... t CONFESSION OF CHILD TMURDI',0 AT READING. Mary Newell, charged with the wilful murder of her child at Reading, has undergone a final examination before the Mayor and other Magistrates. The prioer, previous to becoming an inmate of the Henley Works house, to be confined, lived in a very respectable service in the neighboirhood of Wallingford. -A good deal of commiseration has been evinced for ...

... MURDER BY A MANIAC ' IN SUFFOLK. A terrible thing has occurred in the parish of Way- bread, some two- miles from Harleston, Suffolk. The . victim is a labonring man, named James Pattrick, aged .39, who was also parish clerk, and resided on an off- hand farns, the property of his Supposed murderer, ThomasDrane. The latter has been subject to recurring 'fits of dangerous mania at intervals for ...

... e __ 3 An investigation of a very painful nature Was made at the Town-hall, Hull, before the borough coroner, Mr. Thorney, on Monday evening, respecting the body of .i tfemale child, which had been discovered the day before in aan ashnit behind a house in Lansdowne-terrace, Beverley- r road, and which was subsequently ascertained to be the child Dof Sarah Kilvington, Mrs. C mmell's cook, a ...

... THE iMURDER OFA YOUNG LADY | AT DARLEY, NEAR RIPLEY. ) IThe facts which we were enabled to publi'sh in Tuesday's Mlercuiss with reference to the murder of Miss g Scaife, at Darley, by her lover, James Atkinson, on Sunday y night, will have communicated to our readers, with substain- 11 tial accuracy, the principal inocidents of this nielanchelyt tragedy, but as additional particulars have ...

... 1 , . [I Y3 --o- 15 lin ADJOURNE'D COROINE.R'S INQUEST A-ND ull. ~~VERDICT. In Ino ,red On Thursday, Mr. Wakley, coroner for West ido, Middleseix, reoumned, at the King'd Head Tavern, Acton, ph ens. this adjourned inqutry ?? the dtloth of John Gates, ~ate who wag found dead, as already described in ~hpMc1rrury , seal and this day's Sitiplemncst, in the Aoton-road, with A nlbr,' ~I the stab in ...

... HORRIBLE DOUBLE MURDER CLEVE- I I DON, NEAR BRISTOL. uo The coroner for the eastern division of Somerset- 0o shire has held an inquest at the Rook House Tavern, Cleve- don, on the bodies of Elizabeth Townley Williams and . Wm. John Williams, two children, aged respectively three and a half years and eight months, whose remains had been found under circumstanoes which leave no room for n ...

... MURDER OF A YOUNG LADY| BY HER LOVER, NEAR RIPLEY. le The quiet and sec-chded Villa,- of Darley, near .I Ripley, on the line of the Leeds Nortbhsr.' Railway,wa ir yest,?rday the scene of unusual excitement, in 1),2jiseque.ce oftodevery of the murder, by her lover, of a ?? Person Cnamed Mary Jaiso Soraife, under circumstances Of great barbarity and cruelty. The deceased, who was about Istsenty ...

... MURDER AND RoB. o - ACTON. All .b& kIiN~cYDI801,8oiR a A crael murder has bean perpetrated on thebi a close on the outskirts Of the metropolis f liva eathe Aotou-road, -upon the ?? of., M rntileoi ,t Gates, a builder,'residing for a num&'ber of dard jobu o dingtoa. Abu wleocok y~ ~eare at P~ a*deceased was found: lying dol hisbakn Y1nib h y by a Po1ic8-OsnStable._ He Wfals quite dead tofl-rod ...

... LANCASHIRE ASSIZES- coO XISI PRIUS COURT, TUESD~AY. M XMR H. S. BRIGHT, THE HULL CONVICT, AND she RSADERSON, CORN BROKER. Mre PeIlGROSE AND OTrrnes, AsSIGNEES, V. ?? Mr this case the plaintiffs were tile assigneesof IlenrySmoith the Bright, andthe delrto afrodaladeiee Rol by Mr Bright before he became bankrn pt. The defendant lt pleaded, first, never indebted; and, secondly, that the tahs ...

... -a- vict S EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURES. ing-re and The adjourned inquest on the body of John Gates, exeu , who was found dead on the Acton road, on the night of the usual pws 9th insb., stabbed to the heart with some sharp instrument, whoi py, was resunmed on Monday afternoon, before Mr. Wakley and few n .o a respectable jury. aries sews- Henry Genge was the first witness examined.-I am a Aft ...

... inut FIFTEEN KILLED,.-NINETY VARIOUSLY , INJURED. proi hemost serious catastrophe that has ever oc ban Thred onarwy in the. Midland district took place last a curred on a ritilwa ?? (Monday) nigbt on the Oxford,Worcester, and Wolverhamp- I tun line, between Round Oak and Brottel-lane stations, a few ;x `iesbeond Dudley. By it eleven personaswere instantane- earl ouilsy kIdI nterde e hors ...

... At Liverpool, on Saturday, a most heartless case of seduction came on for trial at the assizes, before Baron Martin. SMr M~onk appeared for plaintiff, Mr James, Q.C., for defendant. The ?? James Parr- is a bighlyirespeetable and extenlive farmer residing at Boothietown, Woreley, near Manchester; and the ?? Isaac flesketh-is also a large farmer residing within a'quarter of a nile of the ...