... EXTENSIvE FORGEEIY AND DEFALCATION IN TEx CITY.-Within the last few days it has been discovered that a gentleman who has been for some years well known on 'Change has absconded, after committing forgeries to a most frightfiul amount, and carrying. with him a considerable sum of money. The principal delinquent is, it appears, the nephew of. an old and one of the most respectable merchants in ...

... MANISION HOUSE. Amongst several parishioners who were summoned for having refused to nay the church-rate yesterday, was one who said that he objected because his house stood in three ?? Lord Mayor: Then you pay the rate to one of the other parishes ?-Parishioner: No, not exactly so, my Lord.- The Lord Mayor: Oh! then I suppose you want to pay for the whole three, or for none ?-Parishioner: I ...

... _ CAMBRIDGE, FRIDAY, MARCH 20. AIPorisEst CaSE O BUERIiY. HENSLOW V. CAN1HAM.-This was a second action (we reported the first in our last week's number) brought by the plaintiff under the 7th sec. of 2d Geo. i, cap. 24, to recover from the defendant the sum of 5001., which the defendant had forfeited by reason of his having corrupted William Thompson, a voter for the borough of Cambridge, to ...

... Iouse of Lord4 House of Lords, March 26. Oswald v. AM'Whyr-This case related to the fishings in the Solway Firth, andi was fully argued by Dr Lush- ingmIn. Mr Keav for the appellant, and Mr Tinny and Mr Marray for the respondent. Judgment was pont- poned. March 27. Lord Macdonald v. Hacdonald-The Lord Chancellor sat with Lord Brougham to bear this case, which stands adjourned to Molnd'ay next. ...

... HOME CIRCUIT.-LwFo;s, FRIDAY. CIVIL SII)E. BAIRRON V. THE EARL 01 ASHBURNHtAM. This was an action for a breach of contract. Mr. PLATT and Mr. CLARniSON conducted the plain- tiff's case ; Air. I.ONG and Mr. DARBY the defendant's. Mr. Barron rented a farm of the Earl of Ashburnham, and prior to entering- ouper his tepaney, made an agreemenrt with the steward of his Lordship, that as he did not ...

... LIVERPOOL POLICE, ., v:~ Va X .,LtlLn mU i~ . - , A GENO-wI ta KENTLVCXIAN.-A ?? Ame- rican seaman, whose wild appearanee might perfectly jus- tify a Yankee gazeteer in describing him as half alligator half bl Ana, or half any thing but a human being, was placed at the bar of the Police Coart on Thursday, charged with having forgotten the lessons on temperance learned-in the United States, by ...

... BUVRC,. Ir -aiet b ;r Report to the fagistrates of Edinburgh relative to tle - eligibility of that City for Manufacturing Estcblith to mnents. I IPplu ,or Edinburgh, a large city, in thae contre oF a popfulas he districf. rii, in. its agriculture, sand rich lni'its m? Detta of it especially coal snd lime1 wtithin. a mile of'tb-aea, and a aood'sbaiport, directly tatisfiuniciting not oniy wth ...

... I1 Gooln in fFRACAS. £X~gN r Air. Byrile sea brought before bU ?? Be Was brought before ti: Itededa ?? wj. ?? warralit. Charging p 'lred, pra y 2assaultcd Lord ot-,I ?? ;1163 been committed at aoon- on til I, -,j IVinterest was excited ait Han- to blreoadrlborltoed, to hear the investi|th ?? dtol Tj' ; turiarteO an Reverendxttfr Ao Ci elitir fi pownOall, and- Tbo CnlO lie, W.Ceighteti, , Ba I~ ...

... EXCISE PROSECUTIONS OF UNLICENSED .I10 USES. I COURT OF EXCISE.-SATURDAY. A great number of persons were proceeded against for having sold spirits and ivine without being licensed'. A good deal of interest was excited by the following Tliomas Ball, the proprietor of the extensive eating- house, No. 19, Biucklerabury, appesred to answer to an Information, charging him wyith having sold on a ...

... THE NlE' POOR LAW. I A ?? A o ?? - . . .. - ?? A'Court, Assistant Poor Law Commissioner III attended on Friday at Basingosoke, for the purpose of explain'. to leg the views soil intentions of the Central Board, and thle mode ihin which the law will be applied to the parishes of that division. LhColonel A'Court commenceil by stating that he felt assured, ler although many might come there ...

... * I- , fart' O'Neal, and John Harrison, poethovat the King's Head,. b.fird Street, came before Mr Dyer and Mr Chambers in a case of assault. Mrs O'Neale stepped at once to the complainant's. dside of the office, and making a low curtsey, ?? out -11 Plase your Honours, I'm not able to spake a word ofEnglish. On me oath I say it, an here's my witness, turning over aroll of paper. The contents ...

... MURDERS BY POISOANING. The town of Burnham Market, in Norfolk, and the vicinity for some miles round, have for the last week been in the most dreadful state of excitement, caused bv the discovery of three diabolical murders which have already been committed, and a plan laid for taking away the lives of several others. The circumstance that led to the discovery was as follows:-A woman named ...