... A curious case came before Messrs. T. Colemore and A. Dixon, at the Erdington Police-court the other day. A lady of respectable appearance, aged thirty, who gave her name as Mrs. Young, was charged with stealing £ 80, the property of Maria Holloway. The prosecutrix is the mother of Mrs. Perrins, who is the wife of a brush manufacturer in Camden-town, Bir- mingham, but who resides in the ...

... SPORTS AND PASTIMES. + MR. HENDERSON, a. member of the Cavendish Angling Club, held at the King's Head Tavern, Mar- garet-street, Cavendish-square, in two days' fishing at Wootton Bassett, caught 1751b. weight of jack, the largest of which weighed 141b., one 121b., two lOlb. each, three 9 jlb. each, and three 8ilb. each. BREADALBANE and Broomielaw, the two Derby favourites, have been purchased ...

... AN UNRULY APPRENTICE SENT, TO PRISON. Charles Annay, a lad about 16 years of age, appren- ticed to Mr. Augustin Daws, of 16, Church-row, Old St. Pancras-road, was charged at the Clerkenwell Police-court, before Mr. Barker, with having unlaw- fully refused to obey the lawful commands of his master, arid stopping away from his work. Mr. Ricketts attended on behalf of the complainant, and in ...

... OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. FROM America we have nothing but I- wars and rumours of wars. The taking of Savannah by the Federals was not succeeded by the surrender of Wilmington, as was anticipated by New York papers. General Butler is blamed for cowardice in this affair, for when the Federal fleet attacked the fort, which is the key of the Confederate gar- rison, and poured such a torrent of shot ...

... The Theatre Royal, Edinburgh, was totally destroyed by fire on Friday evening, leaving not a vestige but part of its calcined walls. St. Mary's Catholic Church has been broken by the fall of the north wall of the theatre, and several brave men have perished in tne discharge of their duty. Mr. George Lorimer, deani ot Guild, was also killed by the falling of one, of tho walls. At about ten ...

... MARK-LANE, JAN. 16.—There was not a large amount of English Wheat on offer at this day's market, and a good demand prevailing, the currency ruled firm; white realising 39s to 46s, and red 35s to 41s per quarter, a clearance being nearly made. Foreign met a fair sale; there is less on offer, and rates full up, ruling at 35s to 44s and prime, 45s to 4Ss. Many contracts in American, red at 38s to ...

... SPECIAL SERVICE.—A very excellent sermon was de- livered at the church here, in connection with the Home Mission, by the Rev. J. S. Broad, M.A., incumbent of St. George's, Newcastle-under-Lyne, on the evening of Tues- day last, to a somewhat numerous congregation. ...

... While the hurricane which prevailed on Saturday morning was at its highest, another collision occurred on the Great Western Railway, and like those which recently took place at Pangbourne and Slough, was, fortunately, unaccompanied with loss of human life, although attended with serious damage to the com- pany's stock, and causing a delay to the passenger and goods traffic on the line. It ...

... Singular Bigamy Case.—At the Preston Police- court a, bigamy c&se was heard last week presenting some most extraordinary features. The offender was a, man named Henry Greenwood, an engine tenter. Eighteen years ago he was married at Penwortham, near Preston, to a woman named Sarah Newsham, who had four .children to him; five years since he left her, but had seen her more or less every week ...

... A celebrated Frenchwoman has well said that the greatest blessing a woman can receive on earth is the continuance of the affection of her husband after marriage. ...

... At the Durham Quarter Sessions, held last week, John George Stratton, forty-eight, belonging to London, and Jacob Darque, an agent, were tried on charges of conspiring together to defraud Ellen Robson, Stuart Robson, and others of divers large sums of money, at South Shields, on the 1st of August. An immense number of workpeople in the two northern counties of Durham and Northumber- land have ...

... Banting- Done for Babies. Baby, baby Ba.nting, Farther goes the scanting System; as a fish's fin Must grow the baby Banting thin. MONEY WELL BESTOWED.—We congratulate the Government on having taken steps in the niatter of treasure trove, which will obviate an ancient hardship on the finders of antiquities, and also preserve many valuable relics from the melting pot. A rule has been established ...