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TRACKING A MURDERER. Intelligence has reached Glasgow that Thomas Barr, who, on the 1st inst., murdered his mother-in-law, and so brutally attacked his wife that she still lies in a dangerous condition, had been apprehended near Aberdeen, to which town he is supposed to have taken the mail train on the night of the murder. The Dun- dee Advertiser gives the following account of the manner in which, after a hunt and search of some days, he was at last tracked to his lair behind a dylte Two days after the murder a few copies of the bill containing Barr's description were received at the head-office of the county police in Aberdeen, and not till the 7th inst. was a sufficient number obtained to allow of one being sent to each station. The dis- trict constables got their copies on Wednesday, the 8th inst., and it occurred to Constable Black, Bel- helvie, on reading over the bill, that he had met the man wanted on the public road during his perambu. lations on the previous Thursday. He ascertained that the man had got refreshments at a public-house at Tarbothill, some three or four miles from Aber- deen, about half-past seven on the morning of Thursday, March 2nd. He must have travelled northward immediately after the murder was com. mitted, probably arriving in Aberdeen with the ma.il train due at four o'clock on Thursday morning. Barr reached the Lumsden Arms at Balmedie on the Thursday afternoon, and there he asked to be allowed to go to bed. Not being pleased with his appearance the innkeeper did not grant the request, but the stranger was permitted to rest on a sofa or couch for several hours. He re-appeared at Tarbothill public- house on the Saturday night, apparently on his wsy to the city. Major Ross, chief constable of the directed Sergeant Brandie to take up the case IilolJg with Black, and since Saturday last they have pur- sued his track with increasing energy. The man was ever restless, constantly anxions to see newspapers, silent as to where he came from, and eager to know the roads leading beyond where he was. After his rest at the Lumsden Arms on the 2nd inst. he was seen at Ellon the following day but as he failed to get lodgings there he disappeared. As already men- tioned, he had returned southward on the Saturday but it would appear that he was afraid of the city, and had consequently retraced his steps, for he again turned up at Ellon on Monday, when he obtained refreshments at the Buchan Hotel, and asked for a newspaper and a railway time table. Enquiry at the railway station showed he had not taken the train, and so he was conse- qaently looked for further north. Trace was obtained of his moving in the direction of Peter- head, and on Monday night he slept in a house at Bogbrae, parish of Cruden, where he stated that he had not been in a bed for seven nights. He made enquiry as to whether he could get work at Peter. head, and aleo where he could obtain lodgings there and on Tuesday forenoon about eleven o'clock he went in the direction of that town. The same day he reached Boddam, about four miles from Peter- head, and there he obtained employment at the polishing work at Millbank. On his way, however, he had called at several houses asking to see papers. On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nisrhts he lodged in the house of Mrs. Thomson at Boddam, and while there he desired a fellow-lodger to crop his hair, and sought a razor for the purpose of getting himself shaved. Ia these desires he was not success- ful, so that he left the place with hie appearance unaltered. He worked as a labourer at the stone polishing works for two days—Wednesday and Thursday but last Friday morning, without giving warning, and without seeking wages, he left about eight o'clock, all that he had received for his labour being a line from the olerk, by means cf which he obtained food. He had previously been Mkivg about the roads to Fraserburgh and B.mS. A man answerinsr his description was found to have sought work from several farmers on Friday, and to have asked permission to sleep in soma hayloft or barn. These applications were not favour- ably entertained in any case, and Barf proceeded to Longside village, where he stayed all night. On Saturday he sought a job at Cairngall Quarry. It appears that the same day he had also asked work at Gleaugie Saw Mills and at Mill of Bruxie Saw Mills, but waa not successful at either of these places. He returned to Longside, and remained there all Saturday night. On Sunday forenoon he had left Long- side, passed throughMintla," towards New Pitsligo, on which line a road also oomes into Aberdeen. Whether he was uncertain in what way he would proceed or whether his ignorance of the district took him