... ?Oi?SP1R&CY kGAAt?ST MR. SOTHERN.1 At the City Polie Court, on Thursday, HenryHedges, ba et, ately in the employment of &r. E. A. Sothern, r ,,median, was brought up on remand, accused of steal- ijg a letter belonging to M. Sothern, his employer, and. with being engaged in a conspiraoy against Mr. Sothirn. t lir Yvams prosecuted; Mr. Law defended the prns3uer. jr. Evans saidthe case he ...

... F'-CHASE AGAINST IS POLICE. WIllim , of ioi eicsW U know bahwero posi- eat p i Ct, brnfftabohe to the nDagiB- ee foly is Corte H stated that he was o onstantly os frhdthisG adice. *Ds a sihort time k be a - chargedwith1 aur kiut and lenter1nceato a roof ?? bout suffered innocently, as the t stated the ~iongwhich were posi. y untarue. Ito was true that be had at one time en wIH to drinkobt ...

... XUMRDTERS. | TRIAL OR ?? A trial for murder at IHereford Wa the Worcester Assizes on Saturday before X Hawkins, Andrew Heggie, Willhn W3 h Morris, and James Davies being charged satlu murder of James Williams on Jaeuns ii M. Williams and Mr. Cooke prosecuted. 31r I., by direction of the Court, defe da appeared for Heggie, and Daves defended hasi case was that the deceased had been drisi, last ...

... AtBow-street Police Court, onThuayday, Edwd. Byrne Madden, aged 56, described on the charge sheet as au interpreter, of 19, Duke-street, AIdgate, was brought up by warrant, before Sir James Iugham, oharged with having addressed a letter to the Hon. Adolphus Fredk. Octavins Liddell, containing a threat to kill her Majesty the Queen. Mr. Gabriel Robinson Moran, the superintendent of the Registry ...

... CILMINAL STATISTICS .1 3 I _ M.ANCHEBTE-R. I Captain, Palin, C~hief Constable of Ma~nchester, lcad lessed his annual zeport of tho estae of crime in Mlart. obeeter, accompanied by the nsual 6sttistics. The period it covers ie for the year ending theiic Septem- bar, 187S. From it we gather that the number of rob- beries reported to the polioe during the year was 5,469, d'nd the vaue eof thred ...

... SUICIDE IN A WORK OSE. Mr. Wllsiam Cartercoroner for the Eastern Division of Suarrey, has held an inquest at thet Marlborough Arnms Taverni, South-street,- Camuberwell, into the cir- crmstances attending the death of Mrs. Eln Jack-eon, argd 35 years, the wife of William Jackson, a pensioner- from the police, who wals found deadon the floor of a a, padded room at the Camberwell Workhouse.-ShMr. ...

... At the Manchester City Police Court, on Mon- day, K~ate Raney, factory operative, lodging at 39, Angel-street, was sentenced to two months' im- prisonment, with hard labour, for throwing a kettle of boiling water upon a woman named Ellen Cunliffe, who lived at the same house. During an altercation between them on Saturday night respecting a young ?? took the kettle from the kitchen fire and ...

... AN ALLEGED FALSE PROSPEOTUS. In the Court of Queen's Bnheb, on Tuesday, the case of Chorlton v. Hay and others came on for trial before the Lord Chief Justice of England and a special jury. It was an action against Sir J. Hay, K.P., Sir S. Blane, Mr. TA1CuaghTorrens,M.P., Mr. Hastwick,ex-M.P.,and iMr. F. Francis, director of the London and CountyBank. directors of the Canadian Oilworks ...

... |-Icueslgg POLICE IEWS l lid&!r^ r. or Tuedaybefore TMr ?? Aid. ?I C Wl#atlte: Simpson, painter, 30, was charged with assaulting Sr. Hela had already served three *ofence, and was committed for six t-ts l' abour oth outth har e l Ierr, watchmaker, 9, Cook- At the ~ii eoa ,v~ea~d with illegally pawn. At eeet5,td ao~ 'd ls, silyer watch. The watches si~ti r.,,dtO andthe ?? to repair, and they i ...

... 1S U E D E B. ! On Saturday, Mr. T. Booth, North Staffordshire coroner, opened an inquest on the body of Mrs. Martha Sillitoe, aged 70 years, who was murdered on Wednes. day evening at Hainford; near Stoke. Evidence was given by poioe.constable Smith, the village policeman) and aneighbour, to the effectthat, as Mrs. Sillitoe was not seen about on Thursday, the house was entered, and the old ...

... CHARGE OF MAiNISLAUGHTER AGAINST A BOY, At ?? Police Court. on Wednesday, before Mr. j. aldnson (Stipendiary), Frank Herdman, 13 years of age, living with his mother at 10, Prospect-street, Mmontstreet, Salford. was brought up on a charge of causing the death of Francis Fitzpatrick, seven years of ago, son of Eliza Fitzpatrick, widow, of 17, Bath-street, Corporation-street, Salford. From the ...

... ALLEGED FRAUDS B hALI BAiLiFF. , SCE1E IN COIJ-AT. Edward Shipiey, a farm bhiliff, hntil recently in the employinent eE the 1ofi. Wilbt;ahair Egerton, M.P., 'vho wasi wvith his wife, Maud Shipley, originally ebhged wvith, embezzling £?79 and other oneys, hbh property of. M!r. Egerton, vsas brorught up boa remaend Xat the S~ale Sessions, on Monday, charged with em- bbzzlinig £3. lWs. 3d., being ...