... . _- A. - ._ - ?? -- ?? The proceediings of this Court commrencedi on Tuesday last -Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Wood presiding. Mr. Gueorge Youngg, advocate, officiated as advocate-depute, and Mr. ?? Stewart as clerk. As there were somne very important cases set ic down for ?? the one connected with the fatling of lte Roxburgh vianduct on the Kelso branch of the Ncrth British Railwayvmore than ...

... DEAN oF GUatim COtt. W.. Si XUALIJ %JUU r.L. WXW DUILDINGZ -uUCK'S a EAD-ITIRLINO rowD. The Court met onl Thursday ?? Lord Dean presiding with a foil bench. Tlhe senderint nwas one of the most laboriolns aoil lenigtlrened which ths occlurred for-twelve months. but it was singularly in- productive for ?? Chronicler ; for, with thie exception of some busineas regarding tire falling oF anl iron ...

... ftol - ea&rds,-'26h Jzanueriy, 182o0. At a 6enerai CodrtsMartiat held at St. Ann's Barracks, in the island of Barbadoes, on. the 4ih, 5th, and 6th October,.- ll9, and re-assembled on the 8th of the samnemonth, Lieut. John 3Iaohon, of tbe 9th regimeut of foot, was arraigned upod the under-mentioned charge, vi2.- : Far scandalotis$ infainious rnduct, audi as is iinbedo-ti. ing the character of ...

... Yesterday- the Second Division of the Court of Session was crowded exceedingly, in consequence of the examination of MIr. David Prentice, Editor of the Glasgow' Journal; respecting an article conltained in that ?? the 7th December last, regarding the proceedings in a case at the instance of a pauper against tire ?? the Abbey rarish of Paisley. Mr. Prentice being, called, was interrogated by ...

... MUNTCIPAL POLICE BOARD. On Monday afternoon, at two o'clock, the ordinary weekly meeting of the Police end Statute Labour Committee of the newr Municipal Council was held in the Police Buildings-the Lord S. Provost in the chair. The minates of the previouts meeting vera read and approved of. VE rieItANcs. RS The Clerk then read a report from the Sub-Committee on Fi- not !nance, which referred ...

... - n .. I I .1 a n I (Continued from Fourth Page.) THuRSDAY, MKAY 11. The Couirt resumed its sittingsthis morning at nine o'clock. Susan Keen or Al' Keon, and Agnes Tarley, were placed at the bar. charged with having on the 20th day of March last, feloni- ously stolen from the house of Ramsav Hannah, baker, situated in 'West Nile Street, a tartan gown or frock, two gingham gowns, two cotton ...

... . (From the Globe.) | The lesson annually read to the nation by the criminal returns made up at the Home-office, and presented to Par- liament. is now before us for 1948 ; and, as might have been eixpected, there is much in it well worthy of the most r serious attention. 0 It has often of' late years been urged upon the Legisla- ture, that the only sure wvay to facilitate the moral, or even * ...

... HfGI-G COURT OF JUSTICIARY. MONDAY, JULY 28. The following cases were tried to-day before Lord Mackenzie, Lord Medwyr, and Lord Wood, So sslel Smith, accused of assaulting a women near Seafield, to the effusion of blood, and robbing her of a German silver brooch, and woollen tartan shawl, was foundguiltyandsentencedtoseven years' transportation. Archibald Lander was accused of theft, andof ...

... House of Lords, May 1. JACK A'fD OTHERS (PVtNCIPAL AND PnorEsoass OF TIIE UnI- VZRSITY AND KING'S COLnzGa OF AHEaaDnEN) v. Sis T. Buswxnrr, BnAr. This was an appeal against a decree of the Court of Session, which had declared the present respondent (the pursuer in a suif in that Court) entitled to the administration of certain lands granted to that College-by one of his ancestors. In 164S Sir ...

... OLD P3BtSSTNS. UJaJJ ?? (Fromn; Skarpe's Leadon Afayazine.) tr There are some old punishments which have equally bh fallen into oblivion, hut are rather of a facetious than a a cruel nature, and were so popular among our rough, JC jnvial ancestors, as to deserve some notice in our columns- (I Such, for example, was that of the Cucking, or Ducking d Stool, an engine invented for taming female ...

... I ENCROACHMENTS TIZROOGU MIN ING OPERATIONS, I ; Thefollowing issuesweretried at the last Sittlngs,in Edinburgh, in an action at the instance of Mrs. Colonel Robertson, of Hall- Craig, and her daughter, acainst the Shotts Iron Company:_ It being admitted that the pursuers are joint proprietors of the lands and estate of Halloraig, and that the defenders are lessees of the mines and minerals in ...

... THE GORIB3ALS POOR LAW CASE. COURT OF SESSION. This case came before the First Division of the Court of Ses- Sion yesterday. on a Reclaimins Note from the interlocutor pro- nounced by Lord Robertson it) the Outer House. Our readers are aware the question involved in the ease has reference to the right of the children of unemployed workruen to parochial relief The respoudenti Lindsay, is a ...