... I At the Marlborough Street Police Court, London, yesterday, William Peters, Rodney Road, a fireman, was charged with assaulting Thomas Warwick by striking him on the head at Her Majesty's Theatre.- The prosecutor said that he was waiting outside the theatre at about twelve o'clock on Saturday afternoon, with some hundreds of others, expecting their wages for Monday's performance sn ...

... I TWO M KILLED TN A MARL-PIT. Yesterdayl Mr. John Booth, coroner, held an inquest at the Leopard Hotel, Burslem, on the bodies of Elijah Gater (42) and Jehn McCarthy (35), labourers, who were killed by a fall of roof at Mr. J. M. Watkins's marl- works, at Cobridge, on the 31st ult. Mr. W. N. Atkinson, Government inspector of -mines, was present at the ?? was stated that at the works in ...

... I I I MAGISTERIAL PROCEEDINGS. ' TEXT OF THE SONS' CONFESSIONS. The brothers Richard and George Davies were brought up yesterday morning, at the County Police Court, Crewe, charged with the wilful murder of their father, near the village of fHough, on Saturday week last. Mr. .1 H. Tollemache, ALP., was the presiding magistrate. Mr. Stuart Brooke prosecuted, and Mr. C. H. Pedley appeared for ...

... BAIkM AND THE WHITE ECLANT. In the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday, before the Lord Chief Justice and a special jury, the case of Trot- man v. Barnum and another was heard.-Mr. Frederick Trotman, a refreshment contractor, sued Mr. Phineas T. Barnum and Mr. J. A. Bailey, of Olympia, to recover £25a, money advanced to a Mr. J. R. Davis, since deceased, as plaintiff alleged as the agent of the ...

... I I His Honour Judge Bayley, in the Westminster County Court, yesterday, before him the case of King v. Samson, which was an action brought by Thomas A. King, a theatrical agent, for £50., as damages for wrongful dismissal and breach of contract, by which the defendant was to employ the plaintiff as his business agent on a proposed provincial tour of sir months, at a salary of £5. per week ...

... I - PARNELL V. TEE TMES. I TfH ACTION SETTLED. The case of Parnell v. Walter, arising out of the publication of the Pigott letters in the Times, was fixed forhearing yesterday morning in the Lord Chief Justice's Court. The damages were laid at ;£100,000., and the defendants had paid 40s. into court, and said that was enough to satisfy the plaintiff's claim. The particular passage in the Times ...

... 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 ...

... I BIRMDINGAM POLICE COURT. YrSTEm DAY.-B0fore Messrs. Cbfmore (Stip.), Ticesins, Marris, Harris, and ByZand. TBFT OF A HoasE AND TRAP.-George Heywood (31), 3 shoemaker, and residing at 36 Court, 4 house, Great Russell Stree, was charged with stealing a horse and cart. the property of William Sharpe, 374, Monument Road, master ?? Thursday last the prosecutor went to Mr. Homer's malthouse, in ...

... THE SAYAGE ATTACK ON THE POLICE. At the Birmingham Police Court, yesterday-before the Stipendiary (AIr. Colmore)-John Bostock (20), 3 Court, Little Ann Street, brasscaster, was charged with resisting the police in A1cester Street; with violently assaulting Police-sergeant Betts, by breaking his jaw; - and also with wilfully breaking several panes of glass.- Poiice-sergeant Betts stated that on ...