... lI THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2Q BEFORE MRME1TBAN COOPRE. ExnAoITiosS ADJOtoSYCET P05 CLoslrw-The public examinations of John DeAn and James Aspinall Brancker, coal merchaut were ad- journed for dosinz. The public examination of bland Bina Carr, schoolmistress, was closed , B Coemnun AND Co.-Jane Corkll and her daughter, Alicia Emma Brown, appeared on their first public examinnaton. The twodebtos ...

... RIAILWAY RATES INQUIRY. WILTSHIRE EVIDENCE. Thewitnesses before the Railway Rates Commia- sionert yesterday included Mr T, E. Rednman, secretary and one of the managers of Messrs C. and T. Harris, bacon curers, Caine, Wilts, who said that that firm paid £20,000 a year in railway rates for pigs consigned to them, and for bacon after it was cured. The proposals of the companies with regard to ...

... On the 7ch of this month a young lad of respect- I able appearance was convicted in the Pelice Court I of Ediaburgh-before Bailie M'Lachlan-ef the r theft of a gold watch and chain from the dwelling. I house of the keeper of the Young Mlen's Christian 4 Association Rooms, South St Andrew Street, Edinburgh, on evidence which seemed to he of t the most conclusive nature. It was stated t in ...

... SERIES OF PETTY THEFTS IN BANFF, Since the New Year a Perivs of thefts of a more or less serious character has been perpetrated from shops in Bauff, and it was only the other day that, on Mrs Marshall, a enmall dealer in Strait Pati, giving information to the police that same fish had been stolen from her shop, the thefte were dis- covered. Constable Davidson was the tirst to tako up the Cue, ...

... MURDER IN WESTMORLAIND. SENT:ENCE£ OF DEAmpI At Wetmoreland Assiesz at Appleby yesterday, before Mr. Justie Charles, John lfe, the son of a farmer and statesmann residing at Longmarton, was charged with the wiltul murder of his stepmother, Rosamond Metcalfe, on November 23rd. At the time of committing the offence with which he was chaxrged, the prisoner resided with his father. On the ...

... THE LONDON AND NORTHMWSTE&N R@AILWAY., THE CHARlGE OF gQUTIC±L PraSCUMnON AT COESz. The half-yearly Meeting Of the shareholders of the, London and North-Western Railway Company was tield at Euston yesterday, under the presidency !o Sir PRichard Moon. Conoiderable interest was, cen'ered in the gathering because of the aileg.ations smade that some of the Crewe officials of tihe company had ...

... -- - -1 LIVERPOOL POLICE ?? THRSTMAVhv Ings_ tt; Id THURSDAY, LIJCI Am. mt;&Y Tliz Dis.aged 19, wan chaig34 ABGnSeLS Te prione we t Flod-street, on the emi; e i e hile the mnager was serving he prfsoner leam IOernhet the ?? the till when the the prisoner ran away, but was at any was stated that the p Wier Pi/ ert X I .n- month's impnsronetne at thehatrj ; the haling in his posisessio a-: ...

... LAW NOTICES.-Tais DAZ. ?? T'BB LEGALE 'DIRhY. ntiM. COURT OF APPEAL. P'alrmer v.. rik'Cormlick, at (roaring (1). ROLLS. Dridinconrr v. De Meachin (1; Fitzgcerald v. feRoseltL(2); eto v. Millar (5); Tronuseil v. O'ricna (6); NI'Dernrete v. Stevenson (7). VICE-CHAXCRELLOR. penneliy v. Kelly (1i: Hiatiln v. L.ase (2): Hopkins v. Hopkins. to sign ci'r'liicate (:J; Deveremr v. Devare,,, to sign ...

... Mn. IniM RaY FlTzcizno-s.4D Q.C., resumed the busi- I ness of this court yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock. in the Recorder's Court, MunicipalI Buildingrs. If Mr. Thomas Cunningham, registrar. was in attendance. . WH~ITE v. 2EWING. ...

... ?? LA LW IM NLLIGET 7- .. - %- i- . - . . ;, ?? ?? YESTERDAY. ; COURT OF APPEAL. (Before the Lord Chancellor and Lord Justices Fitzgibbon and Barry.) PALmER v 'CoRancie-The arguments in this -appeal, which was openied and partly heard on C fomer days, --were -resumed. The action was t( | one in which 1Mr.: Roger Cavendish Palmer, t! as landlord of the house and lands of -Car- W rowm'ore, ...

... FIRST DIVISION-THunSDAY, February 20. (Before the LonD.Pr.,-SarnT, Lords Sae-SD, ADAM, and M'thAiN-.) APPEALJOE.N SHIAW V. CALEDOAW BAILW&LY I ?? The First Division ?? of an ?? from the Glasgow Sheriff Court in an ?? by John Shaw, eBarobroker, Wardrobe Chnambtrs, Doctors' Commons, London, agalust the Caledonian Pail- way Company and John ilayner, SOl ugh Street, London, to ordain the railway ? ...

... THREE MURDERERS SENTENOED TO I)IEATH. The trial of Joseph and Samuel Boswell and Alfred Hill for the murder of Frederick Stephens, a gameskeeper employed by the Duc d'Aumale, was resumed at Worcester Assizos yesterday.- The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against ; all the prisoners, Whom Justice Iawkilns sen- tenced to death. THE SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. Lord George Hamilton presided at ...