... PO LICE. A COmA1lrttCIAL lHNTEItiPtR5S. At the Mausion- hise, on Saturdil, a great deal of laughter was caused by the details in thit following ease :_ An ehleily mail of respectrble aptewiranc, narmed Poole, was summrneond by a Aih B1dley, to answer for the misappropriation of two separate sutls of L 5 each. Mr Bailey stated, tliat in the begitming of the last month hlip gve to MAr Poole a ...

... INGS--Jan. 3. S5HIPOWNERS' SOCIETY AT LEITH. Dallis Donaldson, before proceeding to the ordinary business, considered it nceessary to mention that, some days ago, he received a letter from Messrs Graham & Anderson, W. S., agents for the city, calling his atten- tion to an advertisement in a late number of the Advor-- tiser, in the form of Resolutions from the Shipowners' Society of Leith, in ...

... JURY COURT-.Dec. 3e. lrIMPSTrR V. POTTS, et e Can2tra. In these cronjoined cairses of reduction and i:rr, rokl:- tion and ordinary ae tion, in which William Demnprste'r ni Mloeontireen, in ?? cnunty of Prrh. was heid PrM- suer, and William Potts, wine and spirit merchant iri Edinburgh, defendpr, the issues Cnare to bre tried in tin- .T11tiCarv Court Room here, before tbe Lord JTstiec, Clerk ...

... Tf tJWN COlUNCIL PROC EEf1NXGS-Jau. 10. J.EI I 1l Sr11IP01YrRS' SOCIETYf.l l3ailie Donalldsou said, that before the ordinary C business of the Council was taken up, he wished to Ii allude to a report of the proceedings of alate meet. tl ing nf the Leith Dock Commissioi, which appear. ft ed in the ne vspapers of Saturday last, in which Mr ci George Aitchison was represented as asking the tc ...

... T UESDAY, JAwUAILT 17. 1 The Lenan PitOVOST in the Chair. tf UNCVEtLSITY ?? thre reading of a report i of certain small repairs upon thre College, which hadl been sanctioned by the College Bailie, Treasurer AI'Laran n wished to know where the payrlment of these, and the a, other repairs made from time to tine on the University, was to come from, since the Court had decided that pay- ti meent ...

... DUNFERML!NE-IMPORTANT CASE. The Ileritors and Kirk Session of Dunfermiinc, in the year 1822, augmented the fees forthe regis- tration of births, and the proclamation of marriages. which were previously exceedingly low, making the', former Is. 6d. and the latter Gs. 6d. ; which sums: continued to be paid without resistance till 1834, when an action of reduction and repetition, grounded not on ...

... CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT-Janu6. FORGERY UPON CAPTAIN MAULE. A gentlemanly-looking man named George Forbes Atkinson, alias Captain Atkinson, was indicted for forg- ing and uttering a Bill of Exchange far L. 1000, with in- tent to defraud Captair Lauderdale Maune. Air Clarkson, who appeared for the prosecutor, reca- pitulated the facts of the case, as they afterwards appear. ed in evidence. We ...

... DREADFUL OUTRAGE IN AlANCIIESTErl- EXPLOSION OF GAS. One of the most diabolical acts of revenge which we ever recollect having recorded in this town, was perpetrated here on Saturday night in the shop of Mrs Kernshead, jeweller, Market Street, at about twenty minutes before ten o'clock, when the whole neighbourhood was thrown into a state of alarm and consternation by the report of an ...

... COIMMISSIONFRS OF POLICE. O Alonday in adjourned meetine of the Cnmn misiol- art of Police was held, Alexander Dorglat, Esq. in the chai . Mr Douglas stated, that an offer of composition of 3s. in the pound had been mrade by lilr Browir, the late Col- lector, but, in conseqierco of the admiissions *which that individual had made in his judicial examilation before the S9eriff, the Board ought ...

... TOWN COUNCIL PROCEBIDINGS. TUESDAY,; JANUARY 24. t The LoRD Priovosr in the Chair. C NEW, NORTI C11UiCB.-Bailie Sayvers called t the attention of tile Council to the importance of a speedily filling up the vacancy in the New North d Church, create-l by the translation of the Rev. NMr c Bruce to St Anl hrew's Church; and suggested that t a successor to Mr Bruce should be appointed on a this day ...

... IIPO1TANT CASE-TEIND COURT, Da. 21. PARIS!H OF EitUiMl6, BERFWiCX5TUIRE. (Firo7, a Correspondent.) The report. of this case in the newspapers given at the time, headed as above, is incorrect in almost all of the particulars stated. Justice to the parties makes a cor- rect statement of facts necessary, and this is particularly caliled for, as the derision in this case, refusing any aug- ...

... COURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISION, 24Tie AND 26TH JANUARY 1637. SusPrNSxON-EwING V. STIRTLNGSH!RE (2d District) STATUTE LABOUR TRUSTEES, and HENRY GORDON, Esq. their Clerk and Treasurer. Thie question involved in this case is one of consider- able importance, not only to the Trustees and the dis- trict, and shole county in which they act, but also to the public at large. The case originated in n ...