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THAMES.

FROM THE WILD WEST.-Jack Ross, 29, a man of colour, and a member of "Buffalo Bill's" Wild West show, was charged with being drunk, and wilfully breaking a plateglass window in the Old House Revived pubiic-house, James-street, St. George's-in-the-East.-Mr. Henry Stark, the proprietor of the public-house, said that on Tuesday night Ross and three or four other men came into the house. Ross made a bet of 10 dollars with one that he could not tell what his "pants" were made of. His pants were, it was discovered, made of bearskin. 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. He was seized by a constable, and taken into custody.-Mr. Lushington: You don't suppose the man deliberately intended to break the window?-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.