... -THE NIGER COA.ST PROTECTORATE. In the Divisional Court of the Queen's'EBench, vsster- day-before Mr. Baron Pollock s'nd Mr. Justice Wright -'the Attorney-General (Sir Robert Reiln' made an application which has some hearing on the present disturbt ance on the Niger Coast. The Attorney-Generalsaid it wasapeti tisnof rightbrought ?? Er ?? hn, who said' that'he was eanplayed to go ou pto the Oil ...

... HEAVY PENALTY FOR DEFRAUDI fG A RAILWIAY COMPANY. At Rugby Petty Sessions, yesterday, Robert Hop- wood Percy Hutchinson, a gentleman residing at Husband's Bosworth, near Rugby, was summoned for travelling on the London and North-Western Railway without a ticket, and with intent to defraud. There were five separate summonses against the defendant; in respect of uffences alleged to have been ...

... . In the Queen's Bench Division, yesterday-before Mr. ?? Hawkins and a special jury-Mr. Alfred Pitts, a licensed victualler of the Bakers' Arms, Commerc-ial Road, Landport, iortsmoutb, sued the Rev. Charle3 Joseph, Baptist ni nisttr, of Southsea, formerly of IBirmingham, to recover damages for slander. The I defendant pleaded a denial that he spoke the words cunr- nlinr~ ot orspoe ternwit th ...

... TEIE WINDING-UP OF OLYMPIA. EXM-MINATION OF A DIRECTOR. In the London Court of Pankruptcy, yesterday- aefore 'Mr. Registrar Hood-a sitting was held for the public exantination of the directors and officers of ('lympia (Limited,i, which was registered on March 20, 1593, and ordered to Le wound up on July 1 last. ' he nominal share capital was originally fixed at £155,000.. but was subsequently ...

... STRATFORD.ON.AVON. ALrnoD CRUJUTY CASE.-Thomas Dickens appeared by adjournment at the County Police Court, yesterday, charged with cruelty to two lambs by allowing them to become infested with magcots.-ltw as not disputed that theb lambs were neglected and allowed to get into a shocking state. but defendant contended that he was not acting as hepherd at the time. and he asked for an ...

... YTsrzUAr.-Beforr Mrssrs. Colmore ?? Goodcman, LIY;ardfn,, Wainwr rht, and Bolding. Tins ALLEGED LONG FIRse FRAUDs. - John E. tSpener, who ha; ra:'ently been livinz at 93, Harborne I oad, .Edglasston, was aain charged with having obtained goods by false ?? Lillis t statel that upwards of £100. worth of protperty had been obtained by prisoner and afterwards ?? pledged or sold. He asked that ...

... YESTEPDY.-BeOC Mr Jwb oe Cawe. Tun Co0LY MaSeLhGHmE CAS - George Philip Smith (16) was charged with feloniously killing his sister, Alicia Olivia Smith, aged eleven, at Coaley, on July 16. he was farther charged on the coroner's inqmu- sitioa with her ?? and her sister were in a cottage belonging to their father when pri- soner entered, and, in answer to a remark, said his sister was la ?? ...

... ASTO)N POLICE COURT. YESrTEn.DArx-'IkAre 3LIsrs. FPe'ke'e6, Johnson, Brodie, t rsell, ano; - ROfqa ?? Y7rIR~FUT, Tnrnv:cs.-'homas Edward Jinl.s (11, shooliov 13, Court. 3 house, Northecod Strpet, and a httreN 'orton j15', cater, Iranrlev Street, Were charged %nith st-ahncg eibht [,ack'ea-. brusbe;. of the van, of 8i., the p:-operty of ortileius .Je.ries, to5. i W dveler ie't.-tetecuvo in i ...

... V ~~WEST BROMWICH. ALLEGED ATTE~s'n-ss Bwinutklt.--Yesterda7 after- noon, at thle Borough Police, Coort-hbefore the M~ayor (Alderman R. Farley), Mfessrs. Bushel], Akrill, and I Salter-Niichael Cuohen, Mill S,'treet, West Bromwich, and Simeon Hitehuman, Vine Yard, Swan Village, wvere 'brought up charged with attempting to break into the dwvelling-house of Hannah Rushty, in 'Victoria ~Streect, ...

... THE OLD LADS, THE BISHOP, AND THE COUtNTY COURT JUDGE. In the Probate Division, on Saturday, the action of Parker and others i. Pattison was tried before the Presi- i dent and a special jury. This suit had reference to the' te3tamentary dispositions of the late Miss Emma Jane Parker VWilles, who died on Octo' er 28, 1893, at Great Baddow, Essex, at the advanced age of eigbty-three| The ...

... i Yesterday, at the Wedruesbury Town Hall, Mr. P. Roward Smith (president) and Mr. Fullertou Bell, on behalf of the Board of Trade, held an enquiry into the circumstances connected with the explosion of a boiler at the South Staffordshire Tramway Co-espany's depctl at Darlaston, on the 22nd November, and the loss of the life of Isroel Duffieloi the driver of the engine to which the boiler was ...

... A RAID ON JEWISH SHB=ES. I EXTRAORDINARY .CASE. YestOrday aftervoon, at the Mocheester City Ploika Coart. a number of Jews were' charged With selling intoxicating liquor without having the necessary authority. The defebdants were Harris UlMkie, the ptob5ilotot ot gtOttells' shbps in Adeline :Sireet and .Voird6b Strfet, Red Batk, aud his son and.daughier, Eli and Esther; Solomon and Deay Colhan ...