into by-paths is not known; but it appears tha.t he went beyond the junction of the Aberdeen, road without turning itii. that direction, and trace of him was again lost at this point, although up to it the policemen, after starting from their disooveriei at Boddam, were only a few hours behind. On Sunday night Sergeant Brandie and Constable Black rested for some hours at Stuartfi-gld. Starting to work again between three and four o'clock on Monday morning, they went to MintJaw railway station for the purpose of giving warning by wire that they believed Barr was on his way southward. Proceeding through the distriet in quest of the man whose trace they had lost, the officers learned from a travailing post. man that he had seen a person answering the descrip- tion at Bog of Ardallie about three o'clock on Sunday afternoon. He was quickly followed by the police- men, who discovered that he was going again in the direction of Ellon. At Auchteuchries he had gone into a byre early on Sunday night, but was dis- covered by the folks about the farm and turned out. A mile or two further on he had entered another byre, but waa also found there and ordered to leave. All through these wanderings he behaved with great reserve and quietness, never refusing or hesitating to go away from a place when he was told to leave. As Sergeant Brandie became convinced that Ellon was Barr'a destination, and aa ha knew that the district constable there would bo absent, he despatched a telegram from Mintlaw to Mr. Lament, of the New Inn, requesting him to detain the man, about whom he had been fully informed when the constables were at his house on Saturday. At this point of the story a rather curious episode comes in. One of Mr. Lament's boys, who had servod Barr at his father's house a week previously, and had heard about the search for him, while on his way to school on Monday morning notieed Barr on the road, and after speaking to him ran home and told his father. Mr. LA- mont thought the lad had been mistaken. Shortlyafter, however, hii opinion was changed in consequence of receiving the message from Sergeant Brandie, and he at once took a horse and vehicle and a man or two with him and drove along the road on which Barr was believed to be travelling. Having gene further than they considered he could have reachei in the time, Mr. Lamont and his party retraced their way to Eilon, carefully scanning the road to discover whether any person had left it. Snow having fallen during the morning, it enabled the footprints to be easily noticed, ard it was soon observed that a dyke had been crossed about a mile and a half from the village, and inside the dyke, orouchiag among some whins, the man who had been hunted as has been described was literally run to earth. Being asked to come along with his captors, he offered not the slightest resistance, but proceeded quietly, and made no attempt to get away. Shortly after his being brought to Eilon he was taken change of by Constable Birnie, who had been despatched from Mintlaw by Sergeant Brandie with a goods train that passed in the fore- noon-the sergeant himself and Constable Black following up Barr's route on the road, so that in no way should he be missed. These officers reaohed Ellon within two hours after the capture. 0 BY THE BURSTING OF A BOILER on beard one of the Khedive's steamers at Suez twenty-four persons have been killed and several wounded.

TEE GABItlGWES POISONING TRAGEDY. The trial of the Garrigues poisoning case, the chief outlines of which we have already published, is now concluded. Dr. Garrigues, who wag examined by the President of the Court, acknowledged his father never refused him money during his seven years' study for the medical profession in Paris. He professed he had always lived on good terms with his father. It was true he bad married against his father's wish, but that was the latter's fault. It was also true his father had ruined himself to pay his (the prisoner's) expenses in Paris. He denied he had publicly stated he wished to expropriate his .father. He admitted he gave utterance to angry words, but that was all His father had sued him for an alimentary pension of 2000f. a year. It was not his fault if his father suspected his filial sentiments. He admitted en- gaging the servant Issier. He denied this man bore a bad reputation, that he became more master than his father at home, and passed as the lover of his mother. All that was idle-gossip and scandal. He denied saying to his mother and Isaier, after he had been condemned to allow 1;8 father a pension, Can't you get rid of him for me ?" He did not pay any attention to his father's fears of being poisoned he did not think they were sincere, or hia father would not not have remained in the house. Hisfather