P E T T Y S E S S I O N S. Shire Hall, Appleby. - Feb. 21. (Before the REV. T. BELLAS, and F. PARKER, Esq.) SELLING BEER WITHOUT A LICENCE. - ROBERT JOHNSON, railway ganger, occupying one of the huts at Helm Town, in the parish of Armside, was charged on the information of MR. THOS. SWINDELLS, of Penrith, Inland Revenue Officer, with selling beer without a license. - MR. J. P. SHEPHERD appeared for defendant. Evidence having been heard, the Bench found the case proved to their satisfaction, and inflicted a mitigated penalty of £5. - The money was paid. USING A GUN WITHOUT A LICENCE. - JOHN DENT, of Asby, was charged on the information of MR. SWINDELLS, with using a gun without a licence. - Defendant did not appear, but his father, who was in court, said he sent his son out with the gun to shoot crows and magpies, which were doing damage. - MR. SWINDELLS said there seemed to be some misapprehension about the Gun Licence Act - MR. DENT could have used the gun for his own land for such a purpose without a licence, but he could not send his son out without having one - The Bench inflicted the lowest mitigated penalty of 50s. HOUSEBREAKING AT APPLEBY - A young man, apparently about 24 years of age, a stranger in the neighbourhood, was charged with breaking into the house of MR. WM. TYDD, plumber and glazier, in Scattergate, on Tuesday week. - Taking advantage of MR. TYDD's temporary absence, prisoner unfastened a wooden bar which secured the back door, and gained an entrance. He then took from a secretaire in an upper room, a snuff box, containing 8 silver pieces of foreign coins and a small penknife. - P.C. RONEY took him into custody on the following afternoon when at work on the railway cutting a little out of Bongate. He searched him and found the articles stolen. - The Bench sentenced prisoner to two months' hard labour in Kendal prison. TRESPASS CASES. - EDWARD HARROP was charged on three separate informations, laid by ANTHONY ATKINSON, of Colby, game watcher, with trespass, in which DAVID SHAW and JAMES HAREWOOD, all of Appleby, were implicated. - None of the parties appeared, and HARROP, against whom several previous convictions were recorded, was fined 20s. and costs in each case. SHAW and HAREWOOD were each fined 10s. and costs. - THOS. RUDD, of the Heights, was charged on the information of GEORGE CURRAH, game watcher, with trespass on lands in the occupation of JAMES RICHARDSON, on Sunday, the 8th instant. - Defendant did not appear, and was fined 40s. and costs.