... 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, ...

... 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 ...

... THE ALLEGED FRAUDS BY A LONGTON I I I BANXRUPT. At Longton, yesterday, the borough magistrates were oenipied the whole of the day in ftrther investigating the eharges preferred against George Large, auctioneet and vaher, Longon, of having obtained good8 from tadesmea in varous parts of the coantry without disi- closiuig that he was an u'discharged bankrupt; also with obtaining goods by fraud. ...

... -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 ...

... 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 ...

... BIRTINTGHABI POLCE COURT. YESTERDAT.-BCfore Messrs. Colecorc (Stip.), Fisher, and Tangpie. Tiss'r Or BRAsS-OASTINOs.--ThOnaS White, brass- caster, was fined 21s., or twenty-one days, for stealing a shillingworth of brass-castings. the property of his employer, Mr. Matthew 2. 2Iolden, of 3t, Lombard Street. CHASRGE OF ILLEGAL PAMwxING.-Jobn Brewster t35), watch-reDairer, living at a lodginz ...

... THE MATRIMONIAL AGEC I CASE. - J .4 DISAPPOITTED SUITOR. At Bow Street Police Court, London, yesterday- sbefore Mr. Lushington-Mortimer Da aiel Sksaes. alias 0 Daniel Mortimner, of Amott Road, Earb Duwich. manager of the World's Great Marriage Association i' (Limited) . John Charles Skates, alias Charles BArring- ton, of Mecklenburg Square; Norman GoldingHennah, a of Calthorpe Street, Gray's ...

... THE TRIAL OF THE LIBERATOR DInu=RS. In the Queen's Bench, y Mr. Justice Bruce and a special jury-the case of The Queen vy Balfour and others was again proceeded with. The I Atoey Geerl, Sir R Red, Mr. H1.Sutton, Mr. C. ]Mathews, Mr. C. F. Gill, and Mr. Horac6 Avory (instructed by Mr. Sims, solicitor to the Treasury, Con- ducted the prosecution; Mr. John O'onnor and Mr. Swanton were for Mr. ...

... THE ALLEGED FRAUDS BY AN I ITNDISCHARGED BANKRU PT. 5 At Longton, yesterlday, the borcuirh Justices were .c4upied for severs' hours in th8 inestigation of chares against George Larze, auctionier Longton, of obtaining g odls by fraudulent representations. and without dis- c-losing tfe fact that he was an undischarged bankrupt. The prisroner's seife and daughter were chaeged, on rerand, witb ...

... * SHOCKING CHIL MURDER IN LONDGf N Yesterday morning, at slIngton, London, about l.3A *'thle body of Richord Dowling (21/0, whose parent; ,'reside in Parkfeld Street, was found in a ?? hack yard of the house next door. The child was seen about half an hour psevyiosly sittivg on the doorstep of his father's house, eatvg somne fruit. Later enquiries show that a crune ,horrble in its nature and ...

... i A DUDLEY BUTCHER EF.AVTLY FnED. At the Brierley Hill Police Court, yesterday-before' Messrs. J. S. Evers-Swindell and F. Grazebrook- William Garrington, butcher, Hall Street, Dudley, wae i charged with being the owner of eiabcy-fise pieces of beef which were exposed for sale in the Old Market Place, Brietiey Hill, Oa October 5. tbe same being unwholesome and undt for the food of man; and Ben ...

... I THE tIBERATOR PROSECUTION. On the resumoption of the prosecution of the Liberator Group directors yesterday morning, Mr. Greases, a Shef- field auctioneer, proved that the dam in the Merebrook estate for filling up which the directors of the Lands Allotment Company charged £5,000. had psever been filled Uo at all. A Brighton auctioneer, named Ledger, stated that when the Queen's Park estate ...