suffered from eczema., and had been heard to say, alluding to the three prisoners, They failed the first time, but the next time I shall be done for." This was in re- ference to the poisoned eoup. He remembered the CiVft de lievre dinner, but was not aware his mother put some of it aride for his father. It was true nobody was taken ill but his father. He admitted having said that a doctor would never think of using such a common poison as areenis. He protested against the accusation of interfering with the medicine sent in by Dr. Monte £ ja. He was aware that shortly after the funeral the general report in the locality was that his father had been poisoned. He remembered saying that it was very easy to procure arsenic. He could not say whether his father com- mitted suicide. He could not say whether his father was poisoned. He knew nothing. He confessed his mother had conceived a hatred for his father, and often beat him, and exclaimed one day that if she were a man. she would know what to do. On being reminded that his answers were in flagrant contra- diction with his evidence before the examining judge, the prisoner got indignant, and protested that his feelings had been worked on by all kinds of charges said to have been brought against him by his mother, and that great pressure had been brought to bear on him by the arm of the law is order to com- promise all parties concerned in the affair, ihe judge here called him to order, and after some I further unimportant questions the examination of Dr. Garrigues finished. Other witnesses were subsequently examined, and the trial concluded on Monday. Doctor Garrigues and the servant, Issier, and Madame Garrigues were condemned to penal servi- tude for life. The doctor fainted when he heard the sentence, and cried, "Mother mother

ttng COuiitrv The Gam -rraa-t. CURRENT PRICES ..OF BRITISH GRAIN AND FLOUR IN MARK-LANE. SMIlfnga per Quaxtor. WHEAT, Essex and Keats whits new «7 ftae SO „ „ red „ 40 „ 45 Norfolk, Liiiolasli., and Yorkah., red, new — — BARLEY co — Chevalier, new £ 7 4S Grinding ,26 29 ..Distilling 26 29 MALT, pale, new 66 6 L.b:row:n 54 58 RYE g8 40 OATS, English, feed 25 to Potato Scotch, feed.Potato .— — Irish, feed,-wfeite-5 Fine. Ditto, black 36 30 Potato. IjiiiANS, Mazagaa .f 3 3 5. Ticks .37 M Haarow 40 45 .Piareon ;o 45 PEAS, white, boilerE40 41Maple — go — arey. 35 49 FLOUR, per sack of SSOlbs., boat town households R 8 17 Boss country households 87 4c, SforfolV wia Suffolk SO S3 FOREIGN GRAIN. W:H £ AT.Daataic!KaSeC. £ 0 to 64 SLSuigsberg .53 54.. «xtra — 54 Rostock ,43 53,old.= 50 Silesian, red Whit" .— — Pomera., Mectberg.,and IJckermrk.red .46 49 Qhirka 42 Jo«8.Russian,hard 42 to 45 Saxoaslia46 50 Danish and Holstein, red 46 49 .Amenoaf:5 52 Chilian, white 51.Ca.Mor3ia:i 51.Augfcralian .52 54 BARLEY, gTindingS4 to 30.distilling .21 33 OATS, Dutch, brewing and Polajad 23 to 27 feed21 24 Oauigh and Swedish, feed 28 cc 2S.Sfcrateund .2S 26 Canada 2JH> 23, Siga»«0 to ?4^Arch. S 3<x> 26, P'sb*. SH 27 IML; ISTES SI K -DSPK&WO S INDIAN CORN, white 81 31.yeUow .33 34 KIOUI*, per sack, i"rench.00 sacko 00 Amerioaa, perbaysra) 23.«rtra 4 27 t ii tn&iai,'etotwilis to 13s j iia por 'v- naw,» im* te £ 0"-B5 Old, elover seed,fine Fed asd'dark•porple, 90a*sel6Cs? ooTamcc, ?r'< to 7% cQiSaa&ai pet owt. S&a to 2ga { tapes, per ta«hefc'12s a co 14«d} trefoil, old and low, 35s to 45.3; now f(fjt. 85 j to ;5.; (rg&enm, per qr„ 34s ro SSy Uneee^ per sowing, Cfci to 72s crusting, 53b to £ 6J J Unseed cakes, per ton, £ 12 ISs te £13 0s j rapeseed, r>w a* 643 to 70s; rape cake, par ton. 03 15" d to fl7 10* 00. HAY, LOKDC'S,—Supply moderate trade stagnant. Prime meadow bay, 09tfa&S32s inferior ditto, 55a to 75s: prim# olovar, 109s to 150s; iaSEor ditto, S-ss to m j new cloves:, —3 to —«» «nf*sfesr —3! fcs —as »**»*. 85* to 50s per ww- MEAT, METKOPOLHAB.—Moderate supplies of meat. Trade fair, rail prices somewhat firm. Per 81b. by the carcase: Inferior beef, 3g d 'N -3s Cd; middle ditto, Ss ) Od so 4s ld; prime large ditto, Is Pd to 5s Od prime small do., -■ s KM to 5e H veal, 5s Sd so 6s 2d; inferior mutton, 3s 0 d. to 3s &d; middling ditto, 4s 4d to 5s 01; prime ditto, 5s Rd to 6s 4d;Ia.rge pork, -is Od to 4s 6d': small perk, 5s 4d to 6s Od., CATTLE. METBOFOLiTAN.—Nore quietness prevailed in the cattle trade. With fair supplies offering, the demand bus been less active, and quotations barely so firm. Per 81b. to sink the offal-coarse and inferior boosts, 4s 4dto 4s 8d; second quality ditto, 4s I'd to 5s Od; prime large oxen, 5s 6a co sSd; prime Scots, &c..Es fid to 6s I'd; coarse and. inferior sheep, 4s 6d to Es 6d; second quality ditto, 5s 6d so fa r d prime coarse-woolled do., IS d to 7s fd prime Southdown, ditto, 7s.i()d to 7s 4d; large coarse calves, s 6d to 6s 4d prime small ditto, 6s f d to 7s Od; large hogs, 4s.id to 5s Od; qr. store pigs, 08 Od to Os Od; neat small porkers, 5s Od to 5s 4d. GALLANT LIFEBOAT SERVICE S.