FAMILY QUARRELS.—A young man named. Alexander was arraigned at Worship
Street, OR Monday, for an attempt to shoot his father. He had discharged a pistol at him, but it proved to have been loaded with powder only ; another was seized in which was a ball. The capital part of the charge was abandoned ; and after some time spent ie mutual recrimination, the culprit was ordered to find bail to keep the peace. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Wednesday, a youne lady apparently about twenty years of age, threw herself into the canal in Si. James's Park. She was taken out without much damage, and conveyed in a coach to Sloane Street, where she said her family resided. We must protest against such t an exhibition of the horrible in so well. frequented and pleasant a promenade as St. James's Park. It can eyidently be made to no possible purpose, but to frighten the children and the ducks, and to give the unlucky beau who is nearest the spot a pair of wet pantaloons, and, it may be, a cold. If young ladies will drown themselves, let them have recourse to a piece of water where they can do so quietly and decently. POISONING:At Exeter, on the 23d, a man of the name of Cudmore was found guilty of the murder of his wife, by means of arsenic. A woman with whom he was intimate was charged as an accessory, but acquitted. The body of the murdered woman was not examined until a fortnight after her death, and it had to be disinterred for the purpose ; but the proofs of the mineral in the stomach were very decided notwithstanding. MURDER.—A poor woman, named Helen Mackenzie, wee murdered lately near Invergordon in Ross-shire. Three men, one of whom is nephew of the deceased, have been arrested by the Crown authorities, who had des- patched Mr. Stoddart, advocate, to Iuvergordon, for the special purpose of investigating the murder.
Emond, the murderer of his sister-in-law and her daughter, whose ease has excited a great sensation in Scotland, was executed at Edinburgh on "Wednesday week. He behaved like a brute almost to his last hour ; and the female relations who visited him appear to have been little more humane than himself.
Captain Daniel Wilson, who was ordered to be apprehended on a charge of murdering a boy on board his vessel, has contrived to escape before the warrant could be put in force.
A few days since a poor man from the neighbourhood of Hammersmith entered the grounds of Captain Moore, near Hendon, and began fishing in a river that runs through the property. Captain Moore ordered him off, and the man promised compliance. Shortly afterwards on Captain Moore being - informed that the man had not gone away, he snatched up a brace of pistols, and, after some altercation, discharged one of them at the poor creature. The man has since died. Captain Moore surrendered himself immediately. Mr. Standish O'Grady, who was wounded last week in a duel, at Dublin, has died since. The inquest held on his body has been adjourned twice. From the evidence that has been adduced, it appears that the survivor, Captain Smyth, was grossly the aggressor in the scuffle that led to the duel ; and that, in the opinion of the deceased, Captain Smyth took an unfair ad- vantage of him, in firing too soon.
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