... ,,8__rDUCTIoN AND AFfILT&TION. Oilarl's Jacobs, plasterer, Thcrn-sret.W Wandswortb, Was sunimoned vefore',Mr. Tyrwhlit,,%t Marlborough street Polioe-oourt, for refusiog to support the Dlegtltms-c ohild of Ettzsbbth Smith, of ?? be was alleged to be the father. Mr. a3yer, from the office of Mr. Edward Lewis, ap- peared for the ozmplainant; and Mr. Lcunt Lewis for the defendant. The complainant, ...

... I STARVATJON BEFORE THE WORK HOUSM On Thursday, an inquiry was held by Dr. Lankester, the coroner for the central division of Middlesex, at the Lord Nelson Tavern, Holloway-road,- on the bodies of two boys, named respectively Charles Arthur Tullet, aged seven, and Frederick John Tullet, aged ive, two of a family, who died under very painful cir- cumstances. Eliza Tullet, whose appearance was ...

... AL!.EGRD ASSAULT ON LOMD COMARS. At the Warwick County Petty Sessions, Lord Leigh, Lord Dormer, and about a dozen county magistrates, were occupied six hours in hearing a singrdlar charge of assault, in which Mr. Edward Tuckwell, tutor to Mr. Liebart, of Welloabourni Hell, was the defendant, and Lord Conyors tho complainant. Mir. Sanderson appeared for his lordship, and Mr. Loxdale Warren, of ...

... IAPPZICATrON POR AIZEGtZD ZCIEfo OAB M3DM5UDD WALTEV. POOR. A AL - b-- 1 -- -1- ?? -_ _, L . / At the Bow-street Police court, Mr. Pook, solicitor, of Greenwich, and a'so of No. 1. Miltre onurt, Temple, attended yesterday afternoon, just before the lising of the court, to make an application to Mr. Flowers in regard to the oise known en the Elthamn murder. Mr. Pook handed a copy of a npamphlet ...

... THE TRIAL OF THE DMVASTATXOIT. The flaws in the engines of the Devastation, which were never considered very serious by the buildois, were found upon closer examination to be even slig Liter than imagined, and the repairs consequently have been speedily com- pleted. The cistersa which were at fault have been sur- rounded by powerful bands, which increased the original capacity of resistance, ...

... POLIc n ELLIGERM ILL~T15ATMRENT OF A CHlD.-AteUli CJwcqa, of 79, Rahere-strett, Clerkenwell, was chargei en a sum- mons with committing a series of violent assaults on her step child, Fanny Conway, aged nine years. This prose- cation was institnted by the Scciety for the Protection of Women and CGiidreu, and Mr. Moore watched the ease on their behalf. The defendant, her hubanud, and the child ...

... MEMBERS OU3T or THE SESSIOW. Sir Ct arles Dilke was announced to address a meeting in the Termperance Hall, Derby, on Monday night in support of the Land Tenure Reform Association. At eight o'clock the haDl, w~ich holds 1,500 people, was crowded, and it was evident that a strong opposi- tion was prepared Mr. J. C. Cor, a county magistrate of advancel Liberal views, presided, and he and Sir ...

... A CLEGYMAN CONVICTED OF AN AR0MINAWAB OPPRCE. ThelwallWoolaseton, 40, a clerk in holy orders, a visitor at St. Leonerde, was brought up under a warrant chirg- ing him with aving on the 28tv of February unlawfully assaulted William Hlenry Rickard, aged sixteen; also wish having committed a second sassault on the same person on March 3rd; and alse with assauilting Douglas White, a lad of fifteen ...

... WESTBUNSTEh. FaUsoTiurm, ATrF.stilr AT SUICIDE -On Monday, Johr Gran, a stoin lason, between 6i0 and 70 years of age, ivas charged with ?? to coummit suicide by catting hi. throat in several places. Mrs. Amelia Webster, the wift of a cutler carrying on business at 13, Roollester-row, said that on the avenin, of the 17th instant the defendant colate into her shop, arid aulied to be Shown a palt ...

... LATEST OLD BAILEY TRlIALS. RoBnERY WITHI VIOLENCE.-JohS Dr-scol', sen., John Drisc ,ll, jun., John M Cartk, Thomas Deamond, and Thomas Kelly, were indicted for a robbery with violence and steal- ing from the person of OarI Erlandor, a watch, a gold ohgin, a gold eye-glass, and 8l. 4s. in money, from his person. Mr. Pater prosecated, and Ur. Canningham de- fended the prisoner M Oarthy. The ...

... There is no question upon which home secretaries and official lawyers have comnitted themselves more irre- trievably than upon the propriety of a court of appeal in criminal cases. The public have not yet forgotten how Dr. Smethurst, after teing convicted at the OH Bailey for the murder of Mis Banks, was tried again in a -back room in the Home-office and acquitted. They still remember how ...

... PAfRRLT SUICID 'OF A wV Ma w: THE I . .I~I I- I I T AMES._ I _ Au Inquiry wbs held by Mr. bW. Payne, te deputy eoroner, on Tustdey, at the Vestry-room, Fair-street, Southwark, respectieg tba allesed suioide of Elizabeth Bentley, aged thairty yeali, wtho WS btaken out of the Mrs. L. Hodges; 1, Arbour-street, Stepnsy, said that the deceased was her sister. She was unmarried, but she had been ...