In consequence of a dispute about a right of common

in the parish of Llanfachroth, Merionethshire, two aged farmers, mid two sons out each side, met to settle the dispute by combat, unknown to their neigh- bours, on Friday lest; when a deadly battle commenced, which in a short time disabled one of the young combatants, who had one of his legs and an arm broken. Fired and enraged iff the fierce assailant, the brother of the fallen person rushed against him, and forced him down by dint of strength; when he jumped on his breast and stomach, and held his throat until he was dead! to the consternation and affright,of the whole neighbourhood, who perceived the affray too late to stop the fatal result. An inquest was held on the bodies on Monday last, but we have not heard the result.—Slirciesbury Chronicle.

Six convicts made their escape from Sheffield Gaol on Saturday la3t. It would seem, from the account in the Skffield Iris, that the turnkky having put them into their cell, along with eight others, did not loek the door ; the tool-box was left in the yard ; they had no difficulty, therefore, in breaking their fetters. They made some noise, however, which alarmed the gaoler ; so only six out -of tbefourteen got off.

A dreadful murder was committed on Sunday, at Heage, Derbyshire, by William Willot, a man of considerable property; who cut the threat of Susannah Gratian, his female servant. A boy who was in an oat- building beard the screams of the woman, and ran into the house; where he beheld her standing, holding her apron to her throat to cattla the blood, and her master was behind the door, wiping the razorwIth which he had committed the deed on a cloth. The boy instantly -go** an alarm ; and Willot's brother and a man in his employ entered** house, and found the girl lyitig on the floor, and Willot in the lad= in the act of cutting his own throat. They-prevented him *dna dohs

more than inflicting a slight injury on himself; and, after a struggle, succeeded in wrenching the razor from his band. It appears that Willot had lately been very low-spirited, in consequence of having lost a valuable horse and one of his sheep, and be suspected the deceased

had something to do with his losses. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murdbr against him, and he was committed for trial. .• John Griffith Evans, the person who was apprehended on suspicion Ma design to assassinate the Duke of Richmond or Mr. Stanley, at the late agricultural dinner in Liverpool, has been sent to a lunatic asylum, . there being no doubt of his insanity. —.Liverpool Courier.

On Wednesday night the 10th instant, a stack belonging to Mr. Wright, Castle Head, Carmel, was consumed by fire ; and not the least doubt exists that it was the work of some malicious incendiary. There were six stacks standing in a field near the hail; and from ap- pearance, it was evidently the intention of the heartless wretch to destroy them all.— Westntoreland Gazette.

Another instance of incendiarism occurred last Thursday week, at Borough Farm, in the parish of Miteheldeverr, in the occupation of William Fain, a tenant of Sir Thomas Baring ; being the same farm

which was set on tire, with great loss' about two years ago. On the present occasion, nearly the whole of the risks, barns, stables, and out-

buildings have been consumed, to the amount of several hundred pounds. No clue is yet found towards the discovery of the miscreant who occasioned it.

A fire brace out on the premises of Mr. Austin, of Colmworth, Bedfordshire, on Monday week, when two barns were burnt to the ground, also a cottage, and some other property. No doubt is enter- tained that the mischief was the work of an incendiary.—Kiirdiumpton Mercury.

In the counties of Bedford, Sussex, Kent, and Somersetshire, a number of hay and wheat.etacks, in addition to those mentioned more particularly, have been set on fire during the past week ; but the incen- diaries have not been discovered.

It appears from recent inquiries, that in Manchester alone not fewer than 20,000 persons live in cellars.

A provincial paper states, that so frequent have highway robberies become in the neighbourhood of Devizes, that farmers frequenting that market find it necessary to go and return armed.

William Naylor was committed, on Thursday week, to ChesterGaol, to take his trial on a charge of having shot at Mr. Wilkinson, the cot- ton-spinner, near Staley Bridge. Four other men, all of them stone- masons, were charged with being his accomplices ; but there was scarcely any evidence against them, and they were discharged. Nay- lor's shoe-marks corresponded exactly with those found on the turf near the rap in the hedge, from which Mr. Wilkinson said the shot was fired. This is the case in which, as we mentioned last week, a reward of four hundred pounds is offered for the conviction of the assassin.

A case of conspiracy has just been tried at Wilts Sessions ; where four persons, one a farmer of great respectability, residing in the parish of Bromham, were indicted for removing a female pauper, when in a state of pregnancy, from that parish to the parish of Melksharta for the purpose of settling her bastard child in that parish. The circum- stances elicited by the examination of the mother, who was only fif- teen, tilled the Court and Jury with horror and indignation. It seemed that her toaster seduced her ; and, when actually taken in labour, at the hour of midnight, he, his wife, and mother, procured from the other defendant his horse and cart, took the young woman out of her bed, put on her clothes, and actually puther into the cart, amidst her groans and supplications,. and conveyed her away towards Melksham. On the road she was delivered of her child ; arid, although much im- paired in mind and body by this most cruel treatment, she was able to attend and tell her story at the present Wiltshire Sessions. The parties were all found guilty, and sentenced to different fines and terms of imprisonment. —Bath Journal.

Four men were tried at the late Sessions for the county of Norfolk, on a charge of having interrupted the regular work of the county, and compelled a labourer to enter into a combination with them to obtain a higher rate of wages. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoners were getting miserable wages : one of them bad only received les. for fif- teen days' work ; end when he applied for relief to the Overseer, who was a farmer, he was told that his wile: might go and obtain a living by prostitu- tion! Mr. Weyland, the Chairman; enlarged upon the enormity of the offence committed by the prisoners ; and sentenced three of them to eighteen months' imprisonment and hard labour, aml the other to twelve months.

David Tetley; Julio Openshaw, John Cork, Joseph Wellings, and John Armstrong, all of them young men about eighteen or twenty years of age, and employed in th e Manchester factories, were examined en Thursday week, before the Magistrates at the New Bailey in Man- chester, on a charge of having committed a rape upon Mary-Anal-lot:ay, a girl of seventeen or eighteen. The particulars are given in the Man- chester Chronicle. The offence was twice committed by each of the prisoners; and the details of the evidence prove them to have acted in a manner almost incredibly brutal. They did not pretend to deny their guilt, but had even boasted and Made a joke of it : when brought before the Magistrates, they were all unconcerned except Armstrong, who was much affected. The prosecutrix was extremely ill, and from weakness gave her evidence in a scarcely audible voice. All the prisoners were fully committed for trial.