... I PROFESSIONVAL CHILD MURDER THE Times of this morning contains a story of a murder more terrible in its details, more significant of the depths of human wickedness, than ally- thing we have read for many a year. MARY JANE HARRIS, a young unmarried woman of twentytllree and CHARLOTTE WINSOR, a woman who seems to have lived a baleful existence of forty-five years, were charged at Exeter ...

... THE NEW LA WY CO UR TS. SlI, LOwiE has given a decided start to the plan he prefers for the new Law Courts, by declining to take a part in the prosecu- tion of any other. The first thing he did when he came into office was to refuse his assent to the purchase of the additional land required for the Carey-street site. That he was quite justified in taking this step few people will doubt when ...

... SOCIAIL DEMOCRA TS AND THE POLICE. ME. H. M. HYNDMAN sends us the following evidence in support of the contention of himself and his friends that in prosecuting the Socialists for obstruction the police show themselves respecters of persons and weeds The strong feeling against John Williams and Mainwaring which the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Edlin, displayed at the late trial of these Social ...

... . B3LUNDERING CONDUCT OF THE POLICE. HOW A KENNINGTON CONSERVATIVE WAS ARRESTED. HIS TREATMENT IN MILLBANK. A very apt illustration of the insane and indiscriminate manner in which the -policehave beenacting in connection with the demonstrations in rrafalgar-square has occurred in the case of Mr. Walter Arter. Now, Mr. Arter, who is a timber mnierchant of Kennington, and a prominent ...

... INDIGNATION MEETING OF TRaDESPEOPLE. THERE exists no authority in the British Constitution whereby a police magistrate-for the time being-can set apart any quarter of the City as a preserve of prostitutes, but the authority exists in Marlborough-street police-court. That authority is Mr. Newton. However little he may have intended it, Mr. Newton has practically proclaimed Regent-street as a ...

... THE MURDER IN HANBURY-STREETWHITECIIAPEL REMARKABLE STATEMENT BY THE CORONER. Ga The inquest concerning the death of the woman named Annie Chapman, wi who was so foully murdered in Hanbury-street, Whitcchapel, on the 8th of in September, was concluded yesterday, when the coroner delivered an fur elaborate summing-up of all the evidence, and the jury returned a simple Th verdict of Wilful ...

... ARREST OF DR. GEFFrEN. Professor Dr. Geffken, of Hamburg, as was stated on Saturday, was the person suspected of having communic-ated to the Devische le1;,drcha / the C Empetor Frederick's diary, kept during the war of 1870-I. So it appears to be. ti On suspicion of having done this, Geheimrath Professor Dr. Geffken has been 2 arrested at Hamburg, and placed in what is called { ...

... THE BED OF A W:JAIF: AND THE BBEDDING OF- A ;STRA Y. ?? i. BY THIE REN. J. W. HORSLEI. TIRE British public has a horror-of prisons, and even of prisoners, that is in part wholesome, no doubt, but also pharisaic and beyond reason. A man is in prison, therefore he. is. a criminal, is, its, creed; and; even worse, a man has. been in.prison, therefore he ,is a criminal. X But crime is not the sam ...

... NOTICE.-HONDA Y NEXT, being Bank Holiday, ONE EDITION 2 only of the PALL MALL GAZETTE wuilZ beiu~Zis1Cd. * , MtFORT- HDTION THE CRIMES ACT IN CRIMELESS DISTRICTS. | Unhesitatingly he told them, upon the authority of the members of Parliament who were sitting behind him, that there was nothing in the new Act that was not directed against crzime, aciel crinme on7.2-Mr. Evelyn Ashley at ...

... ; - h - -F AFTER SIX DA YS' RESPITE. THCE CASE FOR .LiPSKI IN NE LIGHrs, THE public! exclaimed an official indignantly a day or two ago, when the question of Lipski's reprieve was being discussed, what has the public to do with it?' The question is easily answered. The public has to :keep the officials up to the mark. Mr. Matthews, the Home Secretary, for instance, has two minds-his mindl ...

... MR. C. GRAHAM, M.P., AND MR. BURNS ON TRIAL. SIR CHARLES WARREN IN THE WITNESS BOX. The trial of Mr. Cuningharne Graham, M.P., and Mr. J. Burns, on charges arising out of the proceedings at Trafalgar-square on Sunday, November 13, was continued to-day at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Charles. Both defendants are indicted tor that they did, with other evil disposed persons to ...

... THE, GA VEROCIKS.* TiIs is a novel of very great power, and full of graphic delineation of character. The scene is laid on the northern coast of Cornwall, at the beginnigl(r of the present century, and the book opens to us a phase of wild, half lawless life, which, it is a comfort to think, has passed away; still there is a picturesque, almost savage, interest about it, which has a powerful ...