... THE DRESS IMPROVER DISPU FE. The Lord Chief Justice and Lords Justices Cotton and B wen gave judgment to-day upon the appeal of the American Braided Wire Com- pany from Mr Justice ivekewich's judgment refusing to restrain Messrs W. S. Thompson and Co. from manufacturing ladies' dress improve!s of braided wire in tubular sections. Plaintiffs were owners of a patent taken out in 1885, which the ...

... TO-DAY'S POLICE. CARDIFF. NEITHER FOOD NOR WORK. At the Cardiff police-court to-day-befure the Stipendiary (Mt T. W. Lewis), and Dr Paine-John Saunders, a strongiy-builfc and decent looking young fellow, aged 20, was charged with stealing some roast pork, value 7s 61, from the shop of Mrs Sarah Ann Flight, at 91, Bate- stieet. Mrs Flight stated that the prisoner entered her shop last evening, ...

... I TO-DAY'S POLICE. I I CARDIFF. ASSAULTIKG A WOMAN.—At the Cardiff police- court, to-day-before Mr T. W. Lewis (sti- pendiary), his Worship the Mayor (Alder- man Jacobs), Dr. Paine, and Alderman McConnochie—John Ring (26) was charged with assaulting Mary Jane Morgan on the 31st ult. The prisoner and prosecutrix had been living together for some time, and as the former would not work, the ...

... To-day's London Papers. I BISMARCK AND EUROPEAN PEACE. The Times says ;—Prince Bismarck's nearest ap- proach to the key of the situation is when he tries to account for themassing of troops on the Western frontier. He says it need not indicate any design to attack Germany or even Austria directly, and nobody ever imagined that this is the most probable opening of a war. Then Prince Bismarck ...

... THE ENTERPRISING BURGLAR AT NEWPORT. The Newport police have received information which leads them to the conclusion that the enter prising burglar of the period has taken to more scientific and artistic methods of pre- paring for his little burglings than was ever dreamed of in the philosophy of past exponents of the art, including Peace himself. A few diya since the offices of one of the ...

... UTTERING BASE COIN AT I PENARTH. I A COUPLE OF ROGUES CAUGHT. I At the offices of Messrs Morris and Son, High- street, Cirdiff, to-day, two rough-looking men were charged with uttering counterfeit ooin at Peuarth, where a gang of these sharpers have been operating for nearly a month. Tbe men were respectively Francis Shirley, bricklayer, and Walter Hey wood, labourer, and they seemed to be of ...

... I AN ANATOMICAL CURIOSITY. I [DAILY NEWS TELEGRAM. J VIENNA, Thursday.—A bankrupt appeared here in court yesterday who in the course of the pro- ceedings declared that his backbone ran from his chin downwards, and that his chest was situated where other people generally have their backs. He furthermore stated that the London Anatomi- cal Society had purchased his body for a consider- able ...

... I A PARIS SUBURB FLOODED. I SERIOUS LOSS OF PROPERTY. The Paris correspondent of the Daily New writes to-day:—One of the main conduits supplying Paris with water burst yesterday under the high street of the suburb of Gentilly. The cellars of the adjoining houses were flooded almost immediately, and vety soon the water had risen almost the whole height of the ground ibor on a length of 600 ...

... THE SPANISH CONVENT SCANDAL. Indignation at Madrid. The Madrid correspondent of the Standard writes to-day :-Fresh details have been published of the melancholy incident which recently occurred in the convent at Vigo. They show that the nun,after taking the veil, had a scene with her father and the abbess. She then rapidly became worse, and made her will, bequeathing to the convent all the ...

... At the Cardiff police court, to-day-before Mr T. W. Lewis (stipendiary) and Dr H. J. Paine- Emma Smith (alias Adams), Thomas John Davies, John William Burns, and John Hailey were charged with stealing from the Royal Hotel a tin case, containing a large quantity of electro-plated goods, valued at J330, the property of Messrs Mark Willis and Sons, Sheffield, on the 30th ult.—On the case being ...

... SUICIDE AT AMMANFORD. A grocer, named David Emauuel, committed suicide on Thursday at Ammanford, He waa found suspended by a rope to a beam in the attic of his house. The deceased, who was about 40 years of age, leaves a widow aud font children. ...

... VERY SAD AT HER AGE. I A POLICE-COURT ODDITY. I At the Worship-street police-court, London, yesterday, Mrs Mary Brown, of independent means, 70 years of age, was again charged with being drunk and incapable in Mare-street, Hackney.—Police-constable 44 H R deposed that on Monday evening ho found Mrs Brown lying on the pavement. She got up and clung to the railings, but was unable to walk away, ...