... 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 ...

... POLICE INTELLICENCE. MANSION HOUSE. ,Etraor inary Mistake. a On Tuesday morning a young man in the employ of a respectable firm in the city, and who was on Saturday fcharged with robbing a country gentleman of 'three 501. s notes, but was allowed to go at large on his promise to - attend on Tuesday, the charge being a very doubtful one, attended in pursuance of such promise. The com. ploinant, ...

... I;Xt- ?? U ,. i Ko e mu pebO of high -od 'unbleiishbd A aed-sa, has Wried: ott the buhineds of ts triyg , at od geer&al ofitfitw in ChathVi. Within w t so or tbree years, ho*ever, he (having As;sad i conaideble Propey had tifnc t~ a hiO 21vemis oa b his bsiness to his oN h as ?? a yowh man tti t epwsesedwithsufidet to th bihin tenty two yea5 he WgIe a grt s f` ie wib th 6 clm famnilies 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 ...

... 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 ...

... Onf Monday, Arthur Woods and hiswie Hereta Woods, were tried before theithy CuCof- -Of Justiciary at * Edinburgh, on an indictment charging them with the [swaider of John Drew Woods, pedlar, son of the said $rthur Woods, on the night of the 4th, ornanftting!of the 5th of August, 1838, -within the house then occupied byr the prisoners in a court entering from ThOrter-row, pandee. Both pleaded ...

... 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 ...

... W'illiam Frederick Box, who stands charged with stealing from the shop of Messrs. Howell and James. of Regentortreet, a ruby pin, value eleven guineas, was on Monday brought up for final examination at Bow-street. Mr. Rickards appeared for the prisoner. Mr. Hall said, that at the last examination lie had forgotten to ask the witness Webster, who had exhibited the jewellery for sale to the ...

... An inquest was held on Wednesday last, at Aston Clinton, Bucks, before J. W. -Cowley, Esq., coroner; on the body of John Choules, a respectable farmer, resid- ing at Buckland. From the evidence adduced before the coroner it appeared the deceased and one Thomas Patterson, also a farmer, and near neighbour of Choules, met, as they had oftentimes done before, at a public- house at Buckland, ...

... INSOLVENT; DEBTORS' 'COURT. On Wednesday,'James Morton applied to be discsarged. on sureties. It appeared that the insolvent had been a builder at East Retford, where his creditors resAid' He came to London on the 18th February, and told a strange, tale of the manner in which he got into prison. Ie called on a Mr. Morton, and on the next day a man oe business happened to come in, and he ...

... Trial of a Mohammedan. Manadla, a Hindoo sailor, aged 20, was tried on Mon- day, for stealing, on the 24th of February last, three slk shawls, value 31., and 14 yards of silk, value 21., the property of Sheik Mohammed.; He was asked whether he would be tried by half English and half foreigners, or by a jury all English? He replied that he wished to be tried by the laws of his own country. When ...