... ACTION AGAINST MDt ASHTON W. DILKE, MYP. In the Queen's Bench Division on Thursday last, before Justices Stephen and Bowen, the suit Villiers v. Dilke and another was heard. This was an action for libel brought by the plaintiff Robert Edward Villiers against Ashton Went- worth Dilke, the proprietor and publisher of the Rcferee newspaper, and Henry Sampson, its editor. flr Crump, on behalf-of ...

... MR MICITARL DA VITT AID THE DUBLIN I AI~~URDBR. 31r Da% itt has written a long letter to the editor of the Standard on the subject of the Dublin assassination. Efe says:-I came out of Portland prison at 3 oclook on Saturday afternoon last. I had been confined in solitude for fifteen months without having, from the hour of my reception to that of my release, seen a newspaper, or even received ...

... rm NORTHUMBERLAND-SATUDAY, YIOLEST ASSAufr AT WALKER. John Ki;ig (22), hewer at Walker Pit, was charged with Ihaving assaulted James Archbold, attendance officer in the employment of the Loogbenton School Board with intent to murder him on the 19th June at Walker. Mr Sewell appeared for the prosecutor. Mr Arohbold had had the prisoner's mother before the Schools Committee on account of the ?? ...

... KORTHUMBERLANB:D. The Epiphany Quarter Sessions for Northumnberland commenced on W~ednesday, at the Mloot Hall, Newcastle. BATES. Mr COASTER presented the report of the Finance Com- mittee, who recommended that a county rate of one half- penny in the pound be levied for the quarter, against a rate of iths ot a peony levied at the corresponding Sessions of 1882. Mlr Craster said that but for ...

... CRwIMES AND CASUALTIES. DEATH OF A LION TAMER A telegram from Abbeville says that the lion tamer at Sanger's Circus has been torn to pieces at Orange, in the Vaucluse, while giving a representation. A terrible panic ensued, and several spectators were injured in the crush. POST OFFICE ROBBERY. Some surprise was expressed at Oxford on Monday when it became known that on Sunday night some ...

... A BEGGING' LETTER IMPOSTOR. PREMARKABLE CASE. At the Moot Hall Police Court on Saturday, before Mr J. P. Mulcaster and Mr Addison Potter, O.B., Henry St. John Montegu, a man, who having only one leg, required the support of a crutch, was charged with having on the 14th June and 7th July attempted by false pretences to ob- tain from Mr John Carr, justice of the peace for the county of ...

... TERRIBLE FIRE IN SWITZERLAND. It is reported from the Upper Alps that there has been a terrible fire at the villag& of Vars, half of it having been destroyed. Fifty houses have been entirely burnt down, several persons perishing in the flames. STRANGE FATALITY BY POISON.' An inquest was held on Saturday at Bridgewater upon the body of a roan named Joseph Marsh. an inmate of the local workhouse ...

... NEWVCASTLE BREWSTER SESSIO.NS. The adjourned Brewster Sessions for the City of New- castlewere resumed ?? morning atthe Police Court, Pilgrim Street, before the Deputy-Mayor (Ald Caill), Alder- men Hamond, Llilvain, Stephenson, Young, Plummer, and Gregson; and Messrs J. G. Fenwick, H. Watson, W. D. Stephens, Nelson, Brown, Hedley, Hunter, and Hodgkin. The bpsiness was the consideration of ...

... LICENSING S iSSIONS. ?? -Q~ NEWCASTLE. The adjourned Licensing Session for the city of Newcastle was held on Tuesday in the Central Police Court, Pilgrim Street. The first application on the list was by UIr John Henry Brannan for a provisional license for a house to be esected at the corner et Welbeck Road, io the township of 13yker. -Mr Dickenson, who appesred cn behalf ot Mir Brannan, said ...

... NORTHUMBERLAND. -FrIDAY. CROWN COURT. -Before Mr Justice CHARLES M l Joseph Metcalf Bell, on bail, clerk in the Newcastles Post office, who pleaded guilty to three charges of stecalinig letters containing postal orders, between January I'Jih arid I March 29th of this year, eva. brought op for ?? I - lordship, in passing sentence, said he thought be was justified. th having regard to his ago ...

... L in ~d RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN AUSTRALIA. h Later Particulars show that altogether 100 persons were 0 inibired in the recent accident near Hawthorne, on the d3 elbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway. E. lDESTRUCTIVE FIRE. A fire broke out at Messrs Haslam and Co.'s mill, Astlcy Bridge, Boston, on Friday, doing damage to tie extent of i £20,000. The building was completely gutted. Ninety n persons have ...

... BREBA C OF PROM3ISE CASE. On Friday, a County Sheriff's Court was held at York Castle, before Mr Edwin Gray, Deputy-Sheriff, when the case of Burrill v. Gibbs was heard. It was an action for breach of promise of marriage, and the defendant having admitted the breach, bad therefore allowed judgment to pass against him, and the jury had to assess the damages after hearing the facts. 1Mr Tindal ...