... A cruel murder has been perpetrated on the high- way, clove on the outskirts of the metropolis, four miles on the Acton- road, upon the person of Mr. Ed- ward Gates, a builieer, residing for a number of years at No. 12, Great Jimes-street, isson-grove, Pad- dington. The first intimation of the occurrence was made by Sergeant Mansell, of the T division. It ap- pears that aboutten minutes to ...

... At the Wells assizes, on Mondey, John Baker Budck- neU, a young man, was arraigned for the wilful mur- der of hli grandfather st Creech St. Michael. The. triul excited great interest, and did not conclade tiU> Tufsday. The deceased, John Bucknell, was a farmer and t small innkeeper, living at a little inn called the Cot- tage inn, in the hamlet of Coombe, in the pariah o. Creech St. Michael, ...

... THE NAILSEA CaILD MURDER. ?? Card was indicted at Wells for the wilful Onurder of her son, James Card, at Naiises, on ths 27th July. She pleaded not guilty. This was a very sad case. The prisoner was the Wife of A hawker living at Nailees, and some quarrel hIM119 taken place between her and her husband, on the 23rd of July, she left her home and went to her tiloiher's, who lived at some short ...

... SUSPECTED MURDER AT CAMBERWELL On Wednesday, Ur. Carter held a long inquiry At the ?? tavern, White Post-lane, Hatcham lNewitown, relative to the circumstances attending tie death of a man Who was found drowned in the Grged Surrey canal, .qathaniel Baker deposed that he was in the etploy of the Grand Sarrey Catal company. On Friday iast he ,sID engaged leading a horse which was towing a barge, ...

... TRIAL FOB 8EDUCTION. BRO ,7N V. BAPYARD,-Th-i Was an action brought (At Guildford) by the plaintiff to recover damages for the loss of the services of his daughter, by reason of her seductioh by the defendant. Sergeant Ballantine, in opening the& eaise to the jury, said thtt the plalntiff wasa sperson in a very re- spectable position of ]ite, w~ho formerly kept the Ring's Heed, in Lower-street ...

... DOUBLE CHILD MURDER AT CLEVEDDN. Blizabetk Williams was arraigned at Wells on two indictments and on the coroner's inquisition, charg. irg her with the wilful murder of her children, £Ebzabeth and William John Williams, aged respec- tively eighteen months and three years, She was me- eommodated with a seat in the dock, and during the proceedings covered her face with a handkerchief. The ...

... GOBRON V. WOOLRIDGE.-This was an action (tried at Guildford) to aecover damages for a breach of pro- mise of marriage. Sergeant Ballantive, in opening the ease, said that the plaintiff, Mrs Annie Gordon, was a widow, and the defendant, lMr. John Woolridge, was a chemist, and carried on his business at two establishments, one in the New-road and the other in Holborn, The in- timacy between the ...

... MU ~i~rIGN FRDURDER AND ARSON. El, Q dyor~ning, the last penalty of the law OD NI1Sd iYOCO effect on James Seale, in front of sCoricsedg50, in the presence of a large number of culprit was tried before Mr. Baron I9Te 7Ir1et hester, on the 24th nit, for the wil. young woman, named Sarah Ann e AbbOt. on the 30th of April last, poppPY eJ bing set fire to the house in which his F ei0'dred The ...

... * A OFOLENT FARMER SUEEPSTEALING. Atthpicnb.. - - (W LIOe petty Sesioms for the New Inn diestrict of Puvach in reI 4 COnBiderable amount of interest epectsbe Ct0leequence Of Mr. Rees Jones, a highly ba*D fe rner, renting lands at Ystrad~fordarg, i htrethebrought up on a charge of stealing a Jtioeph Peprcty of a neighbouring farmer, Mr. T. ; 7PbPesdt from the evidence that Mr. Joseph is a ...

... rOIiCE INTELLGENCF: MABION EIOUSi, Tejo POLICE AND THEIR GOOD WORK. -Splomon ,yeah was summoned upon the complaint of inspector Mitchell, city police, for having, on the 4th instant, created an obstruction in Meeting houne-yard, by ex- posing certain articles for sale upon the footway ?? Mitchell said that the arrangements recently made by the police commissioners for sup- pressing the ...

... SATURDAY'1 8OLICE. BOW-SrBBE r CAUTION TO TE.1VILLERS. - Chzares Richerds, a ntyli-hiy dressed man, who described bim5eef as a Liverpool commercial traveller, was charged before Mr. ball with being drunk in the public street, and annoying eeveral feot psorengers.-A young lady w!h had been insulted by him, stated that last evening when near St. Clemont's-oburch, in the Strand, the defendant, ...

... THE PROVINCE S, GLOUCESTERSHIRE. - SAVAGx OUTRAGE BY TuBN. OUTS -At the Bristol police-court on Tuesday nine men, giving their names John Smith, Henry Torey, IFsac Short, James Davis, John Selfe, jun., John Mldilkins, Joseph Huskius, William Vining, and John Chapman, were brought up in custody, charged with havirg, in company with others not yet arrested, assaulted one James Smith (who is at ...