... 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, ...

... ;WEST BROMWICEIE COUNTY POLICE ; i ~~COURT. l YzsTZraaA.-BeforC the Hons A. C. G. Cafhtorpc ?? - fr. J. FcUows. NEw POOaB.ATv.--A poor-rate of is. 3d. in the pound for the ensuing half-year, for the parish of Rarborne ?? Smethwick, was granted, on the application of Mr. T. Priest, assistant overseer. The rate is the same as for the previous half-year. TnaE~r ?? A Suor.-Joseph Ashford (13), ...

... YnSTzDanY.-BCfOrC Mr. Coimore (StAp.), the Maeyor 7r. Clayton), andE Mr. Cool. STEFnF BzrrTiG.-Thomas Marson, who lives at 1, back of 131, Barr Street, was charged with causing an obstruction for the purpose of betting.- olic,-ron- stables Moxom and Taylor saw prisoner receive several packets containing money from persons ill Key Hill at dinner-time on YY tdnesday. There were three persons ...

... I BBIRMIGHAM QUARTER SESSIONS. I YESTrnnAY.-FIRST COURT. Bcfore the Recorder (Mr. J. S. Dugdale, Q.C., 2f P.) Iia.xwrFuay WOUNDING.-Philip Hyde (57), labourer, on bail, was indicted for unlawfully and maliciously wounding Bridget Cain on the 8th March. Another count charged Hyde with occasioning actual bodily harm, and a third with a common assault. Mr. Symonds prosecuted, and Mr. Parfitt ?? ...

... In the Queen's Bench Division, yesterday, Mr. Justice Vaughan Williamns gave judgment in the case of Bishop r. Balkis Consolidated Company (Limited), an important company case which had been tried before his lordship at the Birmingham Spring Assisee.-It was an action brought by MIr. John James Bishop, an outside broker at Birmingham, to recover S145. for loss sustained through the company ...

... BIRMINGHAM MCOUNTY COURT. YrSTEs1UY-BdCfore HisS Hoou~r Judge Clbafnsres. CORPOTULTION INV:ISTIG(ATION SUGSESTED.-An action was brought by F. Horton and Son, 205, Bristol Struet, painters and decorators, against Sarah Ainn Arch, Oakt Vil`a, Bristol P)ad, to recover £9. 9s. Ed., balance of -account for work douie and materials supplied. 3lr. Stub- bins (instructed by M4r. Arthur Smith) was kr ...

... THE ACTION FOR LIBEL AGAINST MR. LOWTHE&R. In the Queen's Bench Court, on Satu rday, before Mr. Justice, Denman and a special jury, the hearing of Bunr v. Lowther, partly heard the previous day, was resumied. The plaintiff was an estate and insurance agent in Pall Mall, and he sued the Right Hon. Mr. James Lowther, M.P. for Thanet, for damages for libel ; and the defence was that the alleged ...

... I A ByL OF EXCANGE NSAOT. In the Queen's Bench Division yesterday-before the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice A. L. =nith, acting as a Divisional Court-the case of Lewis vA Crawshay came before the Court on appeal from a decision of Mr. Justice Williams in Chambers.-The plaintiff is a solicitor practising at Cheltenham, and the defendant Mr. Henry Herbert Crawshay, is a yodng gentleman who ...

... I BIRMNGH:AM QUARTE SESSIONS. 0 I YEsmnDna.-II ST COURT. Bebrk the BEnorder (Air. J. S. Dugqda4 Q.C., ALP.) APEAL AGtresT A MAGMTRAS' DMsION.-An appeal was heard against the decision of the magistrates in the case of William Phillips (39), of Icknield Square, retail brewer, who was convicted before Messrs. A. Cbamberlain and Lacy of being drunk whilst in chare of a horse and cart, in Bull ...

... I BOUNDARY EQUIRY AT COVENTRY. I Yesterday, at St. Mary's Hall, Coventry, Major- General C. Phipps Carey, RE., one of the inspectors of the Local Government Board, opened a local enquiry I into an application by the City Council for a Pro- I visional Order extending the boundary of the county I borough of Coventry to make it coterminous with the I boundary of the Coventry Union, certain ...

... I . I Sir Alexander E. Miller, one of the Masters in Lunacy, yesterday morning opened a Court at the Guildhall, Canterbury, for the purpose of receiving further testimony in regard to the alleged lunacy of Mary Ann Jones, a spinster, commonly known as Mrs. Stirling. An enquiry took place in February last, but the evidence adduced on that occasion was of a most conflicting character; hence the ...

... SERIOUS CHARGE OF FORGERY AIT WEST BROMWICHI At the West Bromwich Borough Police Court, yes-; day afternoon-before Messrs. Garratt and Haruand- Chiarles Edward WVarton Dodd, who gave his addc&- Bradmore, near Wolverhamnpton, was charged sr:- utering a forged bill of exchange for £1.560. Tho'r Baher, of the Exchange Chambers, New, Street, 13r minsbham, said that on the 5th inst. the prisoner ...