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the mention of his name right lustily . Sir E . W . Head , Sir James Outran ., the Solicitor-General , the Brazilian Minister , Dr . Jeremie , ancl others , had also the degree of D . C . L . conferred upon them . After the ceremony an address was presented to Lord Palmerston at the Town-hall . In replying to it his lordship paid a very high compliment to his colleagues in office in the Government , making special allusion to the

Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr . Cardwell . Saturday was the last day of the existence of the Insolvent Debtors ' Court , the business being now transferred to the new Court of Bankruptcy . The extinction of the court was atteiiclecV-with little ceremony , but the senior barrister present thanked the presiding judge for the courtesy he bad shown to fche bar during

their intercourse together . It is stated on authority that the special commission which at present stands adjourned to the 1 st of July , ivill not resume its sittings , but that the cases it was appointed to try , ancl which have not been disposed of , will come before the ordinary assizes . The people of the city of Limerick are indignant at their town as well as the county being "

proclaimed" by the Irish Government ; but it is admitted by many persons that it would be of no use to proclaim the county if the city were left free . A dreadful crime was committed early on Saturday morning , at Smallshaw , near Ashton-under-Lyne . Sergeant Harrop and Police Constable Jump , of the Lancashire constabulary , encountered in a field a gang of seven or eight

men , masked , and carrying bludgeons and fire-arms . Tbej- were at once challenged . A struggle followed , and Jump received two bullets in the breast , ivhile Harrop was wounded in the face . Jump died before medical assistance could be procured . It . is suspected that the lawless ruffians concerned iu this fatal outrage were unionist briekmakers . Two men have been taken into custody at Manchester on suspicion of being concerne d in the murder . They were found in a house in Butler-streefc , occupied by a maker of brickmen's shovels . The policemen hacl

to be very cautious in order to gain admission . They only expected to find one man , but to their surprise came upon two . The fellows were afc first disposed to resist , but , finding themselves outnumbered , yielded quietly . —•—Mrs . Vyse has been committed to Newgate on fche charge of murdering her two children . She is still very weak . There seems to be a mania for suicide just now . On Tuesday ,

three or four cases of attempted self-murder were brought before various police magistrates in London . On AA ' ednesday two very shocking suicides unfortunately were accomplished . In one case on oil and colourman , named Shoveready , was found hanging dead in his bedroom . He appears to have been led to the commission of suicide by an execution for rent having been put into

his house . The second case is that of a domestic servant , who hung herself while labouring under delusions arising from religious enthusiasm . An inquest has been held on the body of Thomas Raynor , a carriage examiner who was lately killed on the South Eastern Railway in the performance of his duty . A verdict of accidental death ivas returned , and the jury strongly recommended that no repairs , however slight , be clone to

carriages on the line upon which carriages are to be shunted , unless notice be previously given to the shunter . A fatal collision lias occurred off Hastings , between a barque and a brig that were both proceeding down Channel . Th e brig foundered almost immediately ; the captain and two of the crew perishing in the ship . The barque , which picked up the rest of the brig ' s crew , was so seriously injured that she was obliged to put back . Ifc will be remembered that a veterinary named Anthony

surgeon , was tried by a court-martial at Dublin , a few weeks ago , on a charge of having—under circumstances of great provocationgiven the lie to a cornet , iu the 11 th Hussars , and struck him . The sentence has now been promulgated from the Horse Guards . The Commander-in-Chief confirms the finding of the Court , which was that the prisoner be dismissed the service . A short time ago one of our police magistrates , fined the keeper

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of a refreshment-house in the AA'est-end , for harbouring prostitutes in his house , under the plea of supplying them with refreshment . The decision was appealed to the Court of Queen ' s Bench , where it has been argued , ancl on Saturday Mr . Justice AVightman delivered the judgment of the Court . He fully admitted the right of degraded women to call for , and receive , refreshments in these houses ; but the keeper of the house was not to be allowedunder that pretextto harbour them in his

