... ?? LORD BRAMWELL, referring to the censure passed on the Home Secretary for his decision in the Crewe murder-case, reports one of a somewhat, and only somewhat, analogous kind, with a similar termination, which came under his judicial cognisance thirty years or so ago. Two young men tried before him for murder, were con- victed, and sentenced to death. They had waylaid their victim in order to ...

... A short time ago an action was raised in the Greenock Sheriff Court, at the instance of Harry Tempest Batty, operatic and dramatic entrepreneur, 2, Charing-cross, Glasgow, against Alexander Wright, lessee and manager of the Theatre Royal, Greenock. The court was asked to call upon defender to produce a full account of his intromissions with sums of money drawn by him at his theatre from Aug. ...

... [ As briefly mentioned last week the summonses in what is known as the Manchester Folly Theatre case were heard in a crowded court, and before a large number of magistrates, at the Manchester City Police-court, on the 23d ult. It having been decided by the prosecution that it was not desirable to lay an information under the local or licensing Acts, they were issued under the common law, all ...

... THE TEWW MAGDALEN. In the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, before Mr Justice Kekewich, on the 12th inst., came up the action Schlesinger v. Turner. This was an action by the trustees and executors of the will of the late Mr Wilkie Collins to restrain the defendant, a clerk to the Machineryand Hardware Company, 147, Queen Victoria- street, from performing a play called The New ...

... A special session of the City Justices of Liverpool was held on Monday, at the City Police-court, to hear applications for music, singing, and dancing licences. There were on the Bench Messrs E. Browne (in the chair), Isaac Morris, T. Matheson. and Admiral Gough. Thomas Reymond, licensee of the York Hotel, Williamson-square, applied for a licence for singing and music for his establishment. Mr ...

... 0 JAMES PANTON, a horsedealer, of 2, Earlsfield-villas, a Balham Park-road, Streatham, was charged on r Monday morning, at the Wandsworth Police-court, o with feloniously shooting ]Vr. James Harrow, chief r clerk at Wandsworth-common Railway-station, with a intent to murder him. Inspector Cuddy iuformed a the magistrate that the injured man wvas in St. 0 Thomas's Hospital and too severely ...

... FATAL FIGHT IN BLACKFFRIARS. 1, 0 - [SUBJECT OF ILLSTRATION.] 11 ON Wediesday- Mr. Wyatt held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital respecting the death of Charles Wray, aged twenty.-eight, a fish-curer, of Joiner- It street, NW estminster-bridge-road, who, it is alleged, rwas killed ii-a fight with 'a man known as Long Le Denny, in Friar-street, Blackfriars-road, on Non.. sr day. Henry Wray, ...

... STAGE! PLAYS IN CLUBS. ON Friday, at the Worship-sbreet Police oourb, tbe d rehearing of the adjourned summonses taken out a against Jacob Lofeas, Fanny Lofeas, Abraham Smith N and David Smith, for carrying on the premises, 3, I Princes-street, Spibalfields, known as the Hebrew I: Dramatio Club, for the purposes of the public e representation of stage plays, the same being r unlicensed by the ...

... THE WIFE MURDER AT BAIT'ERSEA. SAMUEL EIsrAeEs HARVELL, tle manager to an oilman carrying on business in Plough-road, Battecsea, has been re-examined, at the Wandsworth Police-court, on the charge of wilfully murdering his wife Rosins, by shooting her in the temple while she lay asleep in bed. The pri- soner, as on the occasion of the first hearing, exhibited very little or no concern. The ...

... EXTR. -RDINARTY MARKET CASE. ed AT the CGeidhall Police-courb George Henry Dobson, |th ho salesma.k arI. John Harrman, scalensazao, in the auc s employ oF Measrs. Ward and Sbimpeon, salesmen in the ,v. the Cenbral V48at Market, were summoned at the , instonce nf Dav',j;oham Cha;pmnvm, of 402, Edgware. p road, for comnalmtitig a fraud in the use oi a weigh- poa .ueg-mauhine on the 6th inst. ...

... STHE BLACK MUSEUM, |SOOTLAND YARD. THE PARK LANE MURDER. MARGUERITE DIXBLANC, it was generally supposed, was a person who, for some political offence, had sought refuge in England shortly after the second siege of Paris aud the fall of the Commune. She was exceedingly fond of relating stories of her doings in the French capital during the Commune, stories in which she always figured as a ...

... AT the North London Polco-court, before Mr. Bros, Riohard Arthur Oakes, fifty-nine, chemisb and dzg7 A gist, and Amy Oakes, forby-six, his wffejwesse- - charged on remand with having been coneerned: ( together in the wilful murder of Arthur Augustus' i Oakes, aged eight, their son, by administering strych- J nine poison; and further with attempting suicide by i taking atrychnine themeelves and ...