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FRANCE AND ITALY.

FRANCE.

SARDINIA.

THE SEW KING.

ITALY.

GERMANY.

PRUSSIA.

FRANKFORT.

ROME.

NAPLES AND SICILY.

DENMARK.

TURKEY.

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DEFEAT OF THE SIKH ARMY. ;

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DESTRUCTION OF THE OLYMPIC…

MURDERS IN LIVERPOOL.

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MURDERS IN LIVERPOOL. A universal feeling of horror-was produced in Liverpool, on Wednesday, by the intelligence that a whole family had been murdered under circumstances of unparalleled atrocity. The victims of this inhuman crime are a mother, two chil- dren, and a female servant. Both the children are already dead, and the mother is so dreadfully injured as to render recovery almost impossible. The servant, though in a most dangerous state, may possibly recover, though even that is very doubtful. The person who is suspected to have committed these in. human crimes was a lodger in the house, but had only come there the day before. The house where the murder has been committed was in the occupation of the wife and family of Captain Henrickson, of the ship Duncan, belonging ,to Messrs. James Aikin and Son, who is at present with his ship at Calcutta. In the forenoon, Mrs. Henrickson left her house for the purpose of purchasing a few articles, including some pota- toes, which were sent home by the boy. The front door was opened by a man, who received the potatoes, emptied tha basket, and returned it to the boy. A short time afterwards, some parties in front of the house heard loud groanings. The noises continuing, several persons collected, and at last it was determined to effect an entrance. Upon the parlour window being broken, a horrible sight presented itself,- three bodies, two females and a child, being extended on the floor, encircled with pools of blood, their skulls and faces smashed in the most frightful manner. On the forehead of Mrs. Henrickson there had been a dreadful blow inflicted, the forehead being laid open a depth of two or three inches, and there were also several deep wounds on other parts of her head and face. The servant had also received similar wounds 011 her head and face, as also severe blows about her eyes, both of which were black and swollen up. The body of Mrs. Henrickson's eldest child also presented a most dreadful appearance. The poor little creature's head seemed to have been beaten to a jelly. The murderer had decamped, he washed his hands in one of the bedrooms up stairs, leaving traces of blood on the towel. It appears that in the afternoon the servant girl was to some extent brought to a state of consciousness. Her state- ment is, that on Tuesday afternoon a man came and took apartments in the house. Nothing was previously known of him. On Wednesday morning, after Mrs. Henrickson went out, this man struck one of the children, the eldest boy, when the servant girl interfered, and told him that her mistress would not allow the children to be beaten. Upon that he became much excited, and struck at her with a poker several times; after knocking her down, he made an attack upun the eldest boy, whom he treated in a similar manner, and then, it is supposed, he must have ran after the youngest hild, pursued it to the kitchen, and cut its throat there with the knife which was found lying near it. Having thus far proceeded in his work of human butchery, he seems to have awaited the arrival of Mrs. Henrickson, whom he attacked, it is supposed, with one of the pokers, and beat her until she was reduced to a state of insensibility. The prisoner was again brought up on Saturday for further examination, before the Mayor and Mr. llushton. The new evidence adduced was that of Jacob Samuel a hairdresser, who shaved him on Wednesday evening, and who noticed blood 011 his wrist. The prisoner spoke to him about buying a wig, and also about the cost of a passage to New York. George Moore, a pawnbroker's assistant, also identified him as the man who had offered to pledge the gold watch produced (Mrs. Henrickson's). At the close of the proceedings the prisoner was fully committed for trial.

DEATH OF MRS. HENRICKSON.…

THE INQUEST.

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