa the openinE of thle court, Colonel Cobbe, chief constable, read hig report, which was Confirmed, d and is as follows. My Lords and ...

... The Chiristmas Quarter Sessions for the borou~gh of Leeds were opened on Thursiday morning last, before the Learned Recorder, Thomas Flower Ellis, Esq. There were 38 prisoners for trial, mnaely, 34 for felony and 4 for inie- demeanor; beet there waa nothing unusual in any of the rcease,. The only appeal case of public intereet was that of the Overseersr of Leeds against the Town Council, ...

... KNARESBRO', YEBSTERDAY.-THE ESTREAT. The Christmas General Quarter Sessions for the West Riding, were held at Kniaresbro', yesterday, and will be resumed, by adjournment, at WVakefield, to-day. The principal feature at the Knaresbro'sessiolls was the fact that there was not a single prisoner for trial ; and it was under- f stood that the ?? Riding Christmas Sessions in this borough will ...

... THE COUNT DE WASZKOWSKI . II AND THE HON. MARY JONES. A ROMANCE OF 'ITE COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Thi case came before the Court of Exchequer. Mr Edwin James and Mr Bell were counsel for the plain- tiff; 'Mr Sergeant Thomas appeared for the defendaut. It was an action to recover the sum of £100, money lent. The defendant pleaded that he was neverindebted, and a set ?? James, in his opening, said ...

... Dn TRIAL OF THE PRISONER. ?? Yesterday afternoon, at the Manchester city ~.sessions, beforelR. B. Armstrong, Esq., Q.C., Recorder, Chatf. Browness, a foreigner, pleaded not guilty to ain I ment charging him with having, at the Coxrn-exeba ~ce Mancleseter, on the 10th uit., Stolen a ?? boo ingR3,11 8s.innotes, bills, &c,, the propertyo ire Thorapeon and another. The rsctr s ad anid Frederick ...

... TERRIBLE TRAGE'DY' IN ARKANSAS. On the morning of the 22nd of November last the nmost fatal and' heart-rending affray took place ever witnessed ?? 'Point, White County, Arkansas. It appears that while Dr 0. S. Swann and his partner, Dr C. C. Webb, were dining' at Colonel B. K. Rogers', in this place, and with them their friend, Dr G. W. Burney, Dr Swoann was informed of'some one at the gate' ...

... RIPON COURT-HOUSE, YTE6RDAY. (Before Chas. Oxley, Req., chairman, F. H. Wood, Henry Greenwood, W. S. Smitb, and A. Bower, Esqro., the Rev. S. H. Powell, and Robert Keareley, Esq., Mayor of Rinon.) e iHEaIS FOUNTAINS ABBEY ?-A case of consider- ,e able importance was brought before the Bench, for the second e time, and involving the question of where is Fe!iata&5ns Abbp-;, hall, and grounds? ...