... RE|PORT OF TUE BOARD OF TRADE ON a 1 BANKRLUPTCY. I The tenth annual report of proceedings under the!; Bankruptcy Acts for presentation to Psrliament has just . been issued. It contains a statement of receipts and I expenditure in respect of bankruptcy proceedings taken from the account prepared by the Treasury, from which it appears that the total receipts for the year ended March 31, 1893, ...

... WEST BROMWCH. INQUEsTS-Os Saturday,. Mr. E. Hooper (coroner) held an inquest respectin the death of James White- house (P4), carter, George Street, who was killedby ybeing run over by a brevwer's dray on the 29th ult. - John Parley said on Wednesday afternoon last he saw the deesed in eharge of a brewer's dray going in the direc- tion of Wednesbtry, and he was then riding on the front of the ...

... 1 (RBtter's Tdeglm&.] 31 THE AHLWARDT TRIAL Lsn'src, September 19.-The Supreme Couri ti to-day rejected the appeal of Kerr Ahlwardb against N the sentence passed upon him by the Court which To tried the action brought against the ?? A agitator by the firm of L6vwo and Company for the fr publication of the pamphlet entitled Jewish Rnes. _pi THE DUTCH PARLIAMENT. T *Tsr HAcuz, September 19. ...

... THE, MATABELE CAMPAIG. MAJOR WILSON'S FATE. CAprow, Decmber 29.-The sinister rumourI ).egardig Major Wilson's party rest wholly on a surmise eing deduced from the absence of news, and the, fact that when Major Forbes left the Shanghani River, on December 7, the small detachment under Wilson was undoubtedly in a critical position. At the same time no actual news of any sort respecting a ...

... STARTLING EVIDENCE. By far the most serious evidence which has hitherto come to our knowledge in reference to the prevalence of depravity among street children was given to a representative of the Daily Post last evening by the cabmen who use the shelter at the back of the Theatre Royal. These men had an appalling story to tell, attested by the most circumstantial detail, and they welcomed the ...

... BIRMMGaAM POIUCE COURT. d Y3T AY.-BfOfC MalEss. COhme (Stip),. POcI-k 'a 2uce, Tangye, Hart, Jacobs, Shaanmn wid Grtffith& -A ALEGED ILLEtAL PETON By A PWrNiROEB.- fe Walter Clarence Carter, pawnbroker, Aston Street, was ue smnmoned for unlawfully. detaining a sewing machine it belonging to Emma Hawkins, of Arsenal Street, Small. ir Heath.. Mr. Dale ?? stated that: ile she bought the sewing ...

... BIRIUGRAM POLICE COURT. YESTERDAY. - Bfaoe Messrs. CoMon MStip.), A. Chambrlain, Fsher, GiJiver, and Paytonm DELAY OF Busnamss.-The police list contained the names of twenty-fonr prisoners, and the summons list 11 cases; but notwithstanding this presure of work, only onemagistrate (r. A. Chamberlain) attended in the Second C'ours up to 1.20, when the services of Mr. W. N.- Fisher were ...

... DISTRICT NIEWS. NVEST BROMWIClH. yoiar TaixgOz f-Yesterday, at the Police Court, -Wlliam Tidmau (10) and Joseph Gilbert (10), both of ,urWVn s Fold, Lyng Lane, were charged with stealing a . titv of wheat, of the valne of is., the property of %e Great Wesern 3ailway Company, on the 10 h inst. bir. 1y. J. Boult=n, who prosecuted, pointed out that *rhre bid been several thefts from the Great ...

... ITHE SOLCITOR AND THE LADY. In the Queen's Bench Division, yesterday, before Mr. Justice Hawkins and a special jury, the case of Fox v. Drumnmond was continued, and it was the fourth day on which it had been before the Court. The plain- tiff, a solicitor, claimed from the defendant, an artist, about £150. for money lent at various times to Mrs. Druimmond, and the principal question was whether ...

... I TRAL OF PARISLANT BURGLARS. At the Seine Assizes, on Wednesday, seven men and two women were put on trial for the audacious pillagec, onJanuary21 last, of the house of the Marquis de nt Panisse Passis, in the Avenue Mrareau. Arrests and T domiciliary visits in connection with the Panatra B scandals were then of almost daily occurrentc, and the In I male prisoners hit on the plan of passing ...

... YFcs'i~BDAY.-Before Messrss. Peitons, Wills, and Yates. Cctsncr Op ASSAULT AGAINST A SC5SOOLMISTBESS.- Annie Green, 10, Albert Road, Aston, was summoned by Nicholas Dunn, 49, Hatfield Road, Birchfield, for assaulting Elsie Dunn, his daughter, and Elsie Dunn was charged with assaulting Alice May Green, aged eight years. Mr. Ashord (Ansell and Ashford) appeared for Miss Dunn, and Mr. Tanner was ...

... Da mote WEST BROMWICH. DEATx Im Om BuR:Ns.-YeaterdaX an inquest was held by Mr. E. Hoorer, at the Law Courts, concerning the death of Alfred Tarr (2), son of John Tarr, puddler, Witton Lane, Hill Top.-On Thursday morning Mrs. ;Tarx lef the boy playing with another child, aged four ' years, in one of the lower rooms whilst she went upstairs. A few minutes later she heard screams, and iupon ...