... ASSIZE INTELLIGjENCE. I my - - Tba ROWssSTAR. MURD21R.-At Maidstone, yesterday Beek, Elizabeth Avis Laws, eighteen years of age, and of a remarkably girlish appearance, was indicted for the murder of her ulistres, Catherine Bacon. There was also a charge of stealing property belonging to the deceased. The following were the principal points in the evidence.-H. Baggett, a milk wvoman took Some ...

... MELANCliOLY SUIcIDE.-Mr E. T. Crisp, son of the Rev. T. Crisp, XLA., principal ofthe Baptist College, Stokes Croft, in Bristol, put a period to his existence by hanginghimnself to a nail in his bed. room on the 2nd inst. The deceased, whp was twenty-eight years of age and umarried, emigrated some years since to Australia, in which colony he remained for about twelve months. He was always a ...

... L AW. LIEN ON A SHIP.-T aHE BRITISH EMPIaE SHIPPrIO CO11rxxNY V. SOMsaS BROTHERS -In the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 26th ult., judgment was given in this case, which is one of great importance to shipowners. It was a special case for the opinion of the Court, and the question was whether the defendants were entitled to retain 5671., charged by them, and which had been paid to them ...

... ,XTRAORDINARY TRIAL FOR MURDER. ?? Clare, a miner, was indicted at Stafford, on Tuesday, for the iuder of Elizabeth Hopley, a young woman eighteen years of t On the 50th of April last G. Buckley, a labourer, was going to wis . ; ork, about half-past four in the morning, when he saw a human bedr in the Bradley arm of the Birmingham Canal. He drew it out, 'dit -as recognised to be that of ...

... AC C I DENTS. WRECK OF THE QUEEN STEAMER.-Mr Hare, of Bristol, has furnished the following account of the disaster: - The Queen steam packet, Captain Gardner, started from Bristol on Friday last, at haltfpast ten o'clock r.as., with a valuable cargo and passengers ; and at eleven o'clock same night, being suddenly enveloped with a dense fog, struck on a rock in Jack's sound, off Milford ...

... WANDSWORTH AND CLAPHAM UNIoN.-The poor-law commissioners have caused an inquirv to be made into the truth of certain charges which had been brought against the master and matron of the Wandsvorth and Claphani union. The result was the exposure of a most cruel and indecent system of conduct towards the girls who are inmates of the establishment. It was elicited that some time since it was ...

... The following are extracts from a letter from Lieu- tenant Munro, read by 3Mr T. Duncombe in the House of Commons:- I will not attempt to describe my own most unhappy state of mind, since I have been forced to fly from my coun- try, my profession, and my beloved wife, children, father, mother, and relations; but those who have known me from my childhood, and my gallant comrades, can conceive ...

... |ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, & OCCURRENCES I FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.-An accident, which unfoitunately has terminated with the loss of life, occurred between seven and eight o'clock on Tues- day evening last, on the London and Brighton Railway. A Mr Jonathan Hill, aged 42, an engineer in the employ of the Peninsula Navigation Steam Company, left London by the six o'clock train for ...

... I THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT ASHTON. - ASI1TON, TUESDAY.-Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held al the Albion Inn, Ashton, before Mr M. S. Rutter and a respectable jury, or the bodies of the unfortunate- men who were killed by the falling of the arches on the Ashton branch of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway. There was no evidence of any novel character broughit forward at the inquest. ...

... (From the ' Parliamentary Report ' just issued.) 1. Our procedure for the purpose of preliminary in- quiry is open to great objection. The injured party may be helpless, ignorant, interested, corrupt. He is altogether irresponsible; yet his dealing with the criminal may effec- tuallal defeatjustice. On general principles, it would evi- dently be desirable to appoint a public prosecutor, and I ...

... COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. THE GREAT BILL-DISCOtINTER.-ReFUSAL OF CER- TIFICATE TO MR JAMES GIBBS.-lmmediately on the learned Commissioner taking his seat he proceeded to give judgment in the above important case, relating to the bank- ruptcy of James Gibbs, bill broker and money serivefler, of Jermyn street, St James's. The learned Commissioner stated that, as a money scrivener, James Gibbs came ...

... I SWIN~r , U EXTR&AORDINARY.-A deep-laid schienie of swindling by evidently a practised hand was last ieek sune- cessfully played off bv a well-dressed gentleminaly-lookiing mal, upon some of ?? most respectable innkeepers and tradesmen of Windsor, Eton, aed Slough. OnL Tuesday mornigw last a person of highly respectable appearance and getltlemclanly manners arrived at Slough by'an ar il ...