... A CURIOUS case has just been decided in the Divorce Court The wife (whose income is nearly 2,000!.ayear)C: refusing to live with her husband, a -petition was brougbt -r by him for restitntion of: conjugal rights, the lady's own, brothers supplying him with. funds for the purpose. The respondent allegedcuelty, and asked, for a judicial separa-. tihe. The petitioner being admittd6 as a witness ...

... LEGAL AND POLICE NEWS THE Master of the Rolls has now under consideration tfe question whether Mr. M. Abrahams ought to be struck off the roll of solicitors for accepting 500a. from a Mr. Suche, as an acknowledgment of the fair manner in which he, as solicitor of the Contract Corporation, had conducted their opposition to his claims for io,oool., in which Mr. Suche succeeded. It appeared that ...

... LEGA;:4L AeVDb:POLICE NETS. . IG mvonIn, an inmate of a lunatic ?? tin 1 e- ecaped a few e enings.since, and being under K `tdUcination that her sweetteart was eniploxed at a; s station, actually walked fifteen miles along the: search of him being captued the ?? IILrrngil; * -,?ddmr by one of the railway officials. V e tler (lV a foolish fellmw amused himself by Bi,4t11b a number of crackers ...

... THP trial of the Shrewsbury Election Petition is con- cluded, and Mar. Straight declared to be duly elected, the petitioners being ordered to pay the costs. The triumph Was celebrated by bell-ringing and torch-light processions inl the town. : LAST Monday a gentleman applied at the Marlboroughf Street Police Court for permission to make an affidavit, i' order that warrants might be granted ...

... LEGAL . AND POLICE THE trial of Howchin, the usher, for tfle muraer or ivr. Flueck, at Liverpool, took place last week. The evidence was entirely circumstantial; and the judge, in summing up, told the jury they must not find the accused guilty of the murdermerely because it could not be attributed to any one else. After a consultation of an hour and a half, a verdict of not guilty was returned ...

... TITE COURT TiE Quer n and the E oyal Family have spent a very quie Christma' It Osborne. Prince Arthur arrived on Saturday, and in tl.r afternoon Her Majesty distributed Christmas gists to ?? wives and children of the labourers on the osboi'- estate. In the evening Colonel and the Han. Mrs. J! oasonby dined with the' Queen. On Christmas day Her Msjesty and. Princesses Louise and Beatrice went ...

... A ROMANTIC suit came before Lord Penzance in the E Probate Court last week. It was an application on behalf : f Senora Eliza Alicia Lynch, for a grant of probate of-the will of the late President Lopez, who it seems possessed some personalty i d W. ed AT Liverpool an action to recover the price-'of some lard supplied, but sent back as unfit for food, an analysis showing it to be largely ...

... ?? , . LEGA AND POLICE IT is reported that a telegraphic order was this te received at Chatham from the Admiralty, directing that the whole of the stewards of the war vessels in harbour, and those belonging to the Royal Naval Barracks, shoail' b, placed under arrest and their books, &c., taken p(, session of. - - On Tuesday was published the report of the Cotn-,j.v sioners appointed to ...

... THE sittings of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will commence on Monday. The heresy charges against Mr. Voysey and Mr. Bennett and the Brighton ritual case stand for judgment, and there are sixty appeals to be heard. IT is rumoured that Miss Garrett, M.D., is about to be married, and it has been conjectured that such an event would unseat her at the School Board. We know of no such ...

... LEGA4L AND POLICE NEWS I\N;1t.--tpci bids fair to become quite a fashionable institi- Ii o~ il iaetg u four lyeers, a mcmber of the Lower House, and , lalnct eig now ii progress through the Bankru)tcy Court. Wec ( ill tidertand that einci in trade may incur losses from ?? caumc.s beyond their control, but we have little sympathy 1xiii Ithoi irho, having limited incomes, ]tave not the moral ...

... ON Her Majesty's last birthday some volunteers who were firing salute.guns from Margate Pier, managed them so carelessly as to injure the captain of a vessel then engaged in mooring; the Canterbury County Court has given him 1281. damages. THIS week a curious question in connection with the winding up of the Albert Life Insurance Company has been decided by Vice-Chancellor Bacon, General Palby ...

... THE woman concerned in the Bond Street jewel robbery has been again examined. The shopman's evidence was taken, de- scribing the manner of the assault upon him in the house in Berkeley Street, and identifying the woman. He also swore to the jewels sent to Miss Goodrich (which had been given up by her), as part of those he had in his bag. The police com- plain that the hasty publication of the ...