The Court of Common Pleas has granted a rule calling
upon the Earl of Shrewsbury to show cause why a verdict should not be entered for Mr. Hope Scott and others, in the matter of the Shrewsbury estates, instead of as now for Lord Shrewsbury, who seeks to recover those estates. At the former trial leave had been reserved to make this motion, and it was granted as a matter of course.
Mr. Thomas Birchmore, late relieving overseer of the parish of St. Pan- cras, has been committed for trial by the Clerkenwell Magistrate on a charge of embezzling parish monies.
A dreadful murder was pertretrated in New York on the 6th, by a Spaniard, named Sanchez and aged twenty, who had been a waiter in an hotel. Sanchez had a quarrel with his wife, a young female of colour, to whom he had only been married a few weeks, and on the interference of her father and mother stabbed them both with a sword cane, the former fatally. He then stabbed his wife. The cause of the quarrel was jealousy. .Sanchez had disappeared, but the police were supposed to have a clue to him.
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