A powder-mill at Battle, Sussex, in the occupation of Mr..
C. Lawrence, blew up on Monday sennight, and unroofed the building, scattering its fragments in all directions. Fortunately no one was in the Min at the time of the explosion ; which was purely accidental. Williem Kirkham, it collier living near Hanley, in Staffordshire, murdered his son, a young main of twenty-one, last week. The old man bad been beating his wife, when his son took his mother to a place of safety ; whilst doing which, his father threw a pick-axe at him, and hit him in the back. The young man having left his jacket in the house where his father was, returned for it ; when his father, who had been waiting his return, stabbed him between the ribs several times, with .a long, pointed knife. When a neighbour told him he had murdered his son, Kirkham said, "I'm glad of it-1've given him what he wanted."
The poor young man was carried into the house, and risked to see Lis father; when lie said—" Iforgiveyou, father ; I hope we shall meet in heaven," shortly after which he died. At the village of Hachlington, near Clithero, in Lancashire, last Monday, an unfortunate female, who has been for some time past in a state of mental derangement, induced a little boy, about nine years of age, to go into a back-room of her house with her, and there murdered him by splitting his head with an axe.
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