... An action was brought in the Nisi Prius Court, London, by a Miss Reynolds against the Earl of Dudley, for breaking a horse so as to render the animal safe to be used by a young lady of fifteen years of age. The defendant paid JB25 into court, and denied his liability to any greater amount. The plaintiff, Miss Elizabeth Reynolds-a most accom- plished equestrian-had two establishments, viz., at ...

... A curious case came before the Divorce Court last week, which was a suit instituted by Mdlle. Victoire Balfe, daughter of M. Balfe, the eminent composer, against Sir John Crampton, formerly English minister at St. Petersburg, for dissolution of her marriage with Sir John, which took place at the chapel of the embassy in the year 1861, on the ground that the marriage had not been consummated, ...

... SWALLOWING A THREEPENNY PIECE. A young man, about nineteen years of age, was lately admitted into the Wolverhampton Hospital- suffering from the effects of a threepenny piece, which. he had accidentally swallowed. It appears the cause of the accident was as follows :—While walking along- the street, having the threepenny piece in his hand, he. for some reason or other placed the coin in his ...

... DENMARK' AND 'GERMANY. At the sitting of the Frankfort, Diet on Saturday, announcement was made' of the change which has taken place in the occupant of the Danish throne. The renunciation of his, rights by the Duke of Augusten- burg, and their transfer to his eldest son .as Duke of Schleswig-Holstein and Lauenberg were handed in. Notices of motions affecting the succession questions in ...

... The following is the text of the Royal proclamation read by the President of the Council in the Rigsraad We, Christian IX., by the Divine favour King of Denmark, address our Royal salutation to the Rigsraad. Our predecessor on the throne, King Frederick VII. of glorious memory, died yesterday at the chateau of Lykaborg, and with him' is extinguished the male branch of the dynasty of Frederick ...

... BY OUR LOIJDON CORRESPONDENT. Out readers will understand that we do not hold ourselves responsible for our able Correspoz-ident's opinions. THE Crawley Court-Martial is dragging its weary length along, and promises to interfere with the Christmas holidays of all engaged in it. The following description of Colonel Crawley, drawn by a graphic pen, I have taken from the columns of a professional ...

... On Thursday night the inhabitants of the neighbour- hood of Union-street, Aldershot, were thrown into a state of excitement by the rumour that a woman had been murdered by her husband in a passage between High- street and Union-street. It appears that on the night named a man named William Bartlett, a plasterer, from Exeter, arrived at Aldershot for the purpose of finding out his wife, Frances ...

... THE WAR, IN AMERICA. The Cunard steamer Canada, from Boston on iho, 11th and Halifax on the 13th Nov., has just arrived. The New York papers indulge in san- guine expectations of the future. We give the iafiOwing extracts:- General Meade's Advance. The Washington correspondent of the New York World, writing on the 10th, says:— It is rumoured that a considerable Union force started or is about ...

... From St. Petersburg we learn of a fresh step to- wards intimacy between that Court and the Italian kingdom. Some time since the King of Brockhara had captured some Lombard travellers in the far East, gone there in. quest of silkworm eggs, and that the Sultan had in vain interfered for their liberation. The Czar has taken up their case, and pressing orders have been issued to the. Governor of ...

... Iron and Wire Works at Tin tern, together with some other literaly notices, shall appear in our next. ...

... On the 2nd September last, Matthew Henry Escott, a clerk in the employment of the North- amptonshire Banking Company, at Wellingborough, absconded, taking with him bank notes to the value of nearly £ 1,000. A reward of = £ 100 was offered for his apprehension, and further rewards of X25 for such information as would lead to his apprehension, and X75 on recovery of the money, or in proportion ...

... WE have authority for staging, says a Dublin paper, that there is not the slightest foundation for the rumour in circulation as to the intended resignation of the Right Honourable Mr. Justice Ball. FRANCE has made Spain an offer of troops in case rebellion should spread to Cuba. This is a friendly way of humiliating a Power. THE Court Journal, on the faith of a correspondent, says:— A vacancy ...