... HIGHS COURT OF JUSTICIARY. The Court met yeterday, vhan the first prisoner brought tp was John Crombie, who had been convicted of theft, on confession before the Circuit Court at Aber- deen, on 22d September 1825, and was then sentenced to eighteeen months' confinement in Bridewell there, but had made his escape from that prison on 30th Sep. tember 1835. The prisoner admitted his identity, and ...

... COURT OF SESSION-SECCNjD DIVISION. On Saturday the quesiiron olairil is been for some s tinme og91ited between the Minictcrs 1n I the Mlagistrates' of Edi brargh, was decided in ti e Ceort of Session. It way be remembered that, rorae ti-ne ago, the Tovn Co ucil, at the instaace of tbo Leith Ielrk Canianit- sialo, resolved to expend tule sour of 1_2j0t e n repairs for Leith Harbouer, to make ...

... CUTTINO AND STABBING- George Washington Maldree, a man of colour, aged 23, was indicted for stabbingand wounding Calvin Smith Hudson, with intent to murder him upon the high seas, and within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of Egland. In another count the prisoner was charged with intent to maim and disable ; and in the third count he was charged with intent to do Hudson some grievous bodily ...

... MIDDLESEX GENERAL SESSIONS-Jan. 2. EX.XTRAORDINARY SCENE. s After the petty jury had been sworn, and the fis e prisoner givern them in charge, one of them, named ?? Wilson, residing in Old Street Road, adrfesirn the Chairman, said: Sir, I sdhbuld like to knowr *ho ist'o indemnify me for my loss of time and trouble in attedl- ins here ? The Chairman (to the Clerk of the Indictments)..-Go on ...

... On Monday last, in pursuance of a brief issued from her Alajesty's Cbancery, directed to the Magistrates of Canongate, a highly respectable Jury, several of whom are of the legal profession, returned a verdict in favour of Sir John Leman of Northaw, Bart. (formerly of Not- tingbam, now residingin Cumberland Street, Edinburgh), as nearest lawful heir male to his cousin, Sir Tanfield Leman, Bart ...

... I TurSnAY, APRIL 3. The LoaD PROVOST in the Chair. CITY Apt'AIiR9.-The Lord Provost stated, that lie had vitten to Lord Roseberv, in reference to the rn. rcnurs they badl heard re-peetifeg his Lordship's olbjic. r tiens to the proponsed m.de *of settlement with Ihl Citv Cre!ditors, nild liid rieived far aoswer. tdint his hord- ship had never expres-ed ain opinion either favit raidol S or ...

... x,1 APiRE5CFaSTON OF NiUBlBARD. In the course of this morning a most extraordi- nary sensation wus- manifested in the vicinity of the Waterloo Road and the neighbourhood, in con- sequence of its being reported that William Hub- bard was in custody on suspicion of having commit- ted the murder. On proceeding to the station- house in Tower Street, Waterloo Road, we found a vast assemblage of ...

... MARL.lBOROUGH STREET. Mr Thomas J. Flower, the individual who recently found Lis way into the private apartments of her Majesty, was brought before Mr Dyer, charged with having creat- ed adisturbanceatthe residence of the Duchebs-Countess of Sutherland, in Hamilton Place. The unfortunate defendant, beyond doubt, labours un- der temporary derangement, produced, it is reported, by ill success in ...

... COURT OF COMAMON PLEAS-Thutlary 25. (Sittings at Nisi Priur before Mr Justice Celtoran and a Common Jury.) LEGALITY OF WA(37MS ONt IORSE RtACISG. MARsTINi v. sM ITHx. This was an actirn to recover the sum of L.20. ehing the atnount of a stake on a horse race. Thc plaintiff de- clared in assirzinsit for monevs had and received, nad the plea 'eas the general issue. Nr Mprtin appeared as counsel ...

... The Sheriffi of Perth and Forfaralsire, and John Marshall, Esq. advocate, for the Sheriff of -Fife. lately deceased, have sat at Perth- hearing.appeals from the va- rious Registration Courts of the three counties. The most important case was the appeal against Mir Sheriff Antler- son's opinion, that it was not competent for Mr R. A. Findlay to take -up the objections departed from, in course ...

... The Court was opened here on Monday, the 17th cur: rent, by Lord Afeadowbank. Petty thefts and assaults were the chief cases tried. Five men and four women were sentenced to transportation, and two, accused of highway robbery, were discharged on a verdict of Not Proven. V Alexander Lindsay, lately farmer at Cartlandmair, u Hunger-him-out, in the parish of Lanark, and Robert Struthers, mRson, ...

... On Monday an adjourned meeting of the Comns. sioners was held, Alexander Douglas. Esq. W.S. in the chair. The first matter hrouglt under consideration of the' meeting was a motion by AIr Ridpath relative to the workshops at St Leonard's, which terminated in an una- nimous resolution of the Board directing the Cleaning and Lighting Committees to appoint a J tirt Sub-Coca. mittee to superintend ...