... LANCASTER ASSIZES.-MAncu 20. MURDER OF MR. SOUTHGATE. 'Norman W6lsh vas indicted for the wilful murder of Villiam Southgate, at Liverpool, on the 17th of October ,It. The prisoner, wbov described as being 56 years of age, and who was of decent appearance, pleaded Not Guilty. He seemed to be a good deal depressed during the progress of the trial. The Attorney-General for the Duchy of Lancaster ...

... BENCH OF MAISTI'ATES. 'rITuSnDAY, September 17.-Present-Sir D. SCOTT, Bart., and h Thri It. PEDDER, Esq. a l1tirds Shepherd, a flyman, was charged with drunkenness and h resisting the policeman who took him into custody. The prisoner o admitted that he was drunk, but said that he had never been com. vM plained of before. The fly lie droye belonged to Mr. Leggatt. o Sir D. Scott: I hope he will ...

... - . intbe ?? cuesabrc set down for trial tbia of tin ur Cut_ FIRST DIVrSIOY. *d* Tuesday, l4th July. 0d Parties. CauIse Of J(601 ic- Marsaalt v. Rtenwick, Verbal Slander. ,o- Thoma v. Graham, Do. ,,il Harvey v. Stodlart, Injury by Vici Dog he Ander lre'dnrday, isth Jidy. ras Anderstmv. ,lsail, Assault. Hutton v. HMinter, Do. e Dick v. Ste art, Dafamation. Jrednesday, 22d Jbly. r Batburst v. ...

... STEAM-BOAT ACm1DE S T.-A-nolhet of' these accidents ocrrreird oil Mon day evening. A lad, sixteen years old, was dhowned by the Mostarch steam towing-vessel running down a boat in which he was in Blackwall Reach. A proper look-out does not appear to have been kept. The i gnotett terndinatid in the following verdict- Manslaughter against Nathan Wi lam Credirs thei master of the 3ifonarch ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH-FED. 9. THE KING ON THE PROSECUTION OF O'GORMAN MAHON V. WIGLEY, GENT.-TThe Attorney-General stated the case. It was an indictment for peijury, brought by Mr O'Gorman Mahon, formerly M.P. for the county of Clare, against an attorney named Wigley, residing in Essex street, near the Temple. The perjury was alleged to have been committed by the defendant in an answer which ...

... -On Monday morning the Don coach left the Tontine, Sheffield, at its usual time (five o'clock), and although the horses proceeded at full speed, yet a thief, with extraordinary dexterity, contrived to attach himself to the hinder part of the coach, when he managed to unlock the door of-the boot, and abstract therefrom five parcels. The robbery was not discovered ?? the coach reached Rotherham, ...

... DKEADFUL ACCIDENT IN A COAL-PIT: SEVENTEEN PERSONS DROwNED.-We have to record another instance of the deplorabla 16os of life in a coal.pit. On Friday last, about eight o'clock in the morning, as the workmen in the employ of John Fletcher, Esq., at a pit called The Aullart Hole, about fbur miles from Bolton, on the banks of tic Irwell, were at their employ, the watt burst in from the bed of ...

... ROLLS' COURT, TUESDAY. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V. CORPORATION O0 LIVERPOOL.-His Honour gave his judgment in this case in Lincoln's inn ?? injunction, it will be recollected, was obtained a week or two since, to restrain the old cor- poration of Liverpool from selling certain property belonging to the town- immediately before the period when their existence was determined by the operation of the ...

... HORRIBLE AcCIDENT.-A horrible accident happened at Crew's Hole, St George's, Bristol, last week. A poor woman named Bull went out, leaving her infant, about four months old, asleep in a cradle in the kitchen, and on one of the other children going in shortly afterwards, he saw that a pig had entered the house, and was in the cradle eating the poor infant, and it was with some difficulty that ...

... THE PERILS OF H. M. S. PIqUr.-A court martial was held at Ports- mouth on Tuesday last, to try Captain the Hon. H. J. Rous and Mr Hemsaey, master of his Majesty's ship Pique, fbr having on the 22d Sept. run that ship on Point Fortean, on the coast of Labrador, on her passage to England, from Quebec. The evidence adduced on this occasion corroborated the accounts which have already appeared in ...

... GUILDIIALL. John Macklini, a private in the 3rd reginent of Guards, wlas charged with assaulting Jfhn Shuhb, a constable, tlith his h ?? P. Laurie said it was an old complaint that soldiers were improperly allowed to carry bayonets, and asked if' they were ordered to do so ?-Tho serjeant in attendan'ce said they were to carry them except when ordered not to do so in consequence of abusing the ...

... COU.RT OF KINGOS BENCH[f-THiu'SDAY, ri'miiIN V. wEsT. In this case a l/abeaso runt usam had been grantbd, for the puufposc.of bringfihi up ?? defendaur fuomthe gol of Oxford, to which plitce he had been conveyed by the officer of the ChAncellor of Oxford; and arule had been granted, calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the defendant shouldl not be discharged from custody. The plaintiff ...