'lime final examination of ?.1.ister. , , murder of Mr.

• Wednesday. IVIaelsreth, took pe,: in belt's as it was feared tire CX1:11V1111.111 1.• extuttina;ion m•,.s talsen .■ t,!7,.

assemblage might be injaeious to Mr, ' tit Ludlow on apparently tored II ,•1 the morning el' tile '1'1: cut c is now quite healed, rine whisker

healed, but the se ..,1 of it is ver- it

of his evidence across the mcattit to the other. 'Tic' principal were as follows-'- I Co., of Bristol.

"I ant a trae,Iler in the house of r" .• r. • .1 I arrived at thIs on the l':“.11 of A.,: .11.1 the evening.

su Is Mr. limd-

I called cm my customer:, ; hut the otd....

ford. That gentleman called tipo..1 nie it o'clock. I went

into a private room to transact bush., ss , \\-.• 'aiallied together

about three-goal tees of an hour. Oa la■ :". .1lItnereial-roqm ibund that no person was there. Iput ii..• • h 'I u', Bradford had

..t eleven I RAS

paid Inv into the ‘iriving-box. and locked it. shown to mv bedroom. I e.o.ried DIV driVill • box roam was No 17. 111,-n the cliambent.aid left me I am r. •.:. • I nty door. My window-hliml 'A as within four inches of the bottom. I then retired to rest. My lire box was on a .1.:111., and the dressing-

table. My driving-NEN. was oil the chest I. the candle out betinte I went to lund I ae..,ke in a -• :toss—not quite awake—and felt in ith my tiag.'r, a hole in my running,

but I lit nu pain. I n.uiul, • what is this: At that moment I felt a person's hand upon my chin. and I jumped oat of bed in an instant, in rny shirt, on the ri.:1.1-1.and side, and g.lve nn 1.riek. I ft-It 1...11e1 back by the

shoulder. In eonsequennv of the, smrnr,tj I rell'Irrit. rly leg., entangled

in the bed-clothes, I heard distinctly sonie on the ktrl sSIc of the bed. I immediately made for the window. and da-1.ed in■ list thr.o. a pane of glass.

I called out continually—. Itch, murder: tire:. Alter 1 5,-.1,1 cried several times, I 1001:cti roilnd in fear ot •a: le :■er,ot, ;war It ,r1S juit about

• before. I dawn. ;H. .... .. -brn,a , another

• '.. :1.. room. ...:1111- inches. 1qt:1.70i:it-de • ••'•'•1..."'...1,::k"::1:•: s h s mast. l itnne- 1,

• .. Ile seemed 1 tttztted up

t, t.,1:e1ie rs . Olt. I :ts Mr. l'oOk.

attempted to r the sash. 1`11', L

pane of I.;lass. I not 1.1,,

1

proachii.,•‘

I was still , to the left dm■ tile kitchen tloo., derstood to be t' then first fon...1 next per..on

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stuns I r, • untruth

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Sil.11l1 nut Wheil:

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: stir • ctv bea- n: 1,, .1",. right C.,' loom, that I had attempted suicide, and I made signs to them in contradiction. Amongst the rest, I pointed under the bed, and they proceeded to search. Shortly after the surgeon began to dress my wcunds, I made signs for pen ana ink, and began to write some words. The paper produced is the one I then wrote. It contained these words—, Sonic villain has done it. Ile stood on my left. I grasped his hand. Ile made his escape. I locked my door last night. Is there any danger? Is the windpipe cut?' I had one wound on the throat, and another on the face. I am quite positive I felt the hand of a person on my chin, and I am ohm certain that I felt being pulled back when I at- tempted to jump out of bed. My night-shirt was torn from the shoulder down the back. I am not aware that I have lost any property. I have no recollec- tion of ever seeing the prisoner before the present occasion. I was perreetly sensible during the whole of the time after I was awoke. I generally go to sleep immediately, and sleep very heavily. I was never in this town or county before."

Misters put a few questions to Mr. Mackreth, for the purpose of show- ing that the person who attempted to murder him went down stairs. The witness said, he was certaiu some one did go down stairs before Ise left his room to alarm the house, Dr. Loyd stated that the slops in the prisoner's room at the inn had been analyzed and found to con- tain a strong solution of alum. Alum would have the effect of taking oat the stains of blood. Some evidence was given respecting the pos- session by the prisoner of two black-handled razors in his lodgings in Birmingham, where only one was found when they were searched. The landlord deposed, that on going up stairs, the first person he saw after meeting Mr. Mackreth on the first half-landing, was the prisoner. Re stood in his shirt nearly opposite the bedroom door of Mr. Mackreth, his own room being at the extremity of a long lobby. He inquired what had been going forward, and almost immediately, without render- ing any assistance, returned to his room. Misters cross-examined the ,witnesses against him with great shrewdness. The Magistratesseom- spitted him for trial.

The examinatian of Bartholomew Murray, the man apprehended in Ireland on suspicion of being the murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Cook, took place at Knutsford, on Monday forenoon. It was strictly private. The further examination of the prisoner stands adjourned for a few days ; when, in all probability, some witnesses will be brought forward from Ireland.

A man named Wright Betty, who was one of the most active leaders of the Chartist rioters during their attack on Newport, in November last, has been apprehended. He was taken before the Magistrates on Wednesday. Several witnesses stated they saw him armed a gun on the morning of the riot, and that he went into houses to demand arms. One witness swore that he saw him fire into the room of the Westgate Inn, where the soldiers were. The prisoner was committed for trial.

Mr. Geach, who was convicted of forgery and sentenced to twenty years' transportation, arrived in Bristol on Wednesday, on his way to the Stirling Castle hulk, at Devonport. He left on Thursday ; and, having been subjected to the usual discipline of the gaol, said, on leaving it, that he would rather endure forty years' transportation than six months' imprisonment therein.—Bath Journal.

A boy named George Crane, a servant in the employ of the Reverand Mr. Abdy, a Magistrate of Essex, was convicted of perjury at the lute Essex Assizes, for having sworn that three persons, against whom an information had been laid for offmices agaiust the game-laws, had tres- passed on the lands of Mr. A hdy's tenants. The parties fined on Crane's evidence indicted him for perjury, and their time for giving evidence having arrived, they swore that they never were in the field described by Crane in his evidence, although it was admitted that they were in the neighbourhood. Lord A binger appeared to think that the charge of perjury had not been made out. The Jury, however, re- turned a verdict of guilty, and his Lorship sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment. The Reverend Mr. Abdy and other gentlemen of' the neighbourhood entertaining a strong opinion that the Ivey had been improperly convicted, represented the circumstances to the Marquis of Normanby, and the result has been an order for Crane's discharge.

The sentence of death upon Edward Garrett, shoemaker, for mur dering his child under very painful circumstances, has been commuted to transportation for life, which has been communicated to the heart- broken prisoner.—Somerset Herald.

Joseph Ball, an engineer at the engine of the Jackfield Colliery, near Burslem, was murdered on Saturday week by George Nixon in a strange and horrible manner. Nixon was known to possess a revenge- ful feeling against Ball's family, hi consequence of sonic supposed in- sult ; and on Saturday night he pushed Ball into the place in which the By-wheel goes round, called the " ily-wheel race," and there the body was found on the Sunday morning by one of the stolars when he went to light the fires for getting up the steam. Not a hone was broken, hut the flesh was literally torn off them, and the death of the poor fellow mnst have been of the most excruviatine kind. No persists would have known of' the murder had not Nix's% mid some of his acquaintances of it before the body was found. (In l:!.fotelay, an inquest was held at Burslem upon the body ; whers vetilkt of " Wilful Murder" was re • turned against Nixon, who protested his Ls:sect:nee.

A woman naread Cutts, the wife of Mr. Henry Cutts, of Carburton, near Nottingharn, was burnt to death, ist New Ferry, near Liverpool, last month. Since her death the Nottingham papers have been pub- lishing some circumstances of her bistory, which represent her to have been guilty of a series of the most atrocious eritnes. A tier having', as is au, y:etc.1, murdered her mother-in-law by small doses of arsenic, she atteuipnal to murder liar hin,lauld, and even the servants, by the Same means. s tim evidence was not sitineitly strong to convict, Mr: Cutts sac content lii iic separated front her, end she had since been pur- ruieg a most diviolute emit se. Ti a. supposea taat, in a fit of intoxica- IV/71, tie sat herself MI fire. The Noniaganst joiritui i;ive:; this account *f her atreeities-

" Lvery cirom.•tur,ec eonnected with the brief but eventful life a this Ile-

WOrnan fur xc,,d1 thee, dett•iled ii, ru:fioh. Young, Isarukome, Iter.!21- heF 1, nad if if.- cittiv,dirtg atnt.tter:, ft/T.0.'11th artless and ingt ntiottu, her hcart appear: 1", n ' deceitful :,Itose all ihittgx, and desperately ccl s! 1 tf rt,ii tet„mtt r iii which she Mr months kept at- I,, t }■■■ -.11%11111 the pleasure with whit I, she

vklitirvot hist daily and 4.1.,:istly :,utfering the grwlual wasting or his trance,

and the total deprivation of the use of his limbs, appear too monstrous for be. lief. But yet these are, unhappily, facts beyond the possibility of a doubt. Nor does it appear that her murderous efforts were confined to her unsuspect- ing husband, for it has been also ascertained that poison had been administered by her to the household servants and farm-labourers in his service. We feel it necessary to make this preliminary statement, lest any of our readers might be ignorant of the facts stated on oath upon the inquest held in October last upon the mother of her husband, when the corpse of the old lady was disinterred, in order that the charge of having poisoned her mother-in-law by means of small doses of arsenic might be investigated before the Coroner."

She was only twenty-one years old, and had been married to Mr. Cutts a year and a half.