... A curious case came before Messrs. T. Colemore and A. Dixon, at the Erdington Police-court the other day. A lady of respectable appearance, aged thirty, who gave her name as Mrs. Young, was charged with stealing £ 80, the property of Maria Holloway. The prosecutrix is the mother of Mrs. Perrins, who is the wife of a brush manufacturer in Camden-town, Bir- mingham, but who resides in the ...

... THE SEWS BUDGET. Drunken Leap through a Window. — A militiaman, named James Robinson, of Leeds, jumped through the grand jury room window, the other day, on the ground floor of the Public Office, Birmingham, into the street, smashing several panes of glass in his exit. He was quite drunk, and charged at the Detec- tive Office with being conceal d on the premises with intent to commit a felony. ...

... INTEMPERANCE AND ITS CCRE- QUENCES, An inquiry was recently held by Mr. J a Hum- phreys, Middlesex coroner, at the Frampn Arms, Well-street, Hackney, respecting the deathy fire of Mrs. Mary Ann Buoke, aged thirty-eight Mr. W. Bucke, 54, Palace-road, said that he was a artist, and also a pantomimist at Sadlers WellTheatre. The deceased was his wife; she was a dafiuse, but had not an engagement ...

... AGED PAUPERS AND THEIR CHRIST- MAS PRESENTS, Among the applicants who appeared before Mr. Dayman, at the Wandsworth Police-court, was a little aid woman, who gave the name of Alice Blake, and the address of Gardiner's-cottages, Battersea. She stated that she had been in the habit of receiving a half-sovereign from the Usher of the Court at every ...

... At the Glasgow winter assizes, before Lord Ardmil- lan, Mike M'Glinchy was charged with rape, in so far as, on the 16th July last, on the Broomloan or Sandy Holes-road, parish of Govan, he attacked Mar- garet Addie, and did strike her on the head and face, and kno3k her down, and pull her along the ground into a field, and did there kick her on the head and face, and compress her throat and ...

... Two young men. belonging to the gipgy class, who gave the names of Sirrender Smith and Joim Lewis were finally examined at the Wandsworth Police- court, on a charge of being concerned in stealing ■ £ 5s. 18s. in gold and silver, the property of another gipsy, named Rito Smith. The prosecutor said he lived in a tent, on a piece of ground, in the York-road, Battersea. The prisoner Smith was no ...

... Running a Religion.— To run is a term of modern American loeutisn, meaning to start, organise, and conduct a given undertaking. You may run anything-a railroad, a bank, a school, a, news- paper, a quack medicine, a spiritualist lecture, a gas- works, a giant, a dwarf, a locomotive engine, a galaatee-show, or an administration. f run this Government, said Mr. Abraham Lincoln to a friend ...

... DECISION UNDER' THE TRUOK ACT. In the Sheffield County Court on Wednesday a deci- sion of considerable importance under the Truck Act was delivered by Mr. T. Ellison, judge. On the pre- vious Wednesday an action had been heard in which the Messrs. Hattersley, fender manufacturers, of Wentworth-street, sought to recover 61. 15s. 2d. from a man named G. Ryalls, of Bond-street, for goods sold. ...

... The warblers of the grove are flown, and, from the shrub the jay, And from the tree-top calls the crow through all ihe gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young Sowers, that lately sprung and stood, In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sister- hood ? Alas! they all are in their graves; the gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds with the fair and good of ours. ...

... OUTLINES OF THE WEEK. r!war in America still continues. We will not, how ever, enter into details of the advance of General Sherman, or Thomas's victory in Tennes- see suffice it to say that the later accounts give credit to the Federals of possessing an overpower- ing force. The horrors of this great fratricidal war have been made apparent by the following curious advertisement which appeared ...

... On Wednesday morning an inquest was held at Aldershott upon the body of (James Rainsford, a pen- sioner, whose body had been found on Sunday morning near the cemetery, under such suspicious circum- stances as to lead to the supposition that he had been murdered. Acting upon this belief, the police appre- hended a man named Samuel Whatmore upon the charge of being the guilty party. The evidence ...

... Desperate Affray with Poachers.—Two game- keepers named George Johnston and John Hay, in the service of Sir James Hall, of Dunglas, Bart., were in a plantation called Penmanshiel, situated near Grant's House, watching poachers, who at this season of the year are very numerous. In the middle of the night they came upon three o £ them, all armed with guns. On approaching the poachers threatened ...