... BIRIMINGHFAM ASSIZES. Yesterday the business of the Summer Assizes for Bir- mingham commenced at the Council House. The criminal business was conducted in the Banqueting Hall, Mr. Justice Day presiding; and the Council Chamber was temporarily converted into the Nisi Prius Court, where Mr. Justice Wills sat. The calendar contains the names of twenty-seven prisoners, against whom there is a ...

... At the Guildhalil Police Court, London, yesterday, Thomas Grove, a butcher and dealer in meat. of Cove, Hampshire, was charged with having sent to the Central Market four quarters of beef which were diseased and unfit for human ?? ]Mondale, meat inspector, said that on the 16th April he seized four quarters of beef at the shop of Messrs. Coward, in the Central Market. The meat was in a very ...

... THE CEHARGE OF STEALING MALT AT SEDGLEY. I Yesterday, at the SedgiLy iolicp Court-before Mtsar, 33. Whitelbouse and F. A. Horser-Efdgar Joseph Wo'odall (26), son of the laIndlord, andt manager of the Horse Shoes Inn, Uipper Garnal, was charged, on ramanrd, with etealing one bag of malt on the 7th September, the property of DMessrs. Joshua C(artwright end Sons, maltetere, Upper IGornal. Mlr.W. ...

... BIRMINGHAM SUMMER ASSIZES. YESTE31RDAY. CRtOWN COURT. lfe&ror Mr. Jrumftic Dail, A TIITvIAiL ACTiION.-All notion wvas brought by DMessrs. Gowving anud Ingrain, contracutors, ]ialsall 1Heath, agis rE Antn Wielyw, Chelit~n I lioad, Brosoloy, to recovor £25., ill respect of ail a~loged breach of conitrait. Aire ilogo yling (instructed by Messrs. F~owk, asid Soii) appeare~d for tho plaintiffsl, ...

... . ABRUPT TERMINATION. On Saturday, at the Solihull Police Court-Messrs. Chattoek, Aiston, Beard,and Dr. Kimbell sitting as magis- trates-the decision was given in the case of Stanbury i. Stanbury-Eardley. The complainant, Mr. A. H. Stanbury, of Springfield House, Yardley, some time ago issued a summons against his son, Mr. Stanhury-Eardley, law student, for trespass and noisy and dis- orderly ...

... ALLEGED CHLID MURDER NEAR STOKIEON.TRENT. At the County rutty Sessions at Buyslem, yesterday, | Mary Ann Smith (22), domestic servant, lately rpsiding in Bridge Street, Great urenton, Was ehargedl on remanid with the wilful murder of her illegitimate child, at Trent Vale, near Stokc-on-Trent, an the 25th ?? Ann Rans- oliffe, an inmate of the Spittals Workhouse, Stoke on- Trent, stated that she ...

... - THE ST.ABURY-EARDLEY CASE. THE DEFENDANT BEFORE THE MAGISTRATES. At the Solihull Police Court. on Saturday, Lir. Ernest J. Stanbury-Eardley was once more brought before the magistrates to answer charges arising out of a disturbance at the residence of his father, Bir. Horatio Stanbury, Sprinefield. Hall Green. A summons was obtained against the defendant by his father for wilful damage ...

... JUDGE CHALMERS ON TIRE COUNTY COURT SYSUTE. In the current number of the Law Quarterly Review there is an article on this subject, by the Judge of the Bir- mingham County Court, Mr. Obalmers points out that the jurisdiction of County Courts, originally limited to certain common-law actions where the debt did not exceed 220., has since been enormously increased, The functions of the County ...

... I At Manley. yestetday John Mlelia, Peter Garratty. John Connolly, Tsotras Rowlands, Luke Holland, Michael Melia, and Thomrns Jennings, puddlers, and James Finlan, labourer, were charged with having unlawfully wounded Police-constable Turner; and also with having violently assaulted several ?? hearing of the case occupied the whole of the day; but the facts maybe brietly stated as follow : ...

... I O These Assizes were brought to a conclusion yesterday. ScRIOUS SORARSG An.AIdNST A SURtEON. -Joseph Guest Boughton, a surgeon, of Chelteuham, surrendered on a charge of indecently assaulting Emily Woodman, a married woman, on October 21. Mr. Sim prosecuted, and Mr. James defended.-Mrs. '\oodman said her husband being ill she went to the prisoner to come and see him. Prisoner formerly lodged ...

... THE ALLEGED FRAUDS ON BIRMINGHAM I JEWELLERS. At the Birmingham Polioe Couirt, on Saturday-before Messrs .TaJlray, Johnson, and Lloyd-an application was made by Mr. Stubbins (instructed by Mr. Bnrber, Denman Chambers, Temple Street) with regard to George Berklanmd John Charles Collins, the men recently taken into custody in Belfast on a charge of committing a fratud in that case, and also ...

... THE ORIM'VINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL. A FRANK WARNING. Under tine Iendaing A Frank Warning, theo pfl Mfall Ccrzellc ot Saturday prints the following aidirc.ss to its readers:- The Criminal Law Amendmnent 13ill will, it is said, be abandoned, owing to the late period of the session, end the diflienlty of finding tine to carry it through thC toommons. That neasarure deals with a subject the ...