... LAW IV'.ELLIGEN(XLs-WEDNWsI1AY. 'COUIRT OF CHANCERY. IN DE liAINits. This motico tos discharge NWiiaim Blaines, who is confined in the gasl of Lelcester, for non-paymenit of chsurel-ratep, was opened yesterday by 'Mr. N. I). [lill and dor. Meller, and the matter stood over till this morning, to enabic the counsel for the elharchwardeni. to look iiito the authorities wbich were cited on the ...

... COUIRVOISIER'S CONFESSION OF GUILT. After the verdict was returned on Saturday even- ing, a report was circulated that the prisoner had confessed the murder, and, upon inquiry, it was' found to be correct. it appeared that while the exn- minations were going on at the house of Lord Wil- 1iam Russell in Norfolk Street, after the murder, the attention of lr Howser, the solicitor for the pro- ...

... CASE O THlE STUDENTS. After an investigation, in which the Presbytery were engaged for five days, from 10 A.M. till near q, midnight, this case was unexpectedly brought to a close on Wednesday the 25th instant, bv a resolu-L tion to refer the whole matter to the General As- b sembly. In the course of the business, a dissent and com U plaint was taken to the Synod by MIr Nairne and Sir C D. ...

... PoT zfJ~ i N - ZNT ; N s . onset~ t tae Ln~4~ ENQ7Z. ' : ~~Cou vix.Ious U RI5STOL!0, S4R 2., CharlesTrott %was charged'with stealing a %vhip,'tete proper- tyofSamuel1Harris. 'fie cmnplain'dtostatedthat he wisapso- cceding home from Bristol, arsil stopp'd at theWylite-Hdrse, Bedmnirsterto take up Ifriend ;during his temporary absence the prisoner, a lad about 13 years bf hig, was seen by two ...

... 333PS' !OL. 0; PO1aZG COUNCZ'- Hous, TlunSDAr, `June 4, 1840 Magistrates present': The Mayor, ansd Messrs. G. E. Sanders, Savage, and Haberifeld. John White and John Linsflield werecharged with stealing rope from the ship Anna. It appeared that a person, who was walking on ihe Quay, near to the spot where the Anna was moored, heard a voice on board say, , Now, then, im- mediately upon which ...

... STIEIBFF COURT. IsIProTAITv Dncc~sros.-Aen action, involving a rather important principle, was decided in the Sheriff' Small D~ebt Court, Glasgowv, on the 14th silt. The circumstances of the c ase are these :-On the 5th of September last, a person took out a ticket at the office of the Glasgow, Paisley, Iilmarnock, and Ayr Railivay Company here, to be conveyed to Ardros- sen by the trains ...

... THE ISLINOTTON MURDER. Richard Goald was placed at the bar at Bow street on Monday, having been taken from or, board the vessel in which he was proceeding to Sydney, charged with the robbery of the murdered Mr Tempileman. Sergeant Otway fbitod hem drunk in the cahin of the ship, and brought him to London as a prisoner. He had previously (with the evident idea of getting the proffered eereard) ...

... 'MANSION HOUSE. CONVIVIAL ACCIDENT.-On Tuesday Mr Hook, a man of letters, labouring under the effects of the previous night's conviviality, was charged with having refused to pay the amount of an extensive treat of coffee, at fbur oncloclc in the morning, to some ladies. It appeared from the statement of the keeper of a rolling coffee-shop, which occdaionally makes a stand in the neighbourhood ...

... ACCIDENTS, O)FFENCES, rc. THE ARISTOCRATIC OU7TRAGE.-The Earl of Walde- grave and Captain Duff; who were committed to take their trial at the next Mildiesex Sessions, for a violent assault at Hampton, have moved the proceedings into the Court ef Queen's Bench. Mr Bevan, of Sackvlfle street, their soli. citor,'has within these fewdays procured a writ ofcertiorari, and the clerk of the peace has ...

... RE-CAPTURE AND COMMITMENT OF ANDERTON | II FOR THE MURDER OF COULTON. On Monday evening a gentleman residing at Kirkiess, a few miles from Wigan, cent a messenger to Air. Whittle, right chief conctable, with information that Andronbd en ien seen in the vicinity of a farm in the occupation of Mr. i en Blackledge, near Ilindiley, subcequent to his escape from ilco custody. Mr. Whittle, on Tuesda ...

... FnID.A, July 24.-Before Messrs Aid. BIATSON, and RI DLEY. .James Winter was charged with stealing a watch, at a place near to Pontelanid, when some races were being held. The prisoncr was sent to the authorities of tile county of Northumberland. .o/ii (jooper and Fralncis dohlerty, two idilc boys, were sont to the house of correction for a week, for stealing iron from the Quayside. Andr~j;ewX ...

... BOOV r. JSUMME15S. Mr Jacob, with Mr Purvis, showed cause against dissolving an injunction rcstraining two actions of ejectment brought by the defendants, to recover pos- session of a Dissenting chapel and dwelling-house in North Sunderlaud, under rather extraordinary circum- stances. It appeared, that in 180B a congregatioli of Protestant Dissenters, of the Presbyterian persuasion, who had ...