... TOU'N COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. i'ue8dayd, October 9. A meeting of tbe Council took place to-day. SLDEIRUNT-The Lord Provost; Baillies Henry, Ross, Bothwoll, and Sim ; Treasurer Nicol; Messrs Adam- son, Sutherland, Watson, A. Nicol, M'Pherson, Torrie, Henderson, Webster, Urquhart, Leslie, and Gray. The first matter before the meeting was the report from the Committee on the Rogue Money, appointed ...

... THE NAVIGATION LAWS. , A correspondence' has recently taken place between the aChairman of the Liverpool Shipowners' Association an'd the . Board of Trade. The former expresses his desire to' know - what foreign countries have agreed to reciprocate with this tcountry, and what countries have refused, after the 1st of January, to place British ships on the same footing in their t respective ...

... TlE REV . SIR VI LLIAM D§UN1AR ANDi BIS1IOP SKINNERS. There is a case now depending in the Court of Session before Lord Ivory, and the First Division of the Court, at the instance of the Rev. Fir WVilliaim Dunbar against Bishop Skinner of Aber- deen, in which his Lordship, on the 22d January, pronounced a |adgnent. which will be interesting to many of our readers. Bishop Skinner's pleas in bar ...

... COURT. OF SESSION.-FIRST DIVISION. DUNBAR Vi. SEINNEd. This case, between the Rev. Sir Wm. Dunbar and the Right Rev. Bishop. Skinner, the particulars of which axe pretty well known to the poblic, camne on for advising an Saturdniy. An aetion of- damages, to the extent of £5000, was prosecuted for before Lord Ivory, on account of a sen- tence of excommunication pronounced against the pursuer by ...

... P It IS 11 Y T ?? It V 0 F 1) A I ? K C I 1' I 1, TIli FA.LV 1:M IY. At the ordinary incoting or tol lielhei i'lro-?ytery, Uulk, IlI. t CI , the JilI IlIIt,, ?? IW. kenden1Xtl'xCti-R eI. 1ru ?? IiIltlteSt I(Lth, PitesI q tory of Edinlbutgh, .i tile 27til July lost, iliilati g t ilt ey Cle I d I aly raenots tfore t Nsi r N1rMu1,or ai 'vesl'yteirtl CerideltcopI llg a what WItt contaitltd InI tho ...

... THEE public mind has never been shocked by occurrences so so horrible, so utterly unaccountable, as during the past a few months. Murders, at which the blood runs cold-n savage and wholesale butchery-have stained the records in of the land to a degree that seems to throw us out of the th civilisation of the age, and back upon those thnes of bar- to barism, when the robber and the assassin were ...

... | COURT OF SESSION._IMPORTANT DECISION. I LORD GRAY AND OTHERS, against WILLL1AN PEgnI3, SALMION-PISTHRe, ERROL. This case originated in a petition and complaint, present- ed to the Court at the instance of Lord Gray, and others, all proprietors of salmon fishings in the River Tay, against the respondent, William Petrie, for an alleged breach of inter- dict, committed by him on two several ...

... P OLICE MEET1NG. Monday, September 2. PRESENT-MeaEsS W. Matthews, Rose, A. C. Matthew, Henderson, Old- man, Machray, J. Simpson, W. Chalmers, Topp, and Wisely.- Convener LESi e in the Chair. lit OLDMAx suggested that the old plan of diecusing the minutes reriatim should be adopted. Under the present system4 things were very apt to be forgotten altogether. The Board, however, considered the ...

... (From the Edinburgh Gazette of Tuesday.) I SEQUESTRATIONS. John Primrose, Bertram. Buchan Brothers, West India merchants, Glasgow. Fraser & Smith, merchants, Thurso. William Brown, wright and builder, Glasgow. UaETtNGS, &C. Alex. Robertson, formerly farmer and cattle dealer, Bal- nacassie, now in Ellon-to be examined in the Sheriff Court- house, Aberdeen, 18th June. Francis Macgregor, cabinet ...

... A rumour has gained currency, on what authority does not exactly appear, that it is the intention of Go- vernment to bring the business of the session to as early a close as possible, with a view to a dissolution of Par- liament during the approaching summer. Be this as it may, the present session, close when it may, will have been only remarkable for two things ;-the large portion of ...

... IPORTANT POOR-LAW DECISION. ShI{I}IFF-COURT, GLASGOW. C JURISDICTION OF TiRE SIIERIFF WHEN INTERi.M iElEF IS INADEQUATE. Arthur Jackson v. Johnz 2Meeh. The pursuer in this case, a frail old man, describes his case in a letter he handed to his agent, of which the following is a a copy .II Unto Mr Ross. a ' Sir,-It is with painful regret that I intrude on your time, r with a perusal of my ...

... 0 . | 0 . 0 (FSromx tX >Tmes.)' ' '' is Itwial by jryadapte telaeoeistry mactate ofrebellionl.' Is it adapten for.poitioal-esesinacrisis like that of IrelandI That is the question whicI rmost people are asking, and an-' s verufgwfoihemselveewitlrresaect t o Ireland. For some months past it hassbeen thought strange, that to the ordi- nary process andl; the ord nay forms of law should be left ...