... i A MISERABLE HOME AT OLDBRY. Yesterday afternoon Mr. ES. Docker (coroner) resumed an adjourned inquest, at Oldbury, relative to the death. of an infant named Hannah Spooner, aged six months, the daughter of Samuel Spooner, Halesowen Street. Mr. Bulller appeared on behalf of the Society for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children, and the police were repre- sented by Superintendent ?? mother ...

... ASSAULT N A RESTAURANT. I _ Percy Dagg (26), a tobacconist, of Flaxland Road, i Camberwell, -was charged, on remand, at Marl- borough Street Police Conrt, London, yesterday, with assaulting Gladys Leslie. - The evidence given last week was that rat twelve o'clock h on the night of Tuesday, the 25th of March, Si Miss Leslie was standing on the step of the Hotel d de Paris, Leicester Square, ...

... ITEHE ACTION AGAINST DR. BARNARDO. In Tthe Court of Appeal, yesterday. the Master of the Rolls and Lord Justice Lopes had again before them the appeal of Dr. Barnardo from the order of the Lord Chief Justice and Lord Justice Bowen directing a writ of ha-ens corpus to issue against him to bring up the body of Harry (ossage a minor, now alleged to be in Canada in the family of a private ...

... PBLSALL REATH POLICE COURT. I YESTERDAY.-Before Messrs. Hawkes, Eyiott, and Gilbert, CHEAP TsrPS.-Frederick Malleson, 4 Coart, 4 house, Ashley Street, was fined lOs. and costs for travelling on the Midland Railway without paying his proper fare. The prisoner admitted that he was over twelve years of age and had travalled with a half-ticket. The other half of the ticket, which had been torn in ...

... ACCIDENT TO A WORKHEEN'S TRAIN. . FORTY-SEVEN MINfERS INJURED. An alarming railway collision occurred early yesterday morning on the Doe Lea branch of the Midland Railway, near Glapwell Colliery, Derbyshire. Every morning, between five and six o'clock, it is usual for a train to leave Chesterfield, New Whittington, Dronfield, and other adjacent stations for various pits, and at the customary ...

... B-ANUPTCY PROCEEDIGS. Re William Corvesor, wholesale grocer, Dudley.- Yesterday afternoon, the public examination of this debtor was held at the Dudley County Court, before Mr. Registrar Kettle. Mr. E. Percy Jobson, Official Receiver, conducted the examination; and the bankrupt was represented by Mr. Hooper. Mr. Tinsley was for the petitioning ?? bankrupt said he had been in business in the ...

... BIRAIn-GH.UI QUARTER SESSIONS, FIRST COURT.-YEsTERDaY. Before the Recorder, Mr. J. S. Dugdlfe, Q.C., ASP. THE FRAUDS ON CYCLE MANUFACTURLERS. Frederick Samuel Bucldngham (33), manager, and Francis Henry Yearns (44), traveller, were indicted for conspiring to obtain from Buckingham and Adams (Limited), Small Heath, certain valuable securities and several large sums of money in the form of ...

... THE STRANGE DEATH OF A BARRISTER'S Nen. Dr. George Datford Thomas resumed the enquiry at the Marylebone Coroner's Court, yesterday afternoon, into the circumstances attending the death of Grace Edith Hall, aged twenty-nine years, the wife of Mr. Edward Marshall Hall, a barristerwhose death took place at Duke Street, Manchester Square, on the 30th ult. Dr. Albert Lasrmnann, ?? de Terms, ...

... H-kNLEY QUARTER SESSIONS. The general quarter sessions of the peace for the borough w e~re held at Hank.1ey yesterday, before Mr. j. Beavis Brindley (recorder), ?? was accompanied on the Bench by Messrs. 3. If untbacJ (mayor), H. Palmer (es-mayor), J. Emery, nrA J. W~arner. borough mag~is- ?? Recorde r, in charging the Grand Jury (of whom Mr. W.. Jones, manufacturer, was the foreman), said ...

... At Marylebone Police Court yesterday, Joseph Rowley, giving his age as sixty-eight, but looking much younger, a weal-known face at this court, was charged with hegging in Pitzjohn Avenue, at Hampstead. The prisoner is a crossing ?? to the evidence of Detective-sergeant Brown and Mr. Eliston, the prisoner was in Fitzjohn Avenue about noon yesterday, standing on the pavement hegging of ladies ...

... BIMINGHTM_ COUNTY COURT. YESTEMOAT.-Before His HWaour J.udge C7WMers.- c APPROvAT OF A COMPOSITION.-ff re NV. R. Jones, of t the Birmingham Workhouse, medical disperser. Appli-e cation to approve composition. Mr. John Price appeared 1 for the ?? Official Receiver reported that the c composition offered was 5s. in the pound, and in his opinion that was a fair and reasonable offer. It was to be ...

... IMPORTANT JlUIGMENT REG ARDING AEPRENTICES. Yesterday the Conrt of Appeal, consisting of the Master of the Rolls and Lords Justices Lindley and A. L. Smith, had before them the case of Corn v. Matthews, which was the appeal of the plaintiffs, who are pottery manufacturers at Longport, Staffordshire. They had as an apprentice to the pottery printing a minor named Herbert Matthews, of Stoke-upon ...