... A yUDGE ON TWE PILLORY OF yOUR NALJSM MR. CnOMsMISSIONER VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, who has been trying casesj the nisi prius side of the Liverpool assizes, has dealt with a libel action wi raises important public issues in a way that calls for serious aniniadversion A little newspaper known as the Lighsthouse having received informatiot that one Marcus Percy Shorrock, who was at one tinie manager ...

... Ar.? SP UGEON'S APPEAL TO CIHRISTENDOM.-IL. - NT A T) n - TJ V PDTrr-n~c r NT? - ,? ToRN CLIFFORD, IVI.tL, ?? V1Ltrb!O ~NV U1 inqL -BIAPTIST UNION. r othe chief things Mlr- Spurgeon wishes all Christendom to know oris all he askled of the Union is that it be formed on a Scriptural iisto and that he never sought to intrude upon it any Calvinistic or other pesonal creed, but only that form ...

... THE PARNELL COMMISSION. MR. EDWARD HARRINGTON'S CROSS-EXAMINATION. The Parnell Commission resumed business at the Law Courts this morning As far as outward appearances go, the court looked, for all the vworld, as if every body had fallen asleep for a time-like the King and his Court in Tennyson's Sleeping Beauty.' Mrs. Gladstone was in her old seat at the corner of the jury-box ; there was ...

... THE CHETWYND-DURHAM ARBITRATION, OPENING OF LORD DURHAM'S CASE. The arbitrators in the Wood v. Durham libel action sat again yesterday. Late in the afternoon Sir Charles Russell commenced the case of the defendant, Lord Durham0 He said he would not trouble the court with any speech at this point-one speech was sufficient. Mr. George Lewis was the first witness examined. He stated that Lord ...

... A crowded court at the hearing of the special case Hope v. Sandhurst' yesterday testified to the public interest in the question of the women. coun- cillors. Judgment is reserved for two days. The excellent case made out by Mr. R. T. Reid must have opened the eyes of some people who did not credit the arguments advanced for the legal claim in these columns. But it is to be feared there can ...

... Iil. (IH\AIkWE OFit R'tR(GLAR A(;.\Iksr A POLI(CEMAN. 'i ?? policc-constal!e \'William Starmnore was again brought before the Brent- f( d irgistlates to-day charged with committing a burglary at the Dake of tuik Ionn, 1IInxeil, and stealing wincs, spihits, tobacco, and money valued at 4 * ?? on tie ;t -t ult., and was formally committed for trial. An inspector 'd s es against the prisoner. ?? ...

... VlcVI-CEANCELLOR BACON had before him on Friday an application which will recall attention to a curious peerage case determined bythe Committee cf Privileges in the course of last session. Ladv Elizabeth Sackville, the Yournger daughter and co-heir of John,-third Duke of Dorset, married George, fifth Earl Delawarr, and was mother of the late and present Earls Delawarr, and of Mr. Mortimer ...

... That an assault on a Customs officer is a very serious matter appears from the case of a man named Mahoney, who was summoned before the Liverpool magistrates the other day for having assaulted a Custom-house officer named Boyd, for which offence he had rendered himself liable to a penalty of i co or six months' imprisonment, the magistrates having no power to mitigate. It appeared by the ...

... TUE CHIARGE OF 1.BEL AGAINST THE SPORTING IMES. An application was made to Lord Coleridge and Mr. Justice Lindley at Westminster this morning by the Solicitor-General, on behalf of the ?? tion, for a writ of certiorari to remove from the Central Criminal Court to the Oueen's Bench Division the indictments that might be found against John Corlett, Wim. Augustus Barnett, and Wm. Oakley ...

... x1 t:\-IC AND GREAI' WESTERN RE-ARRANGENTENT SCHEME. In tie Comnon Pleas Division to-day, Lord Coleridge and Mr. Justice ~ernman gave jut~dgment in the case of Walker and another V. Sir George p'alfour and others. The plaintiffs in this case were advertising agents in Finch- lane, and the), stied the defendants to recover upwards of £200 for the costs of adqettsewents. Mr. McHenry was the ...

... TilE items of news relating to the fringes of the Eastern Question i which come in occasionally are still disturbing. A correspondent t of the Daily News mentions to-day that the Bulgarian recruits are, T in his opinion, being mustered in a very much larger force than is f necessary for the mere preservation of order in the country, and i the Russians have long ago dropped the term they used ...

... 'D o. - J5 Ads VPARIS, May 26. IF there could be anything amusing in connection with such a doleful subject as capital punishment, one might find it in the lamentations which are being uttered by the Radical newspapers of the Continent over the recent plebiscitum of the Swiss people which voted the restoration of the death penalty by a majority of 20,000. I was told some years ago at Geneva, ...