... Yesterday a Court was held further to consider the pro. posed reforms in the civic institutions preparatoryto their behig laid before the Commissioners of Inquiry, There was a very full attendance of Aldermen. COMPULSORY FREEDOMS. Sir PETER LAURIE was surprised at hearing from the minutes of the preceding Court, that a resolution had been adopted for compelling all householders in the City to ...

... LA W INTELLIGENCEL COURT OF CHANCERY.-TnIuRsDAY. The LorD CHANCELLOR heard counsel on a lunatic petition in his private room. The case occupied the whole of the day. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT-TnunSDAY. The Vlce.Chancellor was occupied the whole morning with causes of no public interest. We understand that Hir. Spence has determined to give up his extensive proctice in this Court, and confine ...

... I G U LD)ElA LL. Yesterday a decant-looking~ worntn, namled Bradford, who resides at No. 2, Beech-lane, Cripplegate, applied to Mr. Aldermati Pirie for informial ito w~hether lii.r landlord,. who ditratrined liar fitriit nrc ott Tuesday, coukid lawfully sell her property onl ?? fl-llowing Friday' (I his day). T[le A itjitr.ifitAx, rifier consunii g with IIris ciorle, sald he'could not rdo so. ...

... OFFENCES., ACCIDENTS, &c. DESTRUJCTIVE FIRE.-With the exception of the destruction of the late Houses of Parliament, a more extensive loss of property has sot taken place than the awful conflagration on Tuesday morning, about one o'clock, in Mar- shall street, Golden square. There is every reason to believe that the fre commenced in the timber-yard of Messrs Taprell and Holland, and a strong ...

... LAW NOTICES.-THis DAY. OOURT OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S-INN. Sittings at ten. Exparte Back, lunatic petition by ?? v3forris, by order. VIClI-CHANCBLLOR'S COURT, LINCOLN'S INN- Sittings at Ten. Ilei v Lvw, to be snoke ?? v Huntsmnan-Wright v ?? v Joneo-Edge v Dallas-ll~fnage v llenage- ?? v Howell-Dalton v 1teavsn-laldlihi v Lewis-Same v Prica-Attorney-General v Jones-Edwards v Jones-Ewsters v ...

... POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-S4TURDA. E I GUILDHALL. A female of respectable appearanc e, namnte Elia Toys- /in, and her daughter, about 12 years old, bearing the same name, were brought before Mr. Alderman Ansley, charged with shop-lifting. Mr. Bartleoot, of the firm of Parkyn and Barulcott, drapers, l.od gate hill, stated thattheprlsoners came Into his shop between six atid sevell o'clock otl Friday ...

... BOW.-STREET. Mr. Dattgerflcid; a solicit or, residing ut No. 20, Lin- coln's-ionntields, appeared to answer t~o a complaint laid by Carter, the informer, charging him, under thle 89th of Goo II., ithpubishng ertain bills, without having the printer's namie attacbed thereto, thereby rendering hinmselfliable to a penalty of 201. Charles Dlgby, the informer's witness, deposed that on the 14th ...

... LA TV INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCIERY.-~FitIDAY.th 8oAtES V. GOVEIS.Il This was a motion to dissolve an irjfwe~lwih n n estrainred the defendants from parting uwith or nelgotianting H~e certain bills of exehange claimed by the plaiiatifl ans the To figent of th~e present Governmenlt of P'ortugal. The question has been repeatedly (hiscussed before th h'ic etC Chancellor, and amotion of the ...

... COURT OF' CHANCERY-TtiuflDAY. MORTIMERt V. WEST. Mr. STUARiT at the sitting of tire 'Court, begged to men- tion a petition in this cause under very peculiar circtum- stances. The Mast&r to whom. the cause was refoirrcd, had prepared his report, but the charge for taking Rtout, under the new sqhedisle of fees, establiehed by tihe late orders, weas so extravagant, that his client, who desired to ...

... BOW-STREET. ROBBERY AT THE FREEMASONS' TAVERN.-James Wright, a decent looking elderly man, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing twelve silver table spoons, of the value of £7 and upwards, the property of Mr. Cuff, the proprie- tor of the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street. It appeared that the prisoner was in the employ of the prosecutor, as an extra waiter, and had been so for ...

... MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterdav mutch curiositv was excited by tile appre- hension of a mati, niamed TiOnias 13B Icher, a pawnbroker, Who has, tip to the psresent tinie, maintained a very re- spectab1e chlarater in Lonon. the inories. stated I lr. lsaace Moses, a slnpseller, of thcilnrc.sac that the prisoner had been at crstomer of his for the last three or foor years, and was always considered to be ...

... 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 ...