CRIMINAL LAW

... CRIMINAL LA Tr. In the course of the last session of Parliament, Lord Brorrtana presented the report of the Coaltrrissiorners ap- pointed to examine into the Criminal Law, and to that io. port was appended a code upon tlre single subject cf theft. His Lordship ?? a sort of promise io introduce ?? code to the legislative consideration of the House in ti(! course of the next session. We hope ...

LAW INTELLIGEANCE

... icerY, vare. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT.-TuECSDAY. St. Mrl BA51iL MONTAG~U took Isis seat within the bar, having dird. been recently appointed a King's Counsel. ship ALUK'.TWAl. M~r. KNIsrm'r, with Air. Roy., moved for an attachment dly 6agains the defendant for not putting in his answer. Tihe de- fendan.t vias resident in Scotland. Under Lord Plunoket's 17 I Act he0 had bheen served with a ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... LA IVt' .lATELLI CI NCE. I(lC h' RTO (iI1ANCllf'. \i V ou Nov. 2 'I hI., t, log tiit lust (Ltv of _'ili('hilt'fina 'fero, the J oiils C(MIitmIMoloIre ot tile;O tn it Soail C'nee'e to WC12tflinlter flail in flb ('1101 111(r1 stale. Ii 11000,1 liv tile 1 Oivetei oI. Ilie ott 01' 'oiieo. thle Rie, ( ouin'et, and Se gealtil. ITheir LordshiPs dfid l ,( o no ('iieuoiaerthe aen .iiigeciiit at ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... BOW S'I'RIE'I'. ROImrnucIES Al I loirs. -Charies Mllakhe ShOrtrit ivas a cs- ter ay pltietdt nt the bar for rv-eeiiioiatinm oi a c liarge of steailtit, a varicey of attilel o tjewsellry Ironi tlhei Ijttll otel, P'iccadilly, the plopcrty ei (h'hirIL. Pratt, Esq., at guntlciaii o-cs-edf tV nii eriyble prtpeviy \it the nwgihboarhood ot Soutilhampton, ind an ofiiccr in lhci navy. 'T'hc folloing ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTELLIGEACE. 0 ~~~GUILDHALL. A swarthy young main, named Antonio M1'Donald, was brought before Mir. Alderman Lucas, charged with being a common impostor. Tue complaint was made by Mir. Sparks Mioline. of Lower Tlranes--strdet, who statedi that the prisoner was Iin the habit Dof going ahout the country pretending to be a foreigner uncrble to speak English, to be remarkably pious, to ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... COURT OF CHANCERY.-MONDAY. The Lorns CoN1S26ssionErrs (the laster of the Rolls and Mr. Justice Bosanquet) entered Court this morning at ten o'clock, and after disposing of some matters of no importance, retired to their Lordships' private room for the purpose of hearing a motion in the case of Shirley v. Lord Ferrers. At twelve o'clock their Lordships re- turned into open Court. TUE ATTORNLY ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... CROW N ('lii. 01.-4 Before Mr.J tsttrc icl ?? cia Thulea I Walsonl, aged 27, a malmie, was placed at the bar, chacge('d with having miali iously stabhicd Thomos Thorn with a bayonet, at (Chathamn, on the 31st .lay, with intent to (ti him soaine grievotis bodily hlrinc. lhe prkonecr, tw ho pleaded Not Guilty, was un~defended by counsel. IThe prborier, on tile night in question, wa. piaced ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTEfLLI CENCE. AI ARLBO RO UG IIST IkE ET. ASAUett'LIT IAlIAiRDINARN.s Oil Saturday two persons,, tiamed Jainies Tke ter and R~obert .5ieet, fin thte ?? at' A1r. Little, a. ?? wine-mnerchant fin Princes-str'eet, Leicester-sqliari, ?? brought before M\r. Contint, charged by an individual named 'Thormas D owden, the husband. of a milnet and tiress-maker, No. 17, A Iheuarle-,treet, Picca- ...

LAW INTELLIGENCE

... LA V IiA7'ELLIGENCtE. ii thle COURT OlF CllAN('EllY-Ssi1URDAY. Is ii- [BIof ore thle Loni15 '0 C wiit l.'ioxNrns.] it on r IN ~~I'll ii l;A I0N 1.5 KIRIKWALL. LII~lt The od Cotniioe' t art Counsul in 1 heir private teh'ic rooii upon ai petitiolt in I his miatter. re the Upon this petition cortliiig on to be ar~gued, which related bL t to thle aptpowtltrent of a rt cuiver of certain property ...

COURT OF REQUESTS, CASTLE-STREET, Nov. 12

... [Before - WALKER, Esq., Chairman, arnd a full Bench of Commissioners.] Mr. George Rawlins, of Salisbury-street, Strand, solicitor, secretary to a Conservative club, appeared on an order to show cause why he refused to pay Air. james Soames, a car- penter and builder, carrying on business in Cecil-court, St. Martin's-lane, the sum of one guinea, for loss of line in at- tending before the ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INT1MLLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A journeyman hatter, narmed Edward,, applied for a sum- nons againstt a broker for illegally distraining some linen which hadl been entrustedl to his wife to l e washed, and the forfeiture of ?? would deprive them of the tieurns ot sub. isteniee heteafter. Ile had beeti out of work nine, vveeks; and havit g two children to naisittii, they wvese inr great dis- ...

LACENAIRE, THE PARIS MURDERER

... LACENA IRE, THlE PARIS MURDERER. 'T he t'kiistimntdel gives the following as a physical and 9s moral portrait of Lacenaire:- c L.acenaire is thirty-five years of age, of ordinary stature, il and of a bilious-sanguineous temperanient. Ilis conititution is robust; his complexion dark ; his hair jet block, but in some parts it begins to verge on grey; his neck is shoit and thick, its arteries ...