... PRIVY COUNCIL. SMITH V..1.ELLY-JUDG5IENT.-The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met at fbur o'clock on Friday, for the purpose of giving judgment in this important appeal, the decision on which has been looked forward to with great interest. Lord Broughaam delivered the judgment of their Lordships. The point turned on whether the conversion of the parties to the Roman ...

... OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS, &e. * EXECUTiom.-Mark Devlin, %vho was convicted, of the revolting crime of rape at the last Perth circuit, was executed in lront of the Town House, Dur. dee, on Snatrday afternoon. The day after the arrival of Devlin from Pertb he wvas 'visited by several clergymen of the establishment, and Mr M'Phersor, the Catholic clergyman, the culprit being an Irishman, and ...

... WORSHIP STREET. Two females of respectable appearance, named Sarah Smith and Rebecca Ryan, the first a married women, and the other her unmarried sister, are in custody at this office, charged under very extraordinary circumstances with picking the pockets of several persons in Shoreditch Church last Sunday after- noon. It appeared from the evidence given before Mr Broughton, the sitting ...

... MANSION HOUSE. Some days ago the Lord Mayor stated that he had received the following letter from the Female Sailor, Anne Jane Thornton:- Donegal, 6th March, 1835. ii My Lord,-I am in gratitude bound to inform your Lordship that I arrived safe at Liverpool, and was well takes care of by the coachman. I: cannot find terms adequately to express icy thanks to your Lordship for your kind atten- ...

... WORtSHIP STREET. On Monday a friend of Captain Ryder Burton, the unsuccessful candidate in the late election fbr representatives of the Tower Hamlets, came before Mr Broughton and Mr Grove, to make an application connected with the proceed- ings that had taken place before them, under the Printers' Acts, 39 and 51 George IlI, and which were reported in our last. The gentleman now applied to ...

... OFFENCES, ACCIDENTS; &c. DrErADEUIL OCCURltENCEc.-On Wednesday morning at a quiarter before eight a dreadful shock, as of an earthquake, was heard in t e vicinity of Honunslow * it was soon ascertained to have been caused by the explosion of the large gunpowder mills belonging to Messrs Harvey and Curtis, which are razed to the ground. Several persons who were standing within 100 or 200 yards ...

... SUSPECTED SUICI1DE.-On Monday last, the lad who had been regularly employed by Colonel Fielding, of Monk's Kirby, to fetch his letter-bag from the ?? at Brinklow, was found suspended by his neck-cloth from a branch of a tree in a field between Pailton and Kirby.-Birninsgham Journal. DEATH IX4 THE QUEEN's THEATRE-On Monday evening an inquest was held at the Hope, Totterbham street, on view of ...

... COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 16. JERtROLD Wr. Mo0ss1s AND W1NSTON.-This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the well-known dramatic writer, to recover compensation from the lessee of the Haymarket Theatre, for a play called Beau Nash, or the King of Bath, which was represented at that theatre in July ?? pleaded that they had paid Mr Jerrold 501. for his play, which was all they considered it ...

... __ __ __ , 17- COURT OF KING'S BENCfH-FEfl . 1 KIGv GAN4T N4D. OTHEUs.-The Attorney. CONSPIRACY.-THE KING V- SERG 5ducted the prosecution; and General, Mr Adoiphuls, and Mr C- PilillPs, ' Serjeant; and Mr Kelly and Sir J. Campbell and MIr Watson adppearedv~e or _t awas an indictment against Mr Clarkaun for Mr Caid~well and Mher -fe~lsely to charge the prosecutor, Mr the defendants for ...

... . TaR CLEOPATRA.-The Cleopatra frigate, that took out ?? of Durham to St Petersburg, arrived in the harbour at Sheerness on Friday last; having been on shore in the Cattigat, it was considered necessary to take her into a dock to examine her bottom. She was found to have received but very little injury, her trifling defects were made good, and she was putout of dock on Saturday. Her captain, ...

... MAft!BOROUCGH STRZET. oft Tuesday Capti ,rkt &set, R.14., was brought beibre Meqss Dyer, Conant, and Hall, on a peace warrant, obtained by Stephen Reinhold Luhngtn Esq. M.P., in ?? of certain hostile manifestations towards him, onthe part of the fallant captain. Several letters of the cap. tainwere read, threatening Mt ushingtoi, anduorging him toa breachof the peace The following dialogue ...

... I NEW COURT.-BeforC MA Serjrant Arabin. Mr Scrjeant Arabin adjourned the Court at halt past four o'clock, observing' that there wvas no case of' felony ready to go on w ith. At a quarter-past fivee o'clock the Court resumed its sitting, when Mr Connmon-Serjeant iflrehouse took his seat on the bhoch, and the Alint prosecutions were called ?? Clarkson begged the Court to iefbrm biln why these ...