CORONERS' INQUESTS IN THE MIDLANDS

... | CORONERS' INQUESrS IN THE MILANDS. Returns have been made to the House of Commons showing the cost of coroners' inquests, in pursuance of two orders, one made on the motion of Sir B. LEIGHTON, the other on that of Mr. FENWIOK, the former applying to the year ended the 29th September, i859, and the latter to each of the last ten years. The two returns show the number of inquests held in each ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Before Dessrs. Lane, Lucy, .James, Jlfaliss, anwd 0ough. STEALInG A WATCH.-Sarah 1Anm Jones, Vale Street, prosti- tute, was brought up on remand, charged with stealing a watch from the person of a young, man named Lewis Hodgson, printer, Sberlock Street. The Bench did not think there was asufictont evidence, and ebe wV& discharged. A CAeE os TOssArhiNO.-A roung fellow, desecried as ...

THE ROAD MURDER

... THE CHARGE AGAINST THE NURSEMAID. At Trowbridge, on Monday, Mr. Saunders, the counsel for the prosecution, opened the proceedings, by stating the nature of the evidence on which he should ask the Magis- trates to commit Elizabeth Gough, the nursemaid, for trial on the charge of having murdered Mr. Rent's child. The boy, he said, was taken to bed at the usual time, an aperient pill having been ...

OFFICIAL TRIAL OF ARMSTRONG GUNS

... | OFFICIAL TRIAL OF ARMSTRONG GUNS'.| A seiies of experiments were commenced on Tnesday with three of the Armstrong guns, with the view of testing their breaching powers at short ranges. The place selected for the trial was the watering-place of Eastbourno, on 'the Sussex coast, and the object of attack was one of the old martello towers with which this part of the south coast is studded. ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... YESTERDAY. Bef11e ?? 0. S. lKtnineorstey, B. Or. Winfeld, and T. Phillips, Esqrs. A PitEcOOcOis JUVBNILE.-A girl, apparently about twelve years of age, named Caroline Smalh, living In Digbetb, was brought up on remand charged with obtaining several school books, from dlifferent stationers' shops in Ihis town. The particulars of this case eppeared in the celumns of the Journal. The prisoner's ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... SATURDAY. Bfore Messrs. S. Rawlins and . L WA ROBBDsr AN EUcrr.oyL-Joseph Leak, described an a elerk, having no Oxed residence, was brought up on remand on the fol- lowing charge ?? Manton stated that on Wednesday morning thO prisoner went to the Detective Office, and said thet In 1857 he was In the employ of the Poplar Board of Works, London. In that year he received f20., to pay to some men, ...

BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT

... BIRM'dINGlI-A.l 1)OLICE COURT. YES'rERDAY. jefisre Xcl~es.o'. T. c. ,N. KVvi, era!ei,, n: ?? d, asil. ?? ')hlifpas. hticKINO: POCI;ETS.-A young man of rospoetalde aIL- pearalwlce, giving thle lnallie o-f F,5i IlM'erisc , alias Jon ce, djias (Orho, ?? was rellmallnldd OXI the charge of stealing lOs. 4Ad., fromt the person of 1a rtlia It. (Gallier, of E]lg halstoll, alnd also of hlaving ill his ...

LONDON GAZETTE

... (Fromi Titesday Nihht's Gazette.) BANKRUPTS. WILLIAi7 BEYNON, Birmingham, gilt toy manufacturer, March S at 12, at Bankrupts' Court, Birmingham. Sols., Hlodgson and Allen, Birmingham; off. assig., Kinnear, Birmingham. JOHN TxeobrpsoN, Shiffnal, builder, February 28 at 12, at Bankrupts' Court, Birmingham. Sols.; Hodgson and Alleu, Birmingham; off. assig., Kinnear, Birmingham. GEoaUE YOUNG, ...

WORCESTER SUMMER ASSIZES

... HOUCESTER SuMMER ASSIZES. ('TiO'ivN COURT, SATURDAY. 'si. ~,ic ]ylc I:.khis seat at half-past nine, and ed.C lii jb ?? scrlre~niaker, charged wvith having .iedciuiii~traloffenice at HartloLury, on the 6lits ~re feil ?? and sentenced to six ?? * ~1~i~~nict.~ ?? Carter, 26, labourer, 'is,,j fr iilroff cice at liagley, on the 14th April. su'fuilguilty of ain attempt, and wats sen- II ?? ?? ...

STAFFORDSHIRE QUARTER SESSIONS

... THURSDAY. BEFORE THE EARL OF LicEFIElD, CHAIRMAN. STEALING FROM THE PERSON, AT SrDGLEY.-Robert Hall, a lad, was charged with having stolen from John1 Reynolds, 9s. Gd., his property, at Sedgley. Mr. Hoiroyd was for the prosecution, from which it appeared that the prosecutor and prisoner met on the evening of May 17th, at Higgs' public house, Sedgley, and after being there some time, prosecutor ...

THE CHARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST MR. S. GRIFFITHS

... TIHE CHIARGE OF ASSAULT AGAINST BIR. S. GRIFFITMS. At the Public Office, yesterday, Mr. S. Griffiths sur- rendered to his rdcogiiiznoecs before Mr. Kynneraley, the Stipendiary Magistra'e, oi a charge of havill'u Maaaltcd Amblrose Gibbons Ditton, a clerk in the employnment of lX: Bedton,ntto~rfley, Uuion Passage, lirmninghasi Mr. Beaton appeared for the:complilinal't, and Ml. North (of the firm ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... VICE-CHANCELLOIRS' COURTS, JUNE 25. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart.) BAXENDALEV. THE WEST MIDLAND RA1LWAAY 1COHPAXNY , This part-heard demurrer was resumed. The bill was filed by Messrs. Baxendale, who carry on business as com- mon carriers under the firm of Pickford and Co., and it prayed a dec]lration that the defendants were bound to deliver to the plaintiffs, at the ?? and Witney ...