... A HIAINLEY BANKRUPTCY APPEAL. i In the Queen's Bench Division, yesterday, the case of Williamson en parts Lowndea came before Mr. Justice Cave and Mr. Justice A. L. Smith, sitting as a Divisional Court to bear bankruptcy appeals, in the form of an appeal from the decision of the learned County Court judge at Hanley refusing the appellant's applica- tion for possession of certain property which ...

... YxSTERDAT.-Before Hlls Honorer Ju.dge CTalmers. SEQUEL TO A SEANDER.-An action was brougiit by H~arryHaynes, of 18, Prospect RowJ, Coleshill Street, fruiterer, against Mary Weston, wife of John Weston, publican, of 19, Prospect Row, to recover 5Ls. &s., under an agreement. Mr. Dyson appeared for the plaintiff, and Ir. Tanner for the ?? November 18 last, MIr. Dyson stated, defendant made a ...

... I THE STRUM. IN THE BRASS TRADE. LEAVING WORK THROUGH FEAR. At the Birmingham Police Court, yesterday morning- before the Stipendiary (Mr. T. M. Colmore) and Mr; C. T. Parsons-Joseph Staresmore, Clifford Street, Aston,. and Frederick Mills, Railway Terrace, Nechells, brass- casters, were summoned by their emnployers, Messrs. HE~ateley and Lee, Aston Stree , to recover damages sustained owing ...

... CHARGES OF TVURDER. The New Brighton police on Saturday discovered the knife vith which it is believed Felix Spicer cut the throats of his two children yesterday-week. The weapon wvas concealed behind a cooking-stove in the refresh- ment-house kept by Spicer's wife, and must have been put there after the attack by the prisoner upon the woman. It is like a shoemaker's knife, and on the blade ...

... THREE CILDREN MURDERED BY THEIR MOTHER. A terrible triple murder was committed at Wavertree, Liverpool, on Thursday night. At No. 16, Ganoyle Road, resided Charles Arthur Charlton, a dark in the Customs, and it appears that on Mr. Charlton returning home at half-past seven odclock, his wife, who had a razor in her hand, and vras bleeding profusely from the, throat, opened the door for him. He ...

... I (By Tdtegrph.)l [T-fso A COaanrPOsnDE.1X Nenw YoRK, May 25.-Later and more authentic details about the fatal shooting of Father Barrett, at Chicago, yesterday, show that the first version of the tragedy has been greatly exaggerated. The facts are that a crazy mendicant, who was considered to be perfectly harmless, knocked at the door of Father Barrett's dwelling-house in Chicago, and on 1 ...

... THE ACTION AGAINST THE SMETFWIs i LOCAL BOARD. The Court of Appeal. in London, consisting of the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Fry and Lopes, had before them on Tuesday the appeal of the defend- ants in the case of Hopkins v. the Smethlwick Local Board from the decision of? Mr. Justice Denman and Mr.. Justice Wills, setting aside the verdict and judgment for the defendants, on the ...

... CHARGES AGAINST THE SOCIETY FORI PROMOTING CHRISTIAX KNOWLEDGE. Mr. Walter Besant, in yesterday's Daily ews, returns to the charge of sweating which he recently brought against the Society for Promoting Christian Rnowledge. After declaring that the unfortunate writers who have been employed by the society owe a debt of gratitude to the DaiZy H~eis for its leaders on the subject, Mr. Besant ...

... I BIRMrNGHAM SUMMER ASSIZES. the commsion for holding the Birmingham Assizes was opened yesterday morningby Mr. Justice Law- r'arce, in the absence of Mr. Justice Hawkins, -who -was; detained at Warwick until the afternoon. The Mayor (Alderman Clayton), the High Sheriff (Mr. Rowland Beech), the Shersiff' Chaplain (the Rev. HL 0., Beech), the IUnder Sheriff (Mr.- J. Moore Bayley), the acting ...

... - - ?? - -o T -,rmco- A# NEGLcT TO OBTAIN A TRANSFIOs 0OF LIOENSB.-At the Police Court, yesterday. Mr. Herbert H. Bird applied on behalf of the Edgbaston Brewery Company for a temporary transfer of the license of the Criterion Hotel, Lichfield Street.-Mr. Turton (assistant magis- trates' clerk) pointed out that the license was in the name of Richard Hall, and had been since December 4, 18S8. ...

... BIRUdINGELA3M POLICE COURT. YsSmnDAr.-Befcre Messrs. Colsore ?? Williams, A. ntsarfbwaisn, G. H. Lloyd, Barro-w, eand g B. Goodman. ROBBING His Wers-Richard Knowles (37), rag and bone collector, living at 1 Court, Dartmouth Street, was charged with stealing his wife's ?? has been separated from his wife for some time. He had lately been in prison. When he came out he went to his wife's house, ...

... SENSATIONAL SUICIDE FROL1 WANT. _ Another suicde from want has been committed in the Montmartre quarter of Paris, which in some respects resembles that in the Rue d'Avron, which recently excited so much sympathy. Mdmoe. Van- dreese, a widow, aged thirty-three occupied two rooms in the Rue de Torcy, with ber four childrep- three boys and a girl-the eldest of whom was eleven and the youngest ...