... - There were lively times yesterday afternoon at the meeting of the ' Society for the Study of Inebriates, at their rooms in Chandos-street, Portland place. Dr. Arehdale Reid rave an address upon The Temperance Fallacy, and teeto- talers turned up in strong force to oppose him. Dr. Reid went for the advocates of teetotalism in no set terms, and struck out at them with great vigour. Con' ...

... THE WIFE AT 7 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 ,. ?? _ : ..i $ N OF ~ DEATA.~ :A l:.cheke On = its 3tos.-i Mellsm', a milljeorekeeper afif (]dham.chmrged with bh:wi~l inrer of his wife; MaryJaie1 Meld,:t XOld-. haiv, !.September last, waaeomnrencedS -Mr. Siiyy. ?? in -ning the f ioas, *jiad the. pisonern~thie~oeavedwmn- liad lived. together at 41 - olims-roud Ofdbe- Ior roime iyeie, but.,'had nov bqen mire'd tiU ...

... Fredi. Collins, 21, a porter , John Jones, 22, a labourer; and a third man, aged 24, who gave the name of Scrog. gins (all refusing their addresses) were charged, at Clerkenwell poliee.conrt, on Saturday, with breaking into the shop. 10, Lamb's Conduit-street, Holborn, and with stealing therefrom 47Tgo'd watches, 82 silver watches, 15 gold chains, six Sil. ver ditto, 18 gold rings, and ...

... A WOM'S: THROAT OuTI IN ROTHEilHITHE. A murder was perpetratid at am early hour on Sunday morningnear the Rother. hithe New-road,.ltotherhithc, Close. to the spot where the crime.we eommitted is a public-house called the Sir Garnet Wolseley. A few -minutes after the house had closed Oa the night of June 24, three piercing screams-were heard, aad at No. 51, Silverlock-etreet, a woman was found ...

... ACCUSED DISCHARGED. Arthur Fasnacht, 2A, comedian, of Clarence-terrace, Hagerston, surren- dered at the North London police-oourt on Tuesday, to his bail to answer the charge of causing the death of his wife, who was known in the music-hall profes- sion as Maggie Dudley.-Ilr. Wil. liamson prosecuted for the Treasury; and Mr. D. A. Romain defended.- Dr. M. Greenwood, of 243, Hackney- road, ...

... MURDER OP ThEE C ?? SUICI:DI OF TIMn FATH A lodging-house keeper named ?? Maines, occupiug the Springt9arden the Den Promenad a r nS the throats of ?? tee boys, aged respectively fees three years, and a girl of ten ?? Monday, and afterwards throat, the heads in each case z nearly severed from the bcels being stated that flames had beensfor tine depressed in spirits asrd hatho and his wife did ...

... BREICH OF PROMISE. SOLICITOB'S PFLA OF INSANIX. In the Queen's Bench division, on Monday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins and a special jury, the hearing of the case Sealley v. Creed was ?? was an action in which the plaintiff sued to recover damages for the breach of a promise of ?? defendant de- nied that he had entered into the con- traet alleged and in the alternative asserted that if he had ...

... t OLD BAILEY TBIALS. | A Bz~epING LrrTnn IMPOSTOR. - Johns Harve6y, 68, described as a/begging letter impostor, pleaded Guilty'! to obtaining money from the benevolent by means of begging ?? prisoner had been several times convicted of a similar ?? Recorder sentenced him to three years' penal servitude. C0oNCEALENT OF BIRTH. - Bessie WaLker, 35, a cook, oleaded Guilty to the concealment ...

... OLD: BAILEY TRIALS. BIGAXT COMPLICATION& - George Escourt CressoeU, a public-house mana- get, who pleaded Guilty last sessions to biga1y, was- placed in the dock for sentence.-Mr. E. J.. Drake, for the do- fondant, reminded the court that this was the case in which the accuseds wite left him shortly after their marriage in 1886, maed went away with two other men. Six or seven years later ...

... TEE AlEGEND ROBB-YAOs A _ SCOTCH EXPESs. Th police srested, on 'riday, in the neighbourhood of King's-cross, a tall, stylishly.dressed man, On suspimion of big conacerned in robbing frr Car-. Alexnderu a commercial traveller, of Pobukrhields, who das fornd anionsiofus nt Carhasle or Saturday night, Mhreh 13, inatrainwhichhad left St.panras s 2.10 p.m. the sane day. The moan wT taken to the ...

... I A FALL WITH A BABY. At Lambeth, yesterday, the coroner held an inquiry into the death of Dorothy Ellen Bailey, aged one year and seven months, whose parentsli e at Harlington- road, South Lambeth. The evidence of the uiotper showed that she sent the child out in the care of Louisa Green, aged 13. In the street the girl fell with deceased, who was subsequently taken to St. Thomas's hospital. ...

... At Marlborough- street police -court yesterday, a t 11 well-dressed man, who refused to give any information about himself, and wasalkeged tohiave obtained 51. and 71. lis. reFI octisely from tong's hotel, Bond-stef-t, and Mitchel's hotel, Dover-street, Piccadilly, was again before the icnnistrate-Mr. Sims pro- secuted for sho Trseasury.-At the previous beariig it was shown that the prisoner, ...