... USEFUL HINT.-Some persons attended before Sir Peter Laurie to render an account of the frauds committed by the late West Middlesex Assurance Company. The statement comprises many most distressing cases. It seems that the principal party in the affair, Mr Thomas Knowles, had been once a bankrupt and twice an ?? Barret ex- pressed his surprise that the books at the Insolvent Court wvere not ...

... ASSIZE INTELLICENCE, NORFOLK CIRCUIT-BEDFORD. A CHILD POISONED BY ITS FATZIeR.-James Brain vas capi- tally indicted, on Tuesday, for the wilful murder of William Brain, his son, on the 17th of September last, by poison.-Mr. Dasent conducted the prosecution, Mr. Sydney Taylor the de. ?? prisoner is respectably connected in this county, but, through various misfortunes, was reduced to the ...

... ASS I ZE S. OXFORD CIRCUIT. LIBEL.-THE QUEEN V. CALDECOTT AND WYNN.- This was an indictment against the defendants, as proprietor and publisher of the Stafordshire Examziner, for a libel, which the indictment alleged was published with an intent to excite divers persons to assault Lord Ingestre and others. There were other counts charging the intent to be to excite to a breach of the peace, &c ...

... [ IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS MAGISTERIAL DECISIONS REVOKED. A meeting of county magistrates took place on Alonay at the vestry-room of the church of St. James's, Piccadillv, for the purpoe of taking into consideration the propriety of renewing the licenses of those public-houses in this extensive and populous district which bad been suspended on the lieensing dlay for irregularity of ...

... ROLLS COURT. KNIGHT tv. FRAMPTxON.-In the above Court, on Tuesday, Lord Langdale gave judgment in this case. It was a claim for dower made by Mrs. Knight, on the ground that her husband before his death had a legal and equitable right on certain mort- Vaes executed by the defendant. Lord Langdale thought that the husband before his death had not such a right, and therefore ?? the claim for ...