... thursday the sitting Magistrates, Mr Gregorie anrd tord Moatford, were engaged for a considerable time in the investigation of the particulars connected with a case wherein George and Richard Smith (brethers) privates in the Coldstream Guards, now stationed at St John's Wood Barracks, stood charged with having, on the previous night, stabbed and wounded in the abdomen with a bayvnet a ...

... AN L'MPRUDIENT SCOTSMAN. A twoman, named Prudence Barton, was recently brought before Sir P. Laurie, charged with robbing David Morris, a Scotsman, of three half crowns and some odd lialfpence. Davie stated his case in the mother tongue of sweet Edinbro', and did nae disguise that he was Unco fou, or thereawa', between twelve an one yesterday morning, when the lassie at the har made a dead set ...

... BRISTOL-CLIFTON, Sept. 29..A circumstance- occurred yesterday which has thrown our beautiful, village into a state of the utmost agitation and ex- citement. It may not generally be known, that at nearly the summitof a eliff rising 300 feet abovetbe surface of the river Avon. and which is commonly styled St Vincent's Rock, there is a hole or nearly circular aperture, extending 20 or 30 'yards ...

... I On Monday a meeting of the Commissioners of Police was held, the Lord Provost in the Chair. The Lord Pros-tcad the rtrtns- of the Duaerd to the fact, that the Superintendent of Police was the on- ly person entitled to complain of the state of the streets when allowed to get into disrepair, and as many of them were at present in a disgraceful state, the Board ought to strengthen the hands of ...

... WEiGtUiNr OF COALS.-Onh Monday two coal hawk- ers were brought before the Sitting Magistrate for not having scales and weights attached to their carts as an- thorised by the new police act. They pleaded ignorance of the new regulation, notwithstanding it was stated by the Clerk, that an extract from the act had been sent to all retailers of coals in the city. On promising to get scales and ...

... S§HRIVF'S BOURT-St. 27. wiC.xsoN v. FISnES. Tlhmg was an action to recover the srum of L. 10 lent, ?? the sum f 1-5 17s. for ithree asks of o1ichll ship -beef, and a flat of tongues. Mr Pavne was fir the plaintiff, and Mr C. Jones for the deferindnt. The traneavtion sas atoher ad , by MTIr Payne'saccount. The beef and tong es were sent to the difendants, who keep an oil and Italian starelhuse, ...

... II E9L A kW). TRIAL OF CAPTAIN WATSoN, A gIAGIS- TRAT1, AND CAPTAIN VIGNOLES, STIPEN- DIARY MAGISTRATE, FOR ASSAULT. At ?? Sessionrs y seray true bills were forindr ugaiststile above-named gentlerten for al as- sault upon a man named Patrick Peaey. There was another ease where two men namdied Brennan and Godden had s*orn inrormations li~ginst Cap- tain Vignoles for an assault, in which there ...

... GmsLnrrAtr..-Sir P. Laurie ?? ngoged a consilder able time on Tueday in hearing a eharge of assault, committed by Mri Peake, of Lower Whitecross Street, upon Mrs Golden of the same place. Mr Gulden, it appeared, carried on business as a brush- raoker with great success, etrployingf, eleven hands, till he thought lie ciuld make hic fortune more rapidly in the United Statep, that happy lanid, ...

... COURT OF COMMON PLEAS-OcF. 25. [Before Chief Justice TiNDAr and a SpecialsJury.] EASTHOPE V. VWESTNIACOTT-AtLEGED LIlEtL. .:This ?? an action brought by Mr Easthope, one of the proprietors of the Morning Chronicle, against Mr Westmacitt, editor of the Age, for an alleged libel which appeared in the latter paper on the 19th of March last. The tial excited mouch interest, and the Court was ...

... POLICE COMMISSIOx. A statutory meeting of this body was held on Monday -Sir Douglas in the chair, at which was read a letter from the Managers of the Royal Infirmary, on the pre- valence of contagious fever in the city. *This letter di- rects attention to the subject, and recommends the use of means to check the progress of the disease. The fol.. lowring is an extract: Contagious fever has ...

... BRLUTAL CoNnrcT.-A stout elderly man of a dirty appearance was placed at the bar on Thursday last, on a charge of striking and malffeating his wife to the effu- sion of blood. The wife, a weaklv looking woman. an. folded from a napkin a cap and some rags covered with blood, which she laid spon the clerk's table, -remarking that these were proafs.of her husband's barbarity. It apipeared that ...