... FRAUDULENT ALTERATIONS IN CHEQIJEs. A STRANGE CASE. h Within the Inst few davs the Birmiuglatin police have h been investigating what at present auptars to be a series t of clevcrly-executed frauds, carried out by the Altering of bank cheques. It seems that on toe leth of last mouth o Mr. W. C. B. Cave, auctioneer, of the lioseley Stretl Horso and Carriage Repository, received a letter pur(ort ...

... I BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT.-TuEsDAY. I ng Before Mfessrs. Hill (Dceput-Stilaendiery4, W~rtght, Lowe, rd Goodriod', and Sf urge.I PROSEOUTTON OF A DFBToOT, - Alfred Ebenezer atHwins, jeweller, late of Li, ftichard Street, wrs sum rn, moned under the 11th section of the Debtors Act, VP on 11169, for that be, being a person Adjudicated a 1 bankrupt, did not to the beet of his knowledgeo discover ...

... MONMOUTHSHIRE iASSIZE&;; - _ I . . I - . - .~ CROWN COVRT-WZsnDsArAt (Before M~r. Justice HivNaNs.)t THE CHBTTOW2OA NShLAUGHTE CASE. I John Lydiot-, 36, was indicted for felonioualv a hrq and slaying. Henry George Smith, at the i ?? of Chenstow, on the 15th of May last. t a Pisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Earn prosecuted. The evicence showed that a hoese ina waggon under the care of prisoner ...

... IMIDStUMMR QUARTER SES0I. S. GLAMQRQANSHIRt. Before Mr. B. 0. JONES (ShairwmC W. DAVID. ,) and Mr. C. 'I HEFT FmOE A CLOTHEi P- AT CASDIFF,. Mitery F~errell, atlias III- ,IoP ATC' DP Mary k'rel la ye a married woman, agCO 32, Was ?? to sir months' impri3on- m eci for stealir. 'shirt from the shop of Mary 1kees, ?? clothes dealer, 46, Bridge- etreet, cajiff. She had been twice previously ...

... pOLICE INTELLIGEB L Trn STREET DISTURBANCES AT CDnrp. B -At Cardiff police court, on Saturday (befre I 0 Alderman H. Bowen and Alderman Wainr, GM a Owent Car was charged with causing an obatmn. To tire WPenrbh- read, on the previous- aruoon Da Police constable W. Glover sltaed at hialfp t ti four his ttention Vws called -to a lrge cirowd i r the thoroughfarein qutn. The pror was Of d fighting ...

... roblk ALTERATION OF BANK CiiEQUES.--BankerS will have reason to congratulate themselves if the police have at last really put their hands on part of a gang who have for a long time past been preying upon them with success. The two prisoners at present in custody on a charge of forgery on the Bank of England are supposed to belong to a strong American gang. The process by which the rascals work ...

... It BXPRE !tR. B. D. HOLT ANTD MH. F. HOLLINS, R I Lt STABBING iT ToXTETHs AvRK.-Joha Michel, 14 ?? 8 5i f of age, as errand boy from a stationer's shop in Park- F. ] d lane, was charged with stabbing John Jones, of 31, A. Leonora-etreet. in 3fannerlng-road, Toxteth-park, on Di d Saturday. Mr. W. J. Stewart appeared for the defendant. b It appeared that about middia on Saturday the prose- R. 3 ...

... 1'JrEOAE lIiERE?yCAS??? op wR?' ^ ,ij . ./ -: .- . : .t -'I . At A~ meetiug o£ thb Gonrock l~~nited P by Iterian congregationl last night it was PrS o£l leave the U.- P.- body and to callthsvi x-Macrae; who was recently Suspended forh C.to become their pastor. A letter OX he>)3 from'the Rev.: Mfr Mcrae statiug fith t be for the benefit of the Conlgregatj0 1 al P should nlot :remain~ in Gourock ...

... a, At Westminster, on Saturday, Thomas Heatheote, i, an unlicensed waterman, was charged, before Mr goD'Eyncourt, with stealing a barge, value £400, the T. iproperty of Mr Charles Bates, barge-owner, of Ash- bill n 1 burner Gardens, Chelsea>. Mr Bates said he was a ps b3arge-owner and contractor; the prisoner was en- gaged to take charge of a barge called Who'd 'A: have Thought it, as ...

... 'cor- hFIR;ST DIVISIONT-TUESDAY. the- - sish- THE CAEOINBANK. the PE:TITION FOR REMfOVAL 0? THE CALEDONLAN BANKINsG this COMPANY FOR LIST OF CON'TRIBUYTORIES OF THE rays CITY OF GLASGOW BASKE. the This petition was debated somze time since, after by hearing which the Court took time to consider their r'to judgment, which was given to-day. ity. The Lord-President said that this wras a petition ...

... ,THE POLICE COURTS& ' 'iMaSM oinhrow, a pulic and n l dealer, 3ving8 at Blety Ws aminod by Mr. James New- uan, Inspector of neat at the Louaou Central Meat Market, before Sir Andrew Luskk .P., for sending live piecesf a diseased cow to marotrs31e which was unft or the footo mam.-Mr. Baylia, jUn., prosecuted on b of the Commioner of 'ewers; and r. Lumley appeared for the ?? defendat wa a ...

... lng se, Besides the cases reported in our last issue, the following t were heard at the B.rough Qumrter Sessions, which com- Ied meticed on Tuesday, the let July:- EtXTENSlVE FRAUD ON THE MIIDLAND RAILWAY CO. ns, 1illiamn Smnith (64), agent, wns indicted for obtaining, on re- the 16th November, 1874, from the Midland Railwaiy Com- to pany by means of a cortain falso pretence, 471. Ss. 41., and ...