... LLovYs BAyI(IS CoCisA.\y (Lrinisnn) v. Sin Tnoirta HasICIrTU.--This caso wa3 hscard yesterday, in the Queen's IBench Division, before the Lord Chief Ju1sticC and Mr. Justice Manisty. Tbie phdlntilf.9 are Lloyds banniisig tompnan)y (tLirnitei), carrying on busihess in iBirminigham, and Ilia defendant is Sir Thomas F. lfesket, thle owner of large estates in Lancashile.-Mr. Cromt )on, on behalf ...

... BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT.-YESTrRDAY . ?? ileaca.£fif, Mlessrr.f Ellis, ?? ichrsrde, asnd SHRIOUS CjAunnES AGA1,NST T-r SMy.-Edicerd Tallow (371, accountant and drysalter, 46i3, Ncw John Street West, was charged, with obtdiining ?? cleven tons of coal from Mr. Joseph Pritchett, cotl merehant, Sherborne Street Wharf. Ladywood, by felsec pietences. Mr, Hertmnant ?? for the prosesuotion. ie said ...

... GURIoUS CLOSE TO A PROSECUTION. At the Burton Poica Court, yesterday, before Mr. M Ieury rirrils, Arthur Johin Wooirieb, brewer's dlerk, was chargedr ear remanrrd, with stealing a umn of money and a eumber of stamps fron Tutbihry rest Oftice, trhs property of her Majesty's Post- naster-Gnlneral, Mr. Mears ?? robbery war alleged to have been comrmittedlrrring the nigirtef tire i20th tilt., and ...

... SEIZUREOF BAD MEAT. t liito, Police Court, John James, butcher, l e~ l,,rdlyl : ton, end Joseph Marsh, botcher, Birning- ef el ldc haiged with expoiing unsound weat fur 170IT iree ., ¶ft The evidetnce stiowed that the .,le jII Janics wlas olfering beef nnd mutton for efeeddle niaricet on Saturday night last. and that iii & o'lering a qtuailtity of FlutiOll in the h51rsli w 'ondav ?? each ...

... A correspondent sends us tie following note, on a case which iee believe to be most deserving of assistance:- What is now kniown as thse Bordesley proseeutiois has included an incident. of religious persecution which we should have hardly expected, and wl~ich 'wouldt not have heen made nlinownn hatd it not been for the proposal of a testimonial to its victim. The story is brielly as follows: ...

... THE j3URSOOUGH COLLISION. INQUEST: ARREST OF THE POINTSMAN. The inquest on the bodies of those killed in tie shock- ingacident which occurred on Thursrday evening, close by lurscough Junction, near Soathport, on the Lanca- siire and Yorkslhire Railway, was held on Saturday afternoon, at the village of Burscouali. before Ar. T. Y. Barker, deputy-coroner for that division of the county. The ...

... re In the Probate Division, on Friday. the Right Hon. the r. President and a common jury had before them the probata id suit of Nutting r. O'Connell, in which the plaintiff pro- nounded the will of the late Mliss Jane Bligh, who died at to Cassleton Uectory, Gloucestershire, in January, 1875, at o- the age of 89. The will was dated the lth of December, te 1871, and was opposed by the defendant ...

... I I , The tragical occurrence in Marlborough Street, Dublin, on|i 0 Fridaj nightestill remains more or less shrouded in nmystery 0 The man, John Freeman, of Marlborough Street, on whomr 1i the alarrming oatrage wns committed, continues in a very 0 precarious condition. it appears that he was shot and l ' stabbed at his OWII door by two or three men whon lie if did not recognise, and for no ...

... Ta 1`6 SuiMArN.-LISTEit v. AilPIMrETTr.-In the Chancerv Dlvi- slon on Saturday, before V c.Chltancellor Sir It. Malios, a simmons, by Henry Lister, for the removal of bis Infant niece fromt the custody of her father, James G. Listcr, wvis ?? application was made oel the ground that the latter was livin- with his deceased wrife's sister. Mary Saeman, otl her marriage with James Lister, who is a ...

... I I i ?? At the Coventry City Police Court, on Saturday, pi rr, Tlhomas Batty, proprietor of tihe well-known Betty's bh or Circus, was enruoned for having, on the 2Sth October is 'lastat the Ball Field, in the city of Covenitry kept three P- dogs enill eleven male servants, for the keepingsf whirls tO E xcise licenses were requiere, without havhig licenses so to pr i do. r llullin (supervisor ...

... IBIRMINGHAM POLIQE. COURT.-ST'umy. I Before ilfress. .Jaffira, Lloyd, aos A cerv. EMBEZZLEMENT.-PetCI St'c71e6i, d/C (32), carter, 24, I Willis 5treet, Vuauxhall, was charged with embezzling the suml of Ms. Old., the moneys of Ann ird and Sons, oni December 3. Tihe prisoner was employed by the prose- i cutors, porter merchants, 10), Digbeth, to deliver bottled I porter to their customers. ...

... ler FURTUER PROCEEDINGS. of On Saturday, Lord Penzance, as Dean of Arches, hold a cl1 Court nt Lasubeth Palace. Mr. Jouno appeared en the he part of 'Mr. John Martin, barrister-at-law, Lincoln's Inn1 i and applied to institu te a now suit aeinet Mr. Maclkoodhio, is incumbent and rcrpetual curate of St. Albau's, Ebolon, .e. for continuing ritualiotie practices in tho Holy Conn riaunior service ...