Mr. John Edward Taylor, editor of the Manchester Guardian, hav-
ing been nettled by some remarks in the Mitnehester Chronicle. which he attributed to Mr. James Crossley, a solicitor, retaliated in his own paper, after this fashion- " Tricks, worthy only of a disreputaSte lawyer, disentitle the man who is guilty of them from being recognized by us as a controversialist upon whom we can bestow any further notice m the matter, inasmuch as there would be no end to disputation with a person who, when driven from his original position, dues not hesitate to be guilty, not merely of wilful ntisrepresentation, but of actual falsehood, to enable him to take up a fresh one."
Mr. Crossley demanded the "satisfaction of a gentleman," or an apology ; and Mr. Taylor made an apology,—declining to fight because he had a wife and five children, and a policy of 40001. on his life, which would be vitiated by his death in a duel. These particulars are given by a correspondent of the Morning Post.
A verdict of " wilful murder" has been found by a Coroner's Jury against James Whittle, the man mentioned last week as committed on suspicion of shooting George Henderson, the pedlar, on the moors near Belmont.
Another murder has been committed in Lancashire. The Preston Chronicle states, that on Monday evening, Michael Donohue, a sub- contractor on the North Union Railway works, was set upon by a party of labourers, and deliberately rubbed and murdered, in a house where he had gone to settle some weekly accounts, respecting which a querrel had arisen with the wife of one of the labourers ; this woman was very violent, and appears to have been in the room during the murder. The ruffians locked the house-door, and turned out two men who would riot help in the murder. The body of the deceased was found " ywhered into a lump " in a corner, with several wounds on the head. fen or eleven men were known to be engaged in the crime ; but none of their. were in custody when the Preston Chronicle's account was published. An inquest on the body was adjourned to Monday next.
Two children, belonging to a poor man of the perish of Denham, have been taken out of their graves in that churchyard, on the confes- sion of a gill twelve years of age, an elder sister, of having been the cause of both their deaths. The youngest, about two months old, she killed by smothering it with a pillow about five mouths ago. The eldest she confessed having caused the death of about three weeks back. This chili was more than two years old. A Jury then sat on the body under Mr. Green, the County Coroner : a verdict was re- corded—" Died from apoplexy." No suspicion otherwise was then entertained.—Noneich Mercury.
John Owen, on Thursday week, robbed Mr. Rees, a steward of Earl Cawdor, who was riding home to Carmarthen, of 2,0001., the amount of rents the latter had collected; but Owen was .e'.zed, and the property recovered, by a man who saw the robbery. Mr. Rees is eighty years old, and was knocked off his horse by Owen.
On Friday week, the residence of Colonel Kaye, Royal Crescent, Bath, was broken into ; and property, chiefly jewels, worth 30001., stolen. The policemen were very active, on hearing of the robbery; and followed three suspected persons to Bristol, and thence on the Gloucester road. They came up with the objects of their pursuit at an inn about six miles from Bristol ; where they found three men, two
of whom they captured ; the third escaped, but in a pocket in the cape of his cloak the jewels were found. Robberies in Bath have been frequent during the last three .years ; and these men are supposed to belong to the gang who committed them.
Some miscreants have been placing planks and logs across the trans on the Sheffield and Rotherham Railroad, in order to cause accidents to the trains in passing. Fortunately, the guards discovered two of these attempts ; and the engine which came upon the third threw it off the road without doing any injury to the train.—.Sketfleld The bridges constructed by the Southampton Railway Company across the Great Western road ut Worting, near Basingstoke, gave way last week for the second time, to the imminent danger and annoy- ance of travellers.
By the sudden bursting of a steam-boiler, on the iron-works of Messrs. Edward Cresswell and Sons, at Tipton, on Friday last, a Man and a boy were killed, and seven other persons wounded—one of them dangerously.
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