—DnriBg the heavy gale on the 12th inst., the following good ser- vices were performed by the lifeboats on out coasts A brig and a schooner were seen aahore on the north- west portion of the Goodwin Sands, and the harbour steam-tug and the lifeboat Bradford proceeded to their assistance. The schooner was the Resolute, of Peterhead. Her crew were rescued. Some of the I lifeboat men then waied through the surf at the peril of their lives to the other vessel, which was the brig A. E. M., of Nantes, and brought her crew of eight men to the lifeboat. The fishing vessel Edith, of Lowestoft, having on board a crew of ten men, made for Dover Harbour, but in doing so struck on the Mole Rocks. The lifeboat, Royal Wilt. shire, went to her assistance, and took a hawser from the Edith to the North Pier jHead, and as the tide rose the vessel was hauled into the harbour. The lifeboat Springwell, stationed at Harwich a few weeks since by the National Insti- tution, was called out by signals of distress exhibited from the Cork and Sunk lightships. It was found that a brigantine had been wrecked on the Long Sands, and that the crew had left her in their own boats. The schooner Lion, of Goole, was in distress during the gale. The Broadstairs lifeboat proceeded to her assistance and was fortunately enabled to take the vessel and crew safely into Dover Harbour. The ketch, William Pitt, with two men on board, was ob- served to be in distress off Bournemouth Pier, In. telligence was sent by telegraph to Poole, the nearest lifeboat station, and the Manley Wood lifeboat pro- ceeded out with all dispatch through a very heavy sea and rescued one of the men. The other had been saved. from ',the shore by means of a lifebuoy there.

T T, T, %,r "r MEAT -7-4 PRACTICES. Two or three weeks ago, it may be reeclleutfd, a case relative to iho non delivery of meat in proper fame at the Central Meat Market was heard at the City of London Court, and Mr. Commissioner Kerr took oecasion to remark tha.t at that market supplies passed through several hands before they reached the consumers, and therefore there were several profits, which necessarily the public hai to pay. As might naturally be ^expected, this statement arrested the attention of the salesmen, and one of their" number defended them at considerable Isrgth in a letter addressed to ua and inserted in our columns— the letter having, it was alleged, the endorsement of the committee of the London Central Meat and Poultry Market- Association. The assertion that the meat passed itrcugh several hands was combated, and the writer asserted Utat the salesmen were willing to do bv.:i:o»s on tas pro- spects of but gmali proportionate prcfics. or to use a I meat-market phrase, off the point of a npecie." The case was adjourned, and its resumption this week, as reported in another column, gave the learned commissioner an opportunity of referring to the cor- respondence, and of saying that the meat had to bear two or three profits, and that he had had actions in respect to the eub-letting the space in the market over aL d over again in tha.t court. Apart from the arguments brought forward as bearing upon ike par- ticular case, the report certainly contains some infor- mation with regard to the conduct of business in the market, which the public will read with considerable interest, and by no meaEg ERaIioyed satisfaction. To say nothing about the duplicate bock-keeping mentioned by a witness, it is not a little surprising to learn that a salesman somet.imes returns to the consignor more mensy for mbat; sent to the market than it actually fetches, anq that in one week the loss to a salesman by such transactions amounted to no less than .£40! Mr. Commissioner Kerr (having possibly in his mind the old story of the tradesman who deolared that he lest upon every article cf a certain kind, and explained that he lived only • upon the very large number he disposed of) naturally inquired hsw a s&Ie&m&n could exist under such circumstances ? and he was told that the commission was so great—some- times a hundred pcunda a-week—ard the salesman recouped himself out- of that. Just' so • and ulti- mately the public would have to recoup him. Mr. Commissioner Kerr rightly des.cribed it as a bread- and-butter question!—a momentous one." And truly it is, especially at the present time, when meat ig exorbitantly dear. Doubtless consignors would throw considerable light upon the subject it they were inclined to speak cut. It is pratty obvious that middlemen—not in the meat- trade alone—rule the markets with considerable tightness.— City Press.

THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE. TEE CREWS. The Oxford and Cambridge crew a appeared OIl Monday afternoon fo? the fits j time on the Thames to finish their preparation for the annual contest, which will be rowed on Saturday, the 8;ho £ April, between OEe and two o'clock in the afternoon. The following are the names tin' weights of the Oxford crew st. lb. 1. F R. Courtney, Pembroke 11 5 2. W. Mercer, Corpus 11 8 3. P. Williams, Corpus. 12 6 4. A. M, Mitchiscn, Pembroke 13 6 5. J. M. Boustead, University 12 8 6. H. J. Stsyner, St. John's 12 9 7. H P. Marriott, Brasenose. 12 2. sp T. C. Edwards Mogs, Brasenose (st.) 12 6 W. I). Craves,Worcester (ecx.) -7 10 There has been an important alteration in the Oxford crew, No. 7 (WilhamB, of Ccrous)- having changed places with Nc. 3 (Marriott, cf BrafElloHo). This change has improved the beat considi. r t, and there is now more uniformity and a Iittlf 1 c pace, but exception may still be taken to tha T t of No. 3. The Cambridge crew remains the same es it has been for the last fortnight., and is composed of the following oarsmen st. Ib. 1. P. W. Brancker, Jesus 11 9 2. T. W. La wis, Caius 11 11 3, W. B. Close, First Trinity 11 11 4. C. Garden, Jesus 12 10 5. L. G. Pike, Caius 12 9 6. T E. Hockin, Jesus >it 12 10 7. H. E. Rhodes, Jesus 12 3 C. D. Shafto, Jesss (stroke) 12 2 G. L Davis, Clare (eox.) 7 0 On Monday week the new boat built; by Searle was ready for the crew, and they were soon at heme in her. She seems to suit them well, and the different oarsmen were able to get at their work very much better than in the old boat in which they bad been, previously practising.

THE GEE AT BELGIUM BANK FRAUDS. At Bow-street Eugene Kmt. was charged, under the Extradition Act?, before Sir Thomas Henry, with larceny from the Binqus de B^JgiqiTe to the ainornt of between six and seven mil-ions of francs. Mr. Albert interpreted. The prisoner was brought to the court in custody of Chief Inspector D.u»eovich and Sergeant A Marchand.of Scotland-yard. Chi;-f Con- stable Mahr, of QaeeEgtown, proved that he arrested the prisoner in consequence of telegrams he had received from Superintendent Williamson, or Scot- land-yard, on board tha City of Paris, bound for New York. He wag accompanied by two females, one of whom he was authorised to arrest by a tele- gram from the Public Prosecutor at B.rufsels. Witness was also told to take all jewel"1, & from the prisoner and his mistress (the woman with him). Tko woman was arrested and taken before the local meg ♦>-a»e, who, upon representation;made by the BeJgis'n C n- sul, allowed her to be discharged. Witness rt no d a. list of bonds and ether valuable docume <- d on the prisoner. Prisoner, tbrorgh the interpreter, objected to the word on." He said they were sot found in his possession. They were belosgrg to the lad- that was with him. Prisoner esic all he wished was to so back to his country to justify himself. The Belgian officer g-aid prisoner would be charged with forgery. Sir Thomas ssid is that case he must be c"imed ior that. At rjreseat he was o^Iy claimed for larceny, and if he was surrendered only for that. he could not be tried for any other offence. It would therefore be better to remand him a week to aseer, tain whether the Belgian Government wished to claim him for forgery as well. 41 HIGHWAY ROBBERY. A. highway robbery wa3 committed at Haslemere on Saturday nignt. Mr. Charles Lawrence, a lima merchant, was pro- eeedirg to his residence, which is situated not far from the town, shortly after ten o clock, when he was met in a secluded part of the road by two mpn, 'vlia called upon him to deliver up his money and his watch, and on his declining to do so struck him osi the head with a life preserver fcnd knocked him down. While on the ground he was kicked about the head and face and rendered k sensible The luffians then rifled Ms pockets ot their contents which amounted to scmepounds in gold and kilver, and also took his watch and gold chain. Mr. Lawrence was subsequenlly found bleeding by a labouring man, who procured assistance and con- veyed him bsck to Haslemere. Here he was attended by a surgeon, and in a shPItEme recovered suffi- ciently to give an account of the outrage. He will be able to identify his assailants.