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PIOPOSRD CITY 07 LONDON CIOLLZOIL scheme
hes bete prepoesd fair converting the Metropolitan Evening
Chem, new held at Sussex-ball, Lesdeahall-street, into a
sollege. A tnethisig is announced for Monday, the 3rd of
Jess, for the
(Eire( taking the necessary der for car-
=out the The gnomes which has hitherto 'ti-
thes(' ben Wooed the honorary 'secretaries
to bees a arc:aerie the young men of London, detailing
the advantages to be derived from the institution being
placed on a collegian, footing. At the meeting a report
will be presented from a committee elected in accordance
with the motion proposed by Lord Granville at a meeting
held at London-house as the 22nd of April. It appears
from the letter of the secretaries that it is desirable that at
heat 1,000 names should be placed on the list in order to
start fairly, and from the great support they have already
received at the hands of the friends sad supporters of edu-
cation, including Lord Granville, Lord Lyttelton, the
Bishop of Leedom, and many lead merchants, bankers,
cleNymen, and gentlemen, a miccs al result is expected.
Tors b airs ASSIZaINLY-ROONS, ICZNNINOTON.
A grand concert in aid of the funds of the church of St.
Paul's, Lorrimoresquare, was announced to take place at
the Lecture-hell, Carter-street, Walworth, on Thursday
evening. But a few days before that fixed for the concert
• note was received by the incumbent, threatening a prose-
cution if be persisted in bolding the concert in the Lecture-
hall, the room not being licensed for entertainments. The
note was addressed from the Royal Surrey-gardens, and
signed by Marra. Colwell and Bishop. It appears that ac-
cording to the statute entertainments of whatever kind
given in rooms not licensed for that purpose are liable to •
similar fate at the instance of any person who chooses to
oppose them. As musical entertainments am now the order
of the day, and the number of unlicensed rooms in which
they are constantly given legion, and as • share of the
penalty goes to the interments, it will be well for the pro-
prietors of public rooms, and particularly the managers of
mechanics' institutes, to be on their guard. Perhaps it
would not be inadvisable to effect some slight modification
of the original statute, now that entertainments of a mu-
sical nature have become BO canna' a feature of our social
life. In consequence of the above mentioned impediment
the concert was held at the Horns, Kennington, the little
contretemps seeming to impart met to the occasion. The
programme wee a very good one, and the list of minim an
unusually attractive one for the Surrey side of the Thames.
The services of ell who sang—Muse Rose Hence, Mien
Thompson, Miss A. Thompson, Mies Fanny Huddart,
E Perms, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Smalley, and Mr. Patsy—were
rendered gratuitously.
A &mut ts Covitr.—A scene of a very uniumal
character occurred in the Dublin Court of Common Pleas
on Friday. A motion came before Lord Chief Justice
Monalme sad Justices Keogh and Christian, in the case of
M'llahon v. Ellis, on behalf of the plaintiff, to have the
defendant orally examined by the Master of the court,
his answer to an interrogatory exhibited to him being
alleged to be insufficient. The action was brought by the
plaintiff to recover damages from the defendant, for
having disturbed him in his office of weighmaster of the
town of Clones. The interrogatory was whether the de.
fondant had received certain letters, and the answer was
that he might have received them, but could not, after dili-
met search, fled them. The plaintiff is Mr. John WMahon,
• member of the bar, and the defendant, Mr. Nichols. Ellis,
is • solicitor. Mr. B. M. Kelly, plaintiff's counsel, in
the course of the argument submitted that the
Court should believe one of two things, either that defen-
dant mede • wilful misrepresentation, or allowed some per-
son to abstract the paper, before he made the search.
