... HIGH COURT OF JUSTIGCARY. The Court met on Monday, the judges present being the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Mackenzie, and Lord MNedwvn. Agnes Meek or Petrie pleaded guilty to stealing a cloak from a house in the Covgate, aggravated by previous convic- tions, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. John Wood, Robert HIaig, and William Grant, were found guilty of breaking into Marine ...

... SHERUF COURT. The first ordinary Court after the Christmas recess, was held yesterday in the Hail, County Buildings, when John Thomson Gordon, Esq. Sheriff of the county, took his seat on the bench for the fiest time. The Court was very fully at- tended by the solicitors who practise before the bar of the Sheriff. On the entrance of Mr Gordon, about half-past ten, all who were present rose and ...

... York, July 19. Berbre ?? Justice Wghilgami. John Burlington, Henry Nuttali, and Chart,. Gill, were put to the bar to take tieir trial upon na indictment which echrged them with the willul mur *ler of Josephi Corker, at Knazesborough, on the 18th day of June last. Thle case having been previously appointed fuir this morning, time Court mind nil the avenues to it were crowded at an early hour by ...

... LATFEST .NEWS.~ (Fromn oar Special G(rrcsprnIlerrt.) LOrDOoN, CSATU55D5Y EVrrerre. ATTEMAP TED ASS ASS'%NATION OF sim DIIUralOND. The excitement caused last evening by the disbo. lical attempnt to aosassinate ItIr E. Drummond, lhad increased this morning, in consequence of tile gene- rai opinion prevalent that Sir IRobert Peel was thle object of the enmity of the desperate man, M'l augh- ten, ...

... IHGH COURT OF J1USTICURY. I The Court met on Monday, the judges present being the Lord Justice Clerk, Lord Moncreiff, and Lord Medwyn. Euphemia Haxton pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing forty-nine table cloths, sixty towels, twenty-four pairs of linen sheets, and a great many similar articles, from the house of a Writer to the Signet, by whom the prisoner -was employed. Having been ...

... ELINflCGRIE ASD NORTHERN RSAILIVATYCOMSPANY V. LEVEN. This-was a case at theinatance of the Edinburgh and Nor- thern Railway Company against Air John Leven, W.S. who is proprietor of eer taln subjects in the neighiboiurhood of Barnt- island through which the railway passes. Tile railway com- pany, as a preliminary to their requiring possession, and until the actual value of the subjects should ...

... TE't DUJIE Or fIRUNSWICE t'.a THE IING eor O ANOVER. This cause came on upon demurrer. The tie- fendant was described as Duke OF Cumberland and Teviotdale in Great Britain, Earl of Armagh in Irelanl, and King of Hanover. The lill stated that, in 1830, the plaintill Frederick William Augustus, was Sovereign reigning Duke of Brunswick, and possessed of real and personal estates there and in ...

... Derby, August 26. Considerable sen-ation was caused here to-day, hy ai voluntary discovery, on the p art of the indi- idlual selfirnplicated, of an attempt to commit mnurder. Towardis three this morning a policeman on duty, at tile outskirts of the town, flashed llis lsntern in the fece of a vouth who was approach- ing the town in a jailed condition, Are you a policemaini ? he ...

... CAPITAL PUNISHMENTS, (Fromn the lorning Herald.) A very important Parliamentary paper, on the subject ot'capital punishment for murder, v;which urss moved for by SIr Esvart at the close of the last ses- sion, has just been published. It goes very far to prove the impolicy of that punivhraerrt, even ?? inflicted for the greatest of crimes, and deserves the careful attention of the pubili ...

... COURT OF SESSION-BrLL CHAMBER CASE. Suspension and Ituterdiet, Mr Dlone~ik, Procurator-Fiscal, nod Magisteatrs, against tire Edinburgh and Gitasgow Boil- nosy Ce. tnod their Cootractore, Mitsuis ?? & Mitchell. In a preeious prsblctieuto we stilted, thait the Lord (Irdinary hod pranounceed an interloecutor, prohibiting thre operatiouns at the Eurtuest Mooed, ndailrt cite large arch sout rhe ...

... POLICE COMMISSION-. The board met on Mondav. the Sheriff in the chairn A long report was read from the watching committee in re- fererce to the questions raised by the superintendent as to the duties of the surgeon, and relative documents. The report, e t he motion of Mrr MNiller. seconded by Mr Smith was unani- Monswl agreed to. NEW POLICE OFFICE. The minutes of the area committee, and of the ...

... SHOCKlN?G MURDER. Two dreadful murders were committed at Stanfield Hall, Wymondha m, Norfolk, the residence of Mr Jermy, the recorder of Nonvich, on Tuesday night. At half-past ten o'clock, a man, masked, called at lr Jermy's house, and asked for him. Wht.n Mr Jermy appeared at the door, the man fired at him; and on Mr Jermy's son rushing to his father's assistance, he was also shot in the ...