... CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-Charles Alfred Rickaby, described as an accountant, but who is well known as the notorious blind swindler who has carried on a most exten- sive system of plunder upon the public for a great many years, was found guilty on Monday on several charges of fraud and for- gery. In one of these charges, his son James, and a man named Cox were associated, and they also were ...

... Webrieflvstatedn last week's'Examiner' Ihataninquestbadbeen held on tbe 7h inst. at Leeds, on the body of Mrs Harriet Dove, aged twenty-eight, the wife of Mr William Dove, a person of independent means, residing in Cardigan place, Buriev, near Leeds, whose death had been caused by poisoning by strychnine, We add to the report already given, some further details of the evidence adduced on the ...

... WEDNESDAY.-The board of general officers held their twentieth sitting at Chelsea Hospital this day, all the members being present. At the opening of the proceedings the Judge Advocate stated that a summons had been sent to Sir J. M'Neill to attend, and a reply had been received, in which he stated that he was too unwell to be able to attend. 1 Buz, he added, even if that obstacle had not ...

... BELIEF TN WTITocArCTa-James Tunnieliffe, the keeper of a beer- shop called the Royal Oak, at Thornley lane, near Newborough, in this county, was tried at the Stafford Assizes, on Monday, for obtaining divers stuns of money, amounting in all to about 301., from Thomas Charlesworth, by false pretcnces-viZ., by falsely pretending that the prosecutur, his wife, child, eattle, horses, goods, and ...

... CHELMSFORD, JsLY l5th.- THE RIVENHALL MURDsR.- Charles Finch, aged twenty-six, a sullen, determined-loolking young man, was charged with the wilful murder of Harriet Freeborn by cutting her throat at the parish of Rivenhall, on the 24th of May. The prisoner was a labouring man, belonging to Rivenhall, and during the Russian war he entered the Land Trans- port Corps, and was employed in the ...

... BOLLS COURT. Sweersri v. Swi1ePESN-The Master on Wednesday gave judg- ment on an application for a new trial in this suit. The whole case turned upon the question whether, at the time he made the will, old Mr. Swinfen was in a fit state of mind. The jury who tried the case found a verdict for the defendant, Mrs. Swinfen. His Honour said that upon a careful consideration of the whole of the ...

... COLLISION ON TrEO LONDON AND NOROTIT WESTERN RAILWAY. - A collision of a fatal character took place on Saturday evening on the line of the London and North Western Railway, at Weedon, by which one per- son was killed and nearly all the passengers more or less injured, and a great destruction of property caused. It. appears that the four o'clock train from Rugby, due in London at half past ...

... I ASSIZE, INTELLIGENCE. ' HOME CIRCUIT. - CROYDON, AuGusr 12. - ANOTHER CASE OF HEAVY DAMAGES AGAINST A RAILWAY CCOMPANY.-Hitch v. the London and Brighton RailwaY Company.-This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover damages for injuries he had sustained through the alleged negligence of the defendants. The circumstances: under which the action was brought were of rather a peculiar ...

... SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIDENT.-The Barnsley branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway is crossed at Crigglestone, on a dead level, by the high-road. A watchman is consequently obliged to be located at this portion of the line in order to keep the gates closed against the high-road traffic when any trains are due. On Saturday afternoon this watchman was not at his post, and while absent from ...

... ASSIZE INTELLIGjENCE. I my - - Tba ROWssSTAR. MURD21R.-At Maidstone, yesterday Beek, Elizabeth Avis Laws, eighteen years of age, and of a remarkably girlish appearance, was indicted for the murder of her ulistres, Catherine Bacon. There was also a charge of stealing property belonging to the deceased. The following were the principal points in the evidence.-H. Baggett, a milk wvoman took Some ...

... MELANCliOLY SUIcIDE.-Mr E. T. Crisp, son of the Rev. T. Crisp, XLA., principal ofthe Baptist College, Stokes Croft, in Bristol, put a period to his existence by hanginghimnself to a nail in his bed. room on the 2nd inst. The deceased, whp was twenty-eight years of age and umarried, emigrated some years since to Australia, in which colony he remained for about twelve months. He was always a ...

... L AW. LIEN ON A SHIP.-T aHE BRITISH EMPIaE SHIPPrIO CO11rxxNY V. SOMsaS BROTHERS -In the Court of Queen's Bench, on the 26th ult., judgment was given in this case, which is one of great importance to shipowners. It was a special case for the opinion of the Court, and the question was whether the defendants were entitled to retain 5671., charged by them, and which had been paid to them ...