... On Monday a meeting of the Commissioners of Police was held, pursuant to requisition, to consider the bill brought into Parliament by the Witter Company. Bailie Millar hiving been called to the chair, and the enacting clause of the bill read, Mr W. Miller rose to move a series of resolutions. He said, previous to 1819, the city was supplied with water through the Corporation. In that year the ...

... ADMIRALTY -COURT--My }X THE DANTZIC PAC1;ET-SALVAGE.-ThOe Danteiw Packet, a Prasaian brig, of 239 tons burden, sailed from Dantzie on the 26th of November, on a voyage to Lon- don, with a car,,o of floor, corn, and other articles of provision, and being obliged to put into Sheerness, from ?? of weather, a stearn vessel was engaged to tow het to Gravesend. On the 7th January she quitted Sheer- ...

... VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT-lay 8. IDINGl V. HOWV- IOWQUA'S TIXTURE. After she rising of the Court, Mr Willcox (withwhom was I'fr Taylor). on behalf of the plaintiff, late a corn mander in the East India Company's maritime service, moved the Vrice-Chancellor at his private house for a special injunction to restrain the defendant, a grocer, trading under the firm of Brocksopp & Co., 233, and 234, H ...

... GLOASGOW CIRCUIT COTTRT. n _ T . _ 1_ On Wednesday four men vwere sevcrally convicted of fraudulently pnriearouring to ob'aiu the pensions 'of out- pensioners of Chelsea ?? were de- layed. . s CASE OF MIURDSER. Arn SeMple was then placed at the liar, accused of the crime -of murder, in having on the. Sth of June list, near thle west tunnel of the Paisley Canal, in the vicinity of Ralston ...

... VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT-June21. PIDDING V. Ho0W. I This case, which occupied the Court three days, con- |eluded on Wednesday. Mr Jacob having concluded his spoech, and the read- ing of the affidavits in support of his application for the dissolution of the injunction, restraining the defendant from selling teas under the names of Howqua'e mix- ture and a Howqua's small leaf gunpowder. Mr ...

... OF THE MURODZAt OF hilt ANGUS MDONALD, WAT .t'tAKUER, GLASGOW. (Fro e thle Ayr Aderdisey.) On the *2th of October last, being the fast day in Glasgow, Mr Angus M'Donald, watchmaker there, a person between forty and forty-five years of age, and of very temperate habits,- went on board the ?? New Dumbarton steamer at Dumb 'rton for Glasgow, andl having been presumed to have been landed at the ...

... COURT OF %StSION. GL.AsrYiV TOW'; COUiNCIL.. The SecondP Diviwion rnf the Court have thit; week been oerupieil during three days in hearing the arguments Cif Counsel on a Lill of Suspension predented br Alam M1onrteithi, writer in Glasgow, and others, dul qualified voters in the PRtrliamentary and 2unicipal elections cif Glasgow, against 17obert Al'GaviiI mre chant, Glasgow, and ?? at last ...

... FRltDA. CO31MISSION AGENCY. The Court opened at 10 o'clock, and proceeded to the trial of the Issues in the conjoined causes in which Stephen Catt- ley Tennant, residing in Havannah, in the Island of Cuba: Thomas Moore, residing in Liverpool, and Ed- ward Tennant, also residing there, carrying on business as merchants in Liverpool, under the firm of Teanants, Moore, & Company, and as ...

... E.XTRlAORDINARY CASE OF. A LIVING SNAKE IN T1HE HUMAN STOMACH. l The following extraordinary case of a li'ving snake existing in the stomach of a man, is said to v have occurredl in Philadelphia. When about fifteen years of age lbe stooped to drink at a spring in a field, andt while drinkinrg felt a sensation re- a sembling that produced by a solid substance glitter- s 'ing down his throat. It ...

... TOWy COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. 'trEDid, xDe. 12. The LonD Pfavost in the Chair. CETY CUDsoPS.--The Lord Provost's corrnmittee ieported, stith reference To the request of the Trustees far the City Creditori that ?? would piaes attheirdisposal thesuin of L.10,o0o, to enable them tb moke paymaent of a dividend to the Crelitors; tbat rhpy find they dannot comply with it to the ex- tent asked, without ...

... COURT OF KING'S BENCfI-4'Airuary 7. | (BEroRE LORn DENM5AN ANDO A SPECIAL JURY.) STOCKDALE ?? ViANSARD. This was an action for anl alleged libel ?? by the plaintiff, the well known bookseller, against .Messrs Haiisard, the printers of the Parliamettary papers ordered by the House of Commons. Mr Stockdale conducted his own case, and made a long statement, from which it appeared that'thbe libel ...

... The Court met an Thursday-presont, 'the Mar- quis of Twreeddale. Preses; Lord Ramsay, M.P., Lord Haddington, Sir T. B. Hepburn, Bart., Sir David Kin- locb, Bart,, Msajor-General Sir Robert Haus'on, ?? Jamies Hiunter, Esq ot Thurston, R. Ulty, Esq. of Charterfield, Captain James Hay, R. N. of 13el- ton, David Anderson, Esq. of St Germains Kin. James St Clair ; J. Aitchison, Esq. of Ablefston, ...