... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ILME A LLEi.{Ef) THEFTS AT| i LUN D Y. At the DWeoutiusdrtcrhessioniOiL Wve aosrkiY -before Mr. W. }f, litiv andl GoloDet' Lucas-James Biding, di~iver, (r!Y QAzir piadea r0to grailty to chaprg au Z 2slg betwvean the l1t Augnst-and 25th 'Sbptember, 1897, 14l71bs of cl-pper stnamll, piping. value- £16, f'rou the n recuied liop SlidadO,' at hitndy I sland .MMl [lawke (inistructPd byv MI r. ...

... 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 ...

... FRESH GOLD FIND AT- t .I kEIONDIKE. Mr. Bracombe shley, ofgan Fran- ciaco, who in now in England, is the latest corner from the new.Klondike gold isetrict, having left Dawson City on Nov. 12 by the old. Canadian police trail and the Hudson Bay company's trail, whiohhe describesasthe only possible way of escape at the present juncture fronm the laid of gold and atarvation. He paid a visit 'to ...

... I I - . a I JAMMTEON & CO. V. JAMIESON. An appeal by the defendant in this action from the order wande by Mr Justice Byrne on the 12th August laat camue cayes.terday for hearing in London before the M2ster of the Rolls and Lords Justices Rigby and Vaughan Williams. The action was brought to restrain the do- fendant from passing off his harnesu composition as and for that of the plaintiffs, and ...

... |ACTION FOR RECOVERY OF £'5,870. I~~~~~~ I LADY SYKES AND HER HUSBAND. In tilt Qtreti'½. Betrcir yeaitrday, before thoe Lord Chief Justice and a sprezal jury. a Londuoi bill 1i4counter tiamed Jay sol~ight to recovwer fromn Sir 't' tton arid Lady Sykes £15,870 upon live diaisheulerd promissory note* dated Septemn -ber aiil October. 1tto. Mr Ltissawlt Walton, tor plaintiff. stated that Lady Syki ...

... ALLEGED ORUILTY. Ix Abardeon Polios Court yeetday-Bnillis Taylor on the bench-Alexander Mitchell, carter, Dykeside, and David Hendry, sheriff officer, Aberdeen, were charged, at the instance of the Society Ior the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, with having, on 27th December, cruelly ill-treated a horse by working it in a cart while it was suffering from a severe painful lameness on one of ...

... THE POIJOH COURTS, is S. THEM T (PI flit ii WillifAm Mid'Winter, 38, of 6, tlvafraw-road. Lower I liuin-o;a, e and Albert A.Ilen, of Gottgh-streat, ruy'; int-r w ere,~- charged on rematnd tit Went- lI Ittillbir~t Oki hiutttit. ii'ith steatling a bout 401 bi. of Iy si Wt h'dtiguig to N itholitt lrol Seoi, IL'oL-iarno2ntairy pt i;,tio; i, 011 of IKing-streent, W'sLjMjin,,tevr.Prisjnsvvr i it, ? ...

... BRISTOL COUN-TY COURT. '1 |'YESTERDAY. C I Before his Houour Judge austin. |D01PtTL' ABOUT \MACItLNERY. _ Row Ai yND (h Foor TAND Co. v, If. B. MILSO'I;N-M t . E. Weatherly (instructed by Mr A. Fedden) appeared for the plaintif's and MYr D. Ifetcalre (in~tructed by Mr King) represented the de'eit I dant. Tthe case was of a somewhiat corrplicattel character. Piaiutitf claimed as the amount of ' ...

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE, BOW STREET. OUTSIDE sH THREATIsE.-Thomas White, forty-five, who described himself as a traveller, was charged, before Sir James Vaughan, with disorderly conduct. Police- constable 249 E deposed that on Tuesday evening he was on duty outside Drury Lane Theatre. The prisoner (a big burly man), who was at the back of the crowd waiting for admission, immediately the door ...