The Forest of Dean Examiner : — 1876-09-15 (Blakeney, Gloucestershire, England)

TIINOI,II LONT.—On Monday a young lady, of Hereford, named Miss Nicholls, of independent means, 24 years of age, and extremely good : looking, committed suicide by nearly severing her bead from her body. The enure of tbis act is believed to be her mother's objecting to her associating with a young MEM to whom she was engaged. Mr. W. B. P diner, landlord of the Cricketers' Arms ; Inn, Ipswich, district eecretary of the Ipswich and Suffolk Licensed Victuallers' Proteetion Association, I threw himself in frost of the down train ou Montleiy, I between Ipswich and Westerfield, and was eo hoeribty maimed sob, cause almost instant death. Deaased, who was much reepected, was about 50 years of age, and leaves a widow and family. A M4IIIIINTI WONIAN'N Elmaistai.—Mre. Ellep Maria Barnett, better known by her theatrical name of "Miss Belly Power,' applied on Saturday to the magistrate at the Clerkenwell Police Court for an order, under the provisions of the Divorce and Megriusonial Cans Act., protecting her warnings against her husband, by whom, ae she alleged, she had been deserted. Mr. Cooke granted the application, and directed her to get the order registered in the County Court, to ensure its validity. 8111/eNINII Monday, at Alcester Polien Court, William Four, need:co:lkm was charged with shooting Mee. Davis, a labourer', wife, at Inkberror. When returning home prisoner met prosecutrix in a country lane, and, it Is alleged, shot her thrice with a revolver. 'fwe belle s took effect in her back and cheek. The parties mere comparative strangers, and prisoner's alleged conduct I. inexplicable. The proseeutrix being too seriously ill to appear, the prisoner was remanded. No doubt remains that the falling of the arch, on the extension works of the 3letropolitan Railway, on the nth inst., was caused by the quantity of wet eorth that had been emptied upon a new arch on the • previous day. The bulk of the arch was keyed in on the 4th inst., and on the sth 30 tons of earth were poured upon one side of it—the side which gave way. ' Three facts were tooted in evidence at the inquest On Saturday on the four men who were killed. The 007 returned a verdict of "Accidental death." St rie IN Ciierm—A desperate woman of middle oge. named Kate Morrisey, was charged at the Northern Police Court. Dublin, on Saturday, with having been drunk and disorderly, and on being eentenoed to a tine of 10. or seven days' itnprisonment, she produced an empty porter bottle, sprang at the constable who arrested her, and struck him a violent blow on the temple. The injured man, nearly rendered loses' sible by the wound, staggered 001 0! the dock with the blood dreaming over hie face. The woman was then sent for trial. • The Quern has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Sir Colin Bleckburn (one of her Majesty's judge.), and the lord Advocate of Scotland, to be Lords of Appeal under the new Judi., ore Act. Ono of these high offioes was offered to the two chiefs of the Scotch courts, the Right Hon. John Inglis and Lord Moncrieff. but declined. The primary judge* who will be transferred, by e'en manual, to the biter. mediate Court of Ape/eal, are Mr. Baron Bramwell. Mr. Justioe Brett, and Mr. Boron Ampidett.