... DAMAGES FOR BREACH OF PROMISE, * P ?ROTRACTED ENGAGEMENT. 0 MANY fisSES AND ONE BANGER. jlefoe Mr. JustCe Rtidley enda common jury in thQ Queeo'a Beuch Divisiou yesterday, Pilley v. lorlty waS an action for brtch of .promise of marriago the pasrties to whieh tesided rt Walthamistowv. The plain- ?? was Elizabeth Annie Susun Pilley, at domestic sur- VdUt, aged ^3 years of te, now rtishiig ...

... IA NURSE C5HILDs SHO E D ' ?? SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS. Mr SCENES LN COURT. Last night at ?? Canbecwell Coroner's Court, Mr. LO 3. ?? WyVi. Coroner, opened an inquiry respcctng yj the da=th of a wale child, tuppused to be tramed Siduey White, ago unknown, which took place under mysterious ciruristanes. A Elha= oodwin. of 252, Sonuthm;ptou-street, Peek- V barn, befure giving evilence was ?? by ...

... 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 ...

... TOE STOKES WILL SUIT. In the Probate division, on Tuesday, Sir Francis Jeune bad before him the case of Stokes v. Stokes (by Guardian) -Stokes and others' cited. The plain- tiff, Mr. Mean Brooke Stokes, was one of the executors appointed under the last will 6f ChariesHenry Stokes, late of East Central Africa, a trader, deceased, who died on Jan. 15. 1895. The will bore date Sept. 18, 1894. ...

... YESTERDAY'S LAW AND P OLICE. - RECEIVING ORDERS. Yesterday, at the London Court of gankruptcy, petitions were heard be. fore Ir. Registrar Hope. In the matter of E. R. Savigny a receiving order was made under a petition presented against tbe debtor, trading as the MorEe BIauufacturing company and the London and South-eastern bank, and described as a watch manufacturer and banker, lately ...

... |}fw '~EAR $RISTOI# A marlret gardener -named Xames Biokett6, of Wick, 'a hamlet five Riles from Bristol, Was murdered on Monday eveaning on the highroad, near his home. :hehad given.a.young .man a lift in hi. cart, and people at a distance saw the men apparently quarrelling. The body was subsequently fou qd in a ditch writ four stabbing wounds in the region of the heart. The assailant eacaped ...

... GROSVENOR HOTEL AFFAIR& ALLEGATIONS AGAINST DIRECTORS. A libel action arising out of the Board of Trade investigation of the affairs of the Grosvenor and West- end Railway Terminus Hotel Company came before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury in the Queen's Eench Division. The plaintiff, Mr. Edward James Newitt, is one of thle directors of the hotel, acid is also a director of the ...

... A DO32STIV TRAGJEDY. Dr. T. Jackson held an inquest at Croydon ou Wed- nesday concerning thedeath of Annie i3horthouses, aged thirty-eight years, the wife of Dr. Nerille ShortiLoise, formerly a well-known practitioner in Croydon, who is at present in custody on a charge of complicity in cer. trin illegal practices. Dr. Shorthouse wee at une time a inrusber of the Croydon Town Council. At the ...

... _, . _~ NOISY EVANGELISTS FINED. MORE ROWDY SCENES. PRAYING FOR WITNESSES. Raymond Hadley, of Church-street, Islington, was summoned at the North London Police Court on Tuesday for playing a noisy instrument to the annoy. ance of Eugene Driscoll, of St. Thomas's-road, IFinsbury Park. William Cook, of Gillespie-rond, and George Humphrey Knight, of Lennox-road, wero ea-h summoned for aiding and ...

... WELL,-TO-D0 PEOPLE IN COURT-YES LERDAY. Yesterday at the North London Police Court a good-looking, well-dressed girl, who gave the name of Violet McCord, 22, but who refused lher address, was charged before Mr. D'Eyneourt with attempting to commit suicide. Constables 127 J said that at 1.45 that morning lie saw the prisoner talleing to a gentle. man in the Sylvester-road, Hackney. A few ...

... MIDDLESEX SESSIONS- YESTERDAY. There were nineteen persons for trial yesterday, Mr. Littler, addressing the grand jury. referred to !6. case where a man wes charged with indecently 3assaulting his own danghterat dinionton. T;;e pri. 3ener, this girl (aged sixteen), a grown-np son, and five children, slept in one room. Rt was almost as much the faul of the community as the persoes themselves ...

... A DELAYED REPORT. SHOT HIMSELF BEFORE A MIRROR. It has been ascertained that Sir Charles Arthur FAirlie-Cuniagltame, Part., committed suicide on December 2; last by shootiag himself at the Hotel Victoria, Nertltuielaxsd-nue. Sir Charlesr was the elerenth baroonet and was born in I8. ife si11- ceeded to theobaronetcy in 1 831, when he adopted the namneof Fairlie-C aunti-htae in tile placo of ...