... COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Monday being the first day of the term the usual cere- mony was observed in opening the different courts of law. At the sitting of the Court Mr. Hayter and Mr. Stewait having had patents of precedence granted to them, and Mr. V. Richards, Mr. G. Richards, and Mr. Girdlestone, having been appointed Queen's counsel, were called on to take their seats within the bar. Tue ...

... 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- ...

... At the conclusion of an inquest held on Tuesday ?? Mr. Baker, a juror, who said he was a rate- per, addressed the coroner and his fellow-jurymen. ) thought this a fitting opportunity to notice the very extraordinary conduct of the Middlesex magistrates, who, after fixing a table of fees, in compliance with the aht of Parliament, had lately complained of the expense of the coroner's court, and ...

... POLICE INTELLICENCE. HATTON GARDEN. Apprehension of a Chartist. P Samuel Waddington was brought before Mr. Hall, in the custody of George Waddington, the gaoler be- longing to this office, charged with having two pistols in his possession under the following circumstances l Waddington, the officer, haing been sworn, stated that on Monday evening last a me.; iug of Chartists took place on ...

... NIAL KKIL' RD. Frederick Hagger, a sailor, and William alget, a labourer, two fellows of notorious character, were brought up at' the Walthamstow Petty Sessions, under a strong escort of police, and placed at the bar, charged with a murderous assault, lendangering the lives of po. lice constables James Reynolds, of the Walthamstow division, No. 5, and William Lawrence, No. 6, on the night of ...

... CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.-(SATURDAY.) Late fatal Affray in St. Pancras. Maria Mearlin was arraigned upon a charge of man- slaughter, for having caused the death of Eliza Donald. Several witnesses were examined, but the evidence being substantially the same as that given before the coroner's jury and which we reported 'at the time, it is unnecessary to'repeat it here. It may be well to state, ...

... DREADFUL MbRDER OF A I OUNG WOMAN BY HER BROTHER AT KEIGILEIY. This retired town, whose name is little heard of in the dark records of crime, seated as it is on the far verge of the clothing district, and at the foot of the wild Ap- penine of England, was on Wednesday se'nnight roused from its quietude by, the report of murder-of murder not such as prompts the night haunting bandit, nor such ...

... -pOLCE ,IITESLL ZENCE. BOW.STRBET. zstrairdi named Tleom MerrittC ,lo~oking youngwalwa A siulp e living neat Redruth, in Cornwall, as foerkinP r to4 before Sir F. Roe, charged withhaving brolght in castO Y copper plate for forging notes on the n his Pso5i CornwallI by means of which he attempted to Badl n On the bank in question to the amount of to ?? John Whiteman deposed that he. was a in. ...

... THE CITY OF LONMITR4TES AND THE INSPECTX IF PISON& At a meeting of the Common Co dto TuedaY, Alderman T. Wood callad the aiteninof the Out to the subject of the last report imade by te is5tOB of prisons. That report contained thu moat grO - presentations relative to the state of the cit pro, and he regretted to say that the inpectors had mai- fested a strong ilination to se nt the codition ...

... PoUICZE INflMLUCEISCL MANSION HOUSE.. Unawfu Fishing. Two fishermnea were on .31Wednesday ?? the assistant water-bailiff withihiaving poked or fish:in the nlew preserves at: HamnptoiL; It was proved that ?? de- foidaits were seerurwit Polk poking the fi4h out of the preserves into the streain~ where they ere prepared with .nets to catch them. ...

... SPRING IASSMZES. HOME CIRCUIT.--KINOSTON, MARc0 26. Effects of -the 1 Game Laws. Gauzes Summerfield, aged 38, was indicted for fe. loniously firing off a gun loaded with powder and shot at Henry Barnard, on the 29th of December last, with-intent to maim and disable him; and another count stated the intent to be do some grievously bodily harm. The pri. soner, as well as a dreadful impediment in ...

... BOWaSWET. AU0etS Robbery. William Jones, of 8, John Street, Kingaland, and described as a coatormongeir, bat of respectable appear- ance, was charged on suspilori with stealing a number of wedding rings under the following circumstances. Mr. | Leonard Humpbries Btugh, goldsmith and jeweller, 199, Strand, stated, that the prisoner, accompanied by a youth; cane into his shop on the 12t iAst., ...