... 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 ...

... GLASGOW CIRCtUIT COURt. MONDlAY, AFRILr 30. A Double Murder-Conviction'. ThseCotrt met this morning'at nine o'clock.-and pro- edetothe trial of Elizabeth Nickison, or'Shafto, or JTeffray, lately residing in Carluke, abo was charged with administering, on the 4th of October last, to Ann Netwsl or Carl, residing in Csrluke, a quantity of arsenic, which shbe had mixed up with meal and water and ...

... WOweastP STREPT.-A RARA Avis.-Hannah Ingle- by Lunard, a well-dressed woman, who was formerly a celebrated rope-dancer, was charged before Mr Grove under tha following curious circumstances:- It appeared from the evidence of a policeman of the G division, that on the night before he met the prisoner in Finsbury Square in a state of intoxication. She had in her possession a pewter-pot and a ...

... The circumstances of this robbery are sistgether pe- iar, arnd involved in much mystery. It appears that there'are two tellers in- the bank, enth of whom has rhargre of an iron safe, in which money is deposited. One of these safes is in a moom occupied as a sleeping ,partagent hy one of the clerks, the other is in a passage leadiding to that room. The keys of these safes were kept by the ...

... WEDNESDAY, April 24.-The Circuit Court at Glas- gow was opened by Lords Mackenzie and Medsvn Eight cases were tried to-day, of these two women and two men were severally sentenced to transportation for sevenayearsrforetheft; Robert Fleming, flesher, for as- saultand robbery, was sentenced to transportation for fourteen years; a girl, for theft by means of housebreak- ing, was sentenced to ...

... P. Mr Hill's thirdreport on rue prilon of fScotland,SE just distributed, states some arrti ilrars with regard of to that country of a very gratifying iatirtre. What- s' ever increase of crime there has been last year, he or attributes chiefly to the bad, state of trade durinig a great part of the year. arid the strikes aamong the 61 workmen. At Aberdeen, where there was rio corn- T mercieJ ...