... STAFFORDSUIRE QUARTER SESSIONS. CROWN COURT.-YESTESDAY. BEORE TiHE E3:, O0 Lnnu11FELD. STFEALING FOw' LS AT HANDSWOnT1t-Joseph Stannier (IS), cabinetmaker, Joseph Aston (40), forger, and Thomas Chaplin (29), gunssnith, were indicted for stealing nine fowls, the property of Ann Walton, at Handsworth, on the 20th October last. These fowls wore seen safe at home on the Saturday night, by Charles ...

... WORCESTERSHIRbE EPIPHANY SESSIONS. The business of these Sessions was concluded yesterday afternoon. Only one Court sat, the Earl of Dudley pre- siding. STEALING COAL AT DUDrny.-Joseph Shorthouse, u clerk, was charged with stealing a quantity of coal slack, the property of Messrs. Onions and Fryer, ironmasters, carrying on business at Windmill End, near this town. Mr. Streeten and Mr. Richards ...

... THE PROPOSED DIVISION OF TRE WEDNESFIELD LOCAL. BIJAI?.D, 'Yestednly, bMr. %i Morgan, C. I-, insivctor under tjie IloineOffice, hold an enqtuity, in th Uhlurch Schulll~jsnis, at Wdnt ir Heath, near WolverbalfllptOrt, ats to the( do. simbilit~y or othiertose of thle division of the distriit of the Wedniesfield Local Board, which has ;iot, hlowc et-, been tin existence miore than about twqo and ...

... ar l; Yesterdiay, the adjourned inquest was held at the Neptune Inn, Willenhall, upon the body of the polieeman, Enoch AuguB tus looper, ?? was murdered at Willenhall on thie th of December, under the circumstances already detailed in the Daily Post, Thle prisonor, Patrick Hane, and Mary Klane (his wife), were present in custody. The ether three prisoners wvero of detained in the cells; they ...

... *yesterday, the Woldverhanipton Borough Sessions iorA thsqatrcommne, eoeMr. J. J. Vowell, Q.C., Reodeth ayerI ?? The learned Reecorde in his.hret ?? referred to two cases only in the calendar. The first was that of Mlary Ann Ilyke, ho was charged with stoaling end tetaining a child, Thre was -a statute whiob made every person guilty of felonywho should, by force or fraud, take away or detain ...

... WORICESTER CITY SESSIONS. I iYES RDA'ESTERDAY. These Session3 took place at the Guildhall, Worcester, before Lr. F. T. Streeton, the Recorder. There were also present iMr. SouthaJl, the Mayor; Mr. John Stallard, Sheriff; Mr. J. Coucher and Mr. T. R. Hill, JP.; and Mr. Beale, Undor-Sheriff. There were fifteen prisonors for trial, three of whom were charged with maliciously in- hlicting grievous ...

... COMMITTAL OF KANE AND HIS WIFE. Yesterday, the Magisterial enquiry into the death of the Policeman Hooper was again resumed at the Police Court, Willenhall, by the Rev. J. H. Fisher. Mr. N, N. Solly, ir. B. D. Gough, and Captain Deakin. The prisoners were placed' in the dock at ten o'clock but it was not until six o'clock that the evidence had all been given. Fifteen witnesses were heard, ...

... YESTBRDAY. Bcforr Me)S,& (C, Siturple, S. IVthoton, IF. Jit`Mes, ad J. D. Goodua.n Pryrr TiIFT.-GCeorPe JAMes (27) . labourer, Coleman Street, wscohargedwitlistealing someineat, value Cd., front the premises of Mr. Edward Johnson, pork butcher, Great eister Street. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sea tenced to seven days' imprssonmcnt. SIEALINOG JwEWL]EY.-T/olomaS .Hdpeo (14), errand bhy ...

... SURE'WSBURY EPIPHANY SESSIONS. These Sessions were held, before Sir B. Leighton (Chair- man), Robert Kenyon, Esq., Q.C. (Deputy Chairman), and a Bench of Magistrates, on Tuesday last. After the Chair man had charged the Grand Jury, Mr. Boughey made an application, on behalf of Captain Wingfield, of Onslow, to stop up and divert a certain highway, in the parishes of Poulesbury and St. Chad. Mr. ...

... DUDLEY, GRANTING OF A THEATRICAL LICENSE. -A Special Session was held yesterday, at the Town Hail, for the purpose of hearing an application from Mr. Smith, secre- tary to the Mechanics' Institution, for a license to perform stage plays, according to Act of Parliament, for five days, in the public hall of the above-named Institution. The Magistrates present were Mr. J1. E. Swindell, Captain ...

... WARVWICKSHIRE EPIPHANY SESSIONS. Mr. NY. Dickens, Chairman, took his seat on the Bench yesterday morning, shortly after nine o'clock. Arl'EALS.-A number of appeals by the London and North-Western Railway against poor rates suade upon the company's line of railway, in the parishes of Berkswell, Sheldon, Hampton-in-Arden, and Bicknell, all in the Maeriden Union, were called on and settled by ...

... I | The Warwickshire Epiphany Quarter Sessions were opened in the Crown Court, at the Shire Hall, yesterday, before Mr. W. Dickins, Chairman. Mr. Thomas Taylor Allen, of Stratford-on-Avon, was chosen foreman of the Grand Jury. The Chairman, in his charge, said the complexion of crime this quarter was light, and compared favourably with that in the corresponding period last year. There wae net ...