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COURT OF REQUESTS—October 28

... COURT OF REQUESTS-October 28, MASTER SLENDTEPR AND HIS BooR OF SoNNETS.-A bi very sentimental, and withal, very consumptive-looling g' young gentleman, about twenty years of age, wearing a round blue jacket, and his shirt ceollar turned down l ttl Byron, was summoned before Mr Commissioner Dubois, by a bookbinder named Harrison, for payment of the sum of six shillings. eE What do you say to ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... - On Alonilv, Johna Bell, farm sernt, acusdof roormier, in so far on, on thre 211th July I83fif in atr nip field on the farm of Seims, in fth nutd boills f East Calder and Kirknewton, and county of Ellinhur la, t lie assaultedl John Kerr, form servant, an trc him a I violent blow on thue forehcad with a line, whichfle ii Kerr to thle ground, anod lie in consequeflco Itilg~idthedPd - far seven ...

SCOTTISH BILLS

... SCOTTISH )ILLS. (Fron a Private Conrespondent.) CLYDE NAVIGATION BILL. London, Friday Afternoon. The Court of Chancery, where this important i inquiry has been holding for some days past, is crowded to-day with numbers interested in the af- fairs of Scotland, in the expectation that a divi. sion will take place on the preliminary objection raised to amend the preamble of the bill, by al- ...

COURT OF KING'S BENCH

... A case was tried in the Court of Kin gs Bench on g Saturday, Moscati v. Longman and others, in which the E prosecutor figured as a liar almost equal to Alunchausen. i The case for the plaintiff was conducted by Sir F. b Pollock. The complaint was laid on account of a letter that ap. peared some time ago in the Medical Gazelle, published by the defendante, and which the plaintiff considered to ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... HIG II COURT OF JIJTICTARY. Yesterday, Chriqian fle Ie /irsoO pl leadd GUiltY tO stealing a quantity o if weriog tippirel] from the manse at Dalmeny, and was seettncetl to seven years' tra a sparta- tion. John fl'old/oe, seaman, also pleaded Giledty ton charge ofo tabliag James Lawson, another semana, on Leith Shore, and was sentenced to 12 months' confi ) fnnt itn Bridewell. Ann K llyr or ...

SCOTS APPEALS

... House of Lords, April 18. Edinburgh Water Company v. Wau.h, Nelson v. f Farioh.-Petifions of the respondents for further time to lodge cases, read and referred to the Appeal Committee. Sir John M. Mackenzie's Estate Bill.-Read a second a time, and committed for Tuesday the 26th inst. We understand that it is in contemplation to turn t the remains of the statue of William III. at Dublin to some ...

RESULTS OF THE SESSION

... (From tiue Spectator.) The results of the session are now before us, The time for considering calmly what has been gained or lost bythe Legislative proceedings of the last seven montfis has arrived. We have examnin. ed the votes of both Houses-those dry but truth. telling records of things done-with the. view of getting at the actual result of all the strife and talking with which the country ...

SCOTS APPEALS

... ?? ru a.1 VI 0,u *Io or vac--a. House of Lords, Fehruary 2°. Marquis of Breadalbane v. Marquis of Chandos:-An appeal baa been presented in this case and the usuql or- der made upon the respondents to answer within four weeks. The appeal which was presented last week by Lord Maitland v. the Marquis of Chandos, was at the suit of the Trustees of the late Marquis of Breadalbaue. Sir Johnl Hav, ...

COURT OF REQUESTS—OCTOBER 27

... COURT OF REQUESTS-OCTOBEr 27, we I AreAraicABL BSETrLC?,isNT.-Tle landlady of t ile I Hope puhlic-house in the New Road, sumoned a rude ai ezcavator forltiS. 6d. R Commissioner What's it for? f man Landlady-Beer and gin, the E ?? I bet we've Battled every thing hami- tenrc cably. !? E Commi ssioner-Indead; how does that bhapp en? ti E ?? I don't ewe it at all.-(Laugb- whi ter.)amcbe pa But, my ...

POLICE COMMISSION

... - I., . I . I A meeting of the Board took place on Monday, the Lord Provost in the chair. His Lordship mnover, that the Board should aid the efforts of the House of Refoge in freeing the streets of vagrants. After several of the members had observed that the whole tlhymen ought to aid itt this dutr, it twes resolved ira the- mean tine to au- thorise one of the daymel to aid the purposes of the ...

CHARGE OF SHOOTING SEVEN PERSONS

... I On Friday last, a considerable degree of conster-c nation prevailed in the neighbourhood of East Dork- ing, at a place called Wootton Hatch, in conse- tc quence of several persons having been seriously d wounded during the time they accompanied a party W who were engaged in playing what is termed * rough a music, in the vicinity of a house inhabited by a man named Brennan, a gardener to a ...

JURY COURT

... Stromness IHarbour-Riglht of Pablie to Sea Shore in. Marine Towns. SMILLIE V. BROWN. A case of much public interest to our maritime, arind especrial]v our northern friends, occupieil the Court and a Jury on Mlondiy, relative to a public lan ding place (in the well frequented harbour of Stromncs$, in Orkney, where so many British and foreign ships resort on their passage to and from the laltic, ...