Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1869-02-12 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

BOY MURDERED BY HIS COMPANION.---An extraordinary murder has just been committed near Digne, France, by a lad named Sorel, 17. on a boy named Morard, aged 14, both of whom were shepherds. While minding their flocks together they were accustomed to play at chuckpenny, and on the day in question the younger had won 50 centimes. The other paid the money, but a quarrel having arisen shortly afterwards about a previous debt of two sou., Bore' left the spot great:y irritated, and shortly afterwards crept stealthily behind Morard, and stunned him by • blow on the head with a large stone, and then beat out his brains with the same, and afterwards carried the body a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile to throw it into a reservoir. The young criminal then washed the blood from his hands and face, and returning home with his sheep, ate his supper as usual. The corpse was fouod on the following day, and Bore), who had been arrested in consequence of information of the quarrel given by'another shepherd, afterwards confessed his guile.  Police-constable Joseph Gelks, one of the new Oxford police force, met with his death on Friday . night. Being in the Friars, 'where there was a crowd assembled. he endeavoured to clear the pathway, and was assailed by a married woman named Cox, wife of a tailor, who struck bins a heavy blow on the back part of the head with a platter, thereby inflicting a severe wound, and rendering him senseless. lie fell down, and was then struck by several persons. Upon getting up, partly insensible, he ran away, the crowd following him, and as it was dark (a quarter. past eight o'clock) he could not see where he was going, and rushed into tt.e Ibis, which runs at the bottom of the Friars, and was drowned. The body was not recovered until near eleven o'clock. The occurrence has created the greatest excitement in Oxford. The deceased was a steady young man, twenty-two years of age, and had formerly been in the metropolitan force. The New York papers publish the full text of the treaty for the settlement of the Alabama claims, signed in L ,ndon on the 14th ult., ty Lord Clarendon and Mr Reverdy Johnson. It consists of seven articles, and its principal provisions are that two commissioners shall he appointed by each government to examine and decide upon the claims submitted to them, and that before proceeding to any, other business they shall name some person to act as arbitrator in cases where they themselves may differ in opinion. If they cannot agree in their choice of this aroitrator, he is to be selected by lot every time occasion may arise for his services. Should they fail to agree in opinion upon any case submitted to them, it must be referred to such arbitrator 88 they may choose, and he will decide upon it finally and without appeal. The commisioners are bound to examine and decide upon every claim within two years from the day of their first meeting, wSich is to be held in Washington. All sums of money which they may award are to be paid within eighteeu months of the date of the decision, without interest. The advice. received by the United States mail on Saturday do not give touch promise of an early s-ttlement of the Alabama question. According to the Tribune and the Titers Geueral Grant has expressed himself strongly against the treaty. He declares it to be unjust to the Uuited States, because it assumes to measure the injury inflicted by the money value of the ships actually destroyed, whereas the chief damage was the damage done to American commerce by her ships being driven from the seas by Anglo-rebel pirates. Further, he says that the sympathy of England to the South prolonged the war at least a year, and for the lives lost and the money thus spent England is directly responsible. The Tribune- says that the treaty negociated by Mr Reverdy Johnson never had the ghost of a ;thanes to pass the Senate, and adds that General Grant expresses the almost universal feeling of the American people. If this really be so, then there is indeed but a very shadowy prospect of any settlement , of this long pending dispute. AN