... ASSAULT AND WOUNDING.-A.t the recent petty ses- sions held at Stow-in-the-Wold, before the Rev. J; Witts and G. J. Price, Esq., a sweep, named David Johns, a ticket.of-Ieave man, was charged with violently assaulting and wounding, with intent to do grievous bodily harm, Belinda Williams, of the parish of Stow. He was com- mitted to take his trial at the next Gloucester assizes.-It will ...

... The Court of Appeals of this State has just announced a decision which is a striking illustration of the evils of hasty legislation. The revised statutes of New York contained, among other things, An Act concerning Crimes and Punishments; wherein it was provided that certain offences should be punishable with death, and that the punishment of death shall in all cases be in- flicted by ...

... FURTHER INQUIRIES. On Thursday, Mrs. Ann Hall, keeper of the turnpike-gate at Soutl- wick, between Road and Trowbridge, stated that on the morning of the 30th of June she let a gentleman pass through the gate; he asked her where the policeman lived. Witness continued: I knew the gentleman. I showed him as near as I could where the policeman lived. The gentleman said he had had a child stolen. ...

... £ 1 reft ems anD GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY IN SHEFFIELD.—Mr. Cohen, a jeweller of Sheffield, was the victim of an ex- tensive robbery perpetrated on Friday night. The thieves picked the lock of the shop during the absence of its proprietor, and after possessing themselves of jewellery to the value of XI,000 made off. Information of the robbery was conveyed to the police, and detective officers Airey ...

... EOME. ROME, Nov. 3. Large quantities of stores and war materials have arrived for the use of tho French army. The enrolment of foreigners for the Papal army ha? been stopped. Great enthusiasm prevails in the Marches and Umbria in favour of annexation. Beds for hospitals for the wounded have been sent to Rome for Francis II. Anarchy reigns in the province of Viterbo. ...

... On Wednesday afternoon the remains of the late Earl of Dundonald were interred in Westminster Abbey. In the procession from hia lordship's late residence, Queen's- road, Kensington, were mourning coaches containing the Hon. Thomas Barnes Cochrane, now the Earl of Duli- donnld, lion. Horace Barnard William Cochrane, Captain the Hon. Arthur Auckland Cochrane, R.N., C.B., Lieu- ienant the Hon. ...

... THE NEW G.C.B. AND K.C.B. Major-General Sir James Hope Grant, K.C.B., whose elevation to the highest rank of the Order of the Bath appeared in the Gazette on Saturday, is the fifth son of the late Francis Grant, Esq., of Kilgraston and Pit- caithly, North Britain, the head of one of the best of the old county families of Perthshire; his mother was Anne, eldest daughter of Robert Oliphant, Esq ...

... The Vienna journals announce that Mr. Roe- buck, M.P. is now in that city, and that the object of his yisit is to treat of commercial affaire, ...

... MINCING-LANE, MONDAY, OCT. 29. SUGAR.—T? at cs fully as high, and many parcels sold to-day: Manilla clayed at 38s to 39s; Havannah brown 3Ss Gd to 40s and yellow 40s 61 to 46s. Already ten sales of sugar announced' for the week. There is a larger trade in REFINED Sue AT., and an advance: common lumps not to be bought under 503. MOLASSES and TREACLE a ready sale at 18s to 20s. COFFEE in large ...

... PERUGIA, Nov. 4. The voting on the question of annexation has com- menced. The concourse of people at the urns is extraordinary. Notwithstanding the French occupation and the pre- sence of Pontifical gendarmes, the inhabitants of several communes in the province of Viterbo are hastening to vote for annexation. ...

... Within the last few days a series of returns, prepared by Mr. Pickering, the accountant at the Lord Mayor's Court, and bearing the signature of Sir E. Carden, have been forwarded to the Home-office, showing the state of crime within the city of London during the year ending the 29th September, 1.860. From these we cull a few ot the more interesting particulars. During the year, 6,151 persons ...

... COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD LIEUTENANT. 2nd Administrative Battalion of Monrnouthshire Volun- teers—the Hon. James Fitzwalter Clifford Butler to be Major; Nov. 9 5th Monmouthshire Rifle Volunteer Corps—Samuel Elmes Steel, Gent., to be Lieutenant; John Farrant Wil. liams, Gent., to be Ensign; Nov. 9 MEMORANDUM.—Her Majesty has been pleased to ap- prove of Capt. Richard James Pye Steel ...