... SAUNDERSON AGAIN IN COURT. Mr. Curtis Bennett proceeded, on Friday, at the West London Police Court, to hear the remainder of the evidence against Reginald Saundersou, 21, who was charged with the wilful murderof Augusta Dawes, aged about twenty-nine, by cutting her throat with a Swedish knife in Holland-park-road, on Sunday night, the 25th ult. The prisoner, as he was brought into court, ...

... GAS COMPANY APPEALS IN VAIN. Judge Lumley Smith, Q.C., gave his decision in Westminster County Court, on Monday, on an appli- cation made by the Gas Light and Coke Company for a new trial in the ease of the man Brooks, whom a jury on the 2nd inst. awarded .30 damages under the Employers Liability Act, for injuries he received through the tilting of a ladder. Mr. Loebms had applied for a new ...

... XIDDLESEX SESSIONS. EIGHT MONTHS FOR 5s. The first man before this eminent Q.C. yesterday was Willtiam} Daobbs, horsekeper, who was convicted of stealing a coat, value Se. He has already been in cus- todv for three monthls. Mr. Littler nov obliged him with five months more. There is nothing known against you,, he said, but You must bare It suffi. ciently sharp sentenec to make you ...

... In the Probate and Divorce Division on Weduesqay, before Sir F. Jeune, the trial of the case of Neels v. Neels and Hopkins was begun. It was a petition pre- sented by the husband, John Edward Neele, praying for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of his wife's misconduct with the co-respondent, Palmer Hopkins. Counter claims were made against the petitioner. The parties were married ...

... TALE OF A CAB AND BOX. At Bow-street, George Pritehard, a respectable- looking yonug follow, was chbr-ed before Mr. Vaughan with theft. Mrs. Anna Maria Druee, of Endshligh- gardens, was driving through Woburn-squnare, when, she, says Pritchard, taking advantage of a stoppage in the traffic, stole a box from the top of the rab in which she was sitting. Seeing that the theft was noticed, her ...

... TxiE B3E SAT DA3BSTER. The inquest on the five victims of the panic in the Belfast school-house was resumed on Monday by the Coroner for the city, Mr. E. S. Finnegan. A dis. crepancy between the evidence of Head Constable McGauran and one of the toachers with that given by the two boys, Hobbs and O'Donnell, was cleared up. The boys swore the Ind McKeona, now in custody, turned a screw at the ...

... SEBIOUS CEARIG AaAIZTST A C0UNTY I COUNiCIL I1UPECTOR. At the Thames Police Court on Thursday, David Edwards, described as an engineer, of Moreland-street, Tollington Park, was summoned for unlawfully and corruptly soliciting a reward of £3, as an inducement toforbear giving evidence in respect of a matter in which the London County Council was concerned, which was an application to the ...

... CATCHING A SPIRIT. MRS. BESANT AMONG THE SITTERS. Recently Mrs. Besant, who is at present in Aus. tralia, attended a Spiritualist seance at the house of Dr. MecCarthy, in Sydney. Some extraordinary manifestations were witnessed; but to satisfy the doubting, it was arranged to hold a test seance. This came duly off, and is described as follows by a re, porter of the Sydney Stunday Times:- Mrs, ...

... CAPTAIN AND HIS WIFE. Edward Paul, 44, is described as an ex-captain of the Lancers, yet he and his wife get drunk and settle their differences in the public street. They were in Wilton-rosd opposite their own house in Pimlico, and bad attracted a large crowd by struggling and bawling and tumbling about. Constable Martin found it necessary to arrest the wife and her husband kept interfering ...

... ; XXI CUELTYTO A f Y. illialn Henry Westlirook. 22, footman, was in. clat the London County Sessions, on Tuesday, for i.v;:l1 ill-treated Dovn hy Daisy Westbrook, aged five til- Mr. A. Hutton and Mr. Booth, instructed by o Sictv for thne Prevention of Cruelty to Children, - cutS Mr. G-. Paul Taylor represented the Mr. Hutton said the charge was one of liCharncter, 111(l1 an Act of Parliament ...

... 'SlENSATIOALo :S~UII OF A . TYILLIONAIRE'S SON. EXTRAORDIN'ARY: LETTER$. Yesterday afternoon, 'at the. Orleans Arms HHotel, Esheri Mr. A. Braxtou Hicks bold an inquiry concern- ing. the death of Lloyd Burdekin, aged tweoty-tv%0 years, tho son of an Australian millionaire, lately re- siding at Fern-cottnges, Western Green, Thames Ditton, who committed suicide at that address, under ...

... COLONEIL XUZOHELL'S PLEA. Colonel Mitchell, who has twice before moved the Appeal Court over a personal matter between himself and the War Office, appeared again on Monday to urge his plea. This time the gallant officer, who is retired from the service, appeared n his uniform. The Master of the Rolls, addressing the Colonel, said: Why do you come dressed like that P Are you going to frighten ...