... * ?? I. M * L AL-0, LORD COLERIDGE, who has been suffering from lumbago, is going on well, and will probably be able to resume his seat on the bench in a few days. IN THE PROBATE AID DIVORCE DIVISION OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE on Wednesday last, Sir J. Hannen granted a decree nisi on the petition of Mrs. Ponsonby for a dissolution of her marriage with her husband, late Lieutenant in the ...

... THE CO' IRT OF APPEAL, by a majority, the Master of the Rolls disagreeing with Lord Justices Cotton and Fly, have affirmed the judgment of Mr. Justice North, reported in this column at the time, prohibiting the President and Council of the Royal Academy from pur- chasing under the Chantrey be- quest sculptures executed in plaster only, though the subjects were to be completed in marble or ...

... BER A CLAIM of 51. for damages arising out of the strike was male against a firm of shipping agents by an actor who had received an engagement in America, but ad lost it because the vessel is which he had taken his passage to sail on the 31st August had not yet sailed. The defendants pleaded that on account of the ?? men could not be got to load the cargo. They offered to r efued the plaintiff ...

... - -e ?? ~ ~ ?? THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE has fixed Mlonday, February 3, for the hearing of Mr. Parnell's action against the 7imes. THE CORONER'S INQUEST on the victims of the Forest Gate fire was concluded on Monday this week. The medical gentleman who was first on the scene after the disaster gave it as his opinion that in all probability most of the boys who died were suffocated in their sleep. ...

... MR. j. DOUGLAS PYNE, M.P. for West Waterford, suddenly dis- appeared in November, x888, and has never since been seen or heard of. It was known that he had gone on board the Holyhead boat, bound for Dablin, and it was supposed that he fell overboard and was drowned. Accordingly, in the February of the present year sa new writ was issued for West Waterford, and Mr. Alfred Webb was returned in ...

... Wml*.. I. SENTENCE OF DEATH has been passed on the captain an(I mate of the Jfinoanelle by Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, in the Queen's Bench Division, to which had been referred the question whether the killing of the boy Parker was, under the circumstances, murder. The Lord Chief Justice held that it was, and in the course of his remarks referred to the case of the Pirkenhcad, where men had ...

... .- P?-Mj . .. Wok-l TwYCROSS v. GRA-r.A--The question whether the promoters of a Company are legally bound to state in their prospectuses the fullhst particulars as to any contracts into which they may hare enteie 1, has been advanced another stage, but is not yet settled. It will be remembered that Mr. Twycross, with whose case those of some eighty other shareholders of the Lisbon Tramas as ...

... I isit to a gruvhi5b Vrison BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENVT A FRIEND and I have just visited a Turkish prison, and our visit may be described as fairly successful in that for over two months no outsider has passed the prison doors. Our excuse was that we wished to give money to one of the prisoners. The department rather likes to have coin supplied from time to time.. Rich are better than ...

... 0, AIR, JUSrTICE CIIITTY has this week delivered his deferred jurigment in the lispute respecting the ownership of the prehistoric boat, supposed to be two thousand years old, found embedded in the River Ancholme, at Brigg, North Lincolnshire. It was claimed by the Brigg Gas Company, the defendants, as found by them on property of which the other claimants, the plaintiffs, had given them a ...

... GlL M A THEATRICAL S UIT.--Mr. Thomas Coe has obtained a verdict for 1,035/. damages against Messrs. Sothern and Buck- stone, the lessees of the Haymarket Theatre, on account of his summary dismissal from the post of stage-manager at that house. It appears that it was part of Mr. Coe's duties to engage actors and actresses, and some time ago it became whispered about that he, like Cassius, was ...

... ?? THE SUPREME COURT OF JUDICATURE.-The new Act on the Supreme Court has just been issued, and comes into immediate operation. The Master of the Rolls is now Judge of Appeal only, the President of the Probate Division is ex-ofticio Judge of the Court of Appeal, and the Lord Chancellor is empowered to continue the Rolls Chambers and clerks as long as may be necessary and convenient. Appeals ...

... I ?? -9 00 [ ?? z~1 THr Quecn is still at Balmoral, and is taking her usual drives in the neighbourhood, accompanied by the different members of the Royal family. On Thursday, Her Majesty, with the Princess of Wales and the Duchess of Connaught, paid her usual visit to the Glassalt Shiel, and next day drove to Braemar, and on to Old Mar Lodge, accompanied by the Duchess of Connaught and the ...