... COMM1?EJENTS BY JUDGE GREENlWELL. At Gateshead Colnty Court, on Tuesday, Judge Greenwell gave judgment in the action of the Tyneside Bank, Limited, v. Josenh Chadwxick. This case, he said was one of two which had come before him last month, in which the bank was plaintiff. The defendant was sued on a promissory note, which he and his brother had signed, for a sum of £37, which had to be paid ...

... . RESULT OF APPEAL. The case of Merivale v..Harvey, has been ooncluded in the Court of Appeal. The plaintiff, Mr Herman Merivale, the well-knlown play writer, agreed to write a play for the defendant, ?? Martin Harvey, the actor and .manager of the Prince of WalA`'ETfhatre; Lbundno, the plv to ,be ponnected.4wiithi _e4d its 9ftoo Juan. Disputes Arosp ?? to ,arties with reg;rd to the production ...

... ACQUITTAkL OF AN OF--FICEER. The trial by 0C-ttur-nmartial of Second-Thcuteannt A'Beckett, of the Royal Garrison Artillery, on the charge of embezzling half-crowns from the regimental canteen was concluded at Dover on Saturday. There was great excitement in the town, and when the Court srsnb'ecd there were indications of the intense feeling Whiclhthe case had excited. The Judge-Advocate, in ...

... Mr Wyme E. Baxter has held an inquiry at the B|ronley Sick Azylum, into the eircumstnces attend- ing the death cf Joseph Thomas Skinner, aged 51 years, a timber mercha4nt. late'ly residing at Beaufart Cottage, Wellingtou Road, Bow, who died from the blood-poison- ing f ollo-wing the extraction of a tooth. Dr Frederick John Smith, of 138, Harley Street, W., senior pathologist and lecturer at ...

... THE SOLUTION OF A MESTERY AND ITS ?? UTEL A somewhat rcmarkable libel aetion has been heard in the Queen's flinch flivision. The plaintiff is the proprietor cf a shop knoxxn as Aus Trois QuartierF, Paris, where he trades under the name of Gccrga Poticr and Co., the diefendsnts being George Newnes, Linmited, proprietora of 'Tit-Bits. The plaintiff. who said tlie Baroness Burdett-Coutrs wvas ...

... T1HE B ATTERIEABAR Y FARMING ?? SENTENCE OF DEATH. At Old Bailey, London, on Saturday, William Chard Williams (41), and his wvife Ada (2LI) were charged with the wilful murder of Selina Jones, aged 19 months, at Battersea. The trial excited a deal ef public interest. The youthful female prisoner, with her wealth of golden hair hanging loosely about her somewhat pale face, sat at one end of the ...

... At Lancaster Quarter Sessions on Monday, Samuel Walter Way, formerly Vicar of Butler Marsten, War- wiceshire, .was charged with fraudulently obtaining £10 from John Coward, landlord of the Crown Hotel, Gra.nge, by means of a worthiless cheque on the Metro- politan Bank. It was stated at the hearing before the magistrates that the prisoner, when arrested at More- cafinbe, was hiding under a bed ...

... THE SUPORTING LUCK APPEAit JUDGMENT OF THE COURT. In the Court For Consideration of Crown Cases Re- served the case of the Queen v. Sto'Ydart has been de- cided. The defendant, Mrs Stoddart, proprietress of a; paper called Sporting Luck-, ehad been found guilty of an offence against the Betting Aet, but Mrr Justice C~hnnell, who tried the case, had reserved a ?? ci law for the opinion of ...

... I THE POLICEMAN SAID MIOVE ON A policeman once saw me starding cross-legged in the street, and told me to more on, but w7 hen I explained to him, he helped me home. So said Mr George Clark, of Long Row, South Shields, a retired seaTrman. The incident referred to was on an occasion upon which he was suffering agony from piles, and tho representative of the law thought he wvas purposely ...

... THE SUNDER.LA-ND LAN-DER CASE. I ca ?? -TERDICT OF THE JURY. n ;r In the Nisi Prius: Court of ebe^, Durham Su7~r --Assess on Monrday. ...

... SALMON FISHERIES INQUIRYs STAEiMNFT BY TH. _OHMRMAN OF fEI TYNE FlSWlHfEMY BOARtD. On Wednesdty the. Royal Cninanimim inqufirng into tre ruses affacting vbi yied-of the ?? fis- heris E:-yla~jd.. Wales, sod Scotllnd sat at werti'nser utisr the presidency of the Earl of DgIan, and hoa-nd' evidenme with reference to tbhe Tyne disrict. Mr Thomas TaS4or (the chaiian of 'the Tye p~shsry Board), in ...

... I SUN&DAY SHVIINCG APPEAL CASE. On llcnday, in the Queen's Bench Divi.i; n, Ceorge Henry Palmer., a barber ard I. i-rre;-, o Wcover- hanmptoln. appealed against a decisionll of thc Stipocndiary Magistraa-a of that torauj1. eon-.i ting lni. under the 29 of Calrlei IL, for, as a . edtauan. perfor! seug worldly larour, or the busines., of his ercj::x.rv caclin;, onr tho Lord's-dat, because hohad ...