... TIOE COURT THE Queen, Princess Louise, and Princess Beatrice left Balmoral on the i7th, where they had been staying since the i9th ult. The Royal train stopped at Perth for an hour, and the Queen and Princesses were received and welcomed by Lord Kinnaird. Lord Lieutenant of Perth- shire, the city authorities, and a large number of the in- habitants. After dining at the station, the Royal party ...

... THE coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death in the case of four of the men killed by the explosion at Waltham Abbey Mills. Some idea of the dangerous nature of the employment may be gathered from the evi- dence of Mr. Abel, chemist, who stated that a particle of grit carried in a man's hair or beard from a dusty road, getting among the powder might cause the generation of a spark ...

... LEGA.L AND POLICE NEWS To be fond of pastry ir plies an innocent, indeed almost a childlike taste, which one would scarcely attribute to professional thieves. Yet a gang of these gentlemen known as Free Livers appear to be in the habit of entering con- fectioners shops in Lambeth, eating their fill, and when askecd for payment, assaulting the unlucky tradesmen. One of them has been caught, ...

... L -PI N LECAL AND POLICE NEWS ONE of the Fenians sentenced to penal servitude for life for being concerned in the murder of Sergeant Brett at Manchester, has just died of consumption in the Portland Convict Prison. He was nursed by the convict William Roupell, ex-M.P. for Lambeth, who gave evidence at the inquest as to his treatment, and expressed his satisfac- tion regarding it. ONE would ...

... IRELAND.-The Land Vill has gone out like a lamb. ,Nfr. Gladstone has a, pted all the more important of the Lords' amendment5S while rejecting several changes of merc detail. The scale of compensation is restored. The duration of the lease, which is to bar the oneration f t Bill, has been restored to thirty-one years, But thi eadded Clauses against assignment without leaky, Erinst sub- fetting ...

... LEGAL ANVD POL.ICE NEWJVS Amr Stourbridge, a boy of fourteen was charged upon his ovin confession, with having drowned his sister, a child if eight. They had been fishing, when he grew angry becau.se sbelet some of the fish go, and he pushed her into the water. It has since been ascertained that the boy's story is untru-e the girl having been found alive. The magistrates have discharged the ...

... -; 51 a M'TI.AR, the Chelsea murderer, has been con- nu old setrenced to death. The case will be fresh in n -iories of our readers He killed the Rev. Mr. a o'd man of 84, and buried the body in a hole ba biorelhand. lie tbenkilled Mr. Huelin'shouse- ytrs. Buos, put her body into a box, and hired a atin Vm(Imd Piper to take it away; Piper seeing blood i o'm t1he box, suspected something wrong, ...

... THE affair between Majors Kane and Gordon has been amicably settled. As the former gentleman apologised, and expressed a hope that the public would consider his loss of temper as alone the cause of the disturbance, no evidence was offered against him, and the jury, under the direction of the judge, returned a verdict of not guilty. 'T HE charge against Dr. Steele, of Guy's Hospital, for ...

... LEGAL AND POllIE NVEWS AN affectirg story of honesty under extreme temptation has been told in a letter to a contemporary The writer lost his pocketabook, containing a large sum in bank-notesj and it was returned to him by a poor, ragged man, who, upon being rewarded, declared the donor to be a genT- man all up his back. The gentleman considers it an almost unparalleled instance of honesty, ...

... STAINES BRIDGE is shortly to be opened free, the pro- prietors receiving 2o, 25 . compensation from the Londor. Corporation and the Metropolitan Board of Works. A CURIOUs case was decided at ?? Pert!' L sions last week. A member of a curl:n I c . . his family crest in his bonnet at a inach, r Ls c :. . to pay the license for armerial btarntn- ?? * justices decided that he was not liable, ut II ...

... IN the case of Lee, the potman, at Kensington, the coroner's jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against some persons unknown. After the inquest an invalid gentleman, who on the day of the murder had been wheeled in a Bath chair opposite the Drayton Arms public house, said that he had seen two men coming from the direction of Glenhow Gardens, one of them being covered with blood, ...

... MR. ROBERT KARSON BOWLEY, who has been Manager bf the Crystal Palace Company for 14 years past,committed suicide last week by jumping from a ?? steamboat. He had been unwell for some time past, and the anxieties of business seem to have affected his mind. Verdict, tempo- rary insanity. Mr. Bowley's loss will be felt both by the Company and the public.. He was full of energy, and possessed in a ...