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... ?? :NOTTINGHAM ASSIZES. Some weeks ago we noticed the, murder of Samuel Clay,'a master butcher of Sutton. On Wednesday Wm.'Clayton, aged 18, was tried on the charge of being the murderer. The body of the deceased, it will be recollected, was found after a market-day in a close about three miles from Sutton.' There was a deep incision under the'ear, effected in precisely the same manner as that ...

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c

... DISCOVERY OF A ROEeRthS CAVE AND RETREAT NE.&R LiNcoix.-On Monday last a most singular discovery was made in the plantation of Skel- lingthorpe, a small village about three miles from Lincoln, of a most inge- niously constructed retreat for robbers. About six months ago three fellows called Freeman, Coupland, and Greetham, who had been charged with robbing Mr. Chaloner, leather-cutter, of ...

EXECUTION OF JOHNSON THE MURDERER

... .. ~~~~THR MURDBRA1R. Yesterday, nXE~hnOR, $executed ton front of the Prebtor' 'D~dr ?'ewgalA, fori the msurdsr af'Betjijiaci cbpois witness tbe awful spectacle, Among whook were amnnsi 'of f- .mals..,Qr1 un~a s~t~q~te-~ytche culelewag, vsited by hi, wife ind sitaer, t4~ef fpnist an~adysnnmd $t'ate. o~f r The ihttteW fjie-ily aiffcctii'g, Piid Johoslsbn. lid hsgshliewtf itltrsd'& ktOInd uut~fd ...

STATUTE AND COMMON LAW

... SIATUITE ANVD COMMON LAW. The follwing iS tOn Commi'sion TbWch ha been itsued by bMs Maljet7 for tte purpose of atcertalring to what exVOteIt II prac- ilchble to re~uce to a systematic code che statute and commou lawy of this country William IV., by 1the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelard King, Deiender of the Faith. To our trusty and wvell-beloved Thomas Siar ...

IRELAND

... IRELAND, DUBLIN, SErP. 1l.-The Inquiry Into the Irish Municipal Corpo- rations, now in progress, will lay the foundetion of a most whole- some reformation in those monittrous]y corrupt institutious. The accounts from Drogheda, Youghsll, Navat, and other placet, which the Commiseioners have already visited, mention that the Investigation is of a most rizid and searchiag nature. This in- quiry, ...

POLICE

... PWUlCE. MANSION-HOUSE.-0oaGtY.-Yesterday, an elderly womar, whose appearance was exremely fautastical, wag put to the bat upon a charge of forgery. When the LotD MAYOR asked he, what her name Was, she curtsied several times, aud said that she Was the Hon. Mils PONSONBY, asid that rhe lived In Wales at a place where a hill went UD to her bouse. It was evideout, from hr conduct, that her object ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—TUESDAY

... 2I1DDtESEX SESSMONS.-TUEsDxv. [Before B. ROTCH, E:q. Chir main, atrI Comtmuon Juries.] JOHN DAV'IS wtas charged w!r'h stealing a cilk bandkerchlef fro:als Everett. Tire prolt, cittr atated, tihat WI:le walking along Whitechapel be f ,t 4 org ; 0: p ,ck-t, a.d tirrir'g rou. d., saw th, pris uer rrsrrrig7 of*. A j ursu'. enri u, aid iltb prirtier' was takln Into cust ody a.Itg~ ,t'ltro sBifl., ...

COURT OF CHANCERY.—MONDAY

... cOURr OP CMAN,1ERY.-MovDi'. IN RI MAZrRLY, A BANERUIPT, EXPARTH CUNNINGRAM.-Sir EDwARnD S]UGoN (w1th wh-'i A ai Mr. 8waustco and Mr. Moonta. gnt) was heard lit an appeal on a special c.se f`om the judgment of the Commissioners of the Court of Rlevie n to the matter of this Bankruptcy. Mr. Mabe ly was a banker in London, and bad Alto various establishments fit some of the principaltowns of Scot ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.—FRIDAY

... ]I1bi')I-1 SI 'S SES.SIONS,-Erilmnn' The Court wAis occupied durtrig the morning and nearly all day with trials of not the slightest general interest, THE LATh MISTAKES. Mr. ALLEY said that be had a word or two to addrhsa to the eourt il cousqtiueOce of somethlog that occurred the day before. A groat deal had been said about flxws In the Indictments, and blime had been attributed to the ...

COURT OF CHANCERY.—FRIDAY

... CJoiJ Os I'W0iANL'yY. F-J'RIDAY, The Lord Chancellor came down to Lincoln's-ion-hall this day at one o'clock. The Mctropolitan Commissioners on Lunacy delivered to his Lordship their Annual Report of the state of the Lunatic Asylums within ten miles of London, and were re-sworn into their respective offices, pursuant to the provisions of the Lu- nacy Act of last Session. HIf MAJESTY'S APPROVAL ...

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—TUESDAY

... COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-TvESDAY. CHAPMAN V. WALTON.-rhis was an action instituted by the plaintiff, as assignee of Richardson, to recover from the de- fendant, an insurance broker, the amount of loss occasioned by his neglect in not-effecting certain insurances upon the ship Sprightey, as directed by his employers. It appeared that five insurances were effected upon the ship from London to St. ...

COURT OF CHANCERY.—SATURDAY, NOV. 2

... t.@URt OF XC.-O' P ' -,T This was thle first day of 1iuchaclnrts Ter), aud the Judgs, as usual, went to Westisltrer Hall It procession. The atlend- aniDce of strangert In the Hfsall, and pnrtIcalarly in the Lord Clen- cellor' Court, was more tU5rnerouC than tee have at any tishe witnessed since tbe elevakloS of the Larnrd Lord to the Wool- sack. The fineness t the ' nidoubcetily d:sre pl iny o ...