... BnUMGHMA DISCHAGE PRIONERS' I AID SOCIETY. BI INHM IIAGDPRS~S A meeting of the Birmingham Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society was held yesterday, at the Council House. Lord Leigh presided, and there were also present the Mayor (Councillor Clayton), Lord Norton, the Hon. A. C. G. Calthorpe the Hon. C. Adderley, Mrs. B. D. Colemanjrs. Maycock, Miss Joanna Hill, Rev. Canon Wilkinson Alderman ...

... WORCESTERSBRE ASSIZES. YPsrDAY.-Before Mr. Justice Hawkins. T1s FocGED POUCY AT BALSALL HEATH.-Thomas William James (72). engineer, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday to obtaining two sums of 5s. and £1. respec- tively by means of a forged policy of life assurance, was brought up for ?? Lordship said that on Tuesday prisoner feigned insanity, but enquirnes bad been made which convinced him (the ...

... BIRMINGHAM- POLICE COURT. YmsrTEnDAT.-Beforc the Sfapendiary (Mr. Coimore), COU71aenCr Clayton (M1a-yor), Aldermn Cook, adud Mr. Parsons. A SALVA&TIONTST IN T1ouBmt!-41fred Simister, a. Salvation Army captain, was summoned for causing an obstruction on the 9th and 16th ?? 53 E said the defendant and a number of other Salva- tionists were holding a meetin- in Oxford Street on the 9th inst. He ...

... i THE NEWCA.SThE-NDEP.-LYDE SLANDER - CASE. In the Queen's Bench Division, yesterday, the bearing of the case of Briggs i. Griffith was resumed, before the Lord Chief Justice and'a special jury. The plaintiff is a silkmercer and draper at Newcastle-under-Lyme, and a magistrate and town councillor of the borough; whilst the defendant is a solicitor practising in the same tows, and also a ...

... INQUESTS IN BIRMINGAM. An inquest was held yesterday-before Mr. Hawkes, the Birmingham coroner-on the body of Reuben Dug- more (38), a coachman, in the employ of M&x Tidinarsh, Stanmore Road. Mr. Tanner watched, the case in the interests of the ?? Slater, coachman to Mr. Hill- of Portland Road, said that on Monday week the deceased borrowed a saddle for him till his master should buy a new one ...

... 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 ...

... I _ BIRMIGHBAM POLICE COURT. SATUnDAY.-Before fessrs. J. 1). Goodman, Avery, G. B. Lloyd, and Johnson. ALLEGED EsnRSZZLEMRx'r,-William Henry Lee (38), agent, Weaman Street, was charged on a warrant with ?? was acting as principal agent for Thomas Robinson, printer and publisher, of London and Brighton. The accused fed from his offices in Martineau Street on Thursday week, and it then became ...

... BIRMINGHLA-M POLICE COURT. YESTERDAn.-Before lir-. Coisore (Stip.), Messrs. . Timmins, XHarr, Harris, and Hart. , Assarous ON TEE PoLcm.-Michael Surr (24), Hospital Street, was charged with rescuing a prisoner from the police, and also with assaulting Superinten- dent Shaw, Detective-sergeant Daniels, and Police- constable Hodgkins; and James Bailey (17), glass- blower, Kent Street :North, and ...

... TTHE B ANDSWORTH LIBRARY , ' EXTENSION.' *LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENQUIRY. Yosterday morning, Colonel C. E, Luard, R.E., one of tho Local Government Board inspectors, held an enquiry at the Local Board Offices, Soho Road, Hands- worth, relative to an application made by the local aathority to borrow £2,000. for the purpose of providing additional accommodation at the FreeLibrary. Amongst those ...

... YEsTsBxRn.-Before fessns. Cooper, Sri-nger, and Weiss, and Dr. Griffit& CRBUXITY TO CaRinN. -John Morris and Emmna Glazebrook, both living at 8, Alfred Terrace, Church Lane, Aston, were charged under ?? for the Preven- tion of Cruelty to Children with wilfully neglecting and ill-treating John Morris, aged one year and five months, in such a manner as to endanger the life of the child. Mr. ...

... - LOCAL EVIDENCE. Upon the resumption of the railway rates enquiry yes- terday, Sir Henry James, for the Associated Railway Companies, said that they wished to get rid of any cMM- plaints which the traders mi4't make with respect to the proposed minimum rate of 560tb. Whilst they who represented the legal view were not in a position to express any decided opinion, they would undertake to bring ...

... WARWICK. AWFtc-he .ooRg ComroTrrD FOR TRIAt.-Y sterday, at ?? Police Court, William Thomas Barr, a painter, was charged on remand with unlawfully wound- ing his wife, Louisa-The prosecutrix, who seemed very, weak, and gave her evidence with evident reluctance, said that she remonstrated with her husband for spending his money in a public- house --when it was so much wanted at home. Thereupon ...