, , house , and convert ifc into a house of call . It was for the magistrate to decide upon the evidence before him whether that was so or not , and as this was all the magistrate had done in the present instance his judgment ivas affirmed . A singular case occupied the Court of Common Pleas for two days . Mr . Gore brought an action against Sir George Grey , the Secretary of State , for authorising his removal from the

Queen's Bench Prison , where he was confined for debt , to the Bethlehem Hospital , though there was no pretence for alleging that he was insane . The action was also brought against the authorities of both the prison and the asylum . After the case for the plaintiff had been heard , and that for the defence had proceeded a little way , the jury stopped the trial and found for the defendants on the ground that they had reason to believe in

plaintiff ' s insanity . Mrs . Thomas , a domestic servant , who had invested her savings in the Bank of Deposit , has brought an action against Lord George Paget , who was for several years one of the directors of that disreputable and ruinous concern . She claims the sum of £ 60 , the amount of her deposits , and fche case came on in the Court of Common Pleas . An arrangement washowevercome to by which a verdict was taken for the

, , plaintiff ; subject to a special case for fche opinion of a superior Court . Catherine AVilson has heen re-examined at the Lambeth Police Court , on Friday , on the charge of poisoning Mrs . Atkinson , of Kirkby Lonsdale . The prisoner , it will be rememhered , was tried at the Central Criminal Court , but acquitted , on a charge of attempting to poison a Mrs . Cornell . Ifc ivas noiv stated that she was some time ago in the service of a gentleman

in Lincolnshire , who was seized with a violent illness , and died soon after he had made a will , securing to her property to the amount ot about £ 80 a-year ; and that afterwards she went to nurse a lady , who died suddenly , after having , at the instigation

of the prisoner , drawn £ 150 from a bank . This money could not be found , but " the prisoner got oflj owing to no irritant poison being discovered in the body . " AA'ilson was again remanded . The action for libel brought against Mr . AA'alker , a "brother-in-law of Major Yelverton , by Mrs . Theresa Yelverton , wns tried in fche Court of Session , Edinburgh , last week . The libel was contained in a letter addressed to the Hon . W . Yelvertonof AVhitland AbbeySouth Waleswho had invited the

, , , pursuer or plaintiff to his house . Mrs . Yelverton was described as a " degraded woman , " and her reception at AVhitland Abbey was denounced as an act which brought dishonour on the Avonmore family . Mr . AValker subsequently expressed his regret at having written this letter , ancl offered to withdraw the statements he had made in it , but the apology was deemed insufficient . The juryby nine to three a verdict for tbe

, , gave pursuer . Damages , £ 500 . The cattleandagriculturalimplements show afc Battersea Park closed on AVednesday . The influx of visitors kept- increasing from clay to day while it lasted , and the last was not the least attended of all . * The exhibition has been a necessary adjunct to the International Exhibition , on the other side of the river , and has completely shown that , however foreigners may in some departments rival , and even surpass , our manufacturers

, they have no chance whatever in competition with our farmers , breeders , and graziers . FOEJEIGX IXTEILIGEXCJT . —The French Senate have voted the budget , and the session of the Chambershas therefore fully closed , the Corps Legislatif having concluded their labours some days back . The news from Mexico is the great topic of the day at Parisancl is scanned with interest ball partiesThe

, eager y . Moniteur has published the official dispatch of General Loreneez . It gives the details of the French attack on Guadeloupe on the 5 th May . General Loreneez says he was deceived as to the strength of the fortifications , ancl though the vigour and courage of his troops was admirable , they were obliged to retreat . The general then waited on the plateau of Amozoe , until the 11 th of Mayfor his Mexican alliesbut learning that General Zuloaga

, , had made arrangements with Juarez to hold the army of Marquez in check , he at once retreated on Orizaba . Here Marquez , at the head of about 2000 Mexicans , attempted to join him , but was overtaken by a body of Zuloaga ' s troops , under General Tnpia , who so vigorously attacked the troops of Marquez