Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1859-11-19 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

FIRST SIGHT.—The old adage of love at first sight has been recently illustrated. An eastern nabob has hastened to consummate his fondest hopes by leading to the altar of Hymen one of those fascinating creatures who, behind their protective shield of plate•glass, appear to bid defiance to any attack that Cupid may make. This nabob, who loved 'not too wisely, but too well," on entering the shop of one of our large silk mercers, was spell-bound by the charms of her whose services he called into requisition. The courtship was short and decisive. The mercer was consulted about his handmaid, and consent was given . to the aspirant of the fair hand of this drui,iisivlle. j Strange as the denmetineut of his story may appear, it is not the less true that the admirer of this measurer of silks and satins had a deed drawn up in her favour securing to her a dower of several thousands per annum. Site was immediately removed to a residence more inconformity with her newly-acquired wealth, but she had a lingering affection for the shop which had been the means of so unexpected an elevation, returning thither to order her trousseau, which rumour proclaimed to be of the most sumptuous description, and which we judge must be true from the fact that seventeen silk dresses formed part of her outfit. The aristocratic church of St. George's, Hanover Square, was privileged to tie the knot of this happy couple. Futurity will tell how happy ! MURDER AT COVRNTRY•-•-011 Saturday morning a deliberate murder was perpetrated in a thickly-populated district of the city, called Hill-fields, by a youug man named John K ingston, upon his wife, aged only about twenty. For some time they had lived very unhappily together, the husband being of a very violent and passionate disposition, and there doubtless being faults on the other side. A few weeks since the wife left him and made a complaint before the Magistrates of her husband's violence towards her, and of his having threatened to murder her. The Bench accordingly bound him over to keep the peace, his father becoming the requisite surety. The term expired on Saturday morning, and it would seem that having repeatedly tried to persuade her to go back, he had resolved, if she still refused, to carry his threat into execution, for, meeting his wife as she was going from her work to her breakfast at the house in which she lodged, lie induced her to walk with him up a lane into some fields near at hand. Here lie again urged her to live with him, but she refused, and he attacked her in a most determined manner with a large clasp. knife, and after inflicting several deep gashes in her face, ultimately succeeded in cutting her throat. He shortly afterwards gave himself up to a policeman, coolly remarking that " she was dead enough—he had cut her head off." The body was found lying in a pool of blood by the passers-by, and on Mr. Dresser, surgeon, examining it, he found that the main artery of the throat had been divided, so that death must have been almost instantaneous. The head was only hanging by the vertebra), and the knife was bent. The ' murderer was brought before the Magistrates, and remanded for further examination. He spoke with the greatest coolness of the heinous crime with which he stood charged. Ile said " She should not have been ruled by her father, but by me. Iler father is the whole cause of our disagreements. When she was dying," added the prisoner calmly, "she said three times. Jack, Jack, it is my father's fault. Good bye.' " The prisoner seemed to have entertained a similar design against the father of the deceased, for he is reported by the policeman who apprehended him to have said, after admitting the crime, " I meant to do the deed ; I took a knife with me for the purpose, and if her father had come in toy way I should have stabbed him, too." The prisoner repeated to the Bench that it was all owing to his wife's father's conduct. The prisoner, whose hands and clothes were besmeared with the blood of Ilia victim, WM remanded for it week.  A HAPPY Fsensa.—The Bristol llfrrrnry announces that Mr. (;eorge Underfield, varnish manufacturer, of that city, has lately had a daughter born7to him, being the thirty-third child since the battle of Trafalgar, at which he was present. Moscsar.Nr TO