... WORCESTERSBTRE ASSIZES. *YS= DAY.-Before Mr. Justie Hawkims. A FORCED POLICr.-Thomss William James, alias Thomas William Jameson, alias Frank Gibson (72), ] engineer, of Inglebv Street, Birmingham, and previously of Aston, pleaded guilty to obtaining from Charles Roughton the sum of Se. by means of a forged policy, I purporting to be issued by the Prudential Assurance Company upon his own ...

... THE PARNELL COMMISSION I ; REPORT. I.-THE CHARGES OF PARTICIPATION IN CRIME. Wx now approach the consideration of that portion of the report which was awaited with the greatest anxiety and expectancy, and which is fated to produce the keenest controversy. We are not at all sure, however, that this portion of the report can be regarded as the most important. So far as the personal reputations ...

... THE FATAL AFFAIR AT WVAESALL. On Saturday, at the Walsall Cottage Hospital, Mr. T. H. Stanley (borough coroner) held an inquest on the' body of William Bate (46), a curvier, of Woiverhampton Lane, who died in that institution on Wednesday from the effects of injuries to the head, alleged to have been caused by Robert Peach, a young man living in Penk- ridge Street. The Chief Constable was in ...

... | TEE EXTRAORDINARY LUNACY CASE. The enquiry commenced by Sir Alexander F. Miller, QO., Chief Commissioner in Lunacy, on Thursday, at Canterbury, concerning the alleged lunacy of Mary Ann Jones, spinster, commonly called Mrs. Jones, was not concluded till after two-o'clock yesterday morning. The enquiry was held pursuant to an order of Lord Justice Fry, dated January 27, 1890, made on the peti ...

... At the Birmingham Police Court, yesterday-before the Stipendiary (Mr. T. M. Colnore)-Geurge VWood- cook (30), St. George's Brewery, St. George Street, Summer Lane, retail brewer. wse charged with violently assaulting and unlawfu'±lj wouuding a man named Wil- liam Teakle by striking him or the head with a hammer, on December 17, 1889. The details of the case have already been published, the ...

... SMETEWiCK. BusicAL Socssrr.-'The tinst annuaL dinner of this newly-formed society took place last evening, at the New Church Inn, Windmill Lane. Mr. E. Cheshire presided; and amongst those present were the Revds. J. Woolaston, E. Tilley, and NV. H_ H. Richards; Messrs. S. Smith, 0C.., E J. Earris, G. Collins, B. Brant, C. Dancer, &c. A number of toasts were submitted, and a selection of music ...

... ALLEGED ATTEIPf MVRDER OF PARENTS ?? CBMADLR At Cheadle (North Staffordshire), yestdeay 3teftOOU2, Simon Myatt (19), a farm labourer, was charged with attempting to murder his father and mother, John and Mary Myatt, farmers, near Cheadle, on the night of the 23rd Jannary, by shooting them. The evidence was of a sensational character, and disclosed some extraordinarY circumstanOem. On the night ...

... A GORNAES DIVORCE CASE. In the Divorce Division, yesterday, before the Presi- dent. Sir James Hannen, the case of Shaw -. Shaw was heard. This was a petition of Mm. Mary Sham for dis- solution of marriage, on the ground of the cruelty and adultery of her husband, tilliam Henry Shaw, grocer and pawnabroker, of Lower Gornal, Staffordshire Answers had been filed denying the charges. MIr. Bayford, ...

... I (By Tdlegrap.) A TERRIBLE CRIME. [lFioM A COofsoNDENLT.1 NEw YaYR, February 14.-Mr. Theodore Thomas, the best known of American musical directors, and the director of the finest orchestra in the United States, is engaged to be married to Miss Rose Fay, daughter of the Rev. Charles Fay, of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr, Kniffen and Miss Purcell, who were arrested in connection with the killing ...

... YESfBDAT.-Before MUesss. Coss70re (SIip.), HiU, end e *. I& l 7 Stono e A POOn Excussm-Thomas Ivers, 1, Dale End, was d summoned for being drunk at the Royal Exchange Inn, ' on the 23rd ult.-Defendant: I was not drunk. I got a G punch on the jaw, and that knocked me drunk.-Mr. Barradale: A blow would not make Fou drunk.- i Defendant: At any rate it knocked me giddy.-Detec- i tive-sergeant ...

... I INQtEST AT THE LUNATIC AOff-. Mr. Hawkes (coroner) held an inquest at the Borough Lunatic Asylum, Winson Green, yesterday afternoon, touching the death of George Coslett (50), who died in the asylum on the 9th ?? Coroner, at the open- ing of the inquest, stated that the deceased was received into the asylum on the certificate of two justices on June 14, 1888, as a pauper ?? Simpson, 14 ...

... THE ARREST OF THE DVI I :. ~ I D'ORLEANS. , DECISION OF THE GOVERNENT. [Beater's Telegraws.] PARIs, February 8.-At the Cabinet Council held at the Elysfe this morning to consider the case of the Duo d'Orleans, it was decided that the law of June 22, 1886, should be strictly enforced against the Prince. Article 4 of the Law of Exile enacts simply that no member of the Orleans family shall be ...