... I £10,000 DAMAGES. The hearing of a singular breach of promise case was concluded at the Leves assizes on Tuesday. The plaintiff was Miss Gladys Knowles, 21, a young lady of good family, and the defendant was Mr. Lestlie Fraser Duncan, editor and proprietor of the .later-i * menial News. The plaintiff, who claimed £2,00 damages, stated in her evidence, given on Monday, that early in March of ...

... ANOTHER NA-VAL ScAND.AL. The maiscrriage of justice in the caee of the Alberta and mistletoe is not the only fraval scandal that de. mcands investigation. Parliament, will shortly reqiriz -to deal with the remonstrance of 'a gallant captain who has been superseded in his comrmand of one of her Uajoerty's ships atian important naval station. Tho facts of this case, so far as they have ...

... CILMINAL STATISTICS .1 3 I _ M.ANCHEBTE-R. I Captain, Palin, C~hief Constable of Ma~nchester, lcad lessed his annual zeport of tho estae of crime in Mlart. obeeter, accompanied by the nsual 6sttistics. The period it covers ie for the year ending theiic Septem- bar, 187S. From it we gather that the number of rob- beries reported to the polioe during the year was 5,469, d'nd the vaue eof thred ...

... HE CARGE AGAINST aCOLONEL BAREF e Croydonaseizes wereopened ?? withtheusueal formality, but with more than common interest, owing to the expeotation of hearing Mr. Justice Brett oharge the grand jury with reference to the -charges against Colonel ?? Baker of having assaulted Mliss Diicenson in a railway oarriage on, the London and, South-Western Eailway about a month ago. The Grand e Jury ...

... YESTERDAY'.S POtaE NEWS. Q-1 L :4 . I At the Manchester City P6l166 doart; yesterday, before Mr. P. B. Fergusoi and Mltr. W. Aronsberg, Anna Bailey, who keeps a coiitcotioder's shop t 339, Hyde Road, was summioned for having permitted gambling to take plaee on ber premises. From the evidenee of polilse-sergeait Wild and constable Gibbons of the C division, it appoared that on the evening of ...

... . JUDGMENT ON MR. BRADLAUGH'S APPEAL. The case of the Attorney-General v. Charls Bradlaugh came on for argument, on Monday, in the Court of Appeal, before the Master of the 1Rolls and Lord Justices Cotton and Lindley. It arose out of an information filed by the Attorney-General under the Crown Trusts Act, 22 and 23 Viet., to recover penalties from Mr. Bradlanuh for having sat and voted in ...

... SING~tY dARMU tiR S LtICENSING | I--. . . ACT , .. . - .. - .. - .. . . . - . .. . .e At the Maeiobestst City Pelics Coert, yesterdiy,' ltetfoatbs Stlipe dhry ?i'tgh~trate (lIrY. .J. Eeldlsin) I and othr nisgietvtee, ?? Cunumins,' liceeaseei of th~ ?lymouthi (rove flotel,; Manchester, wxas summoned, on the ?? of Mr. James Bailey, 4S.' Plymouth', Geove, for -; breach of section 3 of the ...

... THE .WITYT3ifELVIfILE CASEI -An American'pap'c jutreevd prints thefollow- Ing despatch ~frqigD~ roi 'at Ugus~ 6-h vornd-cp of a vry isetion'~al 'Eolklis'h scatndabl in the upnetr ted acconfrd fi~Detroit. several dftyll ago,; A well-dressed.. gentleman;' with a siiit of, clothes of olarikal 8uli, aiictbe 'Aheg p geuerial 'air of intelligence, and ?? o%'im n an' Aepptrainoe in Justice Joseo h ...

... X RNCH pw'TRS SS1ZES. CROWN COURT SATURDAY. (Before Mr. Justice Charles.) CgiIbNIAL ASSA.ULT OASES. The ourtwas cceljed during the whole of the day Trheilf coases in%.0 whieta prisoners were charged with 1tiinicasUy assaultiflg young girls. WilirWodf, 41. 1laborer.r was sentenced to 21 calendar months' iM- precf~t 'with hard labour for anl assault upon Fsthor Eunipt Woodruff, at BlaskbiiCO, on ...

... ACTION ON A FjROMISSORY OTE.I EXTRAORDIN'ARY fASE. In the NisiPriu ?? A.\izrsse Tl day, Air. Justice Bruce and a special pjrl hearl r cae of Thornton and others v. Evans, whnan i' brought to. recover £905 due on a pronmior' The defence was that the note had been alleori 3 issue, and that if' there was any cons ideration i an illegal consideration. The plairitrffs vere rE sebited by Mr. ...

... | P.ROiSECUTION OF A BiNIMUPT. A MISSING ASSET. Before Mr. }leadlan't at the Citv PoliCecimirr, yesterday, Williamson Hlollandi, a banLrupt, formerly carrying on l iusitiess in Oxford-street as a inerelilait, a:nd living at Alderley Edge, was sumionmed for failing to accoun11t, il Ils hbilnkruptcy, for eri-tain moneys re- ceived just prior to his hliaikrtiptciy. It was a Treasury prosecution, ...

... 0 THE ATLLEGED TURF BRAUD. ?? On Saturday afternoon, Edwin Murray was again charged before Mr. Knox, at Marlborough-street Police Court, with conspiring with others not in ?? in this country, to defraud ?? Countess de Gotcourt a French lady of the sum of £10,000, through certain pretended turhl transactions. Mr. Poland (instructed by Messrs. Abrahams and ooffey) appeared for the -prosecutrix; ...