... MMT1AORDINARY TRAGEDY AT I I I KRTON. SUPP02M XIRDEM m. wabrought to light at ~ito, ea BllnsGren but noon on Sunday when an engine tenter named Thomas Elliman, aged 18, was found dead in the cuttin Of. the MA Loester Ship Canal, with a bullet woundl nhis breast Illiman had latterly superintended one of the niny p ping enges which surmount the embankments. of Pgee Cana at intervals in this ...

... E- S LOCRESTER SU-MR ASSIES. CROWN COU1R'-.Trrspmy. (Before Ma. Jsmcrx- SEm) The Judge, in charging the grand jury, said be bd been to Xnchestev on several occasions, upon which he had found the calendar usually so intainU from 80 to 100 cases, and yet that day he only found I 18 cases for trial. The Assize Relief Act had done something towards reducing the number of pnrsoners for trial at ...

... CUi AXtE'STER SUMlMER ASSIZES. i CROWN COURT.-YESTERDAY. [SEwoas ML. Jtsncz A. L Smo;j THE COAL FRAUDS IN MANOEESTEI David Johnson, George Wm. Sewesl, WmL Roberls, and Chazes Daries were indicted for having con- spired together to defraud numerous persons of money in reference todealings in coaL Mr. Hopwood,Q.C., Recorder of Liverpool, and Mr. Sutton conducted the prosecution; Sir Charles ...

... I £10,000 DAMAGES. The hearing of a singular breach of promise case was concluded at the Leves assizes on Tuesday. The plaintiff was Miss Gladys Knowles, 21, a young lady of good family, and the defendant was Mr. Lestlie Fraser Duncan, editor and proprietor of the .later-i * menial News. The plaintiff, who claimed £2,00 damages, stated in her evidence, given on Monday, that early in March of ...

... X RNCH pw'TRS SS1ZES. CROWN COURT SATURDAY. (Before Mr. Justice Charles.) CgiIbNIAL ASSA.ULT OASES. The ourtwas cceljed during the whole of the day Trheilf coases in%.0 whieta prisoners were charged with 1tiinicasUy assaultiflg young girls. WilirWodf, 41. 1laborer.r was sentenced to 21 calendar months' iM- precf~t 'with hard labour for anl assault upon Fsthor Eunipt Woodruff, at BlaskbiiCO, on ...

... ACTION ON A FjROMISSORY OTE.I EXTRAORDIN'ARY fASE. In the NisiPriu ?? A.\izrsse Tl day, Air. Justice Bruce and a special pjrl hearl r cae of Thornton and others v. Evans, whnan i' brought to. recover £905 due on a pronmior' The defence was that the note had been alleori 3 issue, and that if' there was any cons ideration i an illegal consideration. The plairitrffs vere rE sebited by Mr. ...

... | P.ROiSECUTION OF A BiNIMUPT. A MISSING ASSET. Before Mr. }leadlan't at the Citv PoliCecimirr, yesterday, Williamson Hlollandi, a banLrupt, formerly carrying on l iusitiess in Oxford-street as a inerelilait, a:nd living at Alderley Edge, was sumionmed for failing to accoun11t, il Ils hbilnkruptcy, for eri-tain moneys re- ceived just prior to his hliaikrtiptciy. It was a Treasury prosecution, ...

... I THE 1iAIRARI) UNION TRIAL. Thc trial of Sir Henry IEasie. Mr. Horatio Bottom. ley, Mr. .T. Iseaes, and. Mr. C. Dolman, on the charge of conspiracy to defrand the shareholders of the Hao- sard Union, was resumed on Monday before Mr. Justice Hawkins. The case, which openol in the last term, had been adjourned through the illness of one of the jurymon. In the abserne of Sir- Charles Ruesell, ...

... TUFI ATTEMITED, W1VIF AFi, f AT n~tll. V~rE~ll-Trklf II El ?? E,1R~~r il ?? ~ I - ?? ll- , ?? Josn Fldward Uentl-Yv, K3U liibourer. an e.-soldier. Was indicted a' tbh 'he-ter Assizes, on Friday, for the attemnptel niurde of hii wi-e at Stal>bridze. Mr. R. R. Lloyd 'ee'itd, anti Mr. Afarsrhail de. fended. f:sther Bentley 'aid she ?? been married nieii'lv 2 years. and ?? two I hildren. in ' ...

... 'FriuI U ,REAT CuTTuN FRAlUDS. RLSTI.X0; t)ON WILSON AND LUNT. At the, Liverpool Asi.izes on Fridiay mnorning, Mfrr. Justice Denman hadl beforr him for sentence the two nmien John Alexander Wilson, nged 35, cashier, and Isaa.c Parry Lunit aged 29, cotton broker. His lordshi;, in ;'asgsiln sentenoe, first addremsed Wilson, anid said he bad ?? guilty to more than one act of forgery on a great ...

... I TERRIBLE CRIIME AI BIACKBUDN. MIlURDER OF A CHILD. SEVERIAL ARRESTS. A terrible crimse, which in some of its main featares resembles the notorious Fish tragedy which stirred the whole country to its depths some years ago, was dis- covered on Tuesday afternoon at Feniseliffe. Witton, near Blaclburn. It appears that at 20 minutes past one o'clock a vwoman named Martha Iindle, of 120, Whalley ...

... ?? [ I T1l L I D E E, A IIIN (.1 AMUI:dtDEI)Iii. A Melbourne despatchi says: Tt is under- I stodac that Mv r. Marshailfl Lyle. Deem- i ig5S sOiiCitfor, will instrui:t counsM1 tol apply fcr a postponement of his trial. Thej grounds of the upplication are of a solliewhat peueiar cI1rcharacter, as they amount 1o a ?? adinission on the prisoner's par' of the lhopelessnesp oi attemiipting to ...