(JTBOK OUB CORMHPONMNT.] LONDON, December 2a CHRISTMAS. The Christmas season passed quietly enough, and mildly enough,f or the days have been quite soft, though somewhat damp. Amusements are now in full swing, panto mimes, theatres, and circuses, and all the Olympics, Crystal Palaces, Ac, are being crowded nightly. The winter is still ahead of us, and we may expect as severe a spring as we had this present year. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER. The extraordinary murder-trial of Kofcerfc Husband, a boy of eleven years, came off at Winchester Assizes last week, and resulted in an acquittal. Th& victim, a boy of eight, named Serle, met his death on November 26th, on a public road, and the first person who gave the alarm wa 3 Husband. He was noticed running away from the scene of the tragedy by a man. Platt, who gave evidence, When Husband caught sight of Platt he at once crossed the road to him, and told him excitedly how there was a "tall man murdering a boy up there." Platt, hand in hand with the lad Husband, arrived at the spot, and found little Serle on the ground bleeding profusely, with a terrible wound in the neck, from which he immediately expired. Husband's story was that he had been standing a little way off, and saw a tall man, "with something lite a light patch on his back/ , murdering Serle, and that he then saw him run away in a certain direction. At first » and-cry was raised to find this , escaped murderer; but at length suspicion, rested on Husband himself, and he was arrested. The evidence against him was purely circumstantial, and was by no means of a convincing nature. The chief point on which the prosecution relied was the fact that the knife with which the deed waa done had been found, smeared with blood, and was believed to belong to the accused. Husband was proved to have been trying to sell such a knife just before; he was also seen by a youthful companion brand- I ishing an open blade, and pretending to be the Whitechapel murderer. This latter incident, however, is one that ia so pain fully common among boy 3 just now that no conclusion can be justly deduced from it. 