... 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 ...

... MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, TuEsDAY. Mr Morris Barnett, the well-known theatrical performer, surrendered at the sitting of the Court this morning, to receive judgment fbr an assault upon his wife, Mrs Margaret Barnett, of which he had been convicted at the adjourn- ment-day of' the November session. Cheney and Newman, policemen of the F division, who were indicted jointly with him, were ?? only ...

... HATTON GARDEN. Elizabeth DaVeey, a female about 24 years of are, with scarcely a rag to cover her person, weas brought from the station-house, in the custody of olice constable Richards, under the following distressing circumstances:-. ichards stated, that between 11 and 12 o'clock on Monday night, lie found the prisoner sitting on the steps of St Sepulchre's workhouse, in an exhausted ...

... MARLBOROUGH STREET. Two lads were on Tuesday brought to this office for the purpose of being apprenticed from the parish of St Giles.-Mr Chambers asked them whether they could ?? replied that they could ?? Chambers then asked how long they had been in the workhouse, and he was informed that they had been there nine ?? Chambers.-How do you spend your time in the workhouse ?-Boy.-We go to the ...

... AN EARsTHQUJA~rE.-The Neapolitan Gazette of the 7th ult. has the fol- lowing. In the middle of the night of the 12th ,ilt. a strong shock of an earth- quake was generally felt in Calabria Citra; this was followed at intervals by ten other shocks; some also were experienced on the following days. In the midst of these commotions, Castigliom, a commune in the district of Cosenza, was levelled to ...

... FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SERI-ENTINE.-A most melancholy and fatal accident, which tended greatly to mar tihe pleasures of the day, and has thrown a number of highlV respectable families into tle mliost poignant dis- tress, occurred on Christmias day, at the Serpentine-river, in Hyde-park. In consequence of the unparalleled intensity of the frost during the previous night, numbers of persons ...

... THE CARLIST RESOURCES.-For some time past it had been known that under a man's dress a young English woman acted as factotum to the partisans of Don Carlos who have sought a refuge in England. The telegraph, it is said, had even apprised the Government of her departure firom London for Bayonne. She was expected in the latter town, when, on Sunday evening, M. Kassime, Central Commissary, ...

... Gilbe)t GurXney. By the author of Sayings and Doings9 Love and Pride, &c. In 3 vols. Whittaker and Co. There is less of misdirected ridicule in this book, than in any of the former productions of the author. We speak of those which are at present within our recollection. It would be uncandid to say that there is more of sentiment in Gilbert Gurney than in its predecessors, for it would ...

... -I FATAL Durm.-On Sunday last a meeting took place on Calais-sands, between Messrs Rooke and Montague, two Englishmen, who were attended by their seconds, Messrs Forbes and Bonteec,. The cause of meeting wvas, it is said, some harsh expressions, arising ont of a gambling transaction, which were applied by Mr Rooks to Mr Montague, but which the former is said to have offered to retract on the ...

... I FIRE AT EHATFIELD HousE.-In a portion of our last week's inmpression we were able to give a short account bf this occtrrence, and of the melancholy death of the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury. It took place on Friday evening last. Her Ladyshi was left writing in her dressing-room at 5 o'clock by her maid, who then lighted the candles upon her table, and went down stairs to her tea in the ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY. TEIE KiNG v. - LucAs, EsG.-This was an indictment against the defendant, for an indecent exposure of the person in Kensington gardens, on the 1st of August ?? was no counsel for the prosecution, and the witnesses were examined by the Court.-John Turner: I am a corporal in the Coldstream Guards. I have been five years in the service. I know Frederick William Lucas ...

... DESPERATE SUICIDE.-OnflMondayan inquisitionwas holden atthe Cherry Tree, Southgate, on view of the body of Mr William Matthews, aged 50, many years a respectable boot and shoemaker; but who had been desponding of 'ate, and had complained very bitterly that his losses in trade had rendered his circumstances so embarrassed that he was a ruined man. On Friday morning he pulled off his shoes and ...