... ACTION AGAINST A LADY F0)It BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. DAIYIAGIA s £300. At tihc Aylesbury mi.Fzes the ca.se of Eldlen v. Ormond has been triud. It appeared that the plaintiff, who is a wilower, G0 years of age, was formerly P. farmter, anud is now a laid surveyor and general a'egnt at Slough, and ho brought this actiou against the ldefendant to recover damages for breach of her promise to ...

... ? - . U A new aspect has been given to the painful caie of supposed murder at asrnshrurv, London, by the fresb evidence brought out at the inquest held by Dr. Lankester, on M~onday night. It would ap- p ear that the friende of the murdered man, John Mloir, were on intimate terms with the family of the pr isoner, George Camlpbell, who lived at Large in Scotland, The b~rothers J uhn and James ...

... MONDAY, MARCH 1. BEFORE MR. PRESTON. ASSAULT ON A POLICE-OFFIOCEUR-A labourer, named Henry Pridding, was brought up in custody charged with being drunk and riotous, and also with having assaulted Austin Churchhill and Police-ofticer 71. Mr. Bretherton appeared for th defence. It seemed that at half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning the offlcer heard cries of Police. and on going to the corner ...

... I The revoltinc murder at Wedneebury continues to form the all-absorbing topic of discussion throughout the Black Country district-as welU probably as elsewhere - and everywhere anu among ad clases of society the weight and worth of the evidence against the prisoner, his personal appearance, his character, his family associations, and other features and incidents of the case, are freely ...

... COUNTY COU1RT BANKRUPTCY CASKS I ncRVATZ9 UR *_ K RT.AR JronW BYYOBS MR. J. E. BLAIR, JUDGU SATURDAY, NOVEMBER tV. WlLLIAMWOODIRAI), of 9, RoacomAicondrU Lier- pool, ?? banktupt ir pson ?? la p555 his last examtnatiun,but, natho adreertieer~ta h not been tnserted In time, his hobour adijqoued the bearing till the 17th December. THOMAS FISGER BEBFo8nD. of ?? Broaniwboil, Liverpool, In the ...

... I AlISTOCRATIC GAMBLING. I Commenting on the recent betting prosecutions, the Daily Tclcgraph ?? is this new zeal directed exclusively against small offeniders ? Why should shilling stakes be illegal, and ponies or Imonkeys strictly legitimate and proper? Is not Tattersall's a betting place ? Is notbetting to the extent of thousands upon thousands of pound practised openly in front of the ...

... 3EF4QRZE MRI J. K. BLAIR, JUDGE MONDAY, AUGUST 30. RIO'OVERY OF SEAMeN'. WAGES.-His Honour now delivered judgment with respect to a case heard on Furiday, in which John Luoas Lovell, mate of the British ship Mary F~ry, sought to recover from Charles Fry, captain and part owner of that vessel, the sum of £17 34 Sd., wages for services rendered in a voyage from Bristol to New Orleans and back. ...

... SCANDALOUS CONDUCT OF I - TWO POLICEMEN. BOTH OFFICERS SUSPENDED FOR PERJURY. On Tuesday, at the second police court, before Mr. Lawrence, a respectable-looking married woman, named Jane Wilcock, otherwise Ellen Birchwood, was summoned by Police-constable No. 386 (Connor) on a charge of being drunk in Paxton-street on the 25th ultimo. Police-constable No. 386 stated that between twelve and one ...

... MANSLAUGHTER IN BEAU- I STREET. *An inquest was held on Wednesday last, before Mr. Clarke Aepiuall, borough coroner, on the body of Mary Jane Bell, 25 years of age, Wife of a labourer lodging at 17, Beau-street. Daniel Bell, husband of deceased, said that on Saturday evening last they were going out of the house, and met Sarah Anne Pellow who began to call names and spit at deceased, and ...

... Mr. Clarke Aspinall boro gh coroner, held an inquest yasterday into the circumances attending the death of Hannah Tennent,. a widow of a sawyer, 42 years of age, who was found'on Satur- day morning last lyingdead in a cellar of the house 17, Griffitha-terrace, Caive-street, off Northumber- land-atreot. Margaret Marshall deposed that the deceased was her daughter, and with two sons (aged 19 and ...

... SENTENCE OF DEATH. At the Worcester assizes yesterday, before Mr. Baron Piggott, a woman named Fanny Frances 19aria Oliver was tried for the wilful murder of her husband, Joseph Oliver, on the lth of May nat. Mr. Motteram and Mr. Harington prose- cuted, and Mr. Streeter defended the prisoner, who is a genteel, lady-like person,about28yearsof age. The murder was committed under the following ...

... IHIRKDALE QUARTER SESSIONS I These seesione commenced yesterday at the Courthouse, Kirkdale. The reagiatrates pre. seivt were Air. R. A. Cross, M.LP. (in the chair), Sir T. Edwards-Moss, Lieut.-Colonel Bourne, Lieut.-Colonel M'Corqnodale, Lieut,-Colonel Thomson, Lieut. -Colonel Trimble, the Rev. Tl. St. George, and llessrs. W. Hall, J. Campbell M. Gregseon, J. G. Morris, W. N. Heal,4, B. ...