... The CommiesiODf of Assize were opened in the Shire Hall, Chester Castle, on Wednesday, before Lord Abinger; after.which his Lordship attended divine service in thl*Cathedrad, where the usual assize sermon was preached by the Chancellor of the Diocese, On Ti ursdaY the courts opened for the deapatch of bosinesO Lord Abinger presiding in the nisi prius court, and Mr. Justice Erskine in the crown ...

... BRUTI'AL CASE OF STABBLNG. | Charles Humphries and lliam Mitit .to en were brought fhre C. J. S. Walker, Esq., at the Borough Court, onl .itauiday, charged with brutally stabbingf Win. Davies, a glass-cutter, living in Louui.streer. 'l'he following are tie particulais of the case:- 21r. William, Furuival, hause.surgeon to the Royal In- jimiarrv, said William Davies was admitted by him an .u ...

... [ i On Saturday Mr. Richard Thelwell, lately carrying on business as a jewveller and silversmith, in St. Ann's Square, was brought before Messrs. Maude, Walker, and Arnitage, on suspicion of being con- cerned in a very serious robbery cmimitted on his premises a short time since, when property to the amount of £9,00(} was stolen. A man named Pilliairrr Meoobey was placed in the dock along ...

... | ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING IN HUME. I A crowded pub]ic meeting,for ?? consider- ing the tendency of the corn and ,teniws, was held at the Shakspea.e rIn, York-sir u1 e, on Wed- 'nesday evening, the proceedings ht wicr were of a very interesting character. Air Naylor was called to the chair- and in the course of his opening address ex- pressed his conviction that snless some alteration was made in ...

... ADJOURNED SPECIAL SESSIONS AT THE | NEW BAILEY. l ?? _ __ I DISPUTED ACCOUNTS OF THE MVANCHESTER AND CHEETHAM OVERSEERS. The adjourned special sessions for bearing tbe fiiether arguments in the case of the disputed accounts of the late overseers of Manchester and Cheetham was held kit the New B1ailey Court-house on Thursday. The magistrates present were Daniel Maude, Esq., and John Hall, Esq. ...

... EXTRAORDINARY PURSUIT OF A FRAUDU- I ENT BANKRUPT. If there were one other proof wanting to the endless catalogue already existing to prove the soundness of the old maxim, that honesty is the best policy, the follow- ing account of the extraordinary pursuit and punishment of a fraudulent bankrupt from ibis neigbbourhood would supply it. We have been supplied with the particulars by a ...

... FRIDAY, AUGUST 20. ROBBERY FRo5t TiEI M&NCHESTER POST OFFICE. William Davies, a respectable-looking youiig loan, apparently about 22 years of age, was indicted for stealingapost letter directed Messrs. Waller, of Man- chester, cotton spinners. Mr. Sergeant Atcherley, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Pollock were for the prose- cation, and Mr. Wilkins for the defence. The parti- culars of this case are ...

... A little boy was brought up yesterday at the Borough Court, charged by his master, a botcher, i. e. tailor, in Market-street, with having stolen sixteen shillings from his shop till. The man stated that he had caught him in the very act of robbing him. The magistrate asked the lad how he could be so zenprincipled as to resort to such erpedleots for obtaining money, when he had the opportunity ...

... I I d C1IIHABTE.1 OF INCORPORATIOX. The meeting of commissioners of Salford, the requi- e sition for which we noticed last week, to take into con- r sideration the position in which the borough of S'alford will be placed by the probable operation of the County e Constabulary Act in the event of its introduction into the borough, and whether it may be deemed requisite to seek a Charter of ...

... The Epiphany Sessions for the Borough took place on Saturdav, before R. B. Armstrong, Esq., Recorder. The followinug gentlemen were sworn on the Grand Jury: n Mr. James Taylor, Upper Brook-street, Foreman. Mr. Wainwright Bellbouse, Ormond-street. Air. William Yarke, Siiney-street. Mr. Edward Cowell, Upper Brook-street. Mr. Thomas Daniels, Upper Brook-street. Mr. Isaac Faulkner, Rusholre Road. ...

... I THE LATE MURDER IN ASHTON. DISCOVERY OF THE MURDERERS. On Thursday last Johns Williams, Joins Holmze, and Samuel and HAry Hardwick Underwent a long examtna. lion in the Magistrates' room, Asbton, before -Messrs. Jowett, Wright, Shaw, Buckley, Lord, and Harrop, on a charge of wilful murder on the body of Benjarbin Cooper, sawyer, on the premises of Mr. Whitfield, tLimber- merchant, on Friday ...

... We regret that the Mayor and the Boroughreeve and Constables should have declined to call a pub- lie meeting on the subject of the proposed renewal of power to the poor law commissioners. The reasons assigned axe no doubt satisfactory to themselves; but the refusal to call any public meeting on public affairs, when a respectable requisition is presented, is what we always protested against ...