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ONE OF BUFFALO BILL'S TROUPE IN TROUBLE.

On Wednesday, at the Thames Police Court, London, Jack Ross, 29, a man of colour, and described as a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, was charged with being drunk and wilfully breaking a plate-glass window of the Old House Received public-house, James street, St. George's in-the-East. Mr. Henry Stark, the proprietor of the public house, said that on the previous night Ross and three or four men came into the house and began conversing about Americs. Ross made a bet that the witness could not tell what his pants were made of, and a bet of 10 dollars was laid. Ross pulled out some gold, when some of his companions snatched the money out of his hand and ran off. Ross, in his hurry to follow, deliberately jumped through a large plate-glass window, when he was seized by a constable, and taken into custody. Mr. Lushington: You don't suppose the man deliberately intended to break the window. The prosecutor: I don't know. Mr. Lushington: It was clearly an accident. If you have any claim against the defendant it must be enforced in the County Court. (To Ross): You are discharged.