... LICENSING S iSSIONS. ?? -Q~ NEWCASTLE. The adjourned Licensing Session for the city of Newcastle was held on Tuesday in the Central Police Court, Pilgrim Street. The first application on the list was by UIr John Henry Brannan for a provisional license for a house to be esected at the corner et Welbeck Road, io the township of 13yker. -Mr Dickenson, who appesred cn behalf ot Mir Brannan, said ...

... NORTHUMBERLAND. -FrIDAY. CROWN COURT. -Before Mr Justice CHARLES M l Joseph Metcalf Bell, on bail, clerk in the Newcastles Post office, who pleaded guilty to three charges of stecalinig letters containing postal orders, between January I'Jih arid I March 29th of this year, eva. brought op for ?? I - lordship, in passing sentence, said he thought be was justified. th having regard to his ago ...

... DURLHAMI ASSIZES. acri)Ar. *; On Fldiaymornicg the buisiness of the Summer Assizes d for the county oE Dulrham wnes commenced before M~r a Justice WAills etnd ?? Justice Cbannes. In the C1rown; Court a Dilr Justice W$ills presided, Mlr Justice Charles presided in d the N isi Prius Cou r. o WOUNcDING CASES. is John H~unter (43), sailor, charged with teounslier Ellen Dixon at South Shields on ...

... IMPORTANT STATEMENT BY A v DOCTOR. a Melbourne, Tuesday. Itis expected that thetrial of Deeming, alias n Williams, will commence here on the 24th inst. b It is not considered probable that the application o of the defence for an adjournment in order to f permit witnesses being brought from England will I be granted. Deeming has been very orderly and industrious to-day. He is still occupied in ...

... 'A WOMAN IN flAN S CLOTHING. ROMANCE OF NIAJNY YEARS AGO. The further hearing of the sensational case of Clarke and Others v. Stanley and Others was tesumed on Saturday morning, before AIr Justice Chitty. in the Chancery Division.-The action, which is-for the admini- I stration of the estate of the late William Henry Smith Cullener of Larkhall Rise, Clapham, who died about 40 years ago, ...

... I TUE R?AD1NG U?1LLD MURD?flS. MAGGISTERIAL PROCEEDIGSb. The eorrrthhevue an R~eading wvas agoin crowded en Saturdlay rwhen the two prisonlers were breoght op in eon- neetr:n wvith the c'asrg's ofE ?? muarders cf babies. hnnie .4mslia Dyer, the nurse who was tirer arrested, tsvas changed as a principal, and Arthur th nest Calmer, a commission agent, her eon-in-law, was chargbed as an acesesory ...

... Dull as we are apt' to imagine life must have been in the Court of the Commonwealth, there were times when vanity and animal spirits got the upper hand. On May-day, 1654, a paper called Several Proceedings in Parliament-a very sanctimonious sheet-says: This day was more observed by people going a-May- ing than for divers years, and indeed much sin com- mitted by wicked meetings with ...

... ALLEGED THEFT OF X200 AT SWA AWELL. - POLICE COURT HEARIN, G. A curious &legation of theft ga! heard by the ma3is- trates, at the Gateshead County Police 0oart yestexdav, m hbn a maaon named Thamas Thompson, 49 years of age, ealpsared to answer a charge of having, between the 1.9Lh November and the 19th Decamlber, brmkep and entered the dwelling-house of a newsagent named John Hood Rylo, at ...

... THE sT. NE OTS MURDE{1 TRIAL. VERDiCT AND SENTENCE. At lluntinzclun Assizes on Mcnday, before Mr Justice Hawkinzi, the trial of Walter HEorEford for the murder of hi- coasic, Annie Holmep, wameorculdced. A ?? crowd L of people asthaiebd au an eirly hour in the mrarket squatre L and the main stzeet of the town, and the most remark- a able extitemenc prevailed. Quite Lalf the ?? of Spaldwicit ...

... ACTION AGAINS U THE NEWCASTLE TRAMWAYS COMPANY. AD the Newcastle hssizes on Tuesday, the case of Macdonald and Another v. the \ewcastle Tramwayv and Carriage Company came on for ?? was an action for negligence, heard with a jury. Mr Strachan, Q.C., and Mr Joel appeared for tbe plaintiffs, and Mr Scott Fox, Q.C., and Mr Simoy, represented the ds- ?? Scraahan said tbis wasa cae mwherea tramcar ...

... THE, MURDER OF :>A YOUNG I WOMAN IN NEWUCASSTWE. : a I SUICIDE OF THE ACCUSED MAN. HIS LAST LETTERS, .On Monday morning in HI.5, Plris.on, Newoastle, an inquest was held before Mlr Corcuner IKoyle on the body of Alexand.r Thompson, 33 ye-ars o age, who committed suicide in one of the cells of the prisountt Laly on Saturday mlorning, he then bei'ig under remand en _ chatige of having wilfully ...

... TRtIALS AT NEWCASTLE. The autromr Assizes for the City and County of New.- castle and the Coonty of Northumberland were resumed on Monday in the 'Moot Hall, Newcastle, before Baron Pollock. SHOOTING NEAR NORTH SHIELDs. John Crooks, 32, wvho had been found guilty of having wounded Joseph Pickett, at Chirton, near North Shields, on June 30. by shooting him with a loaled re- . volver, with intent ...