Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1871-06-24 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

TRAGEDY.-At the High-street Court, Edinburgh, on Monday, before Lord Justice Clark Moncreiff, Eliza Sinclair, of Clafton, wife of a weaver at Milbank, near Stow, in Edinburghshire, was tried for murdering her two children, by cutting their throats, on the 6th March. She was detected committing a petty theft in a neighbour's shop, went home, cut the childrens throats, and then cut her own very severely, though not fatally. Under police surveillance she has just recovered from the effects of her wound, and on Monday in the dock she looked very dejected. She pleaded not guilty, and a special plea of ineanity was tendered. The jury found " That the murder was committed under temporary insanity," and the verdict was received with slight cheers. His Lordship ordered the prisoner to rcta!z.clLu c'...!tody during Her Majesty's I)':.sure.  It is reported from Florence that the Bey of Tunis raises difficulties in reference to the execution of the treaty with Italy. The Governor of Newgate has recieved a respite for the convict Woolley, sentenced to death for the Brorupton murder. The Glaagow Herald records the death of the lion which, a foituight ago, was forced to submit to an extraordinary dental operation. Recent accounts from Utah indicate the approaching downfall of that extraordinary combination of religious fanaticism and imposture known as Mormonism.  The Edinburgh Courant states that the Earl of Caithness is engaged to marry the Countess Molinda, who will bring to the noble Earl a life interest in £30,000 a-year. The Duke de Chambord, in a letter to one of the Deputies of the Garonne, praises highly the conduct of the French army at the taking of Paris, and eulogises their courage. The Duke of Aumale visited the Prince and Princess of Wales on Monday, at Marlborough House, and stayed to lunch. The Duke of Edinburgh was a visitor at the same time.  It is stated that a marriage is arranged ta take place between Lady Lilian Lumley, daughter of the Earl and Countess of Scarborough, and Mr Dundas, nephew of the Earl of Zetland. A telegram from Paris says that corpses are daily discovered under the ruins of the burnt houses. Dead bodies are also found in the catacombs and sewers in an advanced state of decomposition.  At Windsor, on Tuesday, the 34th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession to the throne was obAerved by various public demonstrations of a joyful character. The Princess Louise and the Marquis of Lorne, with Prince Christian, visited the Queen at Windsor.  A VERY THIN SHEET or Ilion.— At the Upper Forest Tin Works, near Swansea, the Messrs W. Hallam and Co. have just rolled the thinnest sheet of iron ever produced. It requires 4,800 such to make an inch in thiekness. CHARGES OF EMBEZZLEMENT AGAINST A POSTMASTER: —James Turner, postmaster, Market Harboro,' was committed for trial, on Tuesday afternoon, on several charges of embezzling Post-office Savings Bank money. ,Two cases were proved, amounting to £45. At the Tyne regatta on Friday, a four-oared crew, consisting of Renforth (stroke), Robert Chambers, John Bright, and James Percy, won a match for £25, over a mile and quarter course, against a crew consisting of Thomas Winship, Robert Bagnell, John Martin, and Jas. Taylor, by a length and a half. Mr Renforth's crew are matched to row the American crew for £l,