Defendant's counsel, Mr. Hercules Ellis, declared that no
one but a scoundrel would make such a suggestion. The
Chief Justice said that if such conduct occurred again he
would repreas it by strong measures ; and Mr. Justice
Christian observed that during the entire of his experience
he never heard thy counsel use such an expression. Sub-
sequently Mr. H. Ells, in reply to the arguments of plain-
tiff's counsel, sought to introduce topics which the court
considered irrelevant, and persisted, notwithstanding the
declaration of the Chief Justice that they would hear no
reference to matters intended to insult the court. Mr. Ellis
replied that he and their lordships spoke in the presence of
the representatives of the press, which drew from Mr.
Justice Keogh the obeervatiou that unboutided forbearance
had been exercised, and that had he been Attics{ alone Mr.
Ellis would not be there addressing the court. Finally,
the motion was granted, with costa.
THIS EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY IN FLINT6HIRE.
—We briefly stated on Saturday that an aged couple, named
Edwards. residing at Summer-hill, Holywell, had lace
foetid with their throats cut. The husband, who was 80
years of age, was dead ; but his wife, who is 75 years of age,
was alive, and is likely to recover. It appeared from the
evidence given at the inquest held on Thursday, that Ann
Matthews, • niece of Edwards. went to her node's house
about 11 o'clock on Wielnearlay morning, and finding a win-
dow half open where the door key was placed, she took the
key, unlocked the door, went upstairs, and found her
uncle dead in bed, mid her aunt 1340; by his side. She im-
mediately gave an germ, and went for Messrs. Lloyd and
Davies, surgeons. The husband was dead, but the wife was
still living. The wife, when interrogated by Mr. Lloyd,
produced the razor with which she said she had murdesed
her husband, declaring, as her motive, that " Edwards was
troublesome and required constant attention." The jury re.
tamed • verdict of • Wilful murder" against Sarah Edwards.
THZ MUISDEH OF • GIRL BY HER MOTHER AT
Barwrot.—On Saturday the city coroner, Mr. J. B. Orindon,
held an inquest at the committee room of St. Peter's Hos-
pital, on the body of Matilda 011iver, the little girl so
inhumanly killed on the previous day by her mother,
Catherine Oiliest, the wife of a porter, residing at No. 4,
John-street, St,. Philip's, as detailed in our columns on
Semi day. The mother was preaeut in custody. She was
poorly but neatly del, and preserved a quiet and indeed
despoodirm demeanour. It was stated in the room that
the was respectably connected, being the niece of •
deceased magistrate of Bristol. Several witnesses having
deposed to the facts we have already published, and the
coroner having duly cautioned the prisoner, she said:—" I
have nothing more to say than that I and guilty of her
death. It was entirely through my husband's ill-conduct to
me. He has been ill-using me for sixteen years. I Lad
three children bore dreamed, and one he killed before it was
born by grasping me when I expected to becomes mother."
A juryman enquired whether she disliked the child. The
prisoner said she loved it dearly. The reason she hong 1
it was because she was weary of her life and would sooner '
die then live. The coroner then briefly summed tip, and I
the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against
Catherine 011iver, the mother, who was committed on the 11
coroner's warrant for the crime. _ I

SHOCKING MURDER IN PARSONSTOWN.
QuEst.—The dent of Samedcrit Netcs. writing
from Parsonatown, ridgy evening, save :—" Muth excite.
meet was created in this town at an early hour this morning
by the announoemeot that an aged army pensioner, mimed
Balvester Kinshella, who was a groom in the service of John
Quoin, Esq., in Johes•place, in this town, had been just
brutally murdered by a young men named Edward Briscoe,
employed in the same establishmeet. The deceased was
found with his brains dashed out, apparently by a claiver,
attention having been called to him by Briscoe, who said he
bad murdered him. An inquest has been held, at which
Briscoe was present. het during the proceedings he did not
speak. He maintained his aelf•poesrssme, but at intervals,
when the details of the fearful deed were given in evidence.
his face became Rushed and red, and his eyes rolled in the
head, and he stared wildly at the spectators which cooroled
the court. A verdict of wilful murder against him wee re-
turned, but the question of his sanity 'russet entered into."