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BELFAST QUARTER SESSIONS

... On Thursday the criminal business at thb Sessions was commenced before John Curry, Esq. Assistant Barrister, and the following Magistrates :-Sir Arthur Chichester, Bait. Sir Stephen May, Wm. Clarke, Esq. C. M. Skinner, Esq. and Henderson Black, Esq. ?? foilsivinggentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury:- Mr J. S. Ferguson, Foremaun ; Messrs. Robert Stevenson Samuel Batt, Thos. Stewart, jun. ...

INFAMOUS CRUELTY AND OPPRESSION

... I On Saturday week a poor girl, a miserably forlorn object, was seen wandering in Oldham, and, being questioned- by some persons who saw her, she said her name was Hannah Blle, that she was appren- ticed to Jonathan Buckley, of Heyside, and bad left him on account of being starved and cruelly beaten. The matter being investigated by the police, it was found that the girl.' story was true, and ...

COMBINATION MURDER IN DUBLIN

... On Wednesday last, the trial of Michail Byrne, Thos. Mellon, and William Clinton, took place in Dublin before the Hon. Judges Vandeleur and Moore. The crime with which the prisoners were charged, was the murder of Thos. Hanlon, on the 18th Sept.'last, on account of his having worked at a lower rate than that whieb had been fixed by a combination among the sawyers, to which class of operatives ...

SINGULAR AFFAIR

... Two gentlemen of very fashionable appearance, enveloped in regimental cloaks, were brought up it Union-Ifall Police Office, London, on Wednesday, charged with having been found lurking. about the premises of M:r Hedger, She Suir- iey County Chairman-at Stoelkvell, on the preiediirrg night. They gave their namesgas George Frederick Seymour and T. Juncli;. but there is reason to suppose that ...

DUBLIN POLICE

... HEAD-OFFICE -On New Year's Day, Mr. Gib- son, superior of excise, seized a still head and a worm, recently used in illicit distillation, in the mill of a Mr. Robert Dawson, on the lands of Balhery, near Swords; the officer found three half pints of spirits on the premises, which Mr. Dawson admitted he had distilled; the still head and worm were lodged in the king's stores, in the Custom-house, ...

LAW REPORT

... I1 AAW REPORT. Cdt7RT Jr EXP:IEQUER. AD3OURINED SITTINGS AFTER TERSM. (Before Baron SMITH and a Special Jury,) MARTIN CBEAN V. THOMAS AND WILLIAM 11OI1GENS. This case, which was partially gone into on tile last sitting day before the adjournment for the Christ. mas holidays, was yesterday resumed. It was an action against the defendants for naliciously, and without cause, suing out a ...

REPORTED ROBBERY AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE

... II A morning paper of yesterday gives the whole true and particular account of a daring robbery stated to have taken place at the King's Palace, and that the decorations of the very Ihrone had, among other booty, been carried of. It was even stated that precautions had some time since been taken to pre- vent depredation, by securing the doors with pad- locks, in addition tothe usual fastnings. ...

COURT OF KINGS BENCH.—YESTERDAY

... .olRT OF gliNGS ENCIT -YY:fTEhiAY, 60 ' COMA V 1sJFnnP.TflNS. at the peoqertlioll of ?? WVhitwortlh v. - r1tt'iml' Ltrsq.. Mayor of ?? George Evans, r of the Staple; alld George Faialough anld I {11 lqqyr 0ina Es-p., Magistrates of Drogheda. ease a conditional rule for filing a criminal nagainst the defendants had been bad in inem~er l1st, by application of Mr. Brady, upon t { laviss of thle ...

THE LISTOWELL MAGISTRATES

... TIHE L.ISTONVELL MAGISTRATES. The Mlagistrates of Listowell, who coltrdegcnd occaaionally to sit at the Listowel] Petty Session have, we are informed, come to thre magnanirool, resolution of excluding atiornies from the Petty Se,. sions Court of that district. Upon a certain day il the course of the last week their Serene Worships intormed Mr. Richard Fitzgerald and Mr.Leonard dhit they could ...

LAW REPORT

... LA W REPO RT. COURT OF EXCHEQUER-JANUARY li SITTINGS IN NISI PRIUS. (Before Baron SMITr and a Special Jurjy.) ANNE ABBOTT, WIDOW AND AXMINISTRATRIX OF WM. ABBOTT, DECEASED, V. WLLLIAM HOWARD, A MEMEER OF THE AL. LIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY. This was an action of assumpsit on a policy of insurance, bearing date, December 10, 1825, ef- fected by the deceased William Abbott with the Al. liance ...

COUNTY KILKENNY QUARTER SESSIONS

... i COUNTY KILKENSNY QUARTER SESSIONS. on Thle general quarter sessions for this county corn- .rk menced on Monday last. The Assistant.Barrister, he Richard Farrell, Esq., opened the Court at twelve of o'clock, when criminal business commenced, and shortly after four the same day both grand and petit juries were discharged ! a circumstance almost unex- ampled in any Sessions Court in Ireland. ...

DREADFUL AND HORRIFYING MURDER

... *riaor !ID-j' bU Ia. ?? and peseptj Inhe'st appmung l pr1- iI -t.. . man jiature cild conce.' It appeared that tthe poor,;reatuie bad eceieved' a '§hot in the-side, and theias it were -to 'satisfytr their. ferocibius'appetite for' bbarbaiity, the' iuttfers ftorea -great gbne out e the idnh, rd by repeated ?? bf thig liteeally deralished ifig. skull of their. vritim, nitft leaving a veatibe of ...