... EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ASSAMULT . (From the Times.) - The follies, passions, and vices of humanity have not of- T, ten received a more extraordinary exemplification tbati is n given in a recent trial at Gloucester. In the year 1846, a on young woman, named Sarah Mills, was in the service of Messrs Swan and Edgar, and a man named Leech was em- , ployed as light porter in the same establishmuent. ...

... HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT LERWICK, MURDER OF FOUR PERSONS, AND SUICIDE OF THE 0 URDESER. i E- ON the morning of Thursday the 25th ult., the inhabitants is of Lerwick were startled by the annonucement that, during Pr the previous night, ths house of one of the most respectable fer of their townscnen had been the scene of a tragedy more fe n horrible in its details than any that had ever, within the ...

... ii THE Spring Circuit Court opeiied here on `fediiesday A Lord Ardinillan on thea Bench. The Counsel within tlio s~ barwavre Ar. Broun, Esq., Advocate-Depute; John Mar- (d shall, Eaq. ; John Skelton, Esq.; J. H1. Stark Christie, I Eoqq. ; G. H. Thoins, Esq. ; 11iddleton Rettic, Esq. ; J. v. Badonoch Nicholson, Esq. ; Harry Smith, REq. - The Court was opened with prayer by the Rev. Mr Sniath of ...