... rIMPOiRTANT APP1EAL CASE. An appeal case (Dowding v. Duncan) oa con- Ttv siderable importance to Erieudly Societies hold- dea iug their moeciugs on licensed premiersa was a ti heard in the Queeu's Bench Division, on Monday, wa3 before Justices Cave and Lawrence. At Bristol Pel Jr. some time since the police claimed the right of 2t ye entering a room at the Victoria public-house was ug in ...

... MY' I YSTEP BROUS CASE. 1,haia just coma irn from a. ease, one Stormy 1mi Dzcember cevemii- and, having taken off MoY Wet ha' thinggs, settled !luxuriously ini an arm-chafir inl yu frontcof the blazing- Ere, Nith a book, conlgratti- ho Istlug yefthat I should not have, to turn. out vel again that nlight, when I was startledl by a loud fat kuw~lc at the front door, and presently heatrd a v I. ...

... Ithe FOB ALLEGED SHOPBPSAKLNG. th A recent case of rhop-breaking in Southamp- ec ton occupied the attention of the Southampton W( Borough Bench on -Monday. .An inteliigent- A lookinsg young man, named William Harvey. a (L 7telicl cdeBigner, of Beck-street, Portsea, was thb charged with breaking and entering Mlessrs. (Ci Webb's Oxrford-street establishment aud stealing sin therefrom a quantity ...

... HORRTIBLE CRUELTY. MIILTON W1almN SENT TO PRISON. At Portsmouth Police-court yesterday, before Alderineil Sir . D. Kin'g, I. nMarvin, and W. Ward, John Shergold, a general dealer, living at 29, Oxford-street. Landpoit, was summoned on the information of Inspector Stanbridge, Royal Society for the Preventiou of Cruelty to Animals. for ?? a larmb between June 28th. and Jully 5th. Mr. E. J. ...

... E AIN EX'1RAORIWINAUY STORY, Mie In the Divorce D'visieon, on wedniesduy, M'r 6 .Alfred H. Giles, a paymascer in tile Rtoyal ~'1Xvv,(a residing att Plymouth, vtitioued for it divorce- cii is Irn - ouhds of his wite 's alleged adultery, with at LI LI peso 'iuuo .The tesponldat donied thu to aIW kv C~ou nszel stated thlit dlep. v ltles were niarricil in t te188,3, aind hadl had thi-LI clildr-i. ...

... HANTS ASSREES UrTRAL AT WVECHESTER. r- The UIants Summer Assizes wer-e continued this week iat Winchester, before Justices Law- rance nud Kennedy. rs, SATUR4DAY, THE SOUTHSEA SHOOTING CASE. Howaid Griflith8, 30, deecribed as a shop assistant, was indicted on a chargc of feloniously shooting at his wife, Amy Florence Griiths, the proprietress of the Albemarlo Boarding-house, Southeea, with ...

... ;o They say that misery loves company, and they have had it so often it has passed into a proverb. Yet it isn't an all-round truth. Some kinds of misery detest company. They want to be left alone. They hate to be elbowed and questioned and talked to. A wounded dog will always crawl into some e retired place by itself Tho instinct of badly injured ' men, after a hattie, IS the same. A ilments ...

... HANTS ASIST7.p.5 Thbe Auturan Assizes for the Coucyv ?? ampton were opened at the Castle of E in ia on Wedneeday by Mr Justice Day i. 'I'er in all ?? caeed in the cNIeCda-, but , few were of local initerest. Amoijg the jinportantt cases were those of William 8ea as Naval st~oker, indicted lor the man itsracet ?? Sarah iakley at Alversoe o thealat'ilgter ot tend George' Jamea .8Okesmn 22, ...

... TIIRE COANR COUIJT. INQUESTS AT PORTSMOUTH. Two inquests were held at the Town' Hall on IMondayafternoon, beforb the Borough Corouex D.(r. T. A. Bramledon, ?? lea SUFFOCATED .AT SOUTHlEA. , The first r]sated to the death- of Fr~deriolF J. Robert 'John iarding; aged 30, fancyand general i dealer, qf 35, mid Froold, outhseq.-; mI4 quiia liirdmg, Widow of the 4ecemstl, Eid that up to Jnne last, ? ...

... i- C r, BJUCKLAND PUBLICAN IN THEc of POLICE COURT. iC, . - . 1 1 A SUCCESSFUL DEFENCE. At the Portsmouth Police Courton Wednebday, before Mr. A. W. White and General Catt-, Frederick Cruse, landlord of the Binsteed Arms beerhouse, Bineteed-road, Bucklaud, vaa summoned by the police for permitting druuteu- ness on his licensed premises.-Mr. A. T. Prickett, Chief Constable, prosecuted, and Ir ...

... LAUaBITER IN COURT. in MagFistrate: Y our wtife ifi on the way to bail| Prisoner (itnplorinzglyJ: F'r Heavea's sake,| Judge, seud tue to gaol. 't a His Honour: Young ana do you appreciate ?? soleranity of san oath; a'o you kuow what a ne Boy: Ye-es. eir. I caddied for you last Sunday.i ser In a case heard recently in the Court os^ Session, on- Edinburgh, an artis~t was giving evidence, wheu IY ...

... Three inquests were held at the Town Hall on Monday, before the Borough Coroner (Ar. T. A. Bramsdon, J P.) FAT.AL SLIP ON THE EERB. The first inquiry related to the death of Eliza- beth Hughes, aged 68, the wife of a Naval De pensioner living at No 6, Little Hambrook- X4 screet, Southsea.-It apoeared that on the after- e noon of Saturday, February 11th, deceased was ge crossing Little ...