News in Brief
A NG HY JUDGE.-Judge lieyes, recently a represenltative to thc American Congress from the State of Vermonit, having been beaten in a law-suit, petitioned the Legislature fora new trial,which waS refused. Indignant at the decision, he went home at the close of the session, and gathered up all his law books, carried them our into the highway, antl in presence of a number of his brother mem- kaers, on their return home, set fire to the pile, and consumcd the whole, intimating at the same time that his library shouid never again be disgracea with any more of the laws of Vermont. MUrDER.-Jantes Devon, accused of murdering his wife, lias been fully conmmitted to take his trial for the atroCious deed. The deed perpetrated is one of singular atrocity, and stand& upon a level with the brutality of Thurtell. The last timc the poor woman was seen alive, she wvas sitting upon a small stool, at a dis- tance from the bed where the corpse was afterwartds found. The stool was found sprinkled with drops of blood. It would appear that the murderer had conme behind her, and, in effecting his horrid hurpose, had drawn the razor rNbliquely upwards with such strength that the windpive was completely severed, by a cut to the depth oi two inches, and the tongue cut completely through near the root ! The sight was Tnost shocking. Whhen told lie was committed to ;ake his trial for the murder, the culprit was greatly agitated.- Glasgow Courier.