... LIFT IN 'AlICAO I . I I THE CHARGE AGAINS8T.IEB. IhRCItEB i LOSSOF A STEAMER AND SEVENTEEN L IVE So SPECIAL CABLEGOAX. 3 PP.! OMOUR OWN CORRESPONDEN{T. N. w YOR}, MONDAY.-HaCch interest has been. aroused by a despatch received this a fternoon fromn Quebec announcing that the Grand Jury had thrown out the bills presented against Mfessrs. 3 Mercier and Pacand so far as regards what are known-as ...

... I ?? LOSDoN, THURSDAY. -Lord Roberts has addressed a long letter to Sir Charles Dike and Mr. Wilkinson acknowledging the receipt of their recent book on imperial defence. He says- I cannot say that I entirely concur in the pro- proposals put forward in the fifth chapter. I admit, however that the division of the army into short-service troops for employment at horne, and long-service troops ...

... A YEAR'S CR3IE IN LONDON. LONDo.N, SATURDAY.-The criminal statistics in the annual report of the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police afford some indication of the work of the police in relatioa to crime during 1891, The record, says the Commissioner, is upon the whole an eminently satisfactory one. Fewer felonies relating 'to -property were comnmitted in the metropolis last year than in ...

... IA V INELLIGENOEK /ILAW NOTIE S.- EI DANL. ,R~ T-l-iS~, UT 5 Fr.HAT. COlNRT OF APPEvAL In re Forsythe, deceeased (I); M';Caroeand, accenrt; Bakcer, . onlarorre (2); Soyle, t^-ant; Foster, losu~dlord (3); Crooksabaeh, terant; Low, icoodlerf (4J.. :T'he Ma~tstr of the R~olls wvill 7}ear eriperte epploestions at 10l-5O amr, before going in-to thte Ceurt or Appeal ifOB-CHANOgLLOBt'S CHAM'',BERS. O ...

... AthUGED 1ANS&AUGRIIER IN BEi~LFA, - THaE P RIUSONEIRS BNPO oRE THE MAGISTRATES. TESTRVbAY,. in the' OCstody- Court, before Meesrs . , fi. EAioxj R.M., and DA-vID CoaaUT, J;P., Alexander Billis and John Beattie were charged L with having uilawfully-, wilfully, and feloniously killed one Frederick Gracey on the 1 6th Agust;,- . 189'2. , r. Spiller represented the prosecutiot, Messrs. Harper and ...

... INQUEST. LAST evening an inquest was held in the Morgue by Dr. Dill, city coroner, on the bodies of Mary Fearon, Annie Mullan, and Patrick M'Guinness, who had been drowned in the Lough on Sunday afternoon through the capsizing of a pleasure-boat. Dragging operations had been resumed at an early hour yesterday morning, and the bodies had been found about half-past ten o'clock by James and ...

... CUSTODY COOUBT-YfsTEhDAY. Before Messrs. R. J. EATON, RI&., and DAVID CORBETT, 1.P. LARCENIES. Lizzie Carr, or M'Kenna, was nut forward on the charge of the larceny of a piece of bam, the property of Win. Mulholland, Princes Street. Mr. Spiller prosecuted. On being cautioned, she said she was put up to it by another person. Wm. Mulholland identified the harn as his property. Sarah Jane ...

... BELFAST BANKRUPTCY CURT. Mu. HDsaY FITZGIBBON, Q.C., Recorder of Bel- fast, sat in the Crown Court of the County Court- house, Crumlin Road, yesterday, and took up the hearing of bankruptcy cases. Messrs. EL MI'Neile VI'Oormick, registrar; Edward Allworthy, official assignee; and J. HL B. Murphy, Barrister-at-Lawv, assistant registrar, were in attendance. Several arrangement matters ...

... - WEST BELFAST ELE41TLO?. SINGULAR CHARGE SAL TLSTlAPOLTEMMI.t YSzsBDaYa, in the XSuhmona Court, before Messrs. ?? 3. Eaton, H.M., anod William Bell, J.P., Sergeant Owfen MM'Ddanus was sulmmoned atb the' ...

... As appeal case of some importance has just been dealt with by Sir Peter Mdirn at the County of London sessions. A grocer, who is the proprietor of a number of shops, appealed against a convic- I tion whereby he was fined £3 and costs for selling a mixture of coffee and chicory not of the nature, substances and quality de- manded by the purchaser. It aupeared that an inspector had asked for ...

... .I- Y-uOECUTi'3N` G9 6 EW R FAST A1b DJR1- ' PAWSBROKEIS. Duui, Wo3D nrr..-To-day, in the Northerrn Division of the Police Court, before M)r. Keys, the City M&arshal, Mr. Charles Kavanagh, as registrar of pawnbrokers in Irehand, prosecnted a number of ealfast and Derry pawnbrokers for having in some cases not registered with him, according to the provisions of the Act of the 26th cf George Ill ...

... ROBBERY OF £140 BY A BOY, LoNDcs, SAnIrDu AY.-at the South-Western Police court to-day Samuel Bean, a little boy, who was dressed last week in bhating, clothes, was re- examined on the charge of stealing £1 40 in* Bank of England notes belongzing to his mother, Emily 'Bean, a widow, living at 40, St. John's Hill Gzove i Wandsworth. Charles Palmer, a coffee-house keeper, of 135, Falcon Road, ...