... 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 ...

... SOUTH LONDON TRAGEDY. f VERDICT OF 'WILFUL MURDER. Mr. Laongiam conclided an inquiry at Guy's Hos. t pital respecting the death of Cliarles Levi, aged thirty. E five years, a horselceecer, ilto of 43, Lion-buildings i (Block 1, Lion-street, New Kent-road. AmeliaHard. I ing, a woman of aboat fifty years, now stands ro. - wmnded from the Lambeth Police Court charged, on her own confession, ...

... L&MOUP. LMADEMS TRIYUML313. At Lambeth Polico Court on Wednosdi~y, William Joseph Vtier, 39, a well-drcesed man, who was said to beb well known in Labour circles cud who was de. scribed on the elarge-ehset as a boot icker, of Bir- stall-atreet, Lcieest3r, was charged before 'Mr. Den. man, on a wrlrant, with negleetinu to maintain hlil wife and four rhildren, whereby they lhid become chargeable ...

... INQUEST ON MISS CHILCOTT. Mr. Luxmoro Drew held an inquest on Friday at Pulihnn on the body of Miss Josephine Chiloott, aged thirty-four, of 16, Edith-villas, West Kensington, who was reirevuded at the West London Police Court last week on a charge instituted bythe Poetmaster-General of having sent blackbeetles and scurrilous post. cards, -c., to Mrs. Sands, of Cricklewood. She was found (ead ...

... BA1 IES SOLD LIKE MEAT. jMr. Hodiakiusou held an inquest at Tottenham respecting the death of May Steinhauer, aged one year fnd teon nonths, the illegitimate daughter of Louisa Stei!1hauer, a machinist, residing at 83, Derriondsey. strPet, S.E. The Mo-hor stated that her child hnd been handed over to Mrs. Elizabeth Reley, of rangemore-road, Tottenham. on September !2, in tho cloak room at ...

... nUCTIONJS AT A CITU7FC-2 AZMY The incidents of a lively meeting at the Church Army Mission Hell, Crawford-strect. were related before Mr. Plowden at the 'otarylebolie Police Court on Tuuesday. In the dock was a respectable-looking married woman, named Maria Powrell, 24, living at York-street, Maryleboue, who was ?? lwith being drunk and disorderly, anal also witl ass.aulting Philin Prior, a ...

... TEE EIGUT TO BE REFORTMD. S*IGULAR SUJIT FOP LIBEL. A remarkable claim for damages for conspiracy and alleged libel was brought beoore Mr. Justice Hawkins in the Queen s Bench Division on Tuesday. A West Bromwich solicitor named John Sutton Sharpe sued the proprietor, the editor, and a reporter of the Birniin)jharn Daily Post and dafiL for having, as ho contended, improperly suppressed his ...