... FORTUNy-TELLING. It is a little difficult to state a perfectly aatidao- ?? reason for punishing fortune-tellers like Madame Zulaiko, who on Priday week was fined 25 -t the Marlborouh Street Police Court. -We do.- not -now ert af o , sou' -it Punish suh p e. foref ers did, for- an offpe akia to witchcraft, -aid therefore ofrnsive to: God and all rght-thinking Mone. -We-do not believe enough ...

... ( A terrible tragedy has just come to light at Brooklyn (says the New X ork correspondent of the Telegraph ). Last Thursday Mr. Henry Grosvenor Barbour, son of the Rev. Dr. Barbour rector of the Church of the Beloved Disciple in kew York, and Miss Helen Southgate, a pretty girl, eighteen years old. and the adopted daughter of the late Bishop Horatio South- gate, registered as man and wife ...

... BIR-MINGHAM ASSIZES. CROWN COURT. - YESTZRDAY.-BeCfOre. Mr. Justice Wills. FATHSRRS ABOMINABLZ CoscNorD.-Tbormas Pritchett (37), case-tu& .e maker, of 30 Court, 5 house, Barford Street. pleac ' not guilty to an indictment charging himn with Crllninaly ?? his daughter, aged fifteen. hr. Birelestun (instructed by Mr. J. E. Eill) appeared for the prosec tion, and prisoner was ?? principal ...

... BIR)MINGHAX ASSIZES. CROWN- COURT ' YrssntnAr.-Before 2M.r. JustienWls FRAUDS ON- THE SMALL-ARMS GOPYX William Henry OCmrthiorri (38), fitter; George Evans (24), tihasr; and William Herbert (43), dlen;, were I indicted on a number oi charg-es of forgery. Mr. Mci~irdie (cnstruoted hy Mlessirs. Iitviand, Maiririean, and Co.) prosecut' ed, and Mr. Dom~ettand Mr. l)ieaiaick Daly (instructed liv Mr ...

... WORKMN'S COMPENSATION ACT. WEST BROMICH APPEAL CASE. Yesterday the case of Euobbll v. Allen, Evevitt, and Sons, came before the Court of Apipeal, consitsting of Lords Justices Collins, Vaughan Williams, and Reoner. It was an appeal of the applicant from tbe refusal of the County Court Judge sittinw at West Bromwich, to award him compensation for perwhal injuries under tbe Workmen'i ...

... The efnuai CextrzIl Poor-law Conference -*as opened yesterday at the Guildhail, Londond, by the LordjE May'or. Thete was a, very large attendance of poor411 law uiisdans and their clerks, elected rpresentatives V tttendig from tie South-Bastbrn and Metropolitan k the 1\ortuern, North-Western, South-Western, North s Midiland, SoutlhP MPandk West Midland, Basten, North 'Wales, SioUth XWalei and ...

... WE :t hi 11 B I| r : , O T EP-RJ&S& ANLWD CONTEMPTOF ~ I .1 ICOURT. Theo Stadard cormenting on WdneSday's iudg-s m~eal says :-T~he judge's remak at thbe :i ?? Asaises to the representatives of the press, on the subs ItI jeci of an obscene lbeli which was- coming up for trial may have been superfuou&s Certainly they lenI themseleso readily to misccnstucion. The doctrine yk of contempt of court ...

... LOCAL LAW COASES. ?? Ps-uxz!rro Tin Comrpstzy r. WaPesAME Tuss: ComPANY, - Mr. Justice Buckley resumed the he..ring of this action, yesterday, in the Chancery Divi- sion. Thle plaintiffs are asking for an injunction to restrain the Wapshare Tube Company from committing what they allege to be an infringement of the patent of Mr. C. IL Welch, dated 1890. The defendants deny infringement, and ...

... B: IR3 IINH ,: : ASS IS CROWN P l 10 'une Y ESnZsn*v.-Before Mr. est iec Darlin . be Tn MAY5&UHTF t; RMtoN STraXr.-Alfred ith B )arker ?? poliaber, Sherborne Street, was indicted for F themanslaughtercif Edwin Asliton Jones. Mfr. lorset ta (instructed by Mr. Philip Bakers apbeed to prosecute, E and Mr. Craroft (instructed y Bi e kl e andpl Lynex) ?? the 24tt nIt, the deceased, wboiW had' been ...

... i THE DIBELL 'S BA'SNK PROSECUTION. I I FURTHER MAGISTERIUA 8'KVESTIGATION. Tsi magisterial proceedi'ng :i conriection with the charges against Charles Bank. ;Xclw.,o, John Shiimmon Joseph Drake Rogers, of the Isle of Man, and William Alfdred and Harold Vincent Ajdred, of Manoboster, officials of Dumbell's Bank-, of issuimg false balance-> sheets of the bank acnd of oiusapplying moneys of the ...

... THE LTTE MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER. The frneral of the late zajor the Dfarquisof Xincbez- ter, killed in action at Iagersfontein, took place yester- day at Amport, St. Mary, the Efampshire seat of tbe Paulet family. The ceremony, conducted with full milliary honours. was of the most impressive character, and was attended by a very large and representative assembly of the deceawed's ieril and ...

... HWICK. A DuasivE BOATmAN'S Co'roSm.-Yoeterdav, at thle' Police Court, lenry Walcer (40) and John Selby (43X) ;of Pope Street, Smehwick; boatmen, were charged with ,stealing a qua~ntity of coal, of the vaelue of 6fis., belonging to thue Tubes Ceupny (Limsited), of the Cwredenda; Works, Bnidge Street, on the '4th inst.- Detective Collier, who was set to wvatch thc coal-wharf at the prosecutors' ...