... I BIRMIN GHAM COUNTY COURT-YESTERDAY. Before Mr. £egistrar Pam,/. Be W. T. BMNxc:rv, of Bissell Street, ?? l ?? bankrupt's statement of affairs showed I debts £03,373., and assets £476. Mir. Fitter appeared for some of the creditors, and Ur. Hooper (from Messrs. Johnson and Co.) for the ?? reply to Br., Sharp, the official' receiver, the bankrupt stated that he commenced business about twenty ...

... f ;. it . fDISTIITSEWS. ;WOLVERIAMMPTONt * A G~uthe TO ArmENAt the police Court, testerb A 0ArThe e.tpt ?? a Teu ile Satbdreetwasu n day, John Fildhofse k cabarn.'- f. ?? ?? was' chargied with .lidn~ dranrk. whilst' If, chrgedo at the ansom caband wltee 'allowifg a persoii tolietcarried Satthbac the cab without the cohsent of'thfl' fare.-O audy defendant drove Detective M'1uon inn ca ?? and an ...

... THE CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT IN BIRMINGHAL. At the Birmingham Police Court, yestorday-before Messrs. Harris and Baker-Edward Bates, the keeper of- a lodging house at 91, Hill Street, was summoned under the 13th section sob-section 1, of the Criminal Law Amend-' ment Act, 1toS, for keeping a brothel at the same address. -Mr. C he ston appeare d for the de fen ce, an d eisdeavour od to upset ...

... | -j A hOM _ m BRMINGHAM. ' . I J ?? ,> . ?? ?? ?? i-AL (GED INt IAN OONI)UCT OF AC'. 'AMIAN, *Y testedhy the Botoa'gh Coroner (fr. hawkeea) feld ani inquest at his Court, Moor Street, on the bbdyO 6f Jtblie- rine rratt (61), wife of John Pratt, carpenter, 38, 78 ow Street, wbo iteb with her death on the 26thi nlt,, uinder mos~t painful ?? husband was, the firtt witnees clled, Ah ~bsCoroh&r ...

... BANKRUPTOY PROCEEDINGS. At a special Court at Stoke-on-Trent, yesterday-before Al. Registrar Keary-Edivard John,.Sadler, of Basford, Stoke-on-Trent', libes dbcoriitor and builder, appeared for public etanihtion by Mr. T. Bullock, official Receiver lee Bankruptcy. The debtor's statemett showed debts £0423. is.-4d., assets £4,201 18s., of ;i'bioh £4,420. was estimated surplus from. poperty held ...

... BIRMINGHAM POLICE COURT.-YESTBI{DAY. 1 .. Before Miceori. fpieierilcy (Stip. ), Parsono, Har*is, and Baker. Rldn13MEeY OF C)LOT1Es.-Charles Jacksoa (27), carpenter; residing at 5. 1-featon Street, and Albert IHaynes (32), a jeweller1 no fixed address, were chat-ed with brealang into thlo shop of William Tantans, clothier, Summer Lane nd stealing therefrom a quantity of wearing apparel of the ...

... INQUESTS IN BIRMINGIT.Af Al incluest was hoeld yesterday, at the Public Office, Mloor Street, before Mr. Heawkes (coroncr), on the hotly of Daniel Perkins (70), of 43, Warner Street. The deceased, who was accostomed to sleep oil a sofa-never, it wae stateti, having slept in a bel for seven years-wa1s foundI dead on Monday morning in the room wi6el lr hall gone to sleep overnight. l)r. Morris ...

... At the Clerkensell Police Court, London. yesterday, t widow named liles, aged 34, was charged with the miurder of her male child, and further with concealment of birth. A boy was engaged (digging in the front garden of the house where prisoner is employed as servant, and discovered the remains. At the subsequnent inquest the jury found that death was caused by sulfocation, and that the ...

... KING'S HEATH POLICE COURT.-YESTERDAY, Before Messrs. H1astes, Stckil Elliot, and lne. THE AItTEMPTED MBURIDEIt AT KIrXS ,NORT'ON.-Wlm. Snipe, labourer, was brosght tup, on remand, charged with attempting to murder Joseph Job Jones, farme-, Camp Lane, King's Norton, on the 10th ult. The prisoner was before the court a week ago, when it will he recollected he was remanded, to enable a doctor to ...

... BANKP.UPTCY PROCEEDINGS. A meeting of the creditors of Arr, If. dte la f7eee- Blackil/t, late organist of St. MAary's Church, Warwick, antil professor of music, wees risd yesterday, at the ollices of Mr. 1-V, B. Sanderson, solicitor, W'arwiele Mr. l'eirson, official receiver, in the chair, Thel statement of affairs shwoved liabilities-ceeditors unsecured, £162; l4s. 8d. 'Assets: Book debts, ...

... IBIRMINGHAI QUARTER SESSIONS, I YESTERDAY. I Bejore Mi-, J. S. Dogdale, Q.C., Recorder. Thle Januiary General Sessions of the Peace for the Borough of Birminghat wvere opened' yesterday, at the Public Office, MAoor Street, before Mr. J. S. Dugdale, Q.C., Recorder. THIE GRAND JURlY. The following gentlemen were sivorn its a Grand Jury: -William Redfern Deyldin (foreman), Edwin Aldridge, John ...

... SHOCKING DOUBLE MURDER NEAR DA~rFORD. A man named John Knocker (42), an army pensioner, who has been working as a labourer in the Hawley Paper Mlills for the last two or three years, entered the Grey- hound Inn, at Sutton, near Dartford, on Friday night, where he was lodging, at about eleven o'clock, and imme- diately attacked a fellow-lodger named Kemp, passing a sharp instrument across his ...