... IS ALFORD COMMISSIONERS OF POLICE. I A general meeting of the Salford Commissioners of Police was held oi Thursday evening, at the Salford Town Hall, for the purpose of nominating surveyors of the highways for the township for the ensuing year, and for other business. The chair was taken by Mir. Holland Hoole, the boroughreeve. Previous to any business being brought before the meeting, Mr. Lit ...

... I lET'LION OF THE UNEMPLOYED. I At a crowded treeting, convened by the unemployed, x held on Thursday, at the Old Manor Court, Nicholas Croft, Henry Rawson, Esq., in the chair, a petition, r praysiag for certain changes in the poor law, was p unanimously agreed to. WVe call the attention of the public to it, as giving a plain statement of the case ti and elainm of the destitute Irish. Surely a ...

... I APPREHENSION OF DANIEL GOOD. The supposed murderer was apprehended at Ton- bridge on Saturday last, by Mr. Humphrey, inspec. tor of police, on information furnished to him by Thomas Rose, formerly a constable of the metropolitan police, but now a labouring man residing near Ton. bridge. The prisoner was taken to Maidstone gaol, and afterwards removed to London. The following particulars ...

... The general sessions of the peace for the hundred of Salford commenced in the New Bailey, on blonday, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, betore J. F. Foster, Esq., chairman, and the following magistrates:- .Jawes Heywood, Esq., Blanchester; R. J. J. Norrevs, Esq., Davyhulme; J. Mellor, Esq.; John Grundy, jun., Esq.; Jonah Harrop, Esq., Bardsley; Elias Chadwick, Esq., Swiuton Hall; Cagtaiu Clarke, ...

... It is a very common mistake with rogues when put upon their trial, that they attempt to prove too ai much. The editor of the Afanchester Chronicle in f5 en~vonring to show that Catholic clergymen have .; %rnqson to complain of having difficulties thrown 3iu r&Fay of their visiting prisoners, contrives to excite a suspicion that there are other matters at the New Bailey prison which require ...

... CROWN COURT-YESTERDAY. The Court was occupied for several hours in trying M several cases of revolting atrocity, the particulars of of which we cannot enter into. Pe MISS CRPLLIN'S CASE. di Regila v. Copelatid.-Mr. Roebuck, M.P., and Mr. M Aspinall, applied to Lord Denman for copies of the indictment against the prisoner.-Mr. Wilkins, who a is for the prosecution, stated, after conferring with ...

... I ;I'~THERLAND-TAX FRAUD. ISoon afe.4 the revolution of 1688 the feudal ser- vices of t~ie landowifers were commuted, for a tax of 4s. in, the pound. It then produced about one third of the revenue. Had, therefore, the land. lords' burthens increased in the same proportion as the public busrthens, they shit§sld noI be Co0tribntig11 sixteesli millions to the restate. But they continueif tote ...

... I We fear that in the approaching trials there will be greater desire to punish the guilty than to give = fair play to the innocent, and that in the drag-net of A judge-explained law there will be little distinction o between actual offenders and well-intentioned men, whom accident, rather than design, had thrown into apparent connection with riotous proceedings. The _ law of conspiracy has ...

... TAX ASSOCIATION, FOR 'SHE SIX MONTHS P ROM SEPTSINBE S2, 1841, TO MARCH 25, 1842. The Operative Anti-Bread.Tax Association, in lay- ing before the public the following sketch of their proceedings during the past six months, have to con- gratulate the friends of free trade upon the evident advance in the position of their cause which has taken place, and which can alone be attributed to the ...

... A meetinI was held on Wednesdoy night at the 'roan HallWILLIAM LorKETT, Esq.,b oroghreeve, took the choir. The minutes Of the last proceedings having been approved, Mr. CHARLTON said he rose to bring before the meeting the facts connected with the recent election of commissioners for No. G and No. 7. These cir- cumstances he said were, that a great iutinber of per- sons assembled who had ro r ...

... i, I nV0VUibLD_ .-W..X t The adjourned inquest on this case was held on Thursday eveningat tbe Unionlnn, RedBank, before .Mr. Chapman. Mr. Howard was the only witness exa- t mined. He said- arm.the relieving officer for the e poor law guardians for the St. George's District. e The application fur -ooley was first made and brought e before the Board the 10th March last. I believe it . was ...

... On Wednesday a case of a very singular nature I came before Mr. Maude, at the Borough Court. The t party chrarged was a female, O' very decent appear- antce, apparerrtly about 3U vears ofl age, niamed Eliza- - beth Knight, who, during th~e last few weeks, has beeLi I it tile habit of engaging young girls, on the pretence of wanting them to nurse a child, in order to get pos- sesSion of iheir ...