... THE WIFE MURDER IN SOMERSET. On Mondav, the Corouer tor East Somerset beHau inquest at Woolvorton, ou the bo ly of Mary Britton. who was murdered by her husband. Intense ev.ciie- ment prevailed in Fromeand surrounding district. A crowd assembled in front of the police station, where the prisoner had been locke 1 up; and all along tha road to Woolverton persons ranafteftho lly in which the ...

... A MAGNIFICENT painting by Vandyke, representing St. Cecilia, has just been brought to light in restoring the old church of Cachlevocb, between Beelo and Bersel, in Belgium. AN alarming accident occurred a few days back in the Casino at Marseilles. Two American gymnasts, brothers, named Howard, were going through their performance, hanging by their hands to a ladder fixed horizontally near the ...

... SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1867. LOCAL TOPICS- OUR local reports this week are lengthy and nume- rous, but present very few points which require explanatory comment. The Quarter Sessions wisely adopted the Chairman's proposal to pay the magistrates' clerks hereafter by salary, and approved a recommendation of the Finance Committee, which was Bome months ago suggested in these columns, that in future ...

... The Globe announces tlJat the isit of the Suitan to Western Europe Will have one beneficial etfect, and probably the one mOot hoped for in connection with his journey to France and Eng1an(1. The condition of the Christians iu his dominions is to lIe improved, and beyond this it is alleged that improvements in the administration of the Empire, and a manber of sanitary reforms are to be ...

... At Worcester assizcs Alfred Frederick Compere and Eliza Compere have hen indicted for maliciously set. tmg- fire to a certain mill on the 5th of December, 1866, at Blockley, with intent to defraud the Royal Insur- ance Company. In a second count they were charged with committing the same offence with intent to de- fraud one Isaac Stanley. It appeared from the opening speech of Powell Tor the ...

... On Saturday forenoon, about half-past eleven, an awful ailway accident took place at Walton Junction, where the ,oudon line branches to Chester, halt a mile from Warrington, rhe 10.23 train from Liverpool to Birmingham and London elt Bank Quay Station ar 11.25, and on approaching Walton function the driver salv ahead a coal traiu, which efforts were leing made to shunt on to the Chester line. ...

... PETTY SESSIONS.—MONDAY. (Before C. H. Williams, and E. W. David, Esqs.) THE NUISANCE AT THE MAINDY SOAP WORKS. On Monday last Messrs. Thomas and Wm. Williams, owners of the above property, were summoned for a nuisance alleged to exist there, on the complaint of the Inspector of Nuisances for that district. Mr. Major and Mr. Gerrett, agent of the Messrs. Ticel, were also summoned at the same ...

... upon the Warrington railway collision on Friday was Colonel Yolland, the Government inspector, who, says the Manches- ter Guardian, stated that when an accident occurred at the same place five years ago, Captain Tyler enquired into the circumstances, and presented to the London and North- western Company a report which specified many recommen- dations as to the safer working of the traffic at ...

... Passing through Weovoe OA SA7 V°WER> prised to hear the old CHURCH ?RDAY ^AST, WE were sur- bom—bup, bup—bim, BOM • A J NGING OUT BIM, they were ringing in honour NFTV,°N E0(lUIRJ FOUND THAT Jenner, Esq., with Miss JON WEEDING of Algernon two sound specimens, and A CF8' U C°osist of not with ropes, but by STR;I,;„,AC, ODEJ and are rung, hammer. THEM with some sort of The Rev. Charles Jenner ...

... EPAMINBNDAS, THEMISTOCLES. AND PERICLES. X LordvC«rns in the classical allusion kl & 011 the Reform Bill was com- tha followmg IetteA^ffiS0 BUndS TO THB EDITOR OF THE TIMES. sad slip of Lord Cairns last night to make out that Epanunondas ruled Athens. He lived a little after my time, and was better known at Thebes than in Athenian circles. But are you quite right in your correction, when .u? ...

... 1n rebuilding a house in the village of Gex- ivr, the Courrier da Sas-Rhin, the workmen di=.ercd under one of the inner door-steps an earthern containing fifty-two gold coins and eighty-four nilver ones. They date back three centuries the former 'are thinner than our present gold pieces, and the latter ure about the size of the old six-franc piece. A thousand francs has been offered for this ...

... The annual festival of parish choirs took place at the cathedral church of Saints Peter and Paul, Llandaff, on Wednesday. This year the anniversary celebration was entrusted to the Welsh choir*, three years having elapsed since the last Welsh festival. The interest ex- cited in the diocese was not inferior t,) that taken in either of the two intervening English festivals. The usual magnificent ...