The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-04 00:00:00

MURDER IN WORCESTERSHIRE

A shocking murder has been committed at the Lyewash, a
low district near Stourbridge, Worcestershire, occupied by
nailors, and other manufacturing classes. The unfortunate
deceased is a woman named Elizabeth Mil'ward, and the
prisoner is a man named John Phipson. It appears that
the prisoner and the deceased, with the deceased's illegiti-
mate daughter, a girl of 18, and a young woman named
Mary Ann Phipson, niece to the prisoner, were at work
together making nails. The deceased had been in the
practice of keeping a jug of water in the workshop, for
the use of herself and her daughter, and the prisoner had
frequently, to her great annoyance, appropriated the water
to his own use. This had occasioned frequent quarrels
between them. On Friday afternoon, the prisoner's neice
having handed the water jug to her uncle, he
drank its contents, on which the deceased threw
a handful of coal dust and ashes in his face. On
this the prisoner drew a piece of red hot iron, about two
feet in length and pointed at the extremity, from the forge,
and either threw or thrust it at the deceased with great
force, so that it entered her side to a depth of four inches,
and burning its way, dropped out again upon the ground.
The deceased fell, and being carried home, died immediately
afterwards. The evidence of Eliza Millward, the deceased's
daughter, and of Mary Ann Phipson, the prisoner's niece,
corroborated the above statement of facts. Mr. Harding,
surgeon, describ d the nature of the wound, which was
between the ninth and tenth ribs on the left side, passing
towards the spine. The magistrate committed the pri-
soner for wilful murder, and he will be tried at the
ensuing assizes, which commence at Worcester on the 12th

PARIS, Thursday.— The Emperor arrived at five
o'clock yesterday evening, at Plombieres. The health of
his Majesty is excellent.

New; ha's been received at Madrid, of a second -squad.
ron of eight ships of war, with troops on board, being
ready to sail from Havannah for Mexico, should the
President refuse to satisfy the claims sf Spain.
ST. PETERSBURG; Wednesday.—An Imperial Ukase
has been addressed to the Minister of Finance, autho-
rising the definitive emission of two series of state
treasury bonds, for 6.000,000 of silver roubles, the interest
commencing on the Ist of July.
BERLIN, June 29.—Count de Hatzfeld, Prussian Miai-
ster at Paris, has informed the Prussian Government,
that his Majesty Napoleon 111. has invited the Emperor
of Austria to an interview at the chateau of A renemberg.
The invitation has beerraccepted.
It is stated in Paris, that the affairs of Greece are
about to be discussed at a conference in London, at
which Lord Clarendon, and the representatives of France
and Russia, will settle various questions arising about
the state of Greece. A Belgian journal states, that the
succession to the throne of Greece is one of the points to
be settled.

THE BURWELL STAKES.--Monday next, the 7th inst., is
appointed to try the action, Pedley v. Lord John Scott, at
Guildhall, for the recovery of these stakes paid to his
Lordship by Mr. Weathert y under the decision of the
Stewards of the Jockey Club. Should the plaintiff be
successful, it will in no way affect the bets, as Cannobie
was adjudged to be the winner by the only recognised
racing, tribunal. The trial will, however, create the
liveliest interest in all the metropolitan and provincial
sporting circles.

ESCAPE OF CARDINAL PATRIZI.— A letter recently re-
ceived from Genoa narrates the following:—The Vicar of
Rome, Monsigaore Patrizi, on his transit from " the
Eternal City' to Civita Vecchia, only escaped from falling
into the clutches of Lazzarini by that celebrated brigand's
arriving too late at the point where his ambuscade was to
be planted. But for this contretemps, his band was suffi-
ciently numerous to have overpowered the guards of the
Legate Lazzarini had promised his wife the consecrated
golden rose destined for the Empress of the French, for
herself; and the reliquary with the straw from the cradle
of Bethlem, to hang at the neck of their child.