... -. 0 17A SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.-The friendly suit suggested by the Home Secretary has been heard by the Court of Exchequer, and it is now decided that to open the Brighton Aquarium at all on Sunday is illegal if money be either directly or indirectly taken for admission. Mr. Cross seems to be very unwilling to alter or repeal the obsolete law, which has compelled the judges to give a decision ...

... ?? THE WVIHITLCIIAPEL TRAGEDY.-The trial of the brothers Wainwright has attracted great crowds to the Old Bailey during each day of the hearing. The court itself was thronged, and amongst the visitors were a great many barristers and Queen's counsel. The accused were arraigned on Monday before the Lord Chief Justice of England. One of the jurymen summoned told ?? thathe was intimate with the ...

... MI ?? -ND I. MR. vffil+ ?41 ?q? I . ly I LORD ST. LEONARDS' WILT --1 this case Sir J. I-lannel has decided that the will was duly executed and attested, and must therefore be acted upon. The curious paft of the affair is, that the will cannot be found, and that its contents are only known by means of a copy written from memory by Miss Sugden, an interested person. His lordship, however, in ...

... YESTERDAY. Before Mesar. .7T. C. S. fgynnerslcy (SttPendfrry), H. TWiggin, (. Ratcij4f J. 4 . Hopkins, and Lh 0. Osborne. A SYSTEMATIC COURSE OF WrFE-DRATINOG.-Willhan OCrpmnail (37), laboarer, Railway Terrace, was ohargod being drunk and disorderly, and violently nssaulting his wife, Fanny Carpmail.-The statement of the prosedutrix was to the offect that her husband came home drunk on ...

... B[RMINGHAM POLICE COURT. YEST'ER3DAY. Before Aresss.% !l C. S. Kfrnrslecy (Slipeuiary), J. .L fkeington, ?? C. Osborne, S. Buckley, and Dr. AId elson. NICErY CAuanr.-Cesarles Coleman (36), ironinoulder, .Tenens ltow, and Pobert Imucia (30), porter, ?? Lodging House, Summer Lane, were charged with steal- iug live fowls from the premises of Georgo Jnmes, iron. founder, Cumnberlanrl Street, Broad ...

... GENERAL N E w S. J11Y TELEO3RA.PH.] CONFESSION OF DITTIIE11. Private James Graham, of tlio Portsmouth Division of Boys! Mfarines, is in custody, oii lila own confession that lie m cr5 eedi a manm nimied Macpiherson, at lieper to Miijsi CGraliani, ussr Flitrnesa Brays, iRonfrewshire, in 1871. HEAVY DAMAGE-S FOR BREAC1 01? PROMISEL At, the Cork Assigns, yesterday, an action for breech of0 ...

... TRIAL OF A CONTINUOUS RAILWAY I BRAKn IN BRISTOL. On Saturday afternoon a numbor of engineers from Birmingham, with railway officials and other gentleman, including Mr. J. a. Wall (general manager), and Mr. T. W. Walton (traffic manager), started in a special train from the Bristol and Exeterplatform, for the purpose of making the first publio trial of a new continuous brake, whieli hlas been ...

... Ii WOROESTERSHIRE WINTER' ASSIMES. Those Assizes coninisnced. yesterljey, Ieos ior' Baron 'Asnplitt,'.nst the hbire Hall, Worcester. PIESENTMlENT FROM THE GIIANI JURY. ?? of the Grnld Jilry, nt the conclusion of their'dsitlei4e nrid'ihatg it Was the d6sire of the Grind Jury that he sbould read to his lordship it presentment, oxproess- iff tlio jhit'gratiflctition they felt in welcoming his ...

... BIR.M1NGHANI POLIOU Y iis I r R0 r Pli' E. C. Osborne, jow Kznznorfes (A ?? Lowe eso a & PeoL AN AMITABLE3 Hutisacen. V button maker, Dreh ?? -C harles g0Ji'?1 ioessiltiolg hlis wifeEiaei.weeaaa~G e in a.1 disagreechabmol n, ihu h voca.tion, struck his wife Serl loi} hlowttest lire tace, blackening her rialt eye, and tr Cilia to ?? mseceh' hmrol t ciheur as SIEASING. Timiit.-Ckolits DarI 0- ...

... ' YESTERDAY. Before Mecszrs. T. -. . Keerl-sSlep (StiendlryJ, S. 2'ienrnins, C. ,Sturge, wii4 J. Chesisire. PU:Nisj ftI-NT WELL DEMEIiVEID.-leary Bvans (36), labourer, Conrt, Lower Tpwor Street, wats sent to gaol for six calendar mouths, with hard labour, for indecently assaulting his daughter, a little g0irls hle years of age, on the 12th instant. ,1?AcroRev Aur PROSEHOUIONs.-Alfred. Hill, 9, ...

... THE WHIJTOHAAPEL MURDER. The lapse of another week since the discovery of the tragedy with which the name of the Wlhiteehapol Road is associated hle boon markod by the producition of so muilc additional evidence that there are now betwoort 30 and d10 witnesses to be examined, none of whose testinony, it is believed, will be fnvotrahblo to the innocence of the man WatMVwriglt. It conues this ...

... YES~TERDAY. Beftwe aMteca'ss. J., . 'Unisi (airIi J. -Lcdcaa. PtosOi;'uJ'InXS OF ]SaiC(ht - Jalmos ?? is tile sin ployinont of Mir, W\ooiluiau, be hor, ot 32, Lichiielid lned, wias sunminoied for nnltawfully dolivoring broad, in tbe ViOtorill Real, on toe 17th inst., witlioit oarryinug SClilOS anld weighits. DefOendsOl at 1dca1l1dt tbbut lie bld wasveld the triap, and had fiorotten to repltes ...