... TRIAL OF DREY FUS. MAITRE DEMANGE AND GENERAL ROGET. SEARCHING QUESTIONS M. BERTULUS AND HENRY. WEIGHTY EVIDENCE COL. PICQUART CALLED. 'SCENES' IN COURT. Rennes, Thursday. The fifth public sitting of the court- martial appointed to re-hear the case against Captain Dreyfus began at half-past six o'clock this morning. The military arrange- ments for the preservation of order were more ...

... Yesterday, 3Tr. Justice Bigham, in the Queen's Bench Division, gave judgment in three cases tried together by him at the recent Liver- pool assizes, the Union Credit Bank, L ixited, and Davies v. the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and Bahr, Behrend, and Roes; the same v. Mersey Docks; and the same v. same and North and South Wales Bank. Mr. Taylor, Q.C., and Mr. Tobin appeared for the Union ...

... I IVERPPOOL- ASSIZES. I - ?? SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9. CROWN COURT. Before Mr. Justice Kennedy. THE CHARGE OF FRAUDULENT CON- SPIRACY AT SOUTHPGRT. * Robert Wilson Thom, 50, calico printer, and Treleaven Edward Sweating, 32, described as an es-tank manager, were again placed in the dock indicted for having, at Southport, on the 3rd November, I898, conspired together to utter three forged ...

... aLITVERPOOL LAND DITIsC I POLICEn COURTS. I. keore Ho. S- Euh azjd w. 'jR~g d = er ° ewi o9iecej t :~ ~ ~~ _zd~r~me - . I OB~egor inustrry Bir.9 ?? S5~er.ad £F w t. ?? c~rthe n~e u sm de i jha 0ths~ as~ -resbel nl t1e~, Sah t h to -: d -ors w~ase..i tn~e dw on~o. ?? ?? > accen«L fs. po~:e 3ad to ?? . eak tfhotvng tueq a 1u~tjn O tnandn-ka stzaeme~r.t n -eived. O nI the -5 u Derab he aaom-S sho ...

... INQUEST AND VERDICT. At Widnes, yesterday, Mr. Brighouse hbld an inquest on the body of Daniel Hirst, aged 64 yea-, of 30, Albert-road, wvho was found in an unconscious condition in a disused quarry off Peelhousa-lane, on Sunday morning. and died shortly afterwards. Sarah Ellen Hirst said the decensed was her father. He left home -on Mon- day, the 6th, about twelve o'clock, and did not return. ...

... 'BREACH OF PROMISE AT ILIVERPOOL :A NICE PARTNER AT A DANCE £50 DAMAGES. Mr. F. H. Mellor, barrister, and a jury, sat at St. George's Hall, yesterday, to assess damages in an action for breach of promise of marriage brought by Mabel Florence Makinson, aged 25 years, daughter of a commercial traveller, against Ernest G. Duhnke, a clerk, of Bootle. Dr. A. P. Thomas was for the plaintiff, and ...

... ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A PUBLIC OFFICER REMARKABLE LETTERL At Bow-street Police Court on Saturday Wil- liam Henry Dunn, an engineer ad estate agent, the Parade, Chirchfield-road, Act-on was charged on ruand. before SMr. lie Hutsen, with unlawfully offering a girt or reward to Edgar Josiah Harper, on oflicer and servant of the London County Council, as an innodnsucent to do something in ...

... At the Lambeth Police Court, yesterday, Robert Ward, 27, bricklayer, of Boundary-lane, Walworth, was charged, on remand, before Mr. Francis, with the wilful murder of his two children, Margaret Florence Ward, aged five years, and Ada, Louisa Ward, aged two and a half years, on July 20. Station-sergeant Lanktree stated that on the afternoon of the 20th ultimo he was called to No. 11, Boundary ...

... I I The London Gawettee of Tuesday eontains the foloWing:- Line Battalions.-Lancashire Pusiher, Lieu. tonant Harris Harden resigns his commision; Lieutenant Walter Petit Salt, from the 3rd Bat- I talion Prince of Wales North Stafford Regi- ment, t be seocnd lieutenant on augmenta- tion, dated 9th inst. Manchester Regiment, Lieutenant Donald R. Paton to be captain, vice H. Bryan, seconded for ...

... LIVERPOOL AND DISTRICT POLICE COURTS& TUESDAY, MAY 9. LIVERPOOL Before Mr. J. Kiaghorn, Deputy Stipendiary Magistrate. Neglect'of Cbildren.-A. woman named Mar- garet M'Quilliam. 'wa chiarged, on remand, with having neglected her five children, in a mannr likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or in- jur to their heslth. It was stated that the, chidren were in i ai-tiful state of neglect; ...

... L'ICEN SiNG ?? 1 FINAL REPORT. . fa. 'p'ort , ;A Licensing Com.mis- e -t-cv y '-:.2lay morning, and is I 9.! ?? a ';rn;1 pageS The rmwtz..3. Lo . ...

... V I EXTRAORDINARY CASE Yesterday, at the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, before Sir Horatio Lloyd and other magistrates, Henry Cleaver, aged 44, described as an elec- trical engineer, of superior education, was:- charged with obtaining by false pretences from Mcssrs. Stanley Davies and James Pollard a banker's cheque for £1 Is., at Hyde, on the 9th February; further, with attempting to obtain £25 ...