Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-10 00:00:00

cohabiting with a woman for the last seven years
Reynolds and this woman were about 40 years old each.
Although old the woman is reputed to be facinating and
wily, and to have obtained an influence over the lad,
who, it is said, notwithstanding the disparity in years,
had conceived a guilty passion for her, and hence was
jealous of Reynolds. 'Wilkes is said to have sent a note
to this woman a short time ago, proposing '‘‘ that. they
should go of" unknown to Reynolds. She refused ;
and that is said to have doubled his jealousy.

CROWN PROSECUTIONS.-

blue book has been issued

to-day,- containing the report of the commissioners
appointed to inquire into the present state of the law
regulating the rates of, payment to be allowed to pro-
secutors, witnesses; or ether persons engaged in crimi-
nal proceedings ; into . all alloWances made to county
constables ; and -genet'ally into the present mode of
remunerating the i}tficers connected With Crown prose-
cutions. They found great difference in the scales of
payment in force in' different parts of the country. They
consider that no proved necessity exists for an unequal
distribution, and therefore arrive at the conclusion that,
so far as regards the claim upon the Treasury, the same
scale should be established for all the jurisdictions in
tF " '-,c_rdo- A ate scale all, been

le kingdom. elaborate scale m -lowanee has ti
rawn up, and is printed in the blue book. The corn-
lissioners express a decided oyinion as to the advisa-

bility of pay in
siTtem of fees.

FEARFUL TRAGEDY.—Worcester was in a state of
ferment• on Thursday in' consequence of a rumour that
the wife of an artist, engaged at the Royal Porcelain
Works 'in that city, .had_ thrown herself and her two
children into the river Severn in consequence of a quarrel
with her husband. It is fe-

-Carat tnat the rumour- is too
true. It appears that on Wednesday Mrs. Harrit, who
resided with hei husband in Bull-road, Weglis, not far
from the Severn., quarrelled with her husband at dinner-
time, when, being much excited, shetook her two young
children, a boy and a girl, one under each arm, and ran
out of the house, declaring she would never return again.
Nothing has been heard of her since, but on Saturday
morning some policemen on the Severn, about a mile
below Worcester, picked up the dead body of one of the
children, the boy, and brought it into Worcester.
,
n The river had been carefully dragged all day, but

neither tke body of the other child nor the mother has
been found. The .general belief is, however, that.the
woman jumped into the river with both her children,
and that all three have been drowned. The river is
just now in a swollen ..state, and the two bodies in all
probability have been carried to a considerable distance
down the stream—that is if the woman, as is presumed,
has committed the double crime of murder and Suicide.
EXTENSIVE FIRES IN LONDON.-011 Saturday EROTTP4,
ing, shortly before six o'clock, a fire broke out on the
premises of Mr. Bowers, oil refiner, White Lion-street,
Norton Folgate. The London Brigade engines promptly
arrived, and by dint of very great exertion the fire was
confined to the basement, though not extinguished unti I
much damage was done.—Another fire broke out on the
premises of Mr. P. Shea, rag merchant, No. 29,. Turn-
proved-road; High-street, Stratford. The inmates with
difficulty escaped, •but though engines promptly arrived
the fire ,was not extinguished until the premises were
entirely destroyed.--Another Tr.o3t serious are occurred
in Bargehouse-yard, Bfteklersbury, in the joint occu-

pation of the Paraphine Light Company and Messrs.
Merrick and Hatcher's, lithographers. . The building is
five stories high, and the fire commenced in the lower
part. Engines got to work, but owing to the com-
bustible nature of the goods, the flames spread rapidly.
The firemen, by mounting the walls and roofs of the
surrounding houses, were enabled to pour in water on
either side, by which expedient they at length subdued
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