... QITEEN'S BENCII, LONDON-MAY 12. Irwin v. the 31arquis f .Normanasby. This was an action to recover damages for slanderous words spoken againsst the plaintiff by the defendant.- Thc plaintiff is anl Irish barrister, and conducted his casne inl person. Sir John Campbell appearedl for the defess- dant. The plaintiff, in a long, rambling address, stated the caqe to the jove. Jame Mayn po icean, ...

... CURIOUS TRIAL-DREACH OF PROMUSE OF MIARRIAGE IX PARIS. A Iarifirnie ynrua mana1, tile halpp)y piop.ietor of a b-ard oa ljamc l;lnce, a ?? :nt palir of must;- citos, long florwing locks, &c. withl a wasp.lilt waRis', s'srtlhng waistcoat, and exaggerated spirit, was brolng t before the tribunal on] S Atur'iday, for liavinx dr71e a cOU- fi linz -Angl/ise ont of ,:33n00o frar's (X 1,220.) Miss ...

... * O U , I.F ?? °EEL .AtgND.g-XT AUI''AftN Y MAPlrt CArT OaS. Mr. Wyburn appeared to support a petition w ic prayed that the Lord Chancellor wouldl order.:a Commissioner, Physician, or other person, to visit a certain ilunatic asylum, to inquire into the state of health of an individual, confined there, and to reportthe result to his, Lordship. The appli. cation was made Rider the statute of ...

... ; COUNTY OF DOWN A$SIZES. DOWNPATRICK-TUE.SDAY, AUGUST 2. Robert and Henry McClinchy, and William Neill; indieted for a robbery in the house of Hugh Scott, at Killsarrell. Hugh Scott-Lives at Killsarrell; his house was robbed 'on 18th -Maroh last, by a band of robbers, seven in number;!! they gotin by the kitchen door, which was open there was nobody in the kitchen but wvitness and housekeoper ...

... HILLSBoROUGH SESSIONS. Michael Cohiqoan, MIc1ssel Gribbons, and Johrn Ritchley, for a riot and assault (at Castlewellan) on the Police, on 2d May. James Kelly, Police Constable, described the nature of the ?? In the fair of Castlewvellan on 2d May; vas caled out of the barracks by Captain Dumas, along with itile lest of tile men ; they were marched to the house of Hugh Miller, where a riot had ...

... LATE RIOTS IN BELFAST-FINAL INVES-] | #T.ION. | (FRON OUR'ECIAL REPORTER.) ON Wednesday last the Magistrates met at the Court- house, and in consequence of its having been understood that a final investigation of the circumstances connected with the late riots would take place, a very'large audience assembled. After the Magistrates had taken their seats a few preliminary cases were disposed of ...

... INQuESTS.-On the '11th inst. an inquest was held by Mr. Allen, the Coroner, on the body of William Livingston, who, on Tuesday evening, had been brought home in a state of~ietoxication, a viec to which it appears he was too much addicted. Ho had been put to bed, was soon after taken seriously ill, and was dead before morning. Verdiet ac- cordingly. On Thursday se'aniglit some boys found the ...

... :VNTY OF ANTRIM ASSIZES. CA3 KFERGUS, TUESDAY, MARCH 12. Owing to «he press of business in Armagh, the Crown ~ointn was n~t opened until near four o'clock. At that time, the Chief Justice Buas1Sa came into Court, and his Majesty's writ having been read, the following Grand Jury were Swornl: Hon. Colonel P-AEENHMAM, Foreman. James Leslie, Esq. Charles M'Gildowney, Esq Edward Jones Agnew, Esq. ...

... RECORD COURT-SATtRDAY, MARCH 16. Deagld M'Pherson, Esq. v. Robert Thomson, Esq. SPECIAL JuRsY.-William Miller, John Wilson, Alex Stewart, Archibald Barclay, William Johnston, R. W- Johnston, John Clarke, Robert Macaulay, James Stewart, Malcolm MINeill, Robt. M'Dowell, Robt. Gamble, Esqrs. Mr. HOLMES opened the pleadings. Mr. GmILMorE said, the plaintiff in this case was Mr. M'Pherson, who ...

... THE PLEASURES OF SCRnATCING.-On Monday, a de- cent looking man was charged before the Rev. Mr. Mat- thias, Lambeth-Street, with having wilfully extinguished one of the public gas-lamps on Sunday evening.-A wit- ness proved that she saw the prisoner put his back to the lamp-post and shake the light ?? defendant, in re- ply to the charge, said that the fact was, that he had put on a new flannel ...

... L6ONDON P LICE. ADULTERATED TEA.-For a considerable time a Mr. Richard Heale has been selling sloe and whitetborn leaves, instead of tea, under the denomination of ?? Prepared British Leaf; but he has not passed it off for tea. At the corn mencement of the present mayoralty the patentee appeared before the Lord Mayor, in consequence of the publication of a, communication to his Lordship, ...

... THE GRtEENWICI1 PENSIONEa-B1w STRlEET._Frida.a woman of the most desperate description was charged with stealing as. the property of. Patrick O'Brian, a Greenn- wich pensioner. The complainant, who was 64 years of -age, and appeared upon crutches, and wore the three-cornered hat and blue dress of the noble institution to which he be- longs, was an uncommonly fine-looking old man, and pre- ...