Widnes Examiner. — 1882-08-05 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BOO. For this sum Marshall gave a promissory note. Subsequently Hall's aunt issued-a writ against him for about £6,000, and as part payment he handed to her Marshall's promissory note. Marshall, however, then went to Hall, and told him that if his mother, from whom he expected money, got to know about his betting transactions, she would cut him off with a shilling, and Hall, at Marshall's request, and with his aunt's knowledge, wrote to a firm of solicitors telling them to give up the note, as it was for " racing debts." Hall, however, maintained that he only consented to the note being destroyed on a promise that the money would be paid at some future time, but he admitted that he never thought of bringing his action until he was "hard up." His consent to the destruction of the note was, however, fatal to his present claim, and on the judge's direction the jury gave a verdict in Marshall's favour. This seems rather bard upon Hall, who now has to pay stiffly for sparing Marsbail from motherly censure.  On Wednesday evening, the Liverpool and Manchester express, wlwn piecing Leamington, killed one of three boys who were playinc, on the line. A conference of London and provincial letter carriers was held in London on Saturday, to take into consideration the new scheme of payment and regulations. Resolutions expressing dissatisfaction were unanimously adopted. The tlial of Richard George Wells for the murder of John Carlyle, at Fulham, in May last, was resumed at the Central Criminal Court, on Wednesday, when the prisoner was convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to penal servitude for life.  A man named Freer was remanded at Burton-on-Trent on Wednesday, on a charge of atlempted suicide by jumping into the Trent. the defendant said he was an Army Reserve man, and rather than light in Egypt he tried to drown himself.  Wednesday was the anniversary of Blenheim, which was fought between Marlborough, aided by Prince Eugene of Germany, and the French and Bavarians under Marshal Tallard, when the latter were defeated with a loss of 40,000 men killed, wounded, and taken prisoners, 120 pieces of cannon, and 300 standards. An Inverness telegram says that grouse disease has reappeared in the North, and in an aggravated form. The distemper is only scotched, not killed, and is now assuming alarming proportions. There is a lamentable account from some of the best moors in Ross-shire. The Board of Trade report of the inyertigation into the disastrous collision between the Douro and the Yrurac Bat states that the accident appears to be attributable to the Douro, in not having taken proper precautions; but praises the officers and crew for the subsequent action. The Home Secretary has commuted the capital sentence on William Bradburn, for the double murder at Farnworth, to penal servitnde for life. It will be remembered that the jury who convicted the prisoner recommended him to mercy on the ground of his former unsoundness of mind. The Bishop of Salisbury has stated that he has placed what threatened to be a serious charge in the hands of the public prosecutor. The parish register has been found to be mutilated, several leaves having been cut out, the very leaves which were wanted in an important investigation.