... INVEIRNE-SS CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARtY. The InverneVss Sprinrg Circuit Court was opened on Wednesday i by the Right Hon. the Lord Justice-Clerk-John Montgomery a BSell, tsq.. ~dvocatc-Depiito. 0 After some uninteresting cases, a John i/ss, Alexander Miller, and Walter distvait, were placed I at the bar, accused of having. on the °d November last, caused Isv a their neglect or recklessness ...

... THE CASE ON BOARD TEI LONDONDERRY STEAMlR4. - a__ at - - o I ?? _i._1 ?? ?? .. . r_ _w (F7rom uthe Railway nnat Shiippilio Joural. a) tt We have cosidered it to le onr 'ulty to ma ke same inquiry itinto the m~elanchco yr o1cunirenee that lately took place on board rigthe Londnerystaero the coast of ireland. end personally he to inspect th-e vessel, which has been Icing for seine time, since ...

... REGTSTR.ATIoN APPE~AL COURT, JEDBURGrL. Thp A r--,e I P--t e,- +1- ?? no , as- The ApplealCourt for the counties of Roxburgh, Berwieck, Sel- T rs, kirk, and Peebles, was held at Jedbeurgh, on Tuesday, when some ed appealsagairist tie decision ofthe Sheriffof Peebles-shtiredisquali- t a fying 144 voters in that county, who held the frunchise upon the well ?? life-rent qualification, came on for ...

... POLLOKiAWiS DISTRICT, RZIN EWSWIEZZ. h At a Court held at Pollekshaws on the 4the intant by James s Barclay, John Willo, Thomas Corbett, Arthur Mather, and Lt Malcolm InHnter, Esquires, Justices for Itenfrewshire, the foi- ls lowing cases, under 1t The ltenfrewshire Justice of Peace Courts' d Act, were tried, on complaints at the instanoe of the Procurator- Fiscal. . Andrew Stewart and EHelh ...

... rohn cent. ?? - -~ - an. Ad are The ordinary weekly meeting of this Board was held on Mon- daY in the Police Buildings..alailie 'lKinlsa in the chair. The minutes of the previous meeting were read as usual, after which one or two matters of aitle public interest were disposed of. PREVALENCE OF ?? -TATE: or THE POLICE FORCE. r The ClnRxx read a petition from the proprietors and tenants in North ...

... The Court met on Tuesday at 10 o'clock. The judges on the bench were the Lord Justice-Clerk, Lord Mackernzie. and Lord IMedwvvn. As this was the day on which it was fixed that the Chartist trials Fhould commence. the Court was crowded to ex- cess. Among those present we observed Lord Dunfermline who was accommodated with a seat beside their Lordships on the bench. TEE CRARTIST TsrA LE. James ...

... On Saturday last, the Lord Provost, Sheriff, and Magistrates, elected Mr. James Smart, assistant-superintendent of police in ta the Eastern or Calton district of the city, to the vacant office of Mj Superintendent of Police of the extended municipality. After w the two unfortunate appointments to this office, which the at authorities have made during the last twenty months, we shall say m no ...

... GLASGOW SHlERtIFF CRIMINAL COURT. Sl TVVx ,_ .. Ad .- . - I.. - _ .:P 8, - _- _ - _ . - - .. . I T - 1 - . - - 11 - A V n01 Wednesday, the following cases were tried bedoze Slierliff 3c Bell and a jury:r John Kelly. or Gilmour, was convicted of the crime of tbeft, by means lo ESi°f holusehrealking, ill halileg, on lie 1.11l1 Stct. loLs, ceitered a d-el1icig. it house in Buicha-ti C. tu. to il ...

... I- HORRIBLE MURDER AT MUMTUtN. S (From the Bosbton (America) Evening Transcript of Dec. 1.) r Our whole population bas been in atate of the gr itest por- sible excitement, in consequence of the astounding rumoun r that Dr. Parkman has been murdered, and that Dr. John WV. Web- ster, professor of chemistry in the medical school of Harvard Y Coflege, and a gentlensas connected by marriage with ...

... (From the Atlas.) Amidst all the boasted advances of civilization, contem- poraneously with a marked improvement in the general i standard of virtue and integrity, and in spite of all that laws can do to repress or education to correct, the annual returns from out prison-houses and assize-courts present no filling off in the melancholv array of criminality. The gross number oscillates from ...

... House of Lords, Thursday. .BONARt V. MACDONALD. This was an appeal against a decision of the first division of the Court of Session, which had dismissed a suit instituted against I the respondents, under thefollowing circumstances :-Mr. i)avid Bird, in the month of November, 183S, received an appointment as one of the tellers of the Edirburgh and Leith Bank, a condi- tion of which appointment ...

... l SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A RAILWAY DIRECTOR- I _ _ . ?? . .. . ~ . . . I . .. . I . . York, Predaesday Night-The melancholy death by drowning of Mr. Richard Yicholson, one of the directors of-the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company, an nuditor to the York and North Midland Company, and the brother-in-law -of Mr. Hudson, has caused a good deal of excitement here. The deceased 'gentleman ...