... WERST RIDING DIVISION. LEEDS TOWN HALL, WEDNESDAY. CROWN COURT. (Before Mr. Justice GsAsr2naA) TEE YOrKSIRE PROvIDENT SOCIETY CASE. ACQUITTAL OF THE DIRECTORS. ANDREW ALEXANDER WATSON (chairman), JOHIN THOMAS HARTLEY, and JOHN HENRY RILEY (directors) were charged with having conspired together to prepare and with preparing and depositing with the Board of Trade a statement of the revenue ...

... LEEDS QUARER SESSIONS. The SpringQuarter esions for the borogof LeedD were resumed yesterday at the Towrn Hal, before the Uxaoosu (Mr. 3. B. Brker), in the first Court, and MIr. VXECsis T. ,TEoflSO (Assistant Rrer) on the second Court. Richard Da Cnnms (51), shopkeeper, was found guilty of indecent exposure at Leeds, on the 2nd February last. The learned B=ooasa said that he had conncted the ...

... I ant INQUIRY IN LONDON. Mnt he ,Yesterday a special meeting of the Wesleyait Foreign bhe Missionary Committee was held at the Weslevan. Mission- inhe ue isosae-ttwithin, to consider' the articles on seqhauec'eared in the Aeeksdisfelimeslast year. In con- Ld quneof the great interest which this discussion has aroused, there was a very large attendance of members of the committee, both fiom ...

... CouNTxEei CoiN.-At the Leeds Poice-court yester- day, betue f Arr. Bruce, Jcseph Aldersoa and George A' tkinsou. rsnm A ,rie wvere char-ed with being in posses- sion of couuterteit ?? Lincoln stated that he %vent to a house in Gaire-walk, Hilbeck, where he found the two prisoners. He searched thenm, aud found a number of base coins-soae in tue nocket of one ot the, prisoners and others hidden ...

... THE ALLEGED LEBL ON MR. HARRY MR. MARES'S CROSS - EXAMINATION. The trial of George..Washington Butterfield for 2 alleged libel on Mr. Harry Marks was resumed at the 2 Old Bailey yesterday morning. Sir Charles Russell, Q.C., Mr. C. Mathews, and e Mr. A. Russell prosecuted, and Mr. C. F. Gill and Mr. A. Gill defended. One of tho jurors was not present when the case -was called, and half an hour ...

... MURDER OF A SCHOOLMISTRESS. NEAR BOLTON. ARREST OF A TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN ON SUSPICION. The neighbourhood of Bolton wag startled on Saturday e night by the discovery of a shocking tragedy, the b surroundings of which left no doubt that a murder had , been committed. The victim was M&iss Elizabeth Ann BHolt, aged 21 years, the younger of two daughters of a widow living in Darwen-zoad, Dunscar. ...

... LOCKWOOD'S CASE. - UTTFOUNDED ALLEGrIONS. I Wl~acomittee of the Yorkshire Rugby Football Union last right resumed their iuqury into the status of P. EF Lockwood, of the Ileckmondwike Club, at the (Jriaffin Iotel, Leeds. It wall be remembered that on December 27tb, when the matter was considered, Mr. Miagley, of Dvewsbury, wseo was called to gvee evidence, declined to do so until he got to the ...

... FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENTS AT RUTHERKAM. THE REPRESENTATION OP AIMNERS AT INQUESTS. Yesterday Mr. D. Wigltman, Coroner, held two in- quests at Parkgate, Rotherham, touching the deaths of Frank Jennings, aged about eighteen years, of Eolm Flat-street, Parkgate, who was killed at the Aldwarke Main Colliery; and of James Wordley, aged thirty-six years, of Lloyd-street, Park-gate, who was killed at ...

... BOARDING SChOOL REVELATIONS. At the Brentford County Court on Saturday, before Judge Stonor and a jury, an action was taken by Mr. Metsialfe, of the Post-office, near Richmond, on betnalf of himself and two nephews, to recover £46 its. from the Rev. Burham l'egg, late Principal of Bath House College, Twickoolisna, as damages for pain and suffering caused by breach of contract of the defendant, ...

... THE LEEMING 31URDES. (Fao oUB ?? BEEORTL) Wellt anythe ing Id orig?e was the question put 'Wapolie-,a ce 'in Bstt edtal Market-place a wveek ao tho-da.e wo, he replied; a you'll have to ,wait rtill we hvey ae bi murder ite poe-' tofficer was Sergeanit W~eedy; the itheig murder of ga~ken place 'ail he himself Is the 'vielim it w-a ,a strange remarlk for Wyeedy to make; psychologists nave ...

... THE MURDER OF POLICE -SERGESNT WNEEIY>. EXAMINATIONt OF THE PRISONER BEFORE THEI MAUISTRATES. Yesterday, at Bedalo Petty Sessions, held in the Assembly Rooms, before Captain Carter (Chairman), Sir H. Beresford-Peir-e, Bart., Sir Charles Dochworth, Mr. H. Rouse, Captain Lascelles, and Mdr. Powlett Milback. Robert hitching, market gardener, Lesming, was brought up in custody, charged with the ...

... A YORKSHIRE FARMER KILLED DE LIGHTNING. I Yesterday afternoon Mr. Thomas Drury, farmer and cattle dealer, was killed by lightning at Riston-in-!' Holderness, where he had a farm. He had eet off to ride to one of his fields, and was shortly afterwards found lving dead on the roadfwith his horse standing beside him. j He vwa a burnt about the head and face. The deceased gentleman was marriedv e ...