... grte Court A LARGE PARTY AT BALMORAL So many members of the Royal Family have rarely been gathered together in the Highlands as at present. Now Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia, with their little son, Prince Waldemar, have joined the party, and the Queen greatly enjoys the society of her grandchildren. Balmoral is quite lively with so many young people about, while excursions and picnics ...

... ,-3, I L THE PENGE M URDER.-A respite having been granted to the whole of the four convicts in this case, it remains to be seen whether they will all be relegated to penal servitude for life, or whether the Home Secretary will allot proportionate punishments to them according to the amount of guilt which he conceives to attach to each. The news of Her Majesty's clemency was communicated to ...

... R A SERIOUS RIOT took place at Watford last week, when the house and shop of a draper named Bradley was completely wrecked by a mob of people against whose violence the efforts of the local police were useless. It appears that the indignation of the mob had been excited by the apparent harsh treatment of one of Mr. Bradley's apprentices, a young woman who, on being scolded for remaining out ...

... .. ?? ?? LORD COLERIDGE arrived in New York on Friday last, where he is the guest of Mr. Eliot F. Shepherd. The grand reception given by the New York Bar Association wvii take place on the jiith of October. His engagements in the United States are so nuamerous that he has decided not to visit Canada. AN INTERIM INJuNCI1Ox has been granted by Mr. Justice Pearson in the case of' Mliley v. the ...

... IN THE CASE of the Social Democratic leaders, and in that of the Pimlico Mystery, the recognisances have been extended until the April Sessions of the Central Criminal Court. In connection with the latter case, Professor Tidy has been engaged by the Trea- sury to make certain experiments. AN ATTORNEY was struck off the Roll seven years ago on being sentenced to six months' imprisonment for ...

... ~.IEII.- I'c THE ELEC tION COMMtSSIONs.--The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the corrupt practices at the last election for Canter- hury, Oxford, Macclesfield, and one or two other places, have been taking evidence during the week. Some idea of the labour before the Commissioners may be gathered from the fact that over two hundred vjitte sss have been summonedi lefore them in ...

... ml ?? THE BANNER CROSS MURDER. -Another sensational chapter has been added to the eventful life of the convict Charles Peace. On Friday last week he was taken from Pentonville Prison by rail to Sheffield, and charged at the police court with the wilful murder of Arthur Dyson, in November, 1876. The event created some excitement in the town-crowds meeting every train until his arrival. In Court ...

... ?? ?? .. ?? THE RICHMOND MURDER.-The grand jury at the Central Criminal Court, after examining four witnesses, namely, Church, the two Porters (father and son), and the man who found the box in the river, returned a true bill for wilful murder against the woman Webster, who, upon being called upon to plead, declared that she was Not Guilty. The trial has been post- poned to the June ...

... ?-R 111-1,11 El.EC ION OFFENCeS.--It was perhaps hardly to be expected that the great excitement into which the country has been thrown by the electoral contests would not in some instances degenerate into rioting and disorder. In several places there have been disturbances of so serious a character that military aid has been called for, and special constables have been sworn in, sticks and ...

... ?? . . . ?? EE??II SOLICITORS AND CLIENTS.-On Tuesday Mr. Justice Manisty and Mr. Justice Stephen delivered judgment restoring to the roll of solicitors the name of a Sheffield practitioner who had been struck off in x869, in consequence of his having been convicted of a bankruptcy misdemeanour. They however remarked that in extreme cases, such as perjury or forgery, expulsion from the pro- ...

... A MEXICAN court-martial has lately condemned to twenty years' imprisonment a young lady named Casiana Hernandez, who had been caught with arms in her hands conducting a guerilla warfare on behalf of the insurgents. The fair culprit was described as hardly thirty years old, strongly built and possessed of marvellous courage, whicis has obtained for her great dis- thiction in various combats and ...

... -C AN AttS'rItACT~r 01: 111E Pp.OVISIONS of thC Municipal Elections Act, ISS4, has just been issued by the National l.iberal Federation. It summariscs the whole law as it affects the working of an election, and is in good time for the approaching Municipal contcts. TlE B1AR Or ViC-OrilA have recently decided, after receiving thle report of a Committee, that barristers should be entitled to ...