PETTY SESSIONS. KIRKBY STEPHEN - MONDAY, MAY 25. (Before DR. SIMPSON, and CAPTAINS CHAMLEY and GRIMSHAW) ASSAULT. - WILLIAM BIRTLE, servant with MR. GEORGE THORNBORROW, Gale, Stainmore, was charged by WILLIAM CARTER, farmer, Park House, Stainmore, with assaulting him, and with hounding some ponies on the 13th inst. - Fined £1, including costs. TRESPASS ON THE RAILWAY. - JOHN COATES was charged by the North-Eastern Railway Company with trespassing on the South Durham Line on Stainmore. - Fined £1, including costs. SELLING DRINK DURING PROHIBITED HOURS. - ROBERT DIXON, beerhouse keeper, Nateby, was charged by P.C. HUTCHINSON, with selling drink during prohibited hours on the 17th inst., - Fined £1, including costs. STEALING WEARING APPAREL. - MARY ANN ALDERSON was charged by DOROTHY FAWCETT, Great Ormside, with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, her property, of the value of 15s., on the 1st of May. - P.C. HUTCHINSON,on receiving information, apprehended the prisoner in Kirkby Stephen Workhouse, where the stolen articles were recovered. - The prisoner was committed for trial at ensuing Quarter Sessions. ___________________________________________________________ barb, ontario, canada.