Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1868-02-07 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

CRYSTAL PALACE SUNDAY CLOSING.—We are glad to state that the "free Sunday" which the directors of the Crystal Palace have given in all to 112,273 persons during the last seven years are to be discontinued. Four days before the recent ballot of the shareholders on the subject the committee of the Working Men's Lord's DAy Rest Association sent by post to nearly 5,000 shareholders a circular containing important facts and arguments in favour of closing the Palace on Sundays. The result which these circulars helped to bring about is •highly encouraging to the friends of the Sabbath, and was as follows  were despatched for the attendance of a medical man. One arrived speedily, but before he could reach the place the poor infant, whose throat had been out in two places, bad breathed its last, havinz, in fact, bled to death. The wretched mother during these discoveries sat on the bed, and being asked with what weapon she had destroyed her • lisp: ing, she replied that it they looked under the bed they would there find it. A search was accordingly made, and the black-handled knife which i od lieu seen in her baud was there found, with the intuits of fresh blood upon it. The facts, as disclosed by the wituess-s, left no doubt f the :Atilt of the mother, and the jity re...tined a verdict if " Wilful murder against :gory S a ttltott." The coioner iinmediately issued his w errant tic her committal to OloucAter to take her trial at the approaching assizes on the capital charge.  - It Is supposed that the Birmingham police have at last got a clue to the murderers of Miss Millbourne. Three men and a weinan have been arrested on the capital charge—and a fifth personage is wanted. his stated in some of the Scotch papers that Smith, who was apprehended for the fearful outrage at Annan, has confessed the crimes with which he is charged. Mr Webster, Q.C., in a paper read at the Social Science Association, on Monday, stated that the cost of crime in this country was at least between seven and eight millions a year. Estimating the number of criminals at 113,500, and supposing each to abstract on an average £4O a year from the industrial classes, we have to debit crime with £450000), and this does not iuelude any expenses of our police force, or of prosecutions, gaols, and judicial establishments. On Wednesday, a somewhat alarming collieou took place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway near Horbnry. During the morning the engine of a goods train had got off the rails, and it was therefore nesessary to work the traffic upon a single hue A coal train was proceeding sluggishly along near the junction, when the express dashed up at its usual speed. Observing the imminenee of the danger, the drivers of both trains, after reversing their engines and shutting off steam, jumped off, and thus saved themselves. The collision destroyed several carriages, but happily no lives were lost. About a dozen of the passengers were injured, one of them—Mr Howgate, aucatooesr, of Wakefield—severely,  On Monday, a clerk in the cashier's office of the North British Riilway Company, at Edinburgh, was sent to deposit a large sum of money in different banks. He placed in an outside pocket a parcel contailing two £lOO notes, two £lO notPs, and several small notes, intended to be lodged in the Commercial &ink, but on arrivnig at the bank he found, to his great consternation, that the money had disappeared.  Ladies shoal use only the GLENFIELD Sr.tacm, winch never fsii4 to give the most complete saiisfaction. The GLIENFINLD STARCH is exclusively used in the Royal Laundry. and Her Majesty's Laundress pronounces it to be the finest starch she ever used. Prize Medals were awarded for its superiority, and the manufacturers have much pleasure in stating that they have been appointed Starch purveyors to the Princess of Wales. The GLIINFIELD STANG!' is sold in packets only, by all Grocers, Chandlers, &a, &e.  Two public meetings were held on Wednesday in the city of Durham, at which the claims of the Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots for the Northern Counties upon the support of the inhabitants of the county of Durham were ably advocated by Earl Vane, the Bishop of Durham, Dr de Vitre, and other influential gentlemen. Upwards of £5OO was subscribed at the meetings, and there can be no doubt that such a noble institution, the subject of which is the amelioration of the condition of perhaps the most wretched of humanity, will receive the hearty support of those resident in this district.  A very distressing case of suicide formed the snbjeet of inquiry a few days ago, before Mr Rupert Clarke, of Reading, one of the coroners for Berkshire, and a jury, of whom Mr Currant, the ex-Mayor of Maidenhead, acted as foreman. The inquest was held at the School-room, Boyu Hill, upon the body of Henry Scott Greeley, b irrister-at- law, and only son of the Rev. W. Gresley, the incumbent of All Saints, Boyn The deceased was married as recently as the latter part of November last, and only returned from his wedding tour a fortnight since. It transpired that the deceased, in a flt of insanity, had cut his throat.