... THE ORIM'VINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL. A FRANK WARNING. Under tine Iendaing A Frank Warning, theo pfl Mfall Ccrzellc ot Saturday prints the following aidirc.ss to its readers:- The Criminal Law Amendmnent 13ill will, it is said, be abandoned, owing to the late period of the session, end the diflienlty of finding tine to carry it through thC toommons. That neasarure deals with a subject the ...

... JOHN KUING'S WIDOW: FINAL APPEAL. TO THE tDITORK OF TEE LZVEDROOL KFROURY. Gentlemen,-More than three months ago I made an appeal through the press on behalf of the widow of Old John King, who died on January 29th last in his 90tb year, and who was the first man in tngland who signed the pledge of total abstinence, in 1832. His widow is now working as gatekeeper on the railway, on the scanty ...

... I I THURSDAY, JULY 23. BEFORE MR. REGISTRAR BELLRINGEB. Rs HARRY ASPLNALL.-The debtor, described as a broker for the sale of ships, machinery, and zoedone, was called on his adjourned public examination. Mir. Rogers (MNessrs. Masters and Rogers) stated that the case having been before the court on various occasions, the registrar would know how matters at present stood. Since the last ...

... RELEASE OF CONSTANCE KENT, I - STORY OF THE ROAD MURDER. t REMARKAILE TRIAL. . t Kent, who was sentenced to penal ior life for the Road murder 25 years . been liberated on a ticket-of-leave. to the convict's good conduct she was re- much econer than bad been expected *e crime for which the newly-released culprit jered imprisonment for a period of twenty vears AL long be remembered, both for ...

... COURT OF SESSION-SATURDAY, I. __ FIRST DIVISION. THEi ABERDEEN CUSTODY OF CHILDREN CASE. PETITION-rrTR REV. WILrLAM ROSS FOR CUSTODY OS oStDREN. In this case the Rev. William Ross, somne time Free Church minister at Dundenald, Ayrshire, now residing In Rose Street, Aberdeen, applied to the Court to have the custody of hio two children which he averred bad been taken by his wife beyond the ...

... A KINCARDINESHIRE BREACH OF I PROMISE CASE. In Stonehaven Sheriff Court yesterday, Sheriff Wil- son closed the record and ordered proof in au action at the instance of Jeroima Russell, daughter of James Russell, lately grieve at Dave, and residing at Mill of Garvook, against Frederick Charles Losley Farrell, son of Alfred Darrell, of Dave, and residing at Dave Hloue, in the parish of Garveck. ...

... I COURT OF SESSION-TiinusDAY. Y ~~~~~~~~2 FIRST DIVISION. __ ~~~~~~~v prlTlON-s-ss OrMLIS WHYTE. o This petition was presented by one of the daughterso of the late George Whyte of Meethili, parish of I Peterhead, to have the trustees acting under herC fathers trust (Rev. James Stewart, Peterhead, and I Mrs Isabella Whyte) removed from office, and a judicial factor appointed. The petitioner eet ...

... LEEDS -ANKRUPTOY COURT, TUESDAY. (Before Mr. T. AlAsnarsn, Registrar.) INRE CnAmIEs Lows.-The debtor is an accountant in Leeds, and his lialklities amount to £1,684 and his assets to £284, leaving a deficiency of £1,400.-Tho Official Receiver stated that from a careful investigation of his affairs there appeared to be no doubt that very recently the debtor was quite solvent. His deficiency ...

... f In the Honse of Lords, on Monday night, the Ea.rl of CARiAIRVON, in offering a brief state ment of the p sition of the Government with regard -to the government of Ireland, reminded the Hou~e of the state of agrarian crime which had led to the passing of the Crimes Act. In the years 1880, 1831, and 1882, the number of cases of agrarian crimG had reached the enormous totals of 2,580, 4,439, ...

... The adjourned July Quarter Sessions far the county of Suffolk were held on Tuesday, at the Shivehall, Bury St. Edmund's, Major Barnardiston in the chair. The Magistrates present ?? Marquis of Bristol, Lord Francis Hervey, Lord John Hervey, Sir Harry Ord, B. B. Hunter Rodwell, Esq., Q.C., J. South Phillips, Esq., Rev. T. J. Steele, H. S. Waddington, Esq., Canon d Abraham, A. J. Young, Esq., Sir ...

... LAW INTELLIGBNCE. madftI cour oP rnSTIcE. them states (Bdfeiate ?? Sir Jaillds Bacon.) whet! JrAIrwR V. EXu0Tor.cae This was a motion on behalf of Mfr. John1 Jaraj aylothier Jobti nessy, thd pkolribtori of the, DiJ-~~t#A ON hj sltoi4 toritsi theddefetitait, hig sbtvdiitfl, and agents, Int ?? elitin, a lotiig ~ sale, cc otherwise disposing Count of, or permitting to be sold or advertised for ...

... A.RIED BURGLARS ai2D) TO POLICE. - Theru are several points of unuslia6 interest ia, the attempted burglary and intended inurdero01 the roof of a house in lensingtonpa~rk~grtdaen in the ?? hours of T esday Maornfig; Thd merciful deliverance of the gallant ?? policeman, Owen Davis, should be flirst men- tioned. Three bullets left their marks upon hid coat, and one strildng the btelde of his ...