... I ~ ~ L * .* ?? COSTS OF LITIGATION.-On Saturday an application was made before Mr. Justice K-ay to stop proceedings which had been going on since 1874, the action being for the recovery of a debt of 49?., and the whole of the estate (8534.) being insufficient to pay the costs without satisfying either party. His Lordship directed that the costs should be very carefully taxed, and declined to ...

... A . ?? ~I IIVR) IN COMMEMORATION of the opening of the new Courts of Justice the Queen has been pleased to confer the dignity of an Earldom upon the Lord High Chancellor, and the honour of Knighthood upon the treasurers of the four Inns of Courts-Mr. J. P. de Gex, Q.C., of Lincoln's Ilo, Mr. J. B. Maule, Q. C., of the Inner Temple, Mr. F. Roxburgh, Q.C., of the Middle Temple, and Mr. W. St. ...

... THE ALLEGED INSURA c FRAUDS. COMMITTAL OF COUNT' STANALEY. On Monday, at the Mansion House Police-court, Harry Clench Stanley, 37, described as a bank director, under- went a final examination charged that be, being a director of a public company called the Government Security Fire Insurance Company, Limited, unlawfully made and pub. lished a prospectus which he knew to be false in certain ...

... HULL COUTNTY1 COURT. WEDNESDAY: Before Mr. F. A. BEDWELL, Judge. A Dooros'a CLAIM. - HRALEY V. HARPER. - The plaintiff in this case, Dr Aealey, surgeon, sued defendant for £5 5H, for profesqional attendance and supply of medi- cine. Mr Johnhon, solicitor, appeared for plaintiff, and stated that the case was adjourned front litst court at the request of defendant, who asked for a bill of ...

... FRlIDAY. Before Mr E. C. Twiss, Stipendiary Magistrate. THE ROBBERY FROM THE PARAGON STATION.-Wm. Y Clark, an elderly man, on remand, was charged with 5tealing a trunk containing clothing, the property of hoismns Rider, a railway porter. It will be remembered M that the trunk was stolen from one of the waiting-rooms P] at t0e Paragon Station, where it had been left by the M posecutor, and ...

... HUIL POLICE COURT. - ?? 'FRIDAY. se (Before Mr B. 0. TwisS). . TE SERrous ASSAULT BY A WomAN.-Brldget Sheri-' uI dan was again brmught up charged with an assault up'on er Elipabsth Smith,' on the 26th October, under circaut- pi stances already reported. The complainant was still an out-patient of the Infirmary, and Mr Twiss requested her' to ask the house surgeou whether any serious results bf ...

... | EXECUTION 01 WHEATFILL. On Tuesday morning, at eight o'clock, Edward Wheatfill, who, at the recent York Aseizes, was con- demned to death for the wilful murder of Peter Hughes, a fisherlad, on the high seas, underwent the last penalty of the law within the walls of the prison of York Castle. The circumstances of the murder, which was of a most horrible character, are too well known to ...

... THlE. DlBL LN TRAGEDY. | ?? D- , TLDE i 1 - - - ?? : THE ARRESTS. A man named James Bolger was arrested at 1 Moille, -the place of call for Canadian steam t liners, near Londonderry. He Bi stated to be a ear- a driver belonging to Kingstown. The Dublin police at once demanded his removal to Dublin. M Martin Patrick Quinn was on . Saturday brought , before the Preston magistrates on remand ...

... T HIE MURDER OF A BraCq I On Saturdav. ,Thb- R _ _iU U1n saturday, John Baker is ' the murderer of the man Wfldc 3 j Finchley-wooas. was hre ?? at Highgate. The body of fort~ e' been ?? as that of En ch c r-* with the accused at a (tarke a- Borough. Ecrgeant bridgen, a cowL. --54 house inspector in Scuthesrk h - tO!c-. a portrait of the murdered mac diately identiged him as Enoch2t C known as ...

... THE MURDER OF A FRY I - -- DEE- 2iI FIUE 1 EXECUTION OF BPLAZi Yesterday morning, at eight 'clqck, Otto Brand, the skipper and proprrztr Rising Sun smack, which sails freert crt EuUl, paid the last pectalty of the law itl 'C,' jail, leeds, for the murder of his a'> William Papper, under circumstancs wt: rarely been paralleled in the a3nals of ?? lvy, his conviction, with rare irtervals of -es ...

... | THELI VERPOOL ASSIZES. TRUMSDAY, FEBRUARY 16. CIVIL CAUSES. .SEFOnl M?. BARON poL.Mcr FnrIsND AND OTEaaS V. M-ILWRATH A&r, -The plainrtiffs, 3Uessrs. Friend and Co., of chambers, Old Churchyard, Liverpool, are O - of the ship Frankfort Hal, and the object ft I action was to recover from the defendant, 3* ts ?? and Co., of Liverpool, a e!T breach of a charter party. 3ir. d 'nags5 and Mr. ...

... THE WIBLEDON POISONTNG C CASE. IMPORTANT EVIDENCE The trial of George Henry Lamson for the I murder of Percy lolm John was resumed at the, l Central Criminal Court on Saturday. Dr. Lamson l l was placed in the dock shortly after ten o'cock, and the following evidence was then adduced. Dr. Stephenson examined by the SolicitorGeneral. -I am a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and one of ...