... * ?? TImE SOLICITOR-GENERAL AND DR. DEANE, Q.C., have been knighted ; and Mr. J. 11. A. Macdonald, Q.C., Lord-Advocate for Scotland, has been made a Privy Councillor. A VERDICT FOR T1 E DEFENDANT was ...

... .. ?? ?? LORD COLERIDGE arrived in New York on Friday last, where he is the guest of Mr. Eliot F. Shepherd. The grand reception given by the New York Bar Association wvii take place on the jiith of Oc ...

... ~.IEII.- I'c THE ELEC tION COMMtSSIONs.--The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the corrupt practices at the last election for Canter- hury, Oxford, Macclesfield, and one or two other places, hav ...

... -C AN AttS'rItACT~r 01: 111E Pp.OVISIONS of thC Municipal Elections Act, ISS4, has just been issued by the National l.iberal Federation. It summariscs the whole law as it affects the working of an ele ...

... N), M. O- - )- g I-.0- I CAD, DISTANCES.--Mrs. Giacometti Prodgers has, after all, turned the tables on the last cabman with wliom she lhas hat a dispute. The question was whether a certain journey w ...

... A MEXICAN court-martial has lately condemned to twenty years' imprisonment a young lady named Casiana Hernandez, who had been caught with arms in her hands conducting a guer ...

... V. ?? ?? ) ?? ?? 111:. IAE AI? TIHE DISRUPTION OF TIIE CONNECTION, nearly halfa century old, between the General Post Office and the Cunard Company seems likely to be followed by a legal controversy. ...

... R A SERIOUS RIOT took place at Watford last week, when the house and shop of a draper named Bradley was completely wrecked by a mob of people against whose violence the efforts of the local police wer ...

... -A AT THE REOPENING OF THE LAW COURTS, on Tuesday, Mr. Justice Chitty, in the Chancery Division, heard an application by Lady Scott, as next friend of her daughter, Miss Mabel Scott, a young lady ...

... 3LE ~ I TIIE CELESTIAL AND THE BARBARIAN. -Mr. Chang Amaon, a servant to one of the members of the Chinese Embassy, while walking in Oxford Street last week was grossly assaulted by a drunken man, who ...

... ml ?? THE BANNER CROSS MURDER. -Another sensational chapter has been added to the eventful life of the convict Charles Peace. On Friday last week he was taken from Pentonville Prison by rail to Sheffi ...

... 0.11. . i A 12M.P.JA A - LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE COL.ERIDGE AND MIR. TJusIc. DENMAN have just given a decision of considerable importance to the Press in dealing with an application made by the well-kn ...