... THE STATE OF MELAND. CRIME IN KERRY. Baron Dowse opened Kerry Assizes yesterday. He said three years had elapsed since he had addressed the grand jury, when be made sonme remarks which a certain distinguished statesman said were figures with- out significance. Well, continued Baron Dowse, ,I don't know what is the meaning of no significance to lau, but if he meant he could see no ...

... T11 RAILWAY COMMISSION. The Railway Commission Court, consisting of ?? ts Justice Wills, Sir Frederick Peel, and Mr. W.tP.Price, is resumed yesterday at the Roval Courts of Justice, the , bearing of the case of the Pelsall Coal and Iron Com- ie pany v. the London and North-Western Railway Com- r- panv.-Mr. Littler, QO., and Mr. Percy Gye were 10counsel for the applicants, while Mr. R. S. ...

... THE SUICIDE OF A MIYISTERS WIFE. Yesterday Dr. Wynter, coroner, held an inq ueq. at No. 6, Dale Street, Leamington, on the body of Eliza- I beth, the wife of the Rev. Samuel Turner WiTiiarm pastor of the Baptist Chapel, WarNick Strept-Mr Williams said his vife was forty-eightt years of age. On Saturday week he had an intimation chat she was sufer- ing from depression of spirits. At tea on that ...

... IAN EX-MAYOR'S BETTING TR4NSACTIONSI I At the Kidderminster Town Hall, yesterday-before a Air. Registrar Talboti-Leonard Arthur Gabb, Bnrish wine s manufacturer, Bewdley, and till recently mayor of that lborough, came up for his public examination. The gross -liabilities were £5,811. 2s. 9d., and the debtor's statement showed a surplus of £79. 11s. Id., but in the Official River's report there ...

... THE QUEEN AND FRAULEIN WIEDEMANNT. The PaU Mail Gazette announces that there is now. every prospect that the case ?? Fra~ulein W~iedemrna brought against Robert Horace W~alpole will be brought again before the Lawv Courts, and that this time it will be tried out to the end. The necessary affidavits as to the birth of the child are now being sworn in GermanY, and will be brought before the ...

... THE SEIZURE OF TINNED SALMON AT KIDDERIMINSTER. At the Iidderminster Borough Polies Court, yesterday -before Messrs. 31. Tomrinson (the Mayor), T. Tempest Padford, S. Stretton, AV. C:. Green, and J. J. Harvey- Messrs. John Taylor and Co., provision dealers, Kidder- minster, were charged with exposing for sale a quantity of tinned salmon unfit for human food. Mr. t H Amphlstt (instructed by the ...

... TETHE SINGUJLAR CHARGE AGAINST A I -. ABOONET. In the Queen's Bench Division, on Saturday, the case of Holmes A. Gooch, partly heard on Friday, was resumed.- The plaintiff was executor of the late Sir Francis Gooch who died in 1881, leaving a quantity of personal property to lrs. Shippey, who it was said was intimate lith the late baronet and nursed him in his last illness. The de- fendant was ...

... 3IR. HARRLNGTON, Lip. ja ?? Exchequer Court yesterday gave judgment on an application for a writ of habeas corpus for the release of Mr. Edward Harringito,' MY.. now Tnder- going imprisonmcnt. Their lordships granted a condi- tional order on a point of law. APPLICATION TO QU7ASH A VERDICT. Yesterday the Irish Conrt of Queen's Bench was occupied wvith an application to quash a verdict of wilful ...

... In the Queen's Bench Division, on Saturday, lift. Justice ;ianisty and Air. Justice Stephen delivered jude- rment in the case of SBlley and others against Barber and others, which was a special case stated in an action in which the six plaintiffs, all of whom reside in Birmingham, sued Mrs. Jane Watson Barber. of Charnwood Vilias, Bel- grave Bload, Leicester, to recover sir one-seventh ...

... INQUSTS IN BOMIGYHAM. I BOXING SCHOOL CHILDREN'S EARS. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Hawk-es (coroner) held an inquest at his court, Moor Street, touching the death of Ada Wisman (10), whose parents live at 169, Brearley Street.-Deceased had attended St. George's Schools, Great Russell Street, and a scholar named Perrius stated that about a month ago she was in the class with the deceased, which was ...

... Last evening, Mr. J. Ansell (deputy coroner for Central Warwickshire) held an inquest at the Yewi Tree Inn, ,itron, on the body of Eliza Lee (38), sife of Thomas Lee, nailcutter, of 3S, Denmark Street, Aston. whose body was found in thu Tame Valley Canal on Tuesday evening last.-In opening the proceedings, the Coroner explained that the deceased ocs Tuesday last appeared as the prosecttrnx in ...

... YESTRDAY.-Before Mer. A. Hill and Major Ash. Tonr Jcry LTn's.-The magistrates heard objections to the new jnry lists for the parishes of Birmingham, Eigdbaston, and Aston. There was only one objection, that of Mr. John Smith, of 16, Wyndham load, Edgbas- ton, whose name having been eliminated in consequence of old age, the lists were signed. VIOLENT AsSAULTS ON POLIMcEqso.-Fdward Keggan and ...