... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I The trials of the prisoners commenced at the Shire Hall yesterday morning, BEFolr TlE EARL OF DUDLEY. The following gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury:-Messrs. J. Beibitz, St. Peter, gentleman; J. Bate, Berr ngton, farmer: J. Boulton, Alveohureb, grocer, J. Barrow, Yardley, wine merchant; J; Briscoe, Yarddey, farmer; R. Bradney, Kidderminster, maltster; R. Brewster, Kidderminster, ...

... BlRMINGHAM POLICE COURT. YESTERDAY. Before Messrs. 2. Yoe tee (ayos'), C. Startle, H. R. Cookal-y, ?? Cee, acid ?? A very. A JUVE\ILE DBLINQUENT.-John Framere; (10), Milk Street, was charged with stealing a cake, value is,, from the shop of Mr. iticlsrt~l Doidgo, confectioner, 10, Ball Ring, On Monday nfternoon the prisoner took the cakre flea? the shop window, and was going away with it, when ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... YESTERDAY. efore Mets'sr.s J. Pouiia, 2B. Laine, a(td Dr. AM0isos. FORGERY ON THE LOxDON AND NO Mre ESTEsURN EAILWAX' COML'ANtY--JCSS Li.ese-j, (52), earthenware dealer, Jennens Row, was charged with obtaining two crates of earthenware, value £:9., by means of a forged order, from the London and North-Western Railway Company. Mr. Soars, solicitor to the company, appeared for the pro- secution ...

... ?? CROWN COUlT-YnSTnRDAY. I BEFORE THE EARL OF LICIIFIELD (CIIAIRMAN), AND MIdESSES, L SPOONER, R. KETTLE, AND EI. TAYLOR. APPICALS.-There were several appeals, but they were either arranged out of Court or abandoned, so that after a few minutes the criminal business was proceeded with. STEALING FROM TILE PERSON AT BraSTON.-William Brammer and Thomas Moreton, two young men (both on bail), ...