... The Harbour Commissioners met on Wednesday last- The Lord Provost in the chair. The PROVOST reported relative to the progress of the em- bankment at the end of Market Street, and to'the dredging in the lower part of the Harbour. The works, he said, were progressing rapidly and satisfactorily. 200 feet of quay had been built, 110 feet of which were 9 feet high, while 90 feet were nearly ready ...

... CovUfl OuF SESSION.-MOAwLH 13. * . 9fI~~LNN v. LEYS. NISSLWAY SLF911B.,. A question of' considerable i mporftance' and interest, on- M. nected with the pett customns lWyable in bw'glis, has just been decided b~y ord'obesirtso. ~ Mr George Lay lossbeeof~the bell and petty customs o irthe burgh of Aberdeen, claimed from MVr George Milne, rail-' Y'way contractor and' tirmber merchant in Aberdeen ...

... POLICE WEMRXZN. Monday.,, Jasuary s. 5'. There was a full meeting of the Board this day-the Lord PROVOST in the chair. .RAILWAY NOTICES. Two large bundles of Parliamentary notices from the Great North of Scotland, and the Baniff and Elgin Railways, were laid before the Commissioners. The CHAIRMAN suggested'that as there were various interfer- ences with streets, levellings, &-., contemplated ...

... THE CRIMINAL LAWV. WE now conclude our reference to the Report of the Se- lect Committee of the House of Lords, on this important subject. One of tihe points to vwhich the attention of the Com.- nittce was more particularly directed, vas the punish- ment of juvenile offenders. The case of such delinquents is deserving of all consideration and commiseration. In general, the offspring of poor, ...

... im A criminal court was held on Wednesday last, before Mr of Sheriff Davidson and a Jury, when the following cases e came on for trial. es THEMT Hemanj' Winyss and' Peter adI'G'Tchlan were chlfgTil wvith Ahaving a rp1wlen iato the house in-Long Aire, occupied by , MrsGordon and Mr Massie Advocate, and'Atolen a cocG Dn and two hens belonging to Sirs Gordon-aggravated in the an tase of the ...

... ..'UrDtm Or 'T'ackday l~t, Jalncs M-DonmA, a vagrant, tharg- I cd wvith the murdcr of Catharine Il'F'herfoll, NVII0111 I ,, ,1 I I _ _ I,, , - - - _ ,, . -, { E I he cailed his w wf, was brought to town frorn Old n, Deer, and inc. rccrated in the tolbooth here, by Nvar- tc rant of the Shcriff. tl As a proof of the inildnefs of the feafon, therc was found laft week in the parifh cf Rayne, a ...

... - P()lACE jMlE'lrING.i. Mfondifyi 281r April. The Street Committee laid befbre the Mecting a Repo rt re- garding various nuisandeq, which.were ordered. t be removed. bi The Bodardithereafter, in terms- of their former Resolution, ~namedthe Deari of Guild, Mr Clerihiew, Air Win. Duncan, and Mir gdss, as members' of the Committee for managing ta the Fire U ngines. bi A Report by the Wrater ...

... POLTCE! 31EBTtRG Feb. At. Pdt'int ~sin Ghrgees fo ainge,, laig' cirb-stono, and toot. Sat ~5tlsemen in (leoge's Stret, were xarijned,. when thatgivert Er Iin by Nell f~i'Donald, was found. to Ile lowest,.and accepelofiai ' The M1eeting dieferred determilning on the line of' the orth all Church in Little~ ?? Strret, till ntext meeting, before. olac whil0 thne they directed;the overseer to ...

... SHERIFF COUR'T. . ?? 1- .- . .. . A case weas on Thursday decided in the Sheriff-Court? the result of which may be worthy.of the attention of merchants and others. who have ocuasion td send goods by carriers. In the 16th November last, a mercantile house sent two parcels by .theic shop.boy~to Mrs Badenoch's stabling in the Gallow. gate, and these parcels, it was alleged, had been left in ...

... POLICE IMEETING. . MOP'dae, 18th January ?? Hok Ditliina Oecurte'd at this Meeting of suffictitii~ ~uhlic : is. portance to form stebject of report; but while we say'ti1 W - Ca assre oir ellowv-fiwnsmen of the continued zeal of thle ('ostisioeratoth dachru o te mportant and 1ch4zes tltisipsdtpnte-dtetevariety, intricacy.ies T o'dlilt'of s~ih a nyb prciated'by those who Oc ~- ma altwdl' potnt ...

... PERTIT CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARY. 'iRTAL. OF flENDERSON FOR THE XURDED, OF JADIES of hII i~iiet~c.onl ii lit The IIIt Circuit was opened on Wednesday, by, the Right Stret in IHon. Lords Alearlowbank and iMackenzie. Thle most aggrrs. and ?? vated caste which camne before the Court was the flliowing tramn its John lfandererrn, damnask weaver, accused of reorder, theft, snail ?? ami forgery ...

... HIGH COURT O-F JUSTICIARr. at v- William Lawson, Excise-officer, and David Smith, t salt-manufacturer at Duddingrtoue salt-pan;, were tried, e on the 21th inst. before the High Court of Justiciary, ac- 'e cused of having murdered, or culpably Uilled Richard Lo Ewen, also Excise-officer, and acquitted; the following is an abstract of the evidence on'that occasion. r-it appeared that the parties ...