... | FRAUD AND FORGERY. At the Hammersmith William Hemming, an auctioneer, of Stamford-street, Blackfriars. was brought up in the custody of Mr. Palmer, chief inspector, Scotland-vard, charged with obtaining a cheque-book from the Notting-hill branch of the National Bank by false representations, and with uttering several forged cheques. Mr. Elsie Wyatt, accountant at the Notting-hill branch of ...

... RELEASE OF THE CLAIMANT. It is said that the Tichborne claimant will probably be released on bail to-day Friday). THE EMPRESS OF GERMANY. It is stated that the Empres3 of Germany will pro- baiilj come to England shortly on a visit to the Queen. WBXFORD ELECTION. CLOSE OF THE POLII.—W. A. Redmond. 321; Walter Redmon, 51; Bacon, none. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CAMBRIAN RAILWAY. John Whittiogton, a ...

... PROyi*c- A.WILL.-—'Lord Penzance has pronounced m favour of the will of the late Miss Cordelia Angelica Reed, the owner of the ruinous property which for so many years disfigured the south-west Corner of Stamford-street. The old lady Jeft the bulk of her fortune, amounting to about £100,000, to the Hospital for Consumption at Brompton. ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS EXHIBITS-A meeting of the ...

... INDBCENT ASSAULT.—A carpenter named Matthew Jenkins was charged with indecently assaulting Cecelia Morgan, a little girl eleven years of a^e, who resides with her mother in Oldcastle. The prisoner was working at a house in the locality, and complainant came to the room to call another little girl, when tho improper conduct on the part of Jenkins took place. Prisoner, who was stated to be drunk ...

... ARREST OF A CLAIMANT TO THE EARL- DOM OF ABERDEEN. Intelligence received in Liverpool from New York states that on the 9th inst. Deputy Sheriff Judson Jarvis arrested Lord George Gordon, alias George Henry Gordon, alias Gordon Gordon, at the suit of Jay Gould, on an order of arrest granted by Judge Brady. It appears that Mr. Gould swears that on the 1st March last he delivered to Gordon 600 ...

... I — = e ROATH CONGREGATIONAL CHORCH.—On Wednesday t evening the Rev. Kilsby Jones lectured at the above f church on the life and times of John Penry, the Brecon- shire martyr. The lecturer rivetted the attention of a. very good audience while he portrayed forcibly, pic- e turesquely, and with inimitable humour, the good old times in which Penry challenged persecution and death e by his ...

... [ MOUNTAIN ASH. 1| LOCAL BOARD.—The fortnightly meeting of this hoard Vt -was held at the Board-room on Monday, when the follow- M ing members were presentMessrs. G. Wilkinson (in the chair), E. Evans, D. Williams, J. Griffith, J. Grey, T. Edwards, D. Morgan, E._ Thomas, and D. Coleman. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A letter was read from Mr. Sheppard respecting the ...

... It is stated that the Secretary of State has commuted the sentence on Madame Rachel, who, in 18 69, was sen- tenced at the Old Bailey to five years' penal servitude for obtaining a large sum of money from Mrs. Borradaile, under the pretence that she was to be made beautiful for ever, in order to marry a tiobleman. DR. LIVINGSTONE. At a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, on Monday ...

... Several labourers who had left their employment in the neighbourhood of Newmarket with the view of bettering their condition in the north of England have returned to their old homes, whIch, after all, they seem to prefer. It is expected that agricultural wages about Newmarket will be carried to 12s. per week, plus allotments and other Per!.lu,IS, fi, Some of the Newmarket trainers have acceded ...

... ACTION FOR BREACH OF PROMISE. la the Court of Common Pleas on the 20tb April the case of Issott v. Smith was heard. Waddy said that this was an action for breach of P* mise of marriage, and at the trial at Leeds before vj Justice Keating the revdict was for the ,■6400. Now, unfortunately, tho amount of dam3? and ousts amounted to more thau all the property defendant had in the world. Mr. ...

... WHOLESALE PAWNING BY A WATCIl. MAKER. I At the Westminster Police-court on Mondafj Charles Kelpean, watchmaker, late of 97, Fulhap1' road, was brought up on a warrant by Police-detecti^ Claugh, Walton-street station, charged with defraud' ing a number of persons of their watches. Williao Sayers, 46, Onslow-buildings, Brompton, said he lei. L his watch with prisoner at his shop in the Fulham* ...

... CATHOLIC CHOIRS.—Archbishop has issued a circular order to the clergy of his diocese prohibiting the employment of female vocalists in thair church choirs after the end of September next. FUNERAL OF A REMARKABLE MAN. At Middleton, near Manchester, on the 20th, the funeral took place of Samuel Bamford, one of the Peterloonot leaders, and author of Celebrated Passages in the Life of a Radical. ...