The week has been full of stories of murder. The
Kingswood murder of an old housekeeper is still under investigation; the mur- derer, supposed to be a German, not being yet arrested. A poor woman who attempted to poison her children under mental distress so terrible as to amount to mania, has been acquitted, and another woman at Epworth confesses to the murder of three more. A sur- geon at Bradford, hitherto considered respectable, has been declared by a coroner's jury guilty of wilful murder, having killed his house- keeper in the effort to procure abortion : and a foreigner of distinc- tion, long domiciled among us, has absconded from an accusation of endeavouring to murder his son, in order to. seize his late wife's inhe- ritance. For the rest, the week has been a dull one, distinguished socially only by the celebration of the Queen's birthday, which occurs whenever Her Majesty pleases, and was this year fixed for 10th July, and by the meeting of the National Rifle Association at Wimbledon. The latter, though not attended as it ought to have been, indicated great improvement on the part. of the volunteers in sharpshooting.
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