... The discovery of the partly-decomposed corpse of a railway clerk which was on Sunday foreioon made at No. 2, Carlton-cottages, Stratford, has created amongst the inhabitants of the distaict the most intense excitement. The detective police have ascertained the following important facts:- About three and a half years ago, a gentlemanly- looking man applied to the landlord of the cottage, and ...

... SALFORD COUNTY COURT.-TUESDAY, (Beforo Mr. JOHN OSBORNE, Q.C., Judge.) ACTION IN EQUITY. Simins ?? HILrne.-wMr. Copinger appeared on behalf of David Simons, the plaintiff; and Mr. Gtouldthorp for the defendants, George and Ann Hulme. This was an action in equity to set aside an agreement signed by the plaintiff, on the grounds-first, that he was not ia a state of mind at the time it was made ...

... iANCASTER ASSIZES. A CROWN COURT.-SATUNDAY. Le His Lordship (Chief Baron Kelly) took his seat at ten I o'clock the fitrst case proceeded 'with being n ° c o 'THE MURDER NEAR BARROW. )r Tbis was a case in which John Hadwen, a farm servant, )r aged 22, was charged with killing and murdering a lad n named John Arnold, aged 14, at Ormegill Farm, Hawcoat, it near Barrow, on the lst of last May.-Mr. ...

... TRIAL FOR MURDER AT OAR-LISLE. I At the Carlisle saiizes, on Tuesday before Lord Chief Baron Belly, three navvies, named William Caieley, John White, and Charles Parker, were charged with the wilful murder of Cornelius Cox, at Armthwaito, on October 15th last. The prisoners pleaded not guilty. Mr. Yay, Q.C., stated the case. Last year the Midland Railway Com- pany wore constructing a railway ...

... 23FOls MN. AITORNEY-0NERAL PICKtRING, Q.C., ASeSIMSo1. IMPORTAlNT QUEBTIOX AS TO TR IMWAY RIGHTS. TVY11EU V. TIM LWEPs'oo, OMNIBUSA MND Tn.LMx.Ay COMPAeY, LIMITED.-TIhe plaintiff, William Turner, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Thornloy and Heaton, solicitors, Liverpool, brought his action to recover damages for personal injuries 5ostained in a collision between one of the defendants' ...

... I FRIDAY, JULY 21. nD1SFosE MnR. C. ASPINALL, PROSECuro0s ByY TBE LnVRoOL SOCcETY 0R1 TITr PREVNsTmro. or CRUELTY TO AIBrIrALS.-Wi~liam Shields, driver to Abrahana Thomas, was fined 6s. and costs for working a horse suffering from a raw wound on the off ?? Nowlan, driver to John Hudson, Mars- den's-green, was fined 20s. and costs for working a horse suffering from raw wounds and great poverty ...

... I THEE hUSBANDS AND A FAMILY OF I I CEICHILDREN POISONED, A despatch from Birmingham, in Connecticut, dated July 6, eentains the following remarkable story: The prelimina examination of Mrs. Lydia Sherman for the poisouil of her husband, in May last, was begun ifo the publieaII of thI vige to.day. The case has oo- muioned great excitement in ths Vicinity, as suspicion has i been fastened upon ...

... CHESHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS, These sessions were opened yesterday, at Kliutsford, ?? tMaihiwarinigpresiding. Tihere NUB no couirty business. SENTENCES. Georgo Ramneard, aged 19, labourer, for stoing, on the Hlth A pril, two brass rosettie naad one brass face pieow, the property of Abrahjam Proes, one monthi; and g. similar ?? on a second oujit for felony. blridget Burns, aged 27, fi.etary ...

... | :. I The qperteriy goo] session for, the borough of., live~rp l wee held yesterday, in the ?? o0licas, Vale-s11tree11t, Air. Thomas Earle presiding. The other magistratles present -were Messrs. Clint, JBowring, ftiaueisona, Woodruff, C. Aspinail, Whitley, Patterson, T. Holder', J. A. lPicton, sand A. Turner. THE VISITING JUSTICES' REPORT. The visiting justices reported that thle daily ...

... I SALFORD HUNDRED (QUAR& R SESSIONS. MONDAY. | (Busena Ma. - W Hl6.1e, Q., CfeAlN.) 1 The general quarter sessions of the peace for salord St Hundred were opened at the Assize Courts on Monday, in Mr. W. H. Higgin, QC,, Chairman, presided. tic The CHAiaxAw, in charging the grand jury said he should abstain from making any reference to the ?? vexed question which had received eo0 much private ...

... TWO POLICEMEN SHOT. A telegram from Dublin states that as Head Constable Talbot, who made himself conspicuous in checking the Fenian conspiracy, was passing through Hardwicke-street, Dublin, just after Tuesday midnight, a man, looking him in 'the face for nearly a minute, deliberately fired a re- volver at him, lodging the contents in the side of his head. The Freeman's Journal publishes the ...

... EXTRAORDINARY SEIZURE OF A BANKRUPT'S | EFFECTS. I We learn from the Birmingham Post that on Saturday Messrs. H. do Simencourt and Co., of the Lenesfield Iron Works near Bileton, suspended payment. One mill worked up to six o'clock on that morning. But overnight it had become known to a few persons interested in the concern that the event was inevitable, and by an early hour on Saturday ...