... MU MAXRTYN HARVEY AND DON JUAN.' In the Queen',s Beneh Division on Mfonday, Mr Her- man Merirvale, playwright, claimed damages from Mr Martyn Harvey, the well-known actor manager, for breech of conbract in regard to the perfornance of a play, Don Juan. Sir E. Clarke ?? that in March, 1399, the plaintiff arranged with the dofendant to write a play, Don i Juan, from -a Spanish work ...

... Colonel.,Stevens, princpaol ordnance officer in the Ordnunce DePyartment, was recalled before the South African Hospital Cornision, at Burlington Gardens, on Monday. He mentioned that ambulance waaggons and marqueeas could not be promptly sent to the front, because it Was ?? to get them supplied from the makers. Oapta-in Cousens, of the C-I.V-'s, said he walked through Woodstock Hospital, ...

... fife a Visery at Twenty-.two. A A CASE THAT PUZZLED DOCTORS AND H4FOSPITALS. A REPRESENTA7TIVE ci the EJarrow Exress, at Dees |Siuare, 7Winv Nook, (2a sort. of suburb of Ps-Iling), iinmrv-rowed M-rs Alliscn, rhose husband. a ner. I , raises back iazoands from the adioining collier- of -Heworth. 'Mrs Allison is only twerty-twio Years of age, but hs hlad a shapo share of the world's scorrowis ...

... IFIRE-RAISNG AT Sf-NDERLAND, A CA'SE FOR T'HE ASSIZES. I scro the A5tlvor. d A D:x. and c mrer magistrate, at the Stn r>-'nr d P'lc e Ca;;r, on M-onday afterncnr- I Jcsean on re ad rwith sczz2:z I £re to tc nronem-es -f Mr J. W. W:.r. contractor, and cousin.g camaoge to tho ex-ent of about £2,CG0. The . who ?? -nan or rar'-reo aE ztarcd to '-nre -rlv occ a resrmonsboe posit cr Cs3rocrarion. ...

... C iur NAL PROSECUTION OF AN ARCTIC i-a-PLORER. At- West~nlin:;Lcr, cn Monda'ty, d osph Russell Jefiro- sonZ, Arctlc expro±-;, w calrged on remand with ob- t-ailig ?? by false rettiies. The proseeui.-or, Mr T .X. 0. Chovwn), mode, tie acqeaiiatneo of d-fenaian, it appears, in tho autun of 1896. There wvas an goeement made Ior a jouerliey. to Sibera for scientific, zp.artL;n, aid tradn r ...

... VIOLENT PROTEST AGAINST RITUALISTM ATTACK ON THE CROSS. William Charles Pu-ssey. aged 23, bootmaker, of Couger Street. Ronam= Road. Old Ford, wals charged on Saturd'ay. at Woexsic Stroet Pocioe Court. London, with *wiifully diaxrme-ginrg a iween cross, value oCs, the pro- p perty of the v-icar and ohurchlawrdens of St. Columba, Kin'gsland Roadc. :;/Ir John Otrhsn,, saliclitor, defended th ...

... A FASTIDIOUS SERiVANT GIRL AND HER IMISTRESS. AN AMUSING DIALOGUE. At Blomsbury County Court, before Judge Bacon, a woman named Ann Ne-wham the other day claimed one week's wages and 2s beer money from her former ms tgress.I Judge Bacon: You left in the middle of your week. Plaintif: I had to. I ran a'way to seek refuge at my brosther's. You have heard of the poor girl Mrs Nicholls killed. I ...

... 'h ?? Conet O, Quarter Sessions has been held thi~s week at Durham, before ~dbe Right Hon. John Lloy.rd W'kar-on, M.P. ohikairmian)' and other magii- -tatbs' of WAhom ithere awaes an exceedingly larre CRIME IN THE COUNTY. The Chairman, in charging the Grand Jury, remarked thzat the~re was a ca-lendar before thsm of 32 prisoners compared with 28 at the correspondinsessions of lasta yea. So far ...

... |MURDER OF A JEWESS. IBtieen two and thre-a o'clock on Monda.v mernnlna lorrib: ragec'.y occurred in. quarzer or Lecds t.3he acua-l dwelling being li, St. Ann's Lan', Quarry Hl. The occupier of the house is Mrarks FiMnstein, a, Jewish ta.-ior, who lives there wv;.to h'nq wife and chidoren. For sorne months the- ha-ve h.ad a female Todger. a. young woman know-.rn as Lilly 3Besh- man, who has ...

... ASSASSINATION OF THE KING OF ITAL.. DETAILS OF THE CRIME. XAPREST AND COINFESSTON OF THE MURDEl RER. Kiing Humbert 'was shot on Saturday even- ing at 'Monza by a mnan Dnamed Angelo Bressi of Prato, and, died in a few minutes. His Majesty had accepted the invitation of the committee of the Provincial Athletic Club to be present at the distributio of prizes won at the meeting on Saturdayg At ...

... MANSLAUGHTER TRIAL AT NEW- CASTLE ASSIZES. TERDICT OF1 THE JURY. 'At the Newcastle Autumn Assizes, bdfore Mr Justioe Granthain, at the Moot Hail, on Tuesday, - Robert Dryden (25), a labourer, -was indicted for the manslaiughter of Edward Baker, at Newcastle, on the 29th of August. 'Mr Mundab! (instructed by tie Toswn Clerk) .appeared for the proe(4ition, and Mr Temperley (imtructed by Mr W. J. ...

... In- the Probate Court, before Sir Franci's Je-nme and a epecial jury, a case has been haird in ree~rence to the testamentary ?? of MIr Thabeat lar White- head, a retired bleacher, whno had lived saxt Ciive'y Baink, Manchester, andi was the owner of &stale., known as Lowthian Gill, near Carlizile; So~wuy heo-use estate, Cardurnsock, Cumberea'd; and Dkebrea Hall, Lln- goilen, N~crbh Wa!es. Mr ...