... At the Marlborough.street policr-court, on Friday, William Wentworth Fi'zivilliam Viscount Milton, of 4, Grosvenor-square, charged with obtaining by means of false pretences, at 47, New-Pond-street, a pair of ear. rings of the value of £ 100, the property ot Messrs; John Cordy Crouch an! Henry Warre, trustees for Mrs. Sophia Stephens, pawnbroker, of 35, Brewer.street, Golden- square, was again ...

... THE MANCHESTER OPERATIVES,—Another testimony to the manly manner in which the great distress has been borne was seen in the Recorder's address in opening the Manchester city session on Monday. The recorder said it had been served to him that the distress would occasion to him an in- crease of labour, bat he rejoiced that it was not so. The Average number of commitments to the session was less ...

... CARDIFF POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY. (Before R. O. JONES, and GEO. BIRD, Esqs.) James Allen, on a charge of drunkenness, was cautioned and discharged John Pearson was charged with committing an assault upon a man named Wallace in the Cardiff House of Refuge. The master proved the offence, and Pearson was sent to prison for fourteen days' hard labour. Bartholomew Bawney was charged with ...

... CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The annual meeting of this society was held at Exeter Hall, Strand, on Tuesday. The proceedings were com- menced at ten o'clock by the Rev. Henry Venn, wb0 effered up prayer. The Earl of Chichester occupied the thair, and was supported by the Bishop of London the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Sierra Leone, th*. Bishop of Nova Scotia, the Dean of Carlisle, &c., &c. ...

... Cetiend Betos. Large quantities of mackerel have been seen off the coast of Portland, in Dorsetshire. Messrs. Coutts and Co. have given to each of their clerks a season ticket for the Exhibition, with three days' leave of absence. The sum of £ 6,817 has been already collected for the cathedral to be erected in Belfast, including XI,000 from the Bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, and £100 ...

... The Australian papers by the last mail record the death at Hobart Town, at the early age of 37, of the well- known low comedian, Sir William Don. Few men perhaps, have had a more chequered career than the deceased actor. At one time plunged into every fashion- able dissipation, and at another obliged to work his passage home as an ordinary seaman, he seemf to have experienced almost every ...

... THE MAY MEETINGS. CHURCH PASTORAL AID SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of this society has been held. The re- port gave an interesting account of the society's operations during the year. The committee ex- pressed regret that the duty of supporting the agencies employed to christianise the population should be so imperfectly appreciated by many persons possessed of property. The gross receipts for ...

... A TRAGIC AND COjIC INCIDENT.—Yesterday (says a letter ot the 1st instant from- Turin) we were thrown into a state of great anxiety by a piece of news in which tragic and farcical elements were curiously intermingled. Three ferocious assassins were under sentence of death atCagliari, in Sardinia. They sent word from the prison to Signor Costa, president of the tribunal, that they had important ...

... HE'S DRESSED LIKE A GENTLEMAN. A working-man is before me, well-dressed, and booking every inch a gentleman. Says my neigh- bour, who iswalking by my side, He's dressed like a gentleman! How is it ? He's only a work- ing-man. I reply, there is nothing more natural. Why may not a working man be well-dressed ? I do not see any hindrance, provided he has been a care-taking man. The notion is a ...

... THE BODY OF A CHILD FOUND IN A RAIL- WAY CARRIAGE. On Wednesday, an inquest was held at St. Thomas's Hospital, London, on the body of a male child, which was found in a second-class carriage of a train from Woolwich on its arrival at the South-Eastern Railway station at London-bridge on Sunday night last. It appeared from the evidence of William Clark, who is im the employ of the South Eastern ...

... CHEPSTOW HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—We are pleased to find that the committee have fixed Whit-Tuesday, the 10th of June next, for the first flower show this season. The Bristol and Exeter and the Chard and Taunton Rail- ways Bill was read a third time and passed in the House of Lords on Tuesday night. LANDING SLIP AT ANCHOR HEAD, WESTON-SUPER-MARE. —We have been credibly informed that the scheme ...

... The members of the Japanese Embassy, accompanied ou all occasions by Mr. Macdonald, are making the most of the time allotted for their stay amongst us. On Friday, attended by some of the principal officers of their suite, they paid a visit to Kew gardens, returning by way of liichmond Park in the evening to their quarters at Claridge's Hotel. On Saturday they went to see the London Docks, the ...