... I B14MLNGHAM POLICE COURT. YESTZDMAT.-Before Mr. Ccznwore (Stip,), Sir James I rSa'er, Messrs. Hwkes, EUiS, and Brames . SINSCGULAR CHARGE os TzFT.t-ohn Lewis, tool- 4harpener, was summoned for stealing several articles between July and August this year, the property of Messrs. Mcterdie and Thompson, millstone makers, t Pershore Skreet.. Messrs. Beasle and Co. prosecuted; and Mr. Dorsett ...

... I THE DUDLEY DrOWNG CASE. COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONERS. Yesterday, at the Dudley Police Court-before Alder- man Walker, Alderman Wilkinson, and Mir. Hail- Thomas Davies (33), teaser at a glassworks, Chapel Street, Hart's Hill; Thomas Russon (21), horsedriver, oine Street; Eli Cartwright (20), glassblower, Vine Street; and Joseph Jones (19), a labourer, of Harts Hill, were charged with causing ...

... * STAFFORDSHIRE.fl IMPORTANT APPEAL CASE. hr Hdckrsass v. Birminghami Cansal Ndarigntion.-Oross ccl appeals were heard by the Chairman (Mr. T. F- su TwAemlow), Lord Lichifeld, Mesgsrs. FrankJames,JS. Jones, in and P. C. Perry, yesterday, against the decision of Mr.Pr N-eville, the Wolverhampton stipendliary. Mr. Hickman th, applied to the Stipendiary to order the canal company pa to erect tour ...

... The final search of Mrs. Pearcy's house was com- menced early yesterday, by Inspector Bannister and Sergeant Nupkins, and occupied the whole day. It is understood that up to the afternoon nothing had been discovered to throw any new light on the crime. Mr. Hogg, who has recovered somewhat from the state of extreme excitement into which he was thrown on Wednesday night. has failed to identify ...

... YsnTrRDAy.-.Before His Honour Judas Chalmers. ACTION AGAINST ARCITECTrs.-John Loughton, brick- maker, Garrison Lane, sued Joseph Crouch and Edmund Butler, 7, Waterloo Street, architects, to recover £e14. 4s. Sd. balance due for bricks supplied to a builder named Hopkins, or in the alternative upon a guarantee. Mr. O'Connor appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Parfitt (instructed by Messrs. ...

... About half-past seven o'clock last night a woman was murdered at South Hampstead, London. The corpse was discovered under a wall near the junction of Adamson Road at Eton Avenue. The head was almost severed from the body, and was immersed in a pool of blood. The deceased was well dressed. She was well known to the police as an unfortunate, who frequently walked up and down Eton Avenue. The ...

... THE ACTION AGAINST A SALT UNION PROMOTEmo Tle case of Capper v. Maconochie, the previous proceedings in which have been reported, came before Mr. Commissioner Kerr, in the City of Lcionh Court, on Friday. The plaintiff Mr. Thomas Capper, is the proprietor of the Shirleywich Salt Works, North- wich, andseeks to recover £29. 15s. from the defendant, for salt supplied on the alleged authority of ...

... THE CONDEMED MEN AT WORCESTER The three men in the Worcester prison condemned to death for the murder of a gamekeeper at Lenchwick, near Evesham, were visited on Saturday by a number of their relatives. They arrived by the 1015 train from Evesham on Saturday morning, and immediately pro- ceeded to the pri son, thinking they would be able to see the mean forthwith. They, however, found that ...

... WARWICK. AsssA1T BY A BasnIGHAx YouTHn-At the Borough ?? Court, on Manday-before the Mayor and other ?? Barber, aged fifteen, braes-filer, of Warstone Street, Birmingham, was brought up in custody charged with assaulting a youth named Parsons of Warwick, on Saturday night last Prisoner pleaded not guilty.-P. rosetor stated that he was walking along Coto End with another lad, when prisoner, who ...

... The inquest on the bodies of Mrs. Townsend and Mr. De la Motte was resumed yesterday at Deptford. Mr. St. John Wontner appeared for the friends of De la Motte, and Mr. George Lockyer represented Dr. Townsend.-Dr. Peter De la Motte was recalled, and stated that he had nothing to add to the evidence given by him at the opening of the inquest--Dr. Townsend, recaled, stated that he last saw nis ...

... WTHE -PARNELL COMMISSION REPORT. II--BOYCOTTING. The second charge with which -the Comrmissioners deal is that who'd accused the Irish leaders -of promoting, by a: system of coercion and intimida- -tion, -an agrarian agitation 'against, the pay- ment of agricultural rents, for the purpose' of impoverishing- and expelling from the country the Irish landlords who were styled the English garrison ...

... I BBIRMIGHAM QUARTER SESSIONS. I YESTrnnAY.-FIRST COURT. Bcfore the Recorder (Mr. J. S. Dugdale, Q.C., 2f P.) Iia.xwrFuay WOUNDING.-Philip Hyde (57), labourer, on bail, was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding Bridget Cain on the 8th March. Another count charged Hyde with occasioning actual bodily harm, and a third with a common assault. Mr. Symonds prosecuted, and Mr. Parfitt ?? ...