... DISTRICT SEWS. WEST BRON IWICH. LcrEsNo A CPPCScATION.-Yesterday, at the Police Court, John Rollason made an application for a transfer of the license of the Barrel Inn beerhouse, Cross Street, Lvng, to ?? Whitehurst pointed out that in August last the applicant was fined 40s. and costs for permitting drunkenness in a licensed house which he was then managing.-A temporary transfer was granted, ...

... HXBNDSWORTH POLICE COURT. YarsnDAYa-Befere Messrs. J. B. Lees and J. Fellows. AiS UNDcSIUABLR CUSTOYER.-Annie Eliza Wharton f9), a respectably-dressed girl, giving an address at Smethlwick, was charged with stealing a pair of kid gloves and some ribbons, the property of Joseph Griffiths, draner, of Cape Hill.-Prisoner went to the shop to make a purchase on the 8th inst., and after she left the ...

... I VTERDICT AND SENTENCE. The Judge, says a DaLziel telegram, began his summing-up at thirty-five minutes after seven on Monday evening. After some preliminary observa- tions, his lordship passed on to the motive of the crime, dwelling in this connection at some length on the evidence of Mr. Pelly. If the jury believed the statement of Pelly when he said that he and the other two considered on ...

... WEST BROMKWICH. ROBuING EUrPLOYEos.-At the Borough Police Court, yesterday-before Messrs. Blades and Howard-Eliza East (18), of Billhay Lane, was charged with stealing, 12¼4 quires of notepaper and a quantity of envelopes, the property of Messrs. Kendrick and Jefferson, printers, in whose employ she was. Mary Lloyd (49), of Chapel Street, was charged with receiving the articles knowing them to ...

... BIRMINGHAMf COUNTY COURT. YcsrnnD.aL.t-Bcforc Hi3s Honoe r Judge Chalmers. A CasE FOR A Juny.-An action was brought by George Kendrick, machinist, RLa Street, against T. Emery Davis, solicitor, Corporation Street, to recover £5. for breach of contract. Mr. Parfitt appeared for the plantiff, and Mr. Pritchett for the ?? case was that in October, last year. defendant and another gentleman called ...

... MESSRS. DILLON AND O'BEN'S REPLY TO MR, BALFOUR. A telegram from Paris yesterday gives the result of 0 an interview with Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien on the ra, subject of Mr. Balfour's remarks in his speech at Newcastle. Mr. O'Brien, speaking on behalf of himself d and Mr. Dillon, said the first part of Mr. p Balfour's speech is an attempt to defend the choice of v Mr. Shannon as the judge of ...

... * STAFFORDSHIRE.fl IMPORTANT APPEAL CASE. hr Hdckrsass v. Birminghami Cansal Ndarigntion.-Oross ccl appeals were heard by the Chairman (Mr. T. F- su TwAemlow), Lord Lichifeld, Mesgsrs. FrankJames,JS. Jones, in and P. C. Perry, yesterday, against the decision of Mr.Pr N-eville, the Wolverhampton stipendliary. Mr. Hickman th, applied to the Stipendiary to order the canal company pa to erect tour ...

... The final search of Mrs. Pearcy's house was com- menced early yesterday, by Inspector Bannister and Sergeant Nupkins, and occupied the whole day. It is understood that up to the afternoon nothing had been discovered to throw any new light on the crime. Mr. Hogg, who has recovered somewhat from the state of extreme excitement into which he was thrown on Wednesday night. has failed to identify ...

... About half-past seven o'clock last night a woman was murdered at South Hampstead, London. The corpse was discovered under a wall near the junction of Adamson Road at Eton Avenue. The head was almost severed from the body, and was immersed in a pool of blood. The deceased was well dressed. She was well known to the police as an unfortunate, who frequently walked up and down Eton Avenue. The ...

... I I ARREST OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER.v { DISCOVERY OF THE MISS1-G BABY. b b Enauiries made by the police late on Saturday have confirmed the identification of the woman who was found i] murdered near Eton Avenue, Hampstead, as Mrs. a Phcebe Hogg, wife of a furniture porter, 141, Prince of r Wales Road, Kentish Town; and, moreover, the sup- b posed murderer has been arrested. The murdered a v ...

... THE TIPPERARY PROSECU'rIONS' After the Court adjourned on Monday, Mr. Ronan Iwent to Dublin for the purpose of consulting with the Attorhey-General as to the means which should be adopted for overcoming the deadlock caused by the magistrates' refusal to proceed with the case in the absence of Mr. O'Mahony. At the opening of the Court, yesterday, Mr. Ronun, counsel for the Crown, said he was ...

... cOUNTY QUARTER SESSIONS. WAR WICKSH IRE. 'rho ischaelnias Quarter Sessions were held at the * - all, Warwick, yesterday. Mr. J. S. I)ugdale, C I.., o presided, and Mr. NV. P. Dickins was in the ?? - 'here were also ?? Leigh, the ?? . T o Hertford, Lord Dormer, Sir Arthur IHodg- clir lames Joh instone, Air. P. A. Muntz, M.P., F'n- ol' er, Colonel Caldecotb; Majors Marsland, ?? Gibsono, *Masoii, ...