... CHOESTERISFEL.D AND BOYTH5005'f CLLI.ER1Y CODIPAOW , IiLAIE. Tha lbearing of thi9 suilt vase resumed yesterday,_beforo ViW- Chancellor Bacon. sitting in the Chancery Division of the H1igh court of Justice, The Soliiltor-Genenid, Mr. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. Bush appeared for tle Chesterfield inad Boythorpo Colliery Company; to e Attorney-General, Sir N. Jo kseon, Q.Cb , and Mr. Black appeared for Dr ...

... BIRMINGHAMI POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY. Before Heusns. Ki11erstecsf (6i0peniiiar.), E1l1s, lfanton, and Tfsmmins. A BAD AFIaiiow.-Ediovard Disbssr. (85i), brewer, who formrnoly resided in Bridge Street WVest, was eharged with deserting bis two children, whereby they hine. hecome chargeable to the parish. Prisoner was apprehended at two o'clock yesterday worniase in W~igan, by Warrant- officer ...

... IISTRICT NEWS. WORCESTEIR. A WOmaN KILLED EY A BEAN0I{ OF A TREE.- Yesterday, Mr. Miller, deputy coroner-, hold an inquest on the body of Jane Pritchard (46). wife ofa ,labourer living in-Dolday. Deceased was passing near Hallow Park, on Monday. when a large branoh of an elm tree snapped'and fell upob her, fracturing her skull. She was conveyed to the linlxnmary, where she. died on Christmas ...

... DESPERATE ENCOUNTER WITH A BURGLAR At Hamnpstead Police Court, on Monday, a man, who had refused his name and address, was placed in the dock, before Messrs. Marshall, Faulconer, and Smith, charged with burglariously entering the dwelling house of Mr. David Powell, Heath Lodge, Hampostead~eath, andstealing therein a plated candlestick, a silver spoon, and a brooch; and further, with committing ...

... THE DEATH THROUGH ExCESsIVE DRINKING. Atftle BirmieghtIm Police Court, yesterday, beforel~iessrs. I- eerolel (stipendiary) and Osborne, William Foulkea ?? COal dealer, 27, Ikeld Port oad: John Maniinz ?? coal dealer, 9, Ogler Street ; and Eliza Kirby (26), 5nalady of the White Swan public-house, Summer Row %5-crc charged on remand with causing the death of Johln -5-rwiou.-Mr. Jesse Herbert ...

... IJVERPOOL POLICE COURT. I TUESD~AY. DECEMPEIMA 16. i; FOLF 35R. ItAFFLUS. rv'i'ollan Lose. Yirm CAeE. -Charles Rudo'ph Werner, a Germ ?? who delcribed htmself as a surgeon der tint, was brmught up on suspicion of stealineg a number of articles.-Mr. Dvesis, prosecuting solicitor. said that the charge against the prisoner would uti- mnately be one of stealteg by means of a trick. Tie priterer ...

... E PROFESSOR.SMiTH'S CASE. MR SLOAN'SCALL. .fThis (rev.- Courit met yesterday-Professor Salhusond, mnoderadtor. 'ME SLOA'N'S GALL; q On the mninacteso0flast mieeting 1l~eing read, ad Mr Banstnemoved that the following be inserted to after thelinoaticene'of the Glasgow deputatio n :-'When 51, one of the ehensmissionlers ewAB iddiesiing thte Preeby- itey, and, entering upon. the meris wa pedn or ...

... IATE GED XXTEPtBT TO BRIBE A GAQL, R.I AIL At tno Worship-street Police.-oour't yesterday, 0i Lenals Cheater, 30, fashionably dressed, giving an address ait 22, Euston-uquare, was placed in the dock, before Mr. tI BushbT, charged with having attempted to bribq anid 01 incilo John Partridge, a public officer, tho gaoler of thle M~ansion House Police-court, by off ering him d001, to pro- euro ...

... U UENTRAL (CIMINAL COURT.. I (Before tho Common Serjeant.) Ellen Gray, 29, an unmarried woman, was placed at the bar to ?? her trial upon a charge of having com- mittod wilful and corrupt perjury. -She was a domestie servant, and upon the occasion of a robbery being com- mitted in her master's house she made a charge against a respectable young man with whom she bad been keeping company, of ...

... THlE POLICE COURTS is MANSION HIOUSii h The Gone) a Steaw iyavigation. Company, having offices in Lombard-street, were summoned before the Lord h Mayor, at the instance of the Treasury, for an infringe- I meat of an Order in (Council made iii pursuance of the Contagious Diseases tAnimals) Act, 1859, in not having e proper battens or other foot-holds placed on the floor of if pons used for ...

... POLICfE NEWS. CUSTOLY COURT-SALAtDAY. of CHARLES DuFzns, Esq., J.P., and Roii:RT L. be HAMILTON, Esq., J,P., presided in this Court. a The business waas of an unimper-.a.-t natuze. Be SUMMONS COURT. [Before J. C. O'DoNNELL, Esq. . M1., and POBT. ha L. HA3IIroi, Jod.P.] of CHArGE AGAINST BAKEPS FOR WUOMING ON SUDAY. gr The case in which James N0ill, Iater, 5-2, Israel hi Street, sunmoned. Mr. ...

... G6ASGOW BAN. RUPF(r.TCY COURT- I YESTERDAY. I (Befote Sh!eiff S~rs.) 2 Mgf SEQUESTRATIT! OF aR C-eaONz . . The bankriuptwasea Joiner .524 CSt Ge'6re'isR4i. There were present Mlr James Affileck, C.A., for t r D. Bird, jun., C. A., trustee.; Mr 'William s Cook, writer, for AMessrs MEitchell, Covan & 3Jjohnston, writers, agents in the sequestration, and i several creditotrs. r The bankrupt ...