... DESTITUTION. At the Mansion-house, a miserable woman, diseased and exhausted, was brought before the Lord Mayor, by direction of the commissioner of the city police, in consequence of the refusal of the relieving officer of the city of London union to give her an asylum or relief on the preceding night upon being applied to by a police officer. The policeman stated that he found the unfor- ...

... CENT'RAL CRIMIN^rAL COURT' JAN. 10. SENTENCES UPON THE PRISONERS. Transported for Fourteen ?? Williams. For Ten Years-John Bates, James Thompson, John Jones, Amelia Payne. For Seven Years-Daniel Thurling, Thomas Walpole, J. Harrington, J. Harrison. John mlCormack, Richard W. Alford, J. Johnson, J. Cosgrove, W. Roskell, Jane Anderson, Eliza Edwards, Wi Halliwell, W. Wright, Thonmas Proctor, Geo ...

... COURT OF ALDERMENV. A Court was summoned on Monday, for the purpose of addressing the Queen on her marriage. At half-past three only nine aldermen were pre- sent, and on the entrance of Sir Peter Laurie, con- versation commenced. SirPeter objected most stre- nuously to any address,las the Court of Common Council had come to a resolution not to go to the foot of the throne without the Sheriffs. ...

... LAW INTELLICENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCIL (Sittings in Banco.) IARVIY V. THE HONT G. C. NOiiTO?'. This was all action against the defendant to recover a sulm of money clhimed to be due for goods furnished to hiis wife for her use, in a house ill Bolton Street, before the lady was in the receipt of a sclarate Mrs.otenance. It alppeared at the trial of the cause that Mrs. Norton hall taken an ...

... DREADFUL MURDERAT DEVIZES. A murder under very extraordinary circumstances, and without any assignable motive, was perpetrated at Seend about five miles from Devizes, on Thursday evening last. The unfortunate man who was murdered was named James Heritage, a labourer of Seend: he was an orphan, about 22 years of age, and unmarried. Isaac Freemne, the person charged with the murder, was under ...

... 8 DEAT~R PUMIMENT. WecT pyoih rqes o insert - the ?? petton, ly m sth a sech a course -is a tax 9 For tspace, ohich mstanot be elipetd to deenbe repeatedis Thati ar petitioner praa beepfoarded rom Hsuch a place isamaterv abofh general concellrn;, much in e itss relating to it is only of local interest.f To the Honourable the Commons of the united tepingdoi Of Great Britain and Ireland in ...

... COURT OF COM3MONA COUNCIL. on Wednesday a Court was held for the pur- pose of considering the propriety of voting ad- dresses of congritulation to her Majesty the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Duchess of Kent, upon the solemnisation of the royal nuptials. The Lord Mayor read the requisition calling upon him to convene a Court to take i.nto consideration the propriety of voting the above ...

... KiLIUSaw PrTTY SESSIONS-In this case the ac- cused presented himself in the shape of Luke Carney, a thinly attired, but divil-may-care looking labourer, in whose coutitenance, dirt, want, good humour, and a beard of a week's growth, struggled for supremacy. Mrs. Carney was the complainant, and she came ' to the scratch, first depositing an interesting pledge of by-gone affection-iR the shape ...

... A long investigation took place before the local magis- trates on Tuesday last, when Mr. Raper, the clerk, his wife, daughter, and servant, as well as the constable who had been engaged in making inquiries, were rigidly ex- amined. It will be remembered that the keys of the safe were alleged to have been taken from under the clerk's pillow, and the following evidence of the constable seems to ...

... IRIGH TREASON CASES AT BRADFORD. i,-- A York Castle, Monday. FURTHER EXAMINATION AND CONFESSION OF ONE OF THE PRISONERO. 4 This morning the prisoners charged with high treason at Bradford were brought up at York Castle, for the purpose of taking further examin- ations. The following magistrates attended :-li. W. Hird, Esq. of Low Moor, near Bradford; Barnard Hague, Esq. of York; and Matthew ...

... MIIDDLESEX QUA1lTER SESSIONS.-FIUmAY. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMSX, Chairman, and a Bench of Maagistrates.) Alfred Bucknell Smith, aud Elizabelk his wife, were indicted for assaulting Caroline Ross. Mr. Bodkin appeared for the parish officers of St. James, Clerkenwell, at whose instance the prosecul ion was instituted; and Mr. Prendergast defeided the pri- soner. It appeared that the ...

... GRINDING THE FACT Or TlE POOR. - On NVed- nesday, the bench of magistrates, consisting of Messrs- T. Dagnall, T. T. Clark, sen, T. T. Clark, jun., and B. Rotch, were again engaged during a considerable port tion of their time, in deciding claims made by the poorer inhabitants of the different parishes within the Uxbridge division to be relieved from the payment of poor rates. Parish of West ...