... LUNACY LAW REFORM, r We are afraid that the chances of a E reform being made this session in our lunacy law or any other law are not just now very promising. The law lords are too fond of picking hole ...

... I . SPOCKING MURDER IN FLANDERS. A horrible murder was committed on the night off Saturday lest at Staden, West Flanders, in the hou-e of a gentleman named Assez. The jourrnals of Bruges. give the following details:- The murderers, who entered by the roof, first went into the room occupied by I. AsseM, whom they struck fearful blows on the head with a hammer which they found in the housm They ...

... I THE CQIT MARTIAL ON CAPE. ROBERTSOTL i The court ninrtlal on Captain Robertson urnenmed Ite sitting yuterday l~rning, at 1I o'clock. The mem- bere havng1itij eiribkad and taken their seats, Capt6el Robertion asked 'permission of the court for . Ctpttin Meaaen, of the 27th Regiment, an old friend I. of ble, to 'rest tbe observations which he (Ciptain i RoIbeteo) bad piepared. | Tihe Preftdt ...

... THB COURTf.RTIAmON. CAPTAIN, l I i 'S I' r r f The court-martial on Captain Robertmon was resumetd yesterday morning, Lieutenant and Adjutnt Iarrbhi was recalled, ad further examined by the Presldent. DId you speak to ?? Major about the sate of t*e backboard? No II you bad sent for, him Jor that purpose why diO you noA speak to him abositlt? Berai55e Colonit' Benttlck ?? would be bettWH1ndt; ...

... WOODBRIDGE. TOIURSnAY, March 13.-Before Charles Walford, Esq., (chairman); and F. G. Doughty, Esq. Steeline Peso -Wilitani Shitamon. a lehooror, in tha employ of Mr. Win. F..irs, of Idromeeweit, was brought up cm rensanui changes with stealing s quantity of pose, of the vaten of Id., the proiteety of his oniptoyar. Mr b'eirs siutad that heviog been informed thet a quantity of peso were ...

... ,B AXThB .IQN W3DEx. At thstino Teinbi Ciminal oburt on 1aelda7 moraeg, Henry Quwil, 22, aud nomm Cox, Visem Fcdtoja, e£ wlwmu Waka, wereL eplid at e tbalfop nea to the coroner's ?? Charged tem Wh the wiful murder of John Win olhey were also charged upon an IniDet with the auhi dter of the, w1ay10 rfiz *h 'whie o n the et eqa ulotY.ETheprI- Ca yhmeft ake his triaL-mr. Coopbr eDRn' duele' th ...

... i : ?? t rIALS A77T- i. i: ' I.: , ? i I j - ?? TRLM~iS-AT TH-E ASSIE&S Tun Mueman Ag .'WAsVrOThrZAD. - ClUMd forty, farmery,wasa adlte 4t 'Taunton fow the wilfl mrder of ParneI :Howe,,!& Westboy* aod, on the 15th of Febzuary.-Theasvenuna leadlig .o the court were!denselyihrnge&d ' 'nIts becom. .n kueown-tbat tblwtrlal, 'wllohl' ?? greait iner, thouhot t*he cont, wed cmeon.- It appeared thatth ...

... Tron - 1T. BY 1 A g e .1 at le r1ia i'iok the*wI1fu! c h' bdL ore the eO r bihei seD thsl orae otide of the Sutran-hl, *atb±ji 60MOf a ~Id rcfa ~t'e lise At' ...

... On Tuesday afternoon an investigation took place before Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy-coronpr, touching the death of a German gentleman named Franz Acbtman, aged thirty, who committed suicide at the Middlesex House of Detention on the 7th inst. whilst in a state of unsound. mind. Deceased had been arrested on Thursday night week for brealing into the house of Dr. Garman, at 1, Carlisle-terrace, ...

... 7&MOROft 'Al)VZN1Eii 'OF A MATORi OF VOLAM~EZI1& ~ '1t Maidstone ssizes wa.sided 'a case Boole v. Porterj Ibeiiuih ai'acton to recover the 5iCi'osf '109,'ior nece~ssares supplied to 'te wife b of the ?? 'Mr. hatWkS, ?? and tzr. tenB maau wsvere'6ounsel for the 'plaintiff; Serjeant Ballairtmes and Mr! Phflbrick. appea~red for tbe 'defendant. Tbe rrgawer 'to 'ihe action wasgthat the de- ...

... , . . .. :L I . m . W TH P OSO - - FWYGHTFUL SUIIsDE, WrrM tOION. -An inquest was held on Wednesday fovenoen, at ten o'clock, before Mr. John Rurmphreys, the coroner for Mid- dlesex, at the Brioklayers' Arms Tavern;'Collingwood- street, Bethnal-green. relative to the death of Elizabeth Christopher,' aged forty years, who committed. self- destruction under the following circumstances:- It ...

... BELFAST POLICE COURT-YESTERDAY. [Before W. S. TRAcY, Esq., R.M.] NEGLECT OF DUTY. John Close was charged with having left the ship Win. F. Safford, he having been left on board as caretaker by Robert M'Malon. On the application of the complainant, His WoRSnHr permitted the case to be withdrawn1n. ALLEGED NON-PAYMENT OF WAGES. Mr. John Charley, of the firm of Chaley & Mal- colm, was summoned by ...