... WAY OF i ,8KN0!NQ .OHRiSTMAS, 1'1ham police-court on Saturday, ..••dressed man, named Alfred bed 25, was committed to the e Quarter Sessions on a cse-stealing. The evidence e,d that the prison'sr was in Ciielteu- on Ohristmas ave, and started out into the at two on Christmas morning. He went Itthe village of Staverton, three miles away, and (bout 5 a.m., while the cows were being milked, ...

... Yesterday, at the Westminster county court, before Judge Bayley, the case of Hobson v. McGregor came on for hearing. This was an application on the part of the defendant, Sir William McGregor, Bart. to set aside a com- mitment order made against him on the 20th of December last for not having complied with an order of the court.—The defendant was called, and, in answer to his Honour, said he ...

... A FEMALE WHOLESALE IMPOSTOR. At Marlborough-street police-court, London* yesterday, Mary Ann Evans, 55. described as a charwoman, having no home, was charged on remand with obtaining by means of false pretencss 63 from Mrs Amy Lomae, the wife of a ductor residing at 5, Pall Mall. On the 7th of last July the prisoner called upon Mrs Lomas, asking for a situation for her daughter, and referring ...

... ATTEMPTED REVOLT IN BULGARIA. [REUTER'S TELEGRAM.] I SOPHIA, Friday.-A band of brigands recently made its appearance in the vicinity of Bourgas. The party, which consisted of 60 Montenegrins, under the command of a Russian, Captain Nabokoff, who took a prominent part in the plot against Prince Alexander and the Bourgas revolt, landed at a small village named Keupruhe, on the frontier. Captain ...

... CARDIFF YOUTHS IN TROUBLE AT PORTH. At Llantrissant police-court on Friday-before Mr J. Ignatius Williams (utipeudiary) and Mr E. John—two youths named Frederick and ObarlM Juliff, of Cardiff, were charged with stealing overcoats,&c., belonging to Mr D. Evans, draper, Porth, and others. The alleged offence was com- mitted by shoplifting. On the application of Mr Inspector Jones, the case was ...

... SUICIDAL YOUNG WOMEN. I At the 0ames police-court, London, to-day, Rose Smith, 23 years of age, was charged with attempting to drown herself, A gateman at the South-west India Dock, said she tried to rush Hito the water three or four times, and she expressed the determination to take her life, *v'n £ quarrelled with her paramour.—S^lina Huern (20) was also charged with attempting to drown ...

... THE MARYLEBONE MYSTERY.1 This morning it was asserted .t. the eabmnn who is stated to have, on F ...

... TO-DAY'S SHIPPING. Lloyds' Casualty Telegrams. The B.itish steamer 101 nthe, from Libau fol' Leith, w.th grain, has arrived at Copenhagen with ber sliglulv II masra ■. he Huntress, from Canljff for Rio Janeiro, lias been towed into Falmouth lenity, and with lier rudder bead v.one. The Moatner Loch Marie, which grounded on Maplin Sml. floured yesterday afternoon, and arrived as (ir!1ve-elld ...

... LOCAL LAW CASES. Bedwellty School Board y. the Powell Duffryn Company In the Chancery Division of the High Court ol Justice on Wedne-day—before Mr Justioe Ctitty-Mr Romer, Q. (i., mentioned a motion in the above matter. He said that be was ip possession of an interim order that day, and it bad been arranged that. the motion should stand over until Friday week, the interim order being continued ...

... The Lancet has this about the state of the Crown Prin> e's health The reports which reach us from S tti Remb are of a reassuring character. It appears that t sintil slough recently took place in the situation of the growth, which was observed in the early part of Novem- ber, and it is thought by the resident physicians that some exfoliation of cartilage is taking place. Although perichondritis ...

... £ 14,000,000 lo be Voted for the German Army. I I TnIES TELEGRAM. I BRRLIS, Jan. 26,—.Nos a little side-light was thrown on the European situation ill to-day'«s sitting of the seleco committee now considering in detail the new Army Bill, which, when p.is=ed, as it is quite sure to be, will add about 700,000 men (not merely half a million, as at first calculated) to the fighting strength of ...

... L NEW YORK HERALD CABLEGRAM.] CANADA, January 26tli.-joseph Chamberlain authorizes the Herald correspondent to empha- tically deny the report that he has been ap- pointed Governor General of Canada, to succeed Lord Lansdowne. It is regarded as highly improbable that Mr Chamberlain would abandon his present commanding position in British poli- tics for a post that would retire him from active ...