... -BIRMINGHAM POLICE COUT. I~ ~ YESTEBDAY.-Before Aessrs. Comnore ?? ElUs, aend H awkes. A CAnrSas's Drvsxsios.-John Coleman (22), a respectably- dressed cabman, of Priory Road, was charged with being found on the premises of Mr. William Barton, Conservative agent, of Charlotte Road, Egdgbaston, for an unlawful purpose.-Mr. Stanley I Barton, son of the prosecutor, said that just after twelve ...

... THE CIGAR TRADE REVELATI0NS. At Worship Street Police Court, London, yesterday afternoon, the further hearing of the charge of having in their possession for sale certain cigars to which a false trade description had been applied, and with applying the false trade description, was resumed before Mr. Bushby, the defendants being George de Lange, Alexander Van Cleef, Aaron Van Gleef, Benjamin ...

... I Nr rnOLDS (LiesrwD) v. RxrNOLDs.-Yesterday. in the Chlancery Division, Mr. Justice Kay bad before him a motion for an injunction to restrain the defendant, until the trial or further order, from using or putting in practice the invention described in the specification and drawings filed in respect of letters patent, dated -7th October, 1884, numbered 13,302, granted to William Robert Lake, ...

... YSTHrDAYr-Beforc Messrs. HiFlarned Weiss and Dr. ILLUsiNG Hotsrs.-James Biddle, carter, Lichfield Road, Aston, was fined 5s. for cruelly beating a horse, gt Gravelly Hill, on the 25th ult.-F. Thorley, haulier, Hampton Road, Erdington, for causing a horse to be worked while in an unfit state, was fined 5s. and costs.- William Webb, haulier, Devon Street,. Birmingham, was fined £2. 5s. 6d., ...

... I I At the Police Court, yesterday-before Messrs. Ellis and Hawkes-William. H. March, 198, Wheeler Strget, was summoned by Mr. Parker for not complying with a notice served under the Public Health Act to put the bouses in Nos. 3 and 4 Court, Oxford Street, into a thorough sanitary condition, or close the same. Mr. Lane appeared for the ?? inspector said the houses were in a very dilapidated ...

... ,A ,UINIG-SHAREDE A 'S LIBEL ACTION. . I AN EXTRAORDINA-RY STORY. In tee Queen's Bench Division, yesterday-beforebMr. Justice Grantham and a common jury-the case of Maxey r. the Proprietcrs of the Star came on for hearing. This' was nil action for libel brought by Mr. H. J. Maxeyof the Londonhining Exscange(Limited), against the defendants for libel in publishing a statement that he was to be ...

... Ti Cit COUFC IT AOD TI.. LIG DTIr f E ~OF THE COU7RTS-. SAMPLES OF SELECTED COURTS. . The report of the Public Works Committee with re ference to the lighting of courts and terraces, of which we gave an abstract onThdrsday, contains a list of about thirty cases in which it is proposedto take proceedings to secure the provision of the means of lighting at the cost of the-owners of the property ...

... - 1 CONCLUSION, OF THE INQUEST. Dr. Churton y.esterday resumed the inquest at Rough P on the hody Of Mr. Richard Davies, who was murdered d on Saturday night whilst driving along the road between I Crewe and Rough. Two sons of the deceased arc in custody charged with the murder. The prisoners were h not present, as bad been anticipated, it being considered It unwise on account of the ...

... ERECTION OF BULDINGS CONT I i TO BYE-LAWS. __ In the Queen's Bench Division, yesterday-before Mr. Justice Denman and SMr. Justice Wills, sitting as a Divisional Court, the case of Hopkins and anotherr. the Smnethwick Local Board came before the court on appeal from a decision of Baron Pollock, who tried the case ,with a special jury at the last Staffordshire Assizes. -The plaintiff Hopkins is ...

... I t MILK, DRuGS. AND MARGAR IE' At the Birmingham Police Conrt, yesterday-before Messrs. W. 1}. Ellis and Cawkes-Mary Knight, of 389, Summer Lane, was summoned for selling adulterated milk. Inspector Parker proved that he purchased half a pint of new milk from the defendant's shop on the night of the 28th ult. He submitted it for analysis, and it was found to contain 40 per cent, of water. Mr ...

... A Crewe special correspondent,telegraphing last night, says that it is not probable that the magisterial proceed- ;in6s in the cases of Richard and George Davies, now in custody charged with the murder of their father, will be concluded to-davy Evidence of some of the members of the Davies family-presumably those examined at the coroner's inquest-will be taken, and the written con- fession now ...

... I 15. - WET. CANNOCK COLLIERY COMPANr.-On Saturday, is in the Chancery Division, Mr. ]artwell applied-before lo Mr. Justice Kay-in support of a petition for the reduc- d tion of this conpany's capital. He said the company [e was formed in 1Q69, its original capital being £187,000., s' divided into 1,250 shares o0 £100. each, and 1,250 of the ie same value. The company had paid rto dividend ...