... At the Borough Police Court yesterday, Thomas Stoker and Henry R&ine. tram-car driver and horsekeeper, were charged with cruelly ill-treating horse the 21st ult. —The horae was attached to oar which was being driven to tbe Docks, Inspector observed that it was exceedingly lame apparently suffering great deal of pain.—Mr. Morrison, manager the tramways, was also charged with causing the horse ...

... ALLEGED FRAUD AND EMBEZZLEMENT. We are informed on good authority that Mr Seorge Stephenson Lawson, sen., for some time alderman of the Sunderland Town Council, has been arrested London on charges of alleged fraud and embezzlement. On Thursday, Sept. Bth l*st, a paragraph appeared in the Echo to the *Sect that two warrants had been issued against Lawsou, one him. at the instance oi R. Booth, J ...