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DISTRESSING MURDERS AT THE FEJEE ISLANDS

... By the arrival at Edgartown, of the ship Cyrus, Captain Hussey, from the Pacific Ocean, we have received the melancholy intelligence of the murder of three officers and three of the crew of the whale ship Awashonks df Falmouth (United States), at the Fejee Islands. The names of the officers kill- ed are Prince Coffin of Nantucket, captain, Alex- ander Gardner, of do. mate, and - Swa in, of do. ...

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 ...

ALLEGED MURDER AT UXBRIDGE

... On Tuesday an inqulry, bhhli commenced at noon t and cin tinaied i I n;nc o'clock in the evening, took p! Ice At thD Falcon Tauvern, Uxbrilge, before Mr Stirling, the 6 Coroner, to investigate the circu'nstanies touching the E ihatir ?? Allirrei m, aged 32, twbaer who wa, s alleged to have been bruttally Friirdered by n man ruirned o Willirim Browrne, an Fi ilay last, in tle npcn street, after ...

JURY COURT

... . 1)VaAt v. M'KAN. This ease, which has ?? a grent deal of inferest in Haddington, was tried before the Lord Justice Clerk a- and a very intelligent Jury, on Saturilay and Monday ag l last It was an action of redaction of three deels-a an Du vontrart of agreement, a? it was termed, and two deeds of settlement-obtained by the defender in 1832 and (le '333, from an inibeeilo old man of the name ...

IMPORTANT TO DISTILLERS: COURT OF EXCHEQUER

... tCOURT OF EXCHEQUER. EDINEIURGH LAMMAS TERM, 1836. ADVOCATE-GENERAL V. SMITH. This case was brought before the Court by writ of certiorari, from the Justicesof Bauffebire. It appear- ed from the return to the writ, that the defendant was prosecuted by the order of the Commissioners of Ex- cise, by information before the Justices, on the 4th Geo, IV. ch. 94, a. 44, which enacts, II That if at ...

LONDON POLICE

... LOQDON -POLtOE. M~~tt~tON~UO~a~'~ monk ofthe .0tlfie of La dile, Trappe was broulght bpfore Alderman Cowan, aon Tfbrdaypwe e ll~a police officer, under tile following bro' 1cirduOm5t5OOes :: -The poor Trappistlidbewaeig about Tower 1-11l and its neighboiurhood, ono the pro- sev, . ceding nighet with all the evidences of starvation about aud l him, but withowt uttering a sellable of complaint, ...

ADMIRALTY COURT—June 15

... ADMIRALTY COURT-June 15. 1 ?? Il s t. ?? .- .- . .. I SALVAGE-THE THOMAS MOUr.DeN. This was an appeal from an award made by the Coan- missioners of Salvage at Margate, the circumstances of which were as follow:- The Thomas Moulden, a brig of 107 tons burthen, with a crew of 11 men, and a cargo of wool and tallow, was proceeding up the Channel, upon a voyage from Odessa to London, when. upon ...

JURY COURT

... I Ihi _ -a. £_11_. _ ?? AA A AA- - L On Tuesday the following issues came to be tried he- pr( fore the Lord President, in the eausein wbich John Slir- the reff, commercial agent, residing in Edinburgh, was pur- nei suer, and George Brodie, Esq. advocate, James lIar, for Esq. merchant in Leith, and Thomas Richardson, wri- thu ter to the signet, Trustees under the disposition and cS- In ...

INTERESTTNG JURY TRIAL

... 5A'hKgL5rIetLi IOU juI iLAIII. LAw Or I19SURANCE. Hereiles Insurance Company of Scotland, and Robert Samnond, their Agent in Glasgow, ayairst John H1un- ter, merchant in Joh ntone, ?? his I rostics. This casO came on to hie tried before the.Hintoutrtble Lord Aioncreiff nad a Jury, on Tueesday lIst, at ten o'clock. The ease for the porsuers was closed abnut half-pasteight, uslen tre ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... On Moinday Alice or Alisar Reid or Scott pleaded in I Guilty to acharge of stealing four shirts and two night- I gowns from a park in front of Henderson Row, on 29th agg Alarch last, aggravated by previous conviction of theft. i She was sentenced to seven years' transportation. wei George Homes pleaded Guilty to an indictment charg- dise ing him with stealing a bat and handkerchief, the pro- ...

COUNTY OF ANTRIM ASSIZES

... COUNTY OP ANTRIM ASSIZES. - A, CROWN COURT, FCUTAv, J ULY 1 5* The Rev. Dr Cookd, on being called to be 1e sworn as a witness on a bill of indictment 5botitV to be sent to the Giand Jury, against a priesonelra Baarge with larceny, refused to take the Otith in ia the usual manner, by kissing the Gospels, and ap-b p pled to the Chief Baron to be allowed to swear ox w wth uplifted hand, as being ...

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY

... TIUIISD.AY, JULY 14. h Margaret Buchanan was found Guilty of stealing a smoothing iron, apron, and a comb, aggravated by being It a reputed thief, and three times previously convicted in the inferior Conrts.-Seven years' transportation. Iesbella Sterwart pleaded Guilty of theft, aggravated ht by being a common thief, and no less than eix tires pre- hi viously convicted, the last on the 14th ...