... FRIGHTFUL IMURERS AND SUICIDE IN - I - -CALIFORNIAL For some time back there has prevailed a perfect mania in California for-the commission of suicide. It got to such a height that the chemists took to furnishing emetics and other inconvenient but, harmless drugs, to the appli- cants for poison, in lieu of prosaic acid and strychnine. For some abort time we had one saicvde a day. One of the ...

... *RORR}hL3 MURDER IN. A NEWSAPBER - _ . OFFIE511. On Tuesday afternoon a hockiing murder was committed at the offioe of the :ai/ax Guardian The men returnledfrom dinner, at two O'clock, sdA eor afterwarde ene of them, named Jares, Jacobs, was murdered by the eldest of the three apprenticee a tall, powerfal young man, named Dawson. Th, latter, before resuming work in the jobbi- g- office (where ...

... THZ 'SEAFCH IN AMarCk rOR DRi THOMAS ALLSOP. I[From the New Yor-k erold, March 31] That Thomas Allsop, the Englishman charged with coma- plicity in the recent attempted assassination of the Eam- peror Napoleon, bas been in this city is an indisputable fdct. Police Comjissionaer Bowen has said thmt he had reason to believe that Allsop was here. A Wall-street journal recently stated that it was ...

... THE MURDER OF A FRENCHWOXAN IN THE HAYMARKET. Glovanni Lana, a native of Duomo .d'Ossola, on the Lage di Commo, was placed at the bar of th.c Old Bailey, on Thurday, charged with the wilful murder of HEloise Thaubin, in the Haymarket. The prisoner is 21 years of age. He stands about five feet ten inches high, and his appearance is as youthful as his age 'would imply. Hd is rather a good ...

... Provided with an open sesame, in the shape of a sheet of pink note paper, bearing the words, Admit, by leave of the Sheriff, and signed by' Mr. Under Sheriff Parker, I, on Monday morning, sallied forth to the City, to wit- nesa the trial of Dr. Simen Bernard, at the Old Bailey. The pink note, with the nnder-sheriff's remarkable auto- graph-about which there could be no mistake-mrade all ...

... POtlOE, INTEIUMGMO. . MANSION HOUSE. A STUaDT 'BAGGAR;-On Mond'ay , JoaEdeajds ajol- ooking beggarinan, was charged by D; E. Jones, of 74, Cennon-atret, 'who said :. Del'endant came to my placs oni 'Setordey, begging. He was very importunate, and forced hiniseif in, and swore a flitby oatlr that he wrould 'see it out. It 'was in vain 'that I told him to go away.' He con- tinued to annoy me, ...

... ASICE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CICUIT'. LIV1;BPnOL, MARcH, 29. (Before Mr. Baron Martin.) GAROTTE RfIBBERrY 1 A RAILWAY CARIAGE.- Miclhoe Brannsorn, aged 40, described as a hairdresser, WES indicted fcr having at -Rochdale, on the 11th February lASI assaulted Richard Wainwright, and with violence robbe' him of 111L and a silver watch. Mr, Overend appeared fo th3 osYrecution, and Mr. Wheeler ...

... XIDDLESEX SESSIONS. TPESDAY THsE UNNowNV ToXGUR.- Wlliam Frederick Augustus Cordser, 25 (education superior), wasindicted for stealing a gown, the property of Joseph Cole. Mr. TindalAtkin- son prosecuted; Mr. Sleigh defended the prisoner. The prosecutor is the landlord Or a public-house called the DMaidenhead, in Goswell-stiest, where a corcert or free and eagy is held. On the evening of the ...

... MR. BRIGHT ON THM CASE OF TIE - --E1GLISH ENGMINEERS. The Lfflowing letter Irom. Mr. Bright, 111.P., was received by Mr. J. M'Adam, of Glasgow. It was, of course, written prior to the statement made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons on Friday night week :_ 'Dear Sir,-T am not surprised at the sympathy felt and expressed in Glasgow for the English engineers who have ...

... R~CXtTCTZON -F illwiU S1.PiERD.: AT * YOK _ Joseph Shepherd, the mnardsdrer of 'Bethel Parkinson, on. Wadervorthi Koer, near IHSalifax, underwent the, extreme penalty gf the3-law on Saturday week, at non.- The ?? 'was visited'gn 'ths ;praviouFPriday night by the Rsi. J. Parkes, who arrived at the condemned cell, at eleven o'clock; and remained with the wretchled man till five o'clock on the ...

... PO=IDE INs U E. MABi N HOUSE. A5TT~tPThD FRAUD.--O).- ItOIday, William Beeman the son of an extensive hop-grower in tho corinny of Kesn' was brought befora the Lord Mtsor, cherged with haoing attempted to obtain the sum of 61. by fase pretenses from Mr. H. Rumsey Forster, town manager for Mesgra. Alisop and Souc, brewers, of' Burton-upon-1.rent and King Wil- 1cm .atreet, in the City of London. ...

... THE LATE MURDEA AT PORTSMOUTH. It is possible thsa the mystery that has hitherto shrouded the assaesination of Daniel eart, otherwise Howard, weo was murdered in his own lodgings OB the night of the I8th ult., supposed by the agency of snfair-gun, will, erelong. be solved, and that She old saying, 'murder will out, will once more ba verifed. Information has been reeived by the policoe ...