... ARREST OF A SUPPOSED FENIN IN LIVERPOOL. The Liverpool police magistrates were engaged for some time on Friday in investigating a charge of supposed Fenianism against a young man of respectable appearance, named Arthur Forrester. There was a full bench of magistrates, and there were also present detectives from Manchester, Dublin, and other places. The prisoner had been arrested on the 16th ...

... ABOLITION OF THE BANK- RUPTCY COURT. In accordance with the provisions of the new BankruptoyAct, the Liverpool Bankruptcy Court, in commonwithother distrit courts of bankruptcy, ceased to exist yesterday, and Mr. Commissioner Thring and the registrars, official assignees, and all the officers of the court ceased to hold office. The new Bankruptcy Act comes into operation to-day (Saturday), and ...

... s DanielWilliamBright, aged38, anundertaker'sman,living e at 12, Teenby's Buildings, Old-street, was charged before a Mr. Cooke, at ahe Clerkenwell Police Court. with shooting his son with a pistol loaded with powder and a bullet. Mr. George James Large, of 8, Bishop's Court, Helmet- s street, Clerkenwell, said: At a little after two o'clock ,, this morning, as I was going down Lever-street, I ...

... EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY AT EWELL, On Monday, Mr. Carter, coroner for East Surrey, opened the inquiry, at the Hop-pole Tavern, into the cause of the death of Thomas Hugget, aged 31, who died on Wednesday morning week, under very extraordinary and exciting circumstances. The deceased had been Xving with a woman named Lizzie Richardson for sonme aonths at Portsmouth, and subsequently at Rother- ...

... CORONER INQUF8TS. I I r :: I . , I , i 4 - l,~ ?? ?? ?? .. , BEJRo aM C. AsnrPALL, O6ROTGH C0P0 N :. On the body of Thonias Duggan, ab6t 52 years. t ef age, a forwarding clerk in the-employ of Messrs. o J. Rigby and Sons, who resided at 20, Clifton- I street. On Wednesday evening deceased was f removing ootton from the third floor of a warehouee t in Jackson's-lane, when the ropes got foul; ...

... EXTIRAORDINARY CHARGE or CRUELTY. At the City Police Court, on TburEday, before blessrs. W. M'Clure and J. W. Maclure, a man named Thomas Light- foot was charged by Superintendent Anderton with cruelty to his brother, Samuel Lightfoot, who was blind and an imbecile, by keeping him in the cellar of his house for several years in a neglected and filthy condition. 1r. Anderton having been sworn, ...

... PIREST'ON PoLILiE INTELLIGENCE. I FniDAY.-Before the Mayor, R. Benson, and WV. Humber, E-qars. TDE WVA'rca ROBBERY..-lRobert Winship and.NMargaret Campbell were brought i up. n remand from the previoums Friday, charged with stealing, a watch, the property of John \Valmsley, on Seaturday evenina, the 11th inst.- The caso was again remanded1 until Wednles'lav. 'THR ALLEGED ROBBI'.'Ity OF it.AD. ...

... I Yesterday being the last day upon which Mr. Commig- sioner Jemmett Hat in this court, his jurisdiction cesing under the new Bankruptcy Act, Mr. Ambrose, addressing the court, said: As this is the last day on which your honour will sit, I take the opporta. nity of expressing to your honour my sense of the courtesy and consideration which I have always received from the court, and I may say ...

... I LIVERPOOLPOLICE COURT. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3L BEFORB MR. H XMN6FvILD. CIHANOB OF RUNNINGO OVER A BoX. -A sabdriver named William kionghtoD, -A ho Is In the employ ot Mr Jemes Pearson, car proprietor, was charged Att drunkenness whilst ?? a cab on the 2rd OInim, and with having run over a boy named James Dewe ten years of age. It appeared that on the day in lute. UiUD the boy was CrossiDg ...

... THE ALLEGED CRUELTY TO A L1UNAT16-AT MANCHESTER. . =. :, I:, - 0 The ?? caae of cruelty to an idiot brother, which we noticed yesterdayashaving been exposed ?? ?? magistrates Thomas Lightfoot was charged with cruelty to his brother, Satmuel Lightfoot, who was blindanid animbecile, by keepinghim in the cellar of his hbiise fr several ears in a neglected and filthy condition. The defendant keeps ...

... On Wednesday afternoon a kitchen boiler ex- ploded at the residence of Mr. Charles Royle, Didsbury, and as the result of the accident his wife, Mrs. Royle, was killed instantly, whilst one of her daughters wan seriously injured. Mr. Royle istheestateagentfor severalproperty owners of the district, including Sir James Watts, and has also a hosiery establishment in Stretford New- road. Mrs. ...

... ?? fortnightly sitting of this court was heldl on Tries- day, before W. A. Holtin, Esq. The only case of im- portance was one tried by a jury, in which David 13arker, horse dealer, MIsuchester, sued John Hosrnoeirdalgh, horse dealer, Preston, for £50, which he alleged to be due to him for lo8ssustained by the non-frlfimineni of acontract of warranty. The case of the phlintiff. as stated by his ...