THE ENGLISH MAIL.

Evening Star, Issue 3410, 26 January 1874, Page 3

THE ENGLISH MAIL.

William Tweed, ot Tammany Ring celeprity, has been convicted of embezzlement in the Mew York Tammany frauds, and sentenced to twelve years’ imprisonment and a ;fioe ot 12,’OOQdol. •, •. ( -- . The • Pogres du Nord’ (Belgium) .spates that m a village of Belgium an atrocious enme has been committed., A young girl in service at Brussels had saved a little fortune of 1,800 francs. Hearing her mother was illand reqtiirtd her carp, she left for home by rail, aud had to alight a league distance therefrom. To reach her destination she would have to pass a wood, and .fearing the dangers on the way she resolved to pass the night at the house of an uncle who lived near. She then knocked up her relations, aud having told her story aud her fears, was put into the room of her female cousin', who was out at work.. While lying awake she overheard a conversation which filled her with horror. Her hosts were planning to murder her, for her Thereupon she leaped from the window and fled, halfnaked, until, utterly exhausted, she met twb gendarmes. After she had told them what bad , happened, they led her back to her unde s house, where a light was observed in a distant part of the garden. The gendarmes approached the spot silently, and found that b.*th the uncle aud aunt were engaged burying a body wrapped in a blood stained cloth'. Ibe cloth was suddenly snatched away, and the murderers uttered a common cry of terror. The victim was their daughter, who naymg come home late, had crept upstairs quietly so as not to alarm her parents, and had been killed in mistake for her cousin The aunt went mad forthwith, and the uncle stabbed himself from remorse and dread of the consequences